ArteSana Counseling and Art Therapy
Times of change, crisis and pain can be openings to new paths of transformative growth, insight, and self actualization. I serve as a guide and companion along this path to reconnecting with your highest self, helping to provide you with tools and perspectives to support your growth. My style is client-centered, warm and compassionate, emphasizing self understanding and trust in your unique ability to heal yourself.
I am passionate about mindset work, helping you to clear limiting beliefs and negative self concepts that you may have learned from your family, culture or society, or that may have been imprinted from traumatic experiences endured by yourself or past generations of your family or community.
I have over ten years of experience with direct client care, including working in crisis response and in agency settings attending to issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, family homelessness, substance abuse, grief and loss, and immigration related concerns. My clinical training includes art therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, maternal mental health, substance use disorders, somatic regulation strategies, and mindfulness techniques. I am a Masters level Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Registered Art Therapist, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
I am also a Native Spanish speaker and provide therapy in both English and Spanish.
I also worked as a doula for many years providing physical, spiritual and emotional support for parents throughout pregnancy and childbirth. Beyond my work as a doula I have completed a certification in Maternal Mental Health, Perinatal Mood and Anxiety disorders and Perinatal loss from the Seleni Institute. I am passionate about working with mothers, parents and families of all kinds throughout their journey of parenthood, from preconception to pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond.
I live in Pojoaque with my husband and son, as well as our beloved dogs, cats and chickens. I am also a painter, poet and beadweaver and a founding member of the Alas de Agua Art Collective.