Gisella Tavarez

I’m Gisella Tavarez, a licensed therapist and founder of Guided Therapy Co.- a telehealth practice serving adults across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I work with high-achieving professionals who are running on empty, people who are performing at work, showing up for everyone else, and silently burning out beneath the surface. The type of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The constant connectivity that never feels like enough. The inability to disconnect because the moment you do, everything starts to feel like it’s falling apart.

I built GTC because I know what it feels like to be that person. First generation, high-achieving, dependable to a fault- carrying everything while quietly unraveling. The culture we live in rewards that. It monetizes your overextension and calls it productivity. It keeps you scrolling, consuming, comparing, and performing, and then we wonder why we’re depleted.

My clinical background spans 13+ years in high-stakes environments including hospital, correctional, and community mental health clinics in New York City. That experience shaped how I show up- steady, direct, and not easily rattled by whatever you bring into the room.

I take a culturally grounded, person-centered approach, drawing on DBT and other evidence-based modalities adapted to you specifically. I work with individuals, couples, and adolescents.

If you’re ready to stop performing okay and start actually feeling it- I’d love to connect!