Testimonials
Gigi is an incredible therapist who listens with kindness and clarity. She took the time to help me understand the science behind my symptoms and assured me that recovery was possible, almost making me feel excited about the process of getting better. Drawing from her own experiences, she tailored our sessions to me rather than fitting me into a standard treatment program.
One thing that really comes across is Gigi’s enthusiasm for helping people along with an infectious confidence that everyone can get better, which after having previous negative experiences with doctors and other therapists was exactly what I needed.
- Luke (Tinnitus)
I came to Gigi with a long list of symptoms including brain fog, headaches, dizziness, palpitations, anxiety, skin rashes, and extreme food "sensitivities" (I was down to about 10-15 safe foods). Immediately we got to work on shifting my understanding of what was going on in my body -- or, rather, in my brain! She patiently and persistently explained TMS concepts and neuroscience to help me relax, release fear, and begin thinking in a way that would soothe and reassure my brain (to turn off symptoms naturally). We also tackled the issue of food sensitivities and I began to add MANY foods back into my diet! I don't organize my life around symptoms. I don't stop doing what I want to do -- or eating what I want to eat -- for fear of symptoms. This is an incredible change... and I'm creating a new life, one day at a time. Gigi is an incredible, non-judgmental, loving, very knowledgeable coach. I couldn't have gotten to this next stage without her. I am grateful forever!
- Josephine (Food Sensitivities)
I am so grateful for the support Gigi provided in our sessions together. She kept me motivated to keep doing the work and to believe, and my IC symptoms have resolved for a few months now.
Gigi, you don’t know how much your words meant to me in this dark times. Thank you for the powerful work that you do!
- Ashlyn (Interstitial Cystitis)
I am eternally grateful for Gigi. Her support through my darkest hours saved my life.
You will be happy to hear I am now totally healed and thriving!
Gigi guided me through high levels of physical and emotional pain that I had been suffering with for years.
Her loving encouragement and unwavering confidence in my ability to heal gave me the strength to do just that.
Explaining the science behind chronic pain beautifully, Gigi educated me on neuroscience, soothed my worries and empowered me to heal. This approach moved me from fear to freedom.
Gigi has taught me things that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Her wisdom, compassion and first hand experience make her the most incredible coach.
Gigi is the brightest light. I count my lucky stars that I met her and I cannot recommend her high enough!
- Alice (Migraines)
Gigi is amazing, I have made so much progress and continue to do so. I am not completely symptom free but the difference is phenomenal and I have complete faith I will get to that point!
I am a 55 year old, married mom of 3 adult children, and have suffered various TMS pains/symptoms all of my life. My latest TMS issue was by far the worst, and some days I did not know how I could make it another day and my future looked so bleak. The symptoms that led me to endless searching and finally stumbling upon TMS were horrific, genitourinary pain, and sensations.
Gigi’s knowledge base is mind blowing. She is able to relate scientific facts to every situation I present her with, and then come up with examples of how I can “maybe” feel safer, in the predicament I have managed to get myself into! She presents ideas and is so open about working with me, to help me feel safe, and she does this all in about 2 seconds. Gigi is so confident, yet humble, and non-judgmental. I am very set in my ways and Gigi somehow managed to do the impossible by opening my mind and teaching me how to put myself first, in an unselfish way! I am so grateful to Gigi; I am 100% better equipped to handle triggering situations than I was 6 months ago. Many of my issues were never as horrible as I believed them to be, and thankfully I am able to recognize that rather quickly as new situations present themselves!
Gigi has taught me the tools to cope and I am almost ready to take off my training wheels! The decision to make follow up appointments is always mine, with options, and the reassurance she is going to be there for as long as I might need her. Gigi is truly a beautiful person inside and out and I feel so blessed that our paths crossed.
— Jennifer (Urinary Symptoms)
At a time when I desperately needed one, Gigi was my beacon of hope, my supplementor of confidence, and my gifter of empathy. With a POTS diagnosis and the acute symptoms to match, I was in a place of frustration, anger, and so much sadness when I first met her. She was so sure I’d get better and I was, let’s just say, not as sure.
Through her gentle encouragement and thoughtful guidance, Gigi has helped give me my life back - and a better one at that. With more care, curiosity, and confidence. I feel so much better!! I cannot stress this enough… I went from my symptoms preventing me from leaving the apartment, socializing with others, etc. to being almost completely symptom-free (and I intend for that to read “completely symptom-free” in the near future).
