Therapists in Santa Fe, NM

Many of us have lived through hard and painful life experiences. For some of us, the physical and emotional memory of those experiences keep us locked in a state of shame, anxiety, fear and loneliness (this experience is often labeled with a variety of diagnoses: PTSD, Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD). It can seem impossible to create and sustain meaningful, fulfilling and nurturing relationships (including the one with yourself!) from an isolated and fearful place. If you are seeking to feel better and create healthy and sustainable changes in your life, this may be the work for you.

I help clients look at their lives through the perspective of their soul in order to heal and move forward. I specialize in using Brainspotting, Art Therapy, Parts Work, and a Spiritual approach to address anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, and life transitions with a special focus in HSP's and SPD. By exploring ancestral patterns, confronting fears, challenging limiting beliefs, and releasing stored traumas, we work towards holistic healing. I create a warm, gentle, and compassionate space where we delve into your experiences, history, and story to integrate and heal wounded parts - allowing for your authentic self to surface.

Life can be overwhelming, and it can be difficult to find balance maintaining our emotional well-being. The journey of healing is a collaborative process where you supported to safely explore life’s challenges in a nonjudgmental environment. Through the therapeutic relationship the healing process begins and enables you to access your inner strengths. Gaining insight into yourself with a trusting therapist is truly transformative. Through therapy we not only gain a deeper understanding of ourselves but also to the people in our lives and the world around us.

We believe that talk therapy and traditional evidence-based practices alone are incomplete. Our holistic, ecological systems approach includes the soul element, fostering wellness that transcends external measures. We honor your lived experience, social identity, and unique humanity. We offer services in English & Spanish. Clinically trained and guided by ancient wisdom, we prioritize helping you access and harness your own deepest insights. Our offerings range widely, including no & low cost on-line yoga & meditation, psychotherapy covered by Medicaid & insurance, plus premium events that help fund our services with broader reach.

In my work with childhood trauma, attachment/abandonment, addiction, and most personality disorders, my style is: Using existing resources, anxiety reducing modalities. Transforming reactive defensiveness into conscious responsiveness. Modeling integrity, mindfulness, and compassion for self and others. Reflecting cultural attitudes and beliefs to transform the past and embrace the future. Utilizing pet therapy to elicit healthy attachment.

I work one on one with clients for the actualization of their potential and the reclaiming of their inherent gifts. Myself, a committed listener. Your life, our work. Together we engage in the process of Integrative Soul Coaching: a unique blend of transformational life coaching, depth soul work and discovery, and subtle energy enhancement. Clients report startling new breakthroughs in their attitude and outlook, mindset, energy level, creativity, spirituality, relationships and health. The result - your life ignites, and you are free to create your self anew and the life you've always truly longed for.

Your intimate relationship can be one of the most important sources of joy, satisfaction and fulfillment in your life. However, issues may arise which upset that original harmony, and if left unaddressed, lead to a negative pattern of quarreling, difficult communication, and a loss of connection, trust and intimacy. In some cases, this negative spiral can further lead to depression, substance/behavioral addictions, or even an affair. I can provide you with the effective tools for identifying, addressing and resolving those challenging issues, and help you co-create a renewed sense of connection, intimacy and sacred partnership.

For therapist's I am a New Mexico board-certified supervisor for Social Worker's and Counselors seeking supervision. For client's I am a licensed therapist in New Mexico and Washington State. I specialize in integrative shadow work utilizing IFS, EMDR and Somatic therapy. Understanding and integrating our parts or shadow sides that we have pushed away or compartmentalized can allow us to experience more joy and happiness.

When you, whether as a couple or an individual, commit to take responsibility for your growth and development, I listen with compassion and interest to develop a proactive therapeutic program to help each of you grow to your greatest potential as an individual (and a couple). Often people aren't aware they have unmet need, wants, and desires. Healing often comes after identifying, accepting, and learning how to ultimately realize those desires and needs. By helping individuals, couples, and families overcome conflicts, trauma, and anxiety, they are able to successfully achieve some of their deepest desires and feel fulfilled.

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.

My work with individuals and families is grounded in helping to support the ever-changing process of growing, learning and finding a meaningful place within a family and the larger community. The challenges we face in an accelerated global culture seem extraordinarily complex for many of us who can often find ourselves overwhelmed with the demands of a non-stop, technology-driven lifestyle with unrealistic expectations. Slowing down long enough to to give needed attention to our priorities and goals can be difficult, but I'm confident that with some reflection and support we can find grounding and clarity as a path towards wellness.

Are you feeling stuck? To feel stuck emotionally, professionally, relationally and in thought patterns is a common experience of human beings. Let's work together to get unstuck: allowing your creativity to flow uninhibitedly, your emotions to become valuable and digest-able, your aspirations to become realities and your relationships to become more fulfilling. Providing online therapy for Ohio and New Mexico residents.

I AM NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME. Robert Frost wrote “THE BEST WAY OUT IS ALWAYS THROUGH”. I come from a strength-based perspective, using an eclectic approach by offering a variety of therapeutic modalities that are oriented to the individual. Modalities inlcude EMDR and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I seek to help clients transition through difficult/challenging times to experiencing life in a more fulfilling & positive light.

At Tierra Nueva Counseling Center we value your unique life journey and understand the importance of feeling welcomed, safe, and accepted when reaching out for help or support. We offer inclusive, affordable, and culturally aware mental health counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Our therapists use an array of approaches, including art therapy, sand tray therapy, play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and other evidence-based and creative approaches. Our mission is to honor your emotional, cultural, and spiritual complexities while helping you meet your goals for mental health and wellness.

Do you feel there's a split between how you look on the outside and what's happening inside you? To most people, you look okay, even high functioning. Inside, you feel unsure of yourself and unable to speak your mind. You have big emotions or numbness; relationships are confusing; you are anxious, 'too clingy,' or you avoid and isolate. Sometimes your insides spill out though you do your best to cope and keep them under wraps. I specialize in working with these struggles using body-oriented (somatic) psychotherapy.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist since 1982. I have worked in a variety of settings and am comfortable treating individuals, couples, and families. I especially enjoy working with older adolescents/young adults struggling with self-identity issues that can include co-occurring disorders. Strong background in treating substance use disorders. I also specialize in anger related issues with concomitant mood disorders.

By addressing troubling thoughts and feelings, self-sabotaging behaviors, and traumas, life can be made more manageable, productive, and fulfilling. Feelings such as grief, shame, anxiety, sadness, and anger often signal that something needs to change. Listening to and working with these feelings—some that consume us and others that gently nudge us—can move us forward. Through this, we sometimes discover that our everyday dilemmas are part of larger patterns waiting to be resolved as a whole.

Are you having trouble coping? Crisis can be an opportunity for positive change. I can assist you with coping strategies, communication tools, and support if you are feeling stuck. I utilize a strength-based, holistic approach that is respectful and collaborative. Over 20 years experience utilizing evidence-based interventions for depression, relationship issues, anxiety, and trauma (EMDR, CPT, Internal Family Systems).

I start from the idea that we are all spiritual beings having a human experience and it’s this humanness that presents us with both unlimited abundance and challenges. Life can be complex and full at any age and most everyone is confronting an element of transition or change daily. Change, as we have all heard at one time or another, is the only constant in life. I believe we are motivated to change and evolve in life, that the Universe is nudging us to live more fully, with greater presence and gratitude. While the process of growth may not be necessarily simple, it is attainable to all of us.