Expressive Arts Therapists in Questa, NM

Stacey McMullen, LMSW graduated from New Mexico Highlands University. She believes that what happened to you does not define you. Her approach guides clients to consider understanding their thought patterns, values, and assumptions. Stacey has experience working with aging populations, young adults, groups, and individuals. Her background is in music, expressive arts, social, well-being, and mindfulness. She uses trauma informed therapy, narrative therapy, and unconventional tools to support clients in their discovery process. Stacey seeks to create a non-judgmental environment in support of healing and awareness.

I hope to work with you in deepening connection and intimacy in your relationships and in building a more meaningful, fulfilling life. During crisis or a difficult impasse, I help couples find and develop safe refuge in each other, and make sense out of distressing challenges. We work together to create more satisfying resolutions. With over 30 years of experience, I am the only Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) Certified Therapist and Supervisor in New Mexico. This evidence-based approach reduces conflict and strengthens relationship closeness. EFT is effective for many types of issues for my clients and couples.

My offerings come as a seasoned practitioner and a Jungian Analyst from the C.G. Jung Institute in Colorado, I love working with clients who want to explore and make needed changes in the behavioral patterns that are no longer serving them in their lives and relationships. Together we can create an environment that safely holds the space for deep self exploration of defended wounds that are often manifested as addictions, anxiety, fear, depression and dissociative reactions; while working toward self-acceptance, non-judgement and the transpersonal retrieval of mind, body and soul.

Now offering Phone, Video, or outdoor sessions. I facilitate your therapeutic process using Expressive Arts tools. I will to listen to you and support you. You want to improve the quality of your life. You want a therapist who will deeply listen to you and work with you to discover your own wisdom and healing. Maybe you experience depression, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, abuse, or trauma. You want to feel better, and improve your life experience. You may want a few sessions for a tune-up, or you may want a new therapist for a long-term working relationship. Please leave a message with brief description for a return call.

I come to my work as a therapist from backgrounds as an artist, hospital oncology chaplain, art professor and activist, meditation teacher, lover of movement, backpacker Dharma bum, essayist, companion of rescue pups, and former Buddhist nun. I've been around the block, tried many things, succeeded and failed, and carried my heart through many of this world's wild, beautiful, boring, terrible, sacred spaces. All of which feels relevant to working with clients who dare to trust their creative and intuitive processes as they come into fierce, tender, inalienable wholeness.

My ideal client is eager to utilize their creative imagination for healing and wellness. I work with clients who are struggling with anxiety and parenting challenges while navigating their own old wounds. Often, these clients are also neurodivergent, highly sensitive, and struggling with chronic pain, IBS, substance use, obsessive thoughts, or compulsive/habitual behavior. My younger clients are typically neurodivergent and struggling with fitting into a world not created for them. These children are often expressing their struggles as anger, anxiety, and sadness. I help clients learn to trust and communicate their needs.

I am a transpersonal psychologist, expressive arts therapist, wellness counselor, shamanic teacher and healer, and Reiki Master of the Usui lineage. I have practiced and taught since 1985 in California, Oregon, and New Mexico, sharing life lessons and healing methods that saved my life long ago. I have a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, and continue to learn new approaches to healing through my own research, as well as interaction with clients and colleagues.

I’ve spent years studying the Healing Arts and have discovered the Art of Healing comes in many forms. My approach is organic, eclectic, and personalized; offering holistic approaches and evidence-based practices to meet my client’s needs. I work with adults, couples, and families on a wide range of issues. In 2019, I took a sabbatical from my career, to battle blood cancer and received a bone marrow transplant. I spent my time in recovery, focusing on my healing. Using mediation, yoga, and my clinical knowledge around trauma to my benefit.

In a time of unraveling, you are at the forefront of addressing some of the greatest needs of our time. You have been working relentlessly to make a difference in the lives of those in your community because you believe in a future where humans can live more in balance with earth and the more than human world. But you get tired of carrying this weight. You want and need someone who understands both the passion and pain of pursuing your higher vision. You long for a place where you are able to replenish and resource in order to have the energy and ability to continue your work.