Throughout our time together, I learned so much from Gigi’s scientific explanations of my symptoms (and her willingness to repeat them every time I asked for a reminder), her thoughtful and fun analogies as I practiced new tools, her persistent care and patience in the moments that felt so exhausting and helpless, and her insistence on celebrating the wins even when they felt small.
Gigi is an incredible teacher, coach, and friend. I am so grateful to have met her and worked with her! I cannot recommend her enough!!
— Courtney (PoTS)
In only two and a half months of working with Gigi my symptoms have reduced significantly to the point that I’ve had less frequency, no urgency and periods (up to ten days at a time) of complete and total symptom elimination.
This is utterly astounding after 15 years of daily struggle and no symptom relief at all.
I cannot over-emphasise how much her knowledge, guidance, support, empathy and encouragement have changed my life in an incredibly short period of time.
She is always there for me and when there are challenging times, because recovery is not linear, she explains what’s happening to me, shows me what I can learn from it, and reassures me that I’ll be stronger coming out of the other side of it. I always am.
I am seeing and feeling the results for myself. There is no mistaking it, I am getting better! I will never be able to adequately express my gratitude to Gigi for what she has given and continues to give me. I feel excited for my future for the first time in a very long time.
— Kate (Overactive Bladder)
Just a quick update from me to let you know that I’m still fine - and know that I always was fine, it’s just that my brain has switched off the signals for chronic symptoms now.
I really feel like I’ve got a new understanding of how my mind body works, and they are not separate!
I find that by using time as soon as I wake up, paying attention to how I am feeling, what’s planned for that day, how I feel about things in the morning, I can think about ABC : being authentic, being balanced/having boundaries, and being compassionate. And at the end of the day on my dog walk, I think about how the day has gone, and how the ABC has gone. And in the morning I make sure I factor in nice things to have just for me to feel good/relaxed.
This has absolutely changed my life.
If I do get any off symptoms I think about what’s going on in my life, and reassure myself I haven’t injured myself so it’s just some brain pathway that’s sparked but nothing to worry about.
I also know from all the sessions with you that trying all these mind body methodologies did not work, and just kept my poor nervous system in sustained fight or flight. I know now it’s so much about knowing that I’m safe. And it wasn’t about finding a trapped emotion from an old trauma and releasing it. That never worked and again made me feel less safe worrying that there were emotions trapped in my body and I needed to express them, but didn’t know what they were. And it wasn’t about yoga or breathing. All it was, was as you taught me in our sessions, was making my brain know I’m safe and that there is nothing to worry about, knowing that the pain was from my brain down and not from my body up, knowing that the pain was just like a phantom limb pain and nothing to worry about, and finally understanding that chronic pain is from an area of the brain involved in fear and memory and that’s all. Nothing physical. After trying everything, it was just the simplest thing - but the hardest thing, and I wouldn’t be recovered if it wasn’t for you.
As you know I was in a very dark place and you showed me the way out. I had read all the books, watched all the videos, listened to all the podcasts, joined all the groups, tried all the approaches, but yours/Dr Schubiner’s worked. And I am so very grateful.
I’m happy for you to use this as a testimonial and to forward it to Dr Schubiner, and share it with anyone else. I am just so grateful for your wisdom, your calm reassurance, your constant understanding and knowledge because you had come through this yourself. I had worked with 4 coaches from SIRPA in the 15 months til I met you last June, when your reply to my post rescued me. And they all had different emotional expression approaches (journaling, emotional expression, neurolingistic programming), but none of them worked and actually made my mental health worse because they didn’t work so I was stuck in the 4 Fs.
I can’t thank you enough for being the only pain coach that teaches the right stuff. The stuff that actually works!
Sarah (Plantar Fasciitis, Tendonitis and Leg Pain)
“Gigi is an amazing coach, great communicator and excellent listener! I will forever be grateful to her for helping me overcome symptoms I struggled with for 8 years! Her knowledge, techniques, personal experience and belief in me was so motivating and empowering! I can’t thank her enough for changing my life!”
— Patti (IBS)
"Working with Gigi on my TMS was a real pleasure. She is very knowledgeable, understands the topic and depth and is very empathic because she has been through the same thing herself. With just two sessions I already have a total different relationship with my symptoms to the point that they bother me way less then before. I can totally recommend anybody who suspects that his/ her symptoms are TMS to work with her."
— Tim (Neuropathy)