About Us

Meet Victoria Gabourel and Julia Serna, the inspirational mother-daughter duo with a salty dream and a mission to support their community! Just before the pandemic in early 2020, Victoria visited her first salt cave. She instantly knew that something magical was in store!

After researching the science behind halotherapy, Victoria began sharing her new passion with her entire family. Over the next few years, they continued to explore salt caves near and far on adventures together around the globe. And then they had an idea! What if they could bring this incredible healing experience to the Temecula community by making holistic health accessible to all?

Victoria and Julia began working on a business plan to open not only a salt cave equipped with the latest halotherapy technology, but also a community center where people could gather together to enjoy a holistic lifestyle with yoga, reiki, massages, and more. After years in the making, their dream is finally a reality! Welcome to Temecula Salt Cave and Holistic Center!

Julia Serna

Co-Founder

Driven by her passion for wellness and mental health, Julia began her career as an artist and leader in the restaurant industry, later expanding her impact in the community through transformational coaching. A trained artist in many modalities, she sings, does makeup professionally, and is trained in Human Design! She is passionate about bringing peace and healing to the community! Julia is thrilled to work alongside her mom by bringing holistic health and healing to Temecula!

Victoria Gabourel

Co-Founder

With a true calling to help others transform their lives, Victoria is a Realtor ranked in the top 2% of agents in the US and also serves as President of the Porsche Club of America in Temecula. Additionally, Victoria supports clients as a humanistic neurolinguistic psychology (HNLP) life coach and works with businesses to increase their sales and level up their leadership. She founded and led a nonprofit experiential life coaching company for seven years and is thrilled to be on this halotherapy adventure making a difference in the lives of others. Halotherapy and holistic healing are Victoria's passions, and it’s truly exciting to collaborate with her daughter on this salty journey!

Charlee Mathwig

Wellness Advisor

Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Human Development with an emphasis in Counseling Services, Charlee has spent years working to help positively impact our community's health and well-being. She has extensive experience in nutrition coaching, event coordination, and marketing. With a passion for youth advocacy, Charlee also works with non-profits and serves as an ESL Instructor for international students. She enjoys practicing yoga and meditation as well as going on adventures with her family and pups! Charlee looks forward to learning more about your unique journey and how the Temecula Salt Cave and Wellness Center can help you to find the community and wellness treatments that will bring joy and relaxation to your life!

Gigi Lopez-Rodriguez

Wellness Advisor

Meet Gigi! A Navy veteran and holistic wellness advisor whose journey to healing has been guided by creativity, movement, and deep connection to nature. She finds joy in the ocean boogie boarding with dreams of surfing, along with hiking, yoga, and somatic dance that allow her to move freely and express her vibrant spirit. As an artist, Gigi celebrates and practices all forms of creative expression, seeing them as magical tools for self-discovery and transformation. With a creative heart and a joy for laughter, she has a genuine love for holding space for others that is both grounding yet uplifting with compassion and soulful care, guiding them toward balance, peace, and empowerment. Helping others reconnect with the magic within themselves, because healing should feel wild & alive!

Peter Baierl

Wellness Advisor

Meet Peter! Our long form content manager and wellness adviser. As a newly certified EMT, Peter knows a thing or two about health and wellness. Starting as a skeptic, he has opened up his heart and mind to holistic healing and is becoming a passionate voice behind it. When he’s not at the salt cave, Peter enjoys spending time with his friends and family, playing guitar, going to punk rock shows, and taking pictures. Whether you’re coming for a class or to take some time to relax, Peter is excited to welcome you to the salt cave.

Vanessa Kessel

Licensed Massage Therapist

With over 15 years of experience, including training under an NFL team Myo-Therapist, Vanessa has worked in both clinical medical practices and prestigious destination spas. She combines deep therapeutic techniques with the calming essence of spa treatments, creating a mindful, therapeutic, and tranquil experience for her clients. Vanessatakes the time to truly hear her clients' concerns and customizes every session to provide the most effective and personalized experience. She is committed to helping you feel your best by tailoring each massage to meet your unique goals.

Jenna Cortez

Licensed Massage Therapist

As a licensed massage therapist and esthetician for nearly 20 years, Jenna has worked at several renowned spas in the Temecula Valley area. Her main focus is making people feel great and helping revive their inner (and outer) glow while providing customized massages to cater to the unique needs of each client. Jenna looks forward to working in conjunction with all the other healing modalities offered at Temecula Salt Cave and Holistic Center.

