Family Therapy in 87505

We all want to feel joyful and fulfilled in our lives and relationships. The 30+ years I have been in practice include running treatment centers, teaching / college level, national seminars, and training other therapists. I am licensed as both a clinical social worker and an addictions therapist. My experience and training has allowed me to integrate clinical knowledge with cultural understandings from the elders I grew up with. I help people achieve change through insight and solutions based in consciousness of internal and external conflicts.

Painful experiences and the stressors of everyday life can leave us feeling stuck in patterns of shame, anxiety, fear, and overwhelm. I invite you to come as you are, and aim to cultivate a space of connection and compassionate self-inquiry. I view the therapeutic process as a creative and collaborative one, and will work with you to navigate the path that will best serve your needs as you move toward deeper self understanding and long term healing.

I am an Individual, Marriage/Couple, and Family therapist offering evidence-based tele-health "Zoom" counseling sessions for New Mexicans and Washingtonians. My focus on resilience invites clients to utilize and develop their own internal strengths. As they begin to build skills, resolve conflict, improve communication, address challenges in their relationships, and reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression, many of my clients heal emotional trauma, relieve angst, find hope, and ultimately flourish.

My approach to therapy is based on the belief that everyone has an innate capacity for healing and growth. As we adapt to life's challenges, however, we sometimes get stuck in long-term patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, or relating to others that ultimately limit our growth and leave us feeling sad, lonely, overwhelmed, anxious, angry, or fearful. I work collaboratively with clients to help them identify, understand, and change these patterns that keep them feeling stuck so that they can to move towards a life that is more passionate, creative, and fulfilling.

My office is a safe place to talk about difficult things with no judgement, no matter who you are. Loneliness, worry, grief, loss, alcohol/drug misuse, and sadness are very common feelings and experiences. We all attempt to find relief from such pain and sometimes the relief is helpful but not necessarily healthy. I collaboratively work with people, including professionals in the helping field, to experience their discomfort with far more ease by using sound therapeutic modalities and coping skills. Along the way I will also help you realize that you are far more resourceful and capable than you may currently believe.

Do you want to live a happy and deeply fulfilling life? Like many, you probably want more for yourself, but you just can't seem to get there. Instead, life is constantly happening to you, and you are left feeling out of control. If so, you're not alone. I understand how overwhelming it is to want to change but not to know how to do it by yourself. I have good news for you! You already have everything you need to live a happy, whole life. You have the strength to overcome whatever challenges life throws at you. No matter where you are in your journey, the next step is easier than you think.

We all know what anxiety feels like. We get butterflies in our stomachs, our hearts pound; we worry and fret, or feel jittery. This can happen when we are alone, in social contexts, elevators, in the car, or even just thinking about it. If worries and fears, anxiety, panic, or insomnia related to anxiety are preventing you from living your life the way you’d like, you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. In short it is our body’s response to a perceived threat.

If you feel unsupported—or suffer from grief, anxiety, depression, or trauma — I offer professional help in a warm and safe environment. I have a wide and eclectic background and specialize in working with individuals who want a depth psychology that gets at the root of their issues. I see psychotherapy as a partnership, a mutual effort towards healing the psyche as well as a search for vitality, renewal and meaning. My orientation to psychotherapy is based on the simple understanding that the psyche, like the body, will heal itself if we create the right conditions for change to occur.

Integrative Psychotherapy & Holistic Coaching, LLC provides you with a quality, research-based model of therapy and life coaching for healing and transformation.

I am a caring professional therapist, specializing in sex addiction, trauma and relationship issues. . I am an emotionally focused clinician, committed to providing relationally focused therapy for adults, couples, children, adolescence, families, and groups. I provide therapy for adults, couples, family, and children. I utilizing a variety of treatment modalities, such as EFT for couples, Psychodrama, EMDR for Trauma, I am a certified csat therapist. I'm believe that change can happen for anyone who has a desire to change.

