Gabriel completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester in 2017. Her thesis explored the impacts of insomnia on young people experiencing psychosis and novel approaches to its treatment. She has since worked across the private and charity sectors leading diverse evaluation projects. These have ranged from assessing services for veterans in the Welsh criminal justice system, to the humanitarian needs of people forced to migrate across Latin America. Gabriel is a Churchill Fellow, having been awarded a fellowship in 2020 to explore the secondary prevention of child sexual abuse in Germany and India.

From 2021-2024 Gabriel lived in Mexico, where she studied postmodern approaches to therapy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and became part of the narrative therapy collective Casa Tonalá, focusing on single-session therapy and the decolonisation of therapeutic techniques.

Gabriel joined King's in 2024, as a Research Fellow on the ACDI (Advance Choice Documents Implementation) project.

Research Interests

• Mental health and social justice
• Creating more dignified, collaborative mental health services
• Decolonisation of mental health treatment
• Narrative therapy
• Single-session therapy
• Moral injury