Gabrielle Shepard
Gabrielle Shepard,
Holistic Mold Consultant
Gabrielle Shepard is a holistic mold consultant who helps people find or create healthy homes to support their healing. Her work brings together practical mold education, advanced training in mold inspection and remediation, healthy home strategies, and a nervous-system-informed approach to navigating the often overwhelming world of environmental health.
After years of declining health and mysterious symptoms, Gabrielle discovered that hidden mold in her home had been unknowingly robbing her of her health for years. She was the one who ultimately found the mold after multiple inspectors missed it, and her attempts to address the problem were met with failed remediations, conflicting information, and costly mistakes.
Frustrated and fed up with the standard mold industry, Gabrielle decided to take her health and her home into her own hands and pursued professional training in mold inspection and remediation through WEINSPECT in 2022. Today, she works with clients around the world through personalized mold consulting, while also providing on-site mold testing in Asheville, North Carolina. She helps clients navigate the often-fraught mold industry with greater clarity, discernment, and confidence. Her passion is helping others avoid the costly mistakes she encountered and feel more empowered in creating a home that supports their body’s ability to return to a state of thriving.
Her own healing journey has also shaped the way she works, giving her a deep appreciation for nervous system regulation, brain retraining, and the role of our environments in supporting health and healing.
Mold Consultations
Navigating mold can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re already dealing with the physical and emotional toll of an unhealthy home. Gabrielle offers personalized mold consulting to help you make sense of your situation, understand your options, and determine the next best steps for your health and your home.
Drawing from both professional training and her own lived experience navigating mold, Gabrielle takes a whole-person approach to this work. Together, you might explore everything from understanding your testing results and evaluating remediation plans to deciding what to do with your belongings, finding a safer home, or figuring out how to work with inspectors and remediation professionals. Her goal is not to create more fear around mold, but to help you develop the knowledge and discernment to make grounded decisions with greater confidence.
Consultations are offered by phone and are tailored to where you are in your journey. Each session includes personalized resources, recommendations, referrals when appropriate, and clear next-step guidance to help you move forward.
Mold Testing
Gabrielle's philosophy is simple: test, don't guess.
She primarily uses DNA-based dust testing to help develop a broader picture of a home's fungal environment, rather than relying on a single snapshot of what happens to be airborne during a brief air test. Targeted surface sampling can also be useful when investigating specific areas with suspected mold or water damage.
She offers mold dust testing and targeted surface sampling throughout the Asheville area, either as standalone services or alongside personalized mold consulting.
What Clients Are Saying…
“I truly shudder to think of how my remediation would have gone if I hadn’t had the luck of connecting with Gabrielle beforehand. There were SO many moving parts that I had no idea about, and she helped me navigate each step with confidence and clear instructions. She saved me easily thousands of dollars in what would surely have been a failed remediation had I not had her expert guidance.”
“Gabrielle was my mold remediation and mold illness angel. I’m very grateful to have worked with her during one of the most difficult periods of my life. It’s never easy to confront that mold in one’s home might be making them sick, and it’s even more difficult navigating what to do about it after coming to terms with it. That’s where Gabrielle steps in.
She did an amazing job consulting with me regarding proper remediation as most mold remediation companies don’t actually do it right and often make things worse. Her training with the top mold remediation company in the nation for doing it properly and thoroughly definitely came in handy when consulting with and giving directions to who I ended up working with.
She wrote out a detailed step by step game plan, and was very accommodating to brainstorming all of the different routes we could take with it and my plan for healing. She’s also a wealth of knowledge for mold cleaning, upkeep, maintenance, and prevention.
She also gave very detailed guidance and protocol regarding how to transition from my moldy home into a mold free space and only take with items I could properly clean so as to not contaminate the new place. I felt like I was losing my mind for 2-3 months during the whole process but Gabrielle’s compassion and calm communication around this all really helped her be my rock during such a wild time.”
“Gabrielle is hands down the best mold consultant out there. I have been incredibly impressed by her depth of knowledge, especially when it comes to navigating how corrupt the mold remediation industry can be. She is the only person I would trust to oversee a mold remediation project or mold move.
I have learned an invaluable amount from her about how to keep a home mold-free and how to avoid the many pitfalls of the remediation industry. She is also incredibly easy to talk to and listen to. I always feel so supported and taken care of during our sessions. I cannot recommend her highly enough!”
“Gabrielle goes above and beyond when helping people in a bind when it comes to environmental health. She has helped me during multiple mold crises, and not only does she know her stuff, but her heart is all in. She speaks from experience and is well educated which makes for the most helpful resource in high-stakes situations. She is quick to reply too. I couldn’t be more grateful for her.”
“I met Gabrielle during a challenging season of life and she guided me with grace and compassion towards my next chapter. The wealth of knowledge she holds is one that can only be obtained through years of rigorous training and direct experience. Through our work together, I have been able to implement the changes necessary to start living a low-mold lifestyle. Doing so has been a crucial first step in my healing, and my CIRS symptoms have greatly reduced as a result.
To this day, Gabrielle has continued to extend care, support, and kindness in my direction, and I am forever grateful for our work together. I recommend her services wholeheartedly.”
“Working with Gabrielle has been a miracle! A trusted friend recommended her at just the right time for me. I was struggling with all the chaos of intensive and prolonged mold exposure and turned in circles and overwhelmed with what to take care of first and how to even approach everything.
Gabrielle is intuitive and insightful and was helpful right away, supporting in ways I didn’t realize I needed. Working with her helped me to get back on track with executive functioning by having a brain that knows how to navigate mold recovery by my side.
It really turned a very terrifying situation into something more manageable. I would heartily recommend Gabrielle’s services to anyone who is struggling with that very particular challenge. Gabrielle is a gem!.”