Online therapy throughout California
Dr. Gabriel Lowe
Licensed Psychologist | Adults & Couples | he/him
Sorting through the messy tensions of a life alone is scary, frustrating, and exhausting. I work with adults and couples on the harder questions underneath the symptoms: meaning, direction, purpose, and the patterns that keep coming back. Entirely online, anywhere in California.
Online · California
Licensed psychologist · PSY33003 PhD · Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola Online across California Host · Where Did Your Mind Just Go? Free 15-minute consultation
A short introduction
About Dr. Lowe
Dr. Gabriel Lowe is a licensed clinical psychologist (PSY33003) at Coastal Therapy Group who works entirely through online therapy, seeing adults and couples anywhere in California. His practice centers on existential concerns and meaning-making, spiritual abuse and religious trauma, faith deconstruction, clergy care, anxiety, depression, grief, and couples work. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University and completed his APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship through the George Fox Integrated Core Internship, with clinical training across downtown urban centers, immigrant communities, and suburban healthcare clinics. He also hosts Where Did Your Mind Just Go?, the psychology podcast produced by Coastal Therapy Group.
In his own words
Coping skills for symptom relief. Depth work for lasting change.
In my approach to therapy, I believe that symptom reduction is a necessary part of the process but is not the key to lasting change. The lifelong change that therapy can offer comes from developing a deep sense of self-understanding, confronting your natural human limitations, and discovering that you are more powerful than you ever imagined.
How he works
Warm enough to open up. Safe enough to confront.
Life is full of messy tensions. People who are supposed to be the safest let us down. The things we know are good for us can be the most difficult to follow through. At one moment, we feel paralyzed by inaction, and in the next, we can be flooded by thoughts. Sorting through these tensions alone can be scary, frustrating, and exhausting.
Whether you are suffering from chronic emotional pain or looking for ways to increase your ability to thrive, I commend you for taking the first steps towards therapy. At its best, therapy can be a warm place to affirm and own your strengths, while also being a safe place to confront and change the unhealthy patterns we all develop.
My therapeutic approach has been shaped by serving diverse populations across multiple settings ranging from downtown urban centers, immigrant communities, and suburban healthcare clinics. From my time working in primary care medical settings, I embrace the notion that living a full and flourishing life not only means healing from past wounds, but also taking preventative measures to build resilience and develop healthy rhythms of living.
Reaching out to a therapist is daunting and demands a high degree of vulnerability to entrust your story to a new person. If you are looking for a collaborative process and someone to stick with you through the hard and long journey of self-discovery, I invite you to see if we may be a good fit.
He hosts our podcast
Where Did Your Mind Just Go?
Dr. Lowe hosts Coastal Therapy Group’s psychology podcast. Every episode starts from one good question and follows it wherever the conversation goes: the stray thought, the pattern that repeats, the thing a guest almost decided not to say. Past guests have talked about gender, money, parenting, heroism, and what artificial intelligence cannot do in a therapy room.
It is not a therapy podcast and it is not advice. It is closer to what depth-oriented psychologists sound like when they think out loud. New episodes land the first and third Wednesday of every month. If you want a feel for how Dr. Lowe listens before you book anything, this is the most honest preview there is.
Faith, doubt, and deconstruction
Bring your whole self to therapy
Our religious beliefs and spiritual formation are some of the most intimate aspects of ourselves. Being able to give voice to these experiences in therapy can help foster a more integrated faith journey. Whether you have suffered spiritual abuse and religious trauma, are walking through a season of deconstruction, or simply want to live more fully into who you were made to be, I invite you to bring your whole self. Together we can make space for your sacred story to be heard and integrate your faith values into the therapeutic process.
Ways to work together
Four ways people work with him
Every format below happens over video, so where you live in California makes no difference to whether you can be seen.
Weekly therapy
Ongoing individual work
The foundation. Weekly 45-minute sessions by video, anywhere in California, for adults working on anxiety, depression, meaning, faith, or the patterns that keep repeating.
How this therapy works →Couples therapy
Two people, one room, over video
Work with couples on connection, conflict, and the existential questions that surface when a shared life gets complicated. Video often makes two calendars far easier to align.
About couples therapy →Faith and deconstruction
Your whole story, welcome
Focused work for people carrying spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or a faith that is coming apart, and for clergy who need somewhere to put their own weight down.
Religious trauma therapy →Online across California
Wherever you actually live
Dr. Lowe practices entirely online, so his caseload is not limited to North County. If you are anywhere in California, you can work with him.
About online therapy →Credentials as a Psychologist
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist, California PSY33003
- Host, Where Did Your Mind Just Go? (Coastal Therapy Group)
- Pre-doctoral Internship, George Fox Integrated Core Internship (APA Accredited)
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PhD), Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University (APA Accredited)
- Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology (MA), Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University (APA Accredited)
Areas of Specialized Experience
Before you reach out
Questions people ask on the consult call
Do you see clients in person?
No. I work entirely online, which means I can see anyone located in California rather than only people who can drive to one of our North County offices. My colleagues at Coastal Therapy Group see clients in person in Carlsbad, Encinitas, and Vista if that matters more to you than working with me specifically.
Is online therapy actually as good as sitting in a room together?
For most of the work I do, yes. The research on video therapy for anxiety, depression, and relational work is genuinely strong, and in practice the bigger variable is fit between the two people, not the medium. What online does change is access: you can be seen from a home office, a parked car, or a town with no depth-oriented psychologists in it.
What does therapy with you actually look like?
Weekly, 45 minutes, and more exploratory than instructional. I am not going to hand you a worksheet. We pay attention to what comes up, including the things that feel off-topic, because that is usually where the useful material is. Over time the point is not that your symptoms quiet down, though they often do. It is that you understand yourself well enough that the same thing stops happening.
I am not in crisis. Is that a reason not to come in?
It is a reason to come in, if anything. A lot of my clients are functioning fine on the outside and still find themselves stuck in patterns they cannot explain, or carrying a question about meaning and direction that has no obvious place to go. You do not need to be falling apart to make good use of this.
Can we talk about faith, including faith I am no longer sure about?
Yes, and you can talk about it without having to defend it or resolve it. I work with people who are deeply committed to their tradition, people who are actively leaving one, people who were hurt inside a church, and clergy carrying more than they can say out loud at work. Your religious life is welcome in the room as material, not as a position you have to hold.
Do you work with couples?
I do. Couples work with me tends to go past communication skills into what the two of you are actually asking of each other, and what each of you learned about closeness long before you met. Video sessions also make couples work far easier to schedule when two calendars are involved.
What does a session cost?
My fee is $260 for a 45-minute individual session and $300 for couples. Full details, including insurance and out-of-network reimbursement, are on our Cost + Info page.
You host a podcast. Is that a good way to get a feel for you first?
Honestly, it is the best preview available. Where Did Your Mind Just Go? is a conversation show, not a lecture, so you get a fairly accurate sense of how I listen and what I find interesting before you ever book a call. Start anywhere in the archive.
What is the first step?
A free 15-minute consultation. We talk through what brought you here and whether I am the right person for it. If I am not, I would rather point you to someone who is, and I know this team well enough to do that.
Recent essays by Dr. Lowe
- Healing from Religious TraumaSeptember 22, 2022