CRI

Cri (pronounced Cree) Gabriele, founder and CEO of MESSWORK, deconstructs and reshapes as part of her creative process, seeking to arrive at synthesis while making (and embracing) a lot of mess. MESSWORK cultivates a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to trauma recovery and abundant living, supporting creatives in transforming wounding into authenticity, utilizing mess as a catalyst for growth.

With a Bachelor of Psychology and Business from Northeastern University, a Master of Fine Arts in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, where she also teaches, a CCEP (Certified Core Energetics Practitioner) designation, and ongoing psychoanalytic training at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York, Cri integrates diverse skill sets into a robust, full-bodied foundation that grounds her work and practice.

As a creator, practitioner, professor, and facilitator at the graduate level, Cri's psychological and design expertise informs her theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches, exploring the inherent connections across somatics, psychology, pedagogy, design, mess, and mess-making to shape her hybrid and catalyzing MESSWORK methodology and offerings across personal and professional spheres.

In her own MESSWORK, Cri navigated various academic and personal therapeutic territories before finding somatics. A health crisis in her late twenties catapulted her inquiry into more comprehensive healing modalities, underscoring the significance and impact of being treated as a whole rather than a series of fragments. Through her own experience, Cri recognizes the acute urgency and need to cultivate more rigorous, holistic practices toward growth and restoration, an approach she now extends to her clients, meeting them in their fullness, complexity, and humanity.

Book a 30-minute Complimentary Consultation or a 50 minute Personal Transformation session online with Cri.

Photography by Noah Blough.