I am passionate about helping others make peace with their suffering and overall live a more grounded life. I work with individuals (adolescents to adults), couples and families. I love helping others find new meaning after trauma and grief, manage depression and anxiety, as well as help others build healthy self-esteem. I specialize in teaching tools to help others better communicate and repair relationships, heal attachment wounds, gain skills to set healthy boundaries, time manage, build a secure attachment, self-motivate, and adjust to life changes, including medical diagnosis, breakups/divorce, loss, and career changes.

My ideal client is someone who shares a belief in and a need for connection. Connection with whom and with what? If you value authenticity and seek to have meaning in your life, then we are on the same page. The conversation might radiate out from curiosity and inquiry about what you value in your life; what do you want to change; how can you make a positive difference?

As an eclectic psychotherapist, I use many approaches, and have an ability to be deeply present with your experiences. I offer grounded, thoughtful, creative, playful, kind, and compassionate support. My desire is to assist you through challenges and help you find balance and healing. My mirror of reflection is through 15 years work in community mental health, with wide ranging mental health and addiction issues. I've experienced oneness, Christ Consciousness, transpersonal, and non-ordinary states, yet also my own drama and occasional trauma. I am here to help raise awareness, create options, and facilitate you finding your way.

Have you experienced the death of your baby or child? Are you experiencing a pregnancy related loss of miscarriage, TFMR, or stillbirth? Do you have living children and don't know how to talk with them about death? Have your children experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or loved one? Are you parenting a child with a medically complex or life limiting condition? If so, you have come to the right place.

My work with clients is based on the holistic, transformational model of therapy. In my practice, I integrate the power of the heart through mind, body, emotions, and spirit. I believe in meeting my clients where they are to support and empower them to find solutions to life’s current challenges. By assisting my client’s in raising their awareness; they can make meaningful changes in order to have a more healthy, peaceful, joyful, and authentic life. When you are ready for changes in your life, I am ready to assist you in making those changes.

Have you ever wondered why it seems you always get the same results in relationship? Since there are many forms of relating, it's likely you find common threads in most of those. We live in a culture that promotes codependency and fails to support us on a path of personal empowerment. This colors not only our perception of others, but also of ourselves. Feelings of sadness, grief and anger arise, and are difficult to calm. With focus on intention, coaching toward better boundaries, and clearer communication, it's possible to find more joy and harmony in life.

Welcome! At Serna Solutions we look forward to helping you achieve your best self. We have specially trained counselors and social workers who can help individuals, couples and families deal with a wide range of issues. We are also one of the few organizations in the world who specialize in Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT). CRAFT is the ONLY evidence-based practice approved as an intervention for assisting those who have a loved one struggling with an addiction. We can do CRAFT coaching in person or online for those who live outside of the New Mexico area. W

Life has a way of bringing us into the curriculum of our soul. Often this can happen through a crisis, challenge, or disorienting dilemma of some kind. We find ourselves questioning, or attempting to solve with the mind a problem that has been designed for us to grow and deepen into a true self. We need a sacred place to process and dialogue in order to relate to our experiences from a place of cooperation and empowerment. Love is the way through to freedom from anxiety, depression, anger, judging and confusions.

By fostering deep and genuine connections with my clients, I help them develop deeper and more genuine connections with themselves. By clarifying what’s true for you—your needs, desires, conflicts, and dreams—the next step for you to take becomes clearer and less effortful. Together, we will resolve the stressors, conflicts, and adversities that weigh you down in order to find your flow—a way of being that’s more natural, enjoyable, and true to you. No matter how alone you’re feeling, how daunting the challenges you're facing, or how long a particular issue has been draining you, we’ll face it head on and find our way through.

I work with those who are experiencing significant life transitions or desire a life change. Whether it be a new job, birth of a child, relationship issues, death of a loved one, becoming of age or integrating a ceremony, they are seeking support in navigating these life events and their emotions to become whole. Through art, earth and somatic practices, I support others to gain the tools to feel and explore their true expression, connect to their body and purpose, embrace confidence, communicate effectively in relationships, breakthrough limiting beliefs or destructive patterns, integrate their experiences, and live authentically.