Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Grant County, NM

You are only limited by our unknown blocks creating barriers to achieving your hearts’ desires. However, transforming obstacles creates possibilities beyond what you once thought possible. Honestly, I see this process of self-discovery as a miraculous unfolding that never ceases to amaze me. I am passionate about mind and body integration. Natural healing occurs with a combination of mind, heart, body, and brain. This warmhearted combination results in meaning-making, discovering purpose, and achieving goals. I stay current on research related to multiple areas of treatment.

Southwest Passages is dedicated to supporting individuals, couples and families find enhanced meaning and aliveness through successful navigation of life's challenges and transitions. In a supportive environment we listen for what the language of the body and psyche is wanting to communicate, asking even, so the natural architecture of who you are can realign itself. Shedding of skins and integration of unresolved grief and trauma may be an important aspect of our work together. Besides traditional therapy, healing and expressive arts SE (Somatic Experiencing) nature based practices and individual and couples wilderness retreats are additionally offered.

Compassionate, non-judgmental therapy meets you where you’re at when you choose The Mountain Center. Founded in 1979, we offer client-centered, evidence-based, and trauma-informed counseling. Our diverse team of clinicians, trained in both traditional and nature-based modalities, provide a safe, inclusive environment for all. Our practice invites whatever challenge you are navigating - whether it’s everyday anxiety or a major life event, we are here for you! We aim to help you develop coping tools, find healing, cultivate joy and achieve personal growth. We provide services in-person at our offices and through telehealth statewide.

Most of my clients want to be able to love themselves, and to be able to love others. They have a variety of issues that prevent that love from happening: trauma, abandonment, emptiness, anger, compulsions, despair, fear, sadness, grief, lack of boundaries, or boundaries that are too harsh. My clients have inner voices that punish them or isolate them, when they only long to experience a full and satisfying life.

Welcome to your own inner journey to transformative personal growth, empowerment and well-being! Our work together will encourage you to listen to and trust confidently in your own feelings, heart and intuition. I have found that emotions are our primary response to the world around us and contain all the information we need to learn to thrive. Focusing directly on the feelings underlying your issues rather than the thoughts will give you profound insight and clarity, and allow issues to resolve naturally and permanently. Learning to accept and trust in your own unique emotional/ intuitive perspective will bring you genuine self confidence, a renewed sense of direction in life, and dramatic spiritual/ psychological growth. My passion is to help you discover the natural healing magic within yourself!

I work with individuals to support their healthy emotional development and growth. I support and understand the complexities of my clients emotions through the lenses of brain science and early attachments as well as relationship dynamics, adverse childhood experiences and modern stresses. I help them to assess their life situations, consider their perspective and develop strategies that positively enhance the many aspects of their life. I approach this work with passion and look for potential joy and laughter with each session as well as recognize the ongoing struggles toward emotional health my clients face.

Not currently accepting new clients.

Provide Mental and Behavioral Health Counseling; Promoting Healing, Guidance and Empowering Relationships to Children, Adolescents, Families and Couples.

I hold doctoral degrees in both Psychology and in Educational Leadership. As an independently licensed LMFT, I have been trained systemically, both in the areas of leadership and in family systems. When working with individuals and families, I practice a systems-approach to treatment, engaging in the therapeutic process as a client-centered, collaborative relationship. My core beliefs incorporate the value of the client's narrative. I view the client as the expert on his or her story. My role is to co-construct therapeutic goals that can create a space for change to best support the client's journey.

Psychoanalysis remains the gold-standard of therapy treatment, evolving and adapting for the past 130 years. As a Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst (one of only six in the state of New Mexico), I have specialized training to help you feel and function better in a lasting way. Together we can deal with those problems that feel unmanageable and overwhelming.

My job is to help people live more happily. I listen on several levels, so we can understand together what is troubling you, what you would really like to be and to do, what might be holding you back, how your relationships could provide richer and safer support, and what matters most in your life. I practice in Tucson AZ, and find phone and Skype sessions to be very productive. I'm licensed in New Mexico and Massachusetts as well as in Arizona.

I am a mature, experienced psychotherapist and have practiced counseling for 19 years. I work with people on issues related to anxiety and depression, including life transitions, relationships, identity issues, stress, career, childhood problems, chronic illness, and stages of life.