Amber Young

Yoga + Sound + Energy Practitioner

Amber creates cozy, soul-nourishing experiences designed to help bring your mind, body and soul into balance. Through gentle vinyasa and yin yoga, immersive sound baths, private sessions like the Exhale Experience and her monthly New Moon Sound + Ceremony, Amber weaves together the transformative power of sound, energy work, meditation, essential oils and intuitive guidance. Each session is thoughtfully crafted to support your unique needs, gently release tension and invite deep relaxation and alignment.

Amber’s work blends the practical and the mystical—offering tools for grounding and energetic clarity while creating a space for wonder, curiosity and self-discovery. Having navigated her own holistic healing journey, she understands the profound impact of intentional, heart-centered practices and now empowers others to access their own inner peace and vitality.

Join Amber at the Temecula Salt Cave & Holistic Center to breathe deeply, soften gently and immerse yourself in experiences that are restorative, transformative and infused with a touch of magic.

Serena Suarez

Holistic Esthetician

Serena is a holistic esthetician who is passionate about helping others become the best version of themselves. With a deep love for nurturing both the mind and body, she strives to create spaces where clients feel relaxed, balanced, and supported on their wellness journey. Serena believes in the transformative power of self-healing and always aims to inspire others to embrace their unique, authentic selves. Through mindful practices and a genuine desire to see others thrive, she feels called to guide each person towards their fullest potential! 

Devina Perry

Holistic Esthetician

Devina is a full-service holistic beauty practitioner with a background in holistic therapy and cosmetology. She offers facials, body wraps, holistic styling, and intuitive beauty rituals designed to support balance, restoration, and transformative results.

Blending refined technique with intuitive guidance, Devina tailors each experience to the unique needs of her clients—incorporating tools like tuning forks, gemstones, and flower essences to enhance relaxation, alignment, and natural radiance. Her approach to beauty is centered on presence, intention, and subtle enhancement, helping clients feel restored, confident, and luminous.

Melissa De La Cruz

Psychic Medium, Medical Intuitive

Meet Melissa! A deeply intuitive clairvoyant and psychic medium with a heartfelt calling to help others find comfort, clarity, and healing through spirit. She holds space for those navigating grief, physical or emotional challenges, or simply looking to reconnect with their true path.  She's helped hundreds of clients receive powerful validations, emotional healing, and life-changing insights through deeply personal, energy-based readings.

Melissa Provides:
Accurate & compassionate connections with loved ones who’ve passed
Byosen Scanning – energetically detect imbalances before they manifest physically
Medical Mediumship – identify the root energetic cause of physical/emotional issues
Psychic Guidance – clarity around relationships, life purpose, and major decisions
Safe, judgment-free healing space for emotional release and spiritual growth
Empathic support

Each session is unique, heart-led, and guided by spirit. A sacred opportunity to release, remember, and reconnect. Her goal is to guide you with love, accuracy, and integrity.

Scott Polhill

Qigong & Breathwork Guide

For over a decade, Scott has walked a path devoted to healing, discipline, and remembrance. Studying with Amazonian and North American tribes, sitting in ceremony with sacred plant medicines, he immersed himself in the internal arts of energy cultivation. His training includes over 8 years in Medical Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine under Master David Baudry, alongside intensive studies in Shaolin martial arts, Taoist internal alchemy, somatic breathwork, and energetic healing. These ancient disciplines helped him integrate the teachings and visions received in deep ceremony and bring them into grounded, embodied practice. Today, he guides others in returning to their center through Qigong, breathwork, prayer, and mindful movement- offering private mentorships, group training, and online practices rooted in sacred simplicity, spiritual protection, and inner strength!

Sand

Shamanic Practioner

Sand is a shamanic practitioner from indigenous Chumash heritage, carrying forward a matriarchal lineage of medicine women and healers. Initiated in multiple shamanic traditions and trained as a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, she brings authentic ancient wisdom to modern seekers through her practice, 3sticks 2spirit shaman. With a background in psychology, Sand is guided by her deep connection to ancestral wisdom and spirit allies. She taps into authentic spiritual practice - not "shamanism light" - helping others remember who they truly are through ceremony, shadow work, and connection with helping spirits. Her focus remains on genuine transformation and spiritual connection. Sand bridges ancestral wisdom with contemporary healing, creating sacred spaces where transformation and genuine spiritual connection flourish.

