Gabrielle discovered her passion for working with children through her experience with her own son, who had sensory integration issues and dyslexia, and the children she witnessed during her volunteer hours at the pre- and elementary schools. She saw how they suffered because their unrecognized deficiencies prevented them from keeping up socially and academically.

Gabrielle was initially trained in physiotherapy in Germany. She worked for ten years in hospitals and private practice, predominantly with people with muscular-skeletal problems, post-orthopedic surgery and repetitive stress injuries, and with people with neurological disorders. Gabrielle has been a certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner® since 1996 and certified Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement® Practitioner for children since 2012.

She has maintained a private practice in Oakland/ California since 2006. Since 2012 she has been predominantly working with children with special needs.

In 2016 she founded the Community Program for Exceptional Children with the intention to make NeuroMovement® lessons accessible to families with diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Today, Gabrielle attends IEP (Individual Educational Plan) meetings of the children she works with and educates teachers and therapists about the Nine Essentials of Neuroplasticity and consults with them how to integrate these principals with daily activities in the classroom.