meet gabrielle
Award-Winning Portrait Photographer | Owner
Gabrielle Clay is an award-winning professional portrait photography artist with more than 25 years of photography experience. Because she believes that the most powerful portraits develop from an understanding of each other, her clients become friends.
Through one-on-one consultations, posing and wardrobe guidance, and an amazing photo shoot experience, you will come away with a renewed sense of self as well as with some amazing images to share with your family and friends.
Gabrielle owns Studio 14 by Gabrielle, a full-service, luxury portrait photography studio on Main Street in downtown Montrose, Colorado.
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meet jen
Functional Healing Coach | Certified Herbalist | Spiritual Guide
Jennifer Colton is a Functional Healing Coach, Certified Herbalist, and Ordained Buddhist Minister who brings over five decades of lived experience to her work.
As an entrepreneur and international business traveler, she intimately understands burnout, leadership pressure, and the toll unresolved stress takes on the nervous system. Having rebuilt herself through these exact challenges, her trauma-informed approach bridges ancient spiritual wisdom with modern functional wellness.Jennifer looks beyond surface symptoms to address chronic stress, trauma recovery, and major life transitions.
Jen's work—spanning private coaching, corporate workshops, and transformational retreats—centers on shifting the body out of survival mode. Rejecting quick fixes, she helps clients decode internal patterns to foster lasting vitality, resilience, and a deep reconnection to the whole person: body, mind, and spirit.
meet kristina
Kristina posses a genuine, passionate, intuitive awareness of the human spirit that is almost . . . freaky. In a good way. Speaking honestly with Kristina is like having a conversation with the best parts of yourself while exploring, safely, those bits that you want to make better. Her smile radiates the true person behind those perseptive eyes and her positive energy is infectious.
At Despierta Retreat, Kristina brings . . .
meet kevin
Kevin Clay is a set design and lighting expert. In the studio and on location, Kevin creates the mood and evokes the vision you've shared through lighting.
Serving as the second camera man, Kevin also captures those candid moments while you're smiling at Gabrielle's lens with her good direction. Together, the Kevin and Gabrielle duo ensure that your portrait experience is unlike any other--better than any other--you have ever experienced.
With his wife, Gabrielle, Kevin owns Studio 14 by Gabrielle, a full-service, luxury portrait photography studio on Main Street in downtown Montrose, Colorado.
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You're not new to wellness. You've read the books, tried the protocols, maybe worked with other coaches. You understand, intellectually, what you're supposed to do.
But the fatigue is still there. The brain fog. The body that doesn't bounce back. The emotional weight that seems to live just below the surface, no matter how much you manage it.
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Chronic fatigue or burnout that rest alone won't resolve
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Long-term chronic illness with no answers or clear path forward
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Patterns that keep repeating no matter how hard you try to break them
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Toxic burden: mold, heavy metals, environmental or chemical exposure
You're not broken.
Your system is responding to years of stress, survival, and signals it hasn't known how to process.
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