Kristin

Certified Kundalini Activation Facilitator

Kristin is a Certified Kundalini Activation Facilitator and has been doing spiritual work professionally for a decade. She is very passionate about kundalini, as working with this energy has significantly changed her life for the better. She has a calm and nurturing presence and provides psychic insights at the end of every session and class. She hopes to bring empowerment through the work she offers. Kundalini is the spiritual awakening energy within each of us. By activating and moving this energy, you can grow your psychic abilities, purge trapped emotions and limiting beliefs, and come into more of a motivated alignment with your soul's purposes. All you have to do is be open to receive. These energy healings are fiery and grounding. You start by laying on your back and listen to different types of music, but are free to move, cry, dance, etc. - whatever you need to do. Many people report relaxing in a session or class and feeling very renewed and energized after with psychic awareness they have gained for themselves.

Alicia Love-Hood

Holistic Health Practitioner

Alicia brings decades of experience in health, wellness, and spiritual healing for transformative growth. After receiving her personal training certification, Alicia went to school to become a Holistic Health Practitioner. There she learned massage techniques, energy healing, Ayurveda, Eastern medicine, and other healing modalities. She is also a Shamanic practitioner, which she combines with other healing modalities to bring each soul a unique and personalized healing experience that goes beyond the surface layers. She specializes in sound baths, drum circles, mother-child bonding, womb healing, past life and ancestral trauma healing, herbology, women’s circles, and more. 

Gene Jimenez

Sound Journey

Gene is a certified holistic sound worker based in Orange, California, dedicated to empowering individuals to harness the therapeutic potential of sound for deep relaxation, emotional well-being, and optimal health. His journey into sound work began as a personal exploration and evolved through extensive training under the mentorship of esteemed scientists and pioneers in the sound field. He continuously enhances his understanding of sound's impact on well-being, supported by scientific research. Gene is please to offer group sound therapeutic ceremonies and personalized sessions using a variety of indigenous and natural instruments. Each session aligns your body’s frequencies, fostering relaxation, emotional release, and spiritual renewal. His intention is to help reduce stress, improve sleep, and activate your body’s natural healing functions.

Dr. Katie Estberg

Clinical Psychologist & Behavior Analyst

Hi, I’m Dr. Katie Estberg.

Clinical psychologist, behavior analyst, and lifelong student of the nervous system and the unseen.

My work lives where science meets soul. I’m trained in evidence-based modalities like EMDR, IFS, behavior analysis, hypnosis and psychopharmacology, and I also honor intuition, energy, symbolism, and the body’s quiet intelligence. I don’t believe these worlds compete. I believe they complete each other.

My passion is with people who think deeply, feel intensely, and are ready to understand themselves without pathologizing their sensitivity or spiritual curiosity. I’m not here to fix you or tell you who to be. I’m here to help you notice patterns, soften defenses, and come back into alignment with what’s already true.

Amanda Schmidt

Hypnotherapist & Reiki Master

Amanda Schmidt is a Reiki master and teacher. She's also certified in hypnotherapy and regression hypnotherapy. She uses a combination of her Intuitive gifts and powerful meditative practices to help people return to their radiance within.

Natalie Leideritz

Tarot Reader & Energyworker

Natalie is a Psychic Medium, Tarot Reader, Certified Herbalist, and Reiki Master who has dedicated her life to spiritual connection and holistic healing. Born with natural clairsentience (clear feeling) and claircognizance (clear knowing), she serves as a bridge between the seen and unseen—offering guidance, healing, and empowerment through her readings and energy work. Her tarot and mediumship sessions provide insight into life’s transitions, relationships, and soul purpose. As a Reiki Master and creator of her own modality, Energetic Weaving & Soul Resonance Clearing, Natalie channels healing frequencies that clear, harmonize, and realign the energy body. In addition to her spiritual work, Natalie is a Certified Herbalist and founder of Feed The Gods, where she handcrafts tea blends, apothecary goods, and ritual tools that weave together the medicinal and the mystical. She is deeply connected to ancestral wisdom, plant allies, and spiritual guides, working to create spaces of both transformation and restoration. Natalie’s sessions are known for their warmth, accuracy and depth, empowering clients to trust their path, reconnect with spirit, and embrace their own sovereignty.

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1 (833) 879-7258

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Open Daily: 10am - 7pm PST

Address:

30590 Rancho California Rd Suite C-302, Temecula, CA 92591

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