Dr. Gabriela Hayes is a board-certified psychiatrist. She attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and completed a dual degree in Biological Chemistry and French & German comparative literature. During this time, she conducted research on the brain enzyme thimet oligopeptidase, and also collaborated with an experimental psychology lab at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, exploring neuro-cognitive systems using EEG, TMS and fMRI. Dr. Gabriela Hayes received her medical degree from Columbia University's Vargelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where she earned the narrative medicine award from the Association for Academic Psychiatry. She completed her psychiatry residency training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she was the inpatient psychiatric unit senior resident. 

Following her training, Dr. Gabriela Hayes worked at the August Aichhorn Center for Residential Adolescent care in New York City, where she focused on decreasing recidivism in high-risk youth suffering from co-morbid mental illness. After starting a family, she moved to Connecticut and worked for Greenwich Hospital. At Greenwich Hospital she was responsible for the management of acute behavioral emergencies and crisis intervention in the emergency department, as well as providing consultation liaison services to the inpatient medical units, maternity service and labor & delivery. Subsequently, she pursued a leadership role as the Medical Director on the inpatient psychiatry unit at Norwalk Hospital, where she managed a multidisciplinary team and gained additional expertise in the areas of serious peri and postpartum depression, anxiety and psychosis.

Throughout her career, Dr. Gabriela Hayes has emphasized a holistic approach to psychopharmacology, focusing on the entire individual and her experience, and how it affects the interplay between neurochemistry and mental well-being. Dr. Gabriela Hayes understands that a multidimensional approach is necessary to provide individuals with the tools needed to rediscover themselves.