Cristina Isabel Slaney Urrutia MA, LMHCA

Being a person is hard. When in survival mode, living a life you love can feel out of reach. When your soul feels like it’s perpetually bleeding, it feels impossible to just BE and enjoy life. Emotional wounds from our past have a way of wreaking havoc on our lives and bodies in the present. It puts a deep shadow over all of life. Now, you feel like a victim to your own body and a liability to your relationships. You’re afraid if people really got to know you, no one would accept you. You are not alone. I’ve been there and I know how scary and difficult it can be to change and enter into the unknown. You are in good company.

I am a holistic and relational trauma therapist. My path to becoming a therapist began in landscape architecture, where I learned the importance of context and studied how environments shape the ways we are formed: how we live, feel, and grow. Today, that perspective informs the way I approach trauma therapy. Therapy can be a place to understand the context of our lives and cultivate new ways of living and being. In our work together, we can explore the patterns that no longer serve you, build on your existing strengths, and make room for new possibilities.

I work collaboratively with adults, especially women, stuck in survival mode, struggling with self-trust, chronic stress, who lose themselves in relationships and feel exhausted and disconnected from who they are. I help people build a relationship with themselves after chronic experiences of trauma. I support them to heal patterns of self-abandonment by rebuilding self-trust, regulating overwhelming emotions, and practicing new ways of relating so they can create healthier relationships. My goal is to help clients move beyond survival so they can live with greater authenticity, peace, connection, and freedom. 

Cristina Isabel Slaney Urrutia MA, LMHCA