PRACTICE CURRENTLY FULL-NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS Through their sessions with me, people create profound change in their lives and earn new self-perspective. Together, we work as a team to wade through the depths of trauma, grief, mood issues, confusions and conflicts in their lives. People who work with me learn how to step off the merry-go-round in their minds/hearts. They learn how to identify and speak about what carry and wrestle. Skills are developed to create the lives they have craved. Strengths are brought forth and utilized. Clarity and satisfaction is created. Working together, we can help create this for you too!

The type of clients who seek my support are both individuals and couples who are deeply committed to their own relationship with themselves. It is this primary relationship to Self that informs how we relate to others. I work with folks who are curious or already invested in living in alignment with their chosen values. I practice through a lens of deep compassion, curiosity, warmth, and radical reverence for grief-work and the reciprocal relationship between Grief and Gratitude. I support my clients through challenges that can ultimately lead to more insight, wisdom, self-love, compassion and a sense of security and well-being.

Couples Therapy: Being coupled is one of the most choices we can make in our modern disconnected world. The experience can bring incredible love and immense healing. It is also one of the most challenging paths one can choose because in intimacy, all of our most unattractive and dysfunctional patterns emerge! Couple-hood can be a sacred experience in that in can give us an opportunity unlike any other relationship to truly "see" ourselves and experience healing in the deepest way. I am trained in a couples modality called PACT- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy AND I owe my deepest "training" to my own partnership.

If you have arrived here, likely your habitual tools that once served you are no longer working. Or perhaps they never were, and you can no longer ignore this reality. You may feel lost, hopeless, helpless, or a combination of challenging emotions. I am here to tell you that you will not feel this way forever. Through an attachment-based, IFS, and trauma-informed lens, I will assist you in addressing the root causes of your suffering. No band-aids here; I believe the only way to live free of trauma, negative self-talk, poor self-esteem, depression, anxiety, or addiction is to face the origin story head-on.

Whether you have been in counseling for years, or are reaching out for the first time, finding a counselor and starting therapy can be a daunting process. Dealing with grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, or any other stressors can compound the difficulty of this process. As a team, we can walk through whatever stressors are impacting you and find solutions that will guide you to where you want to be in your life.

I welcome you as you are. Many of us have lost connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world. Through deep listening I facilitate a space for healing, to help you remember your connection to your wholeness. I provide a space to support the cultivation of self-acceptance through self-inquiry and curiosity to compassionately examine constricting beliefs and/or systems of oppression that impact our natural expression and aliveness. It is possible for you to recover lost or forgotten parts of self that have been exiled by judgement, shame, and pain to find yourself again. Together, we will excavate and uncover.

I invite you to more fully be yourself. My approach to therapy assumes that you are motivated to look at changing one or all of these: how you feel, how you think, or how you act. The self-discovery that's part of therapy comes when we gradually become more aware of how we think, how we feel, how we act. If you find yourself with a general sense of dissatisfaction (with yourself or the world), feel apathetic or fearful of what's next, or find yourself making the same mistakes over and over, my approach combining mindfulness, body awareness, deep listening (to your story) and creative problem-solving will be useful to you.

Accepting new Telehealth clients in New Mexico & Oregon. I work with adults with a history of trauma, grief & loss, or anxiety. I can help you learn to increase compassion for yourself, reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression, resolve the effects of trauma, transform past hurts & change patterns that no longer serve you. I admire the courage it takes to take the first step into healing & integrating, & it is an honor to be with someone on their journey. Together we will walk side-by-side as you learn to embrace life circumstances, navigate challenging times, & deepen the relationship you have with yourself & your loved ones.

I specialize in treating individuals struggling with trauma, identity, and relationship challenges. As an LMFT I also specialize in couples and family therapy. I use a combination of traditional analytic tools, existential psychology, and narrative therapy in order to address the depth of the person, while we work on creating your new story. I also use narrative work to directly treat trauma, PTSD, and relationship issues. Together we will manifest the change you desire in yourself and improve the depth and intimacy of your relationships.