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Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC

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About Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC

Reaching out for and finding help can feel like an overwhelming prospect. Where do we start? If you’re reading this, you’ve already begun. I’m with you, and I’m here to help you be with You.

Are you used to saying, “I’m fine,” but feel lost, stuck, or lonely? Maybe you feel that you shouldn’t need help or don’t deserve it. We’ve all received cultural messaging that we need to “do,” “succeed,” or “perform” to get by, but we feel totally dissatisfied & depleted. It’s so frustrating when we can’t express our authentic selves or we’re stuck in patterns that hurt us. Creative Now Therapy is here to facilitate your journey of healing. You don’t have to figure this out on your own.

Are You:

  • Feeling depressed or sad?
  • Going through a significant life change?
  • Living with self-loathing & shame?
  • Struggling with daily fear & anxiety?
  • Feeling triggered often?
  • Having difficulty setting limits or establishing boundaries?
  • Engaging in & repeating patterns of behavior that cause you pain?
  • Having trouble identifying your needs & getting them met?
  • Wanting to show up with more vulnerability & trust?
  • Wanting to access your voice & improve your communication with others?

Healing begins by being with what isn’t working & adding some curiosity. This is easier said than done and takes courage & practice. Likely, walls & stories have been built that kept you emotionally safe as a child but are no longer working in your adult life. By blending Somatic, Gestalt, & Creative interventions, we’ll honor these walls & stories while safely shifting into a more authentic You.

Paradoxically, your difficult feelings and experiences are the doorways to the healing and resources within yourself.

Then what?

Ultimately, this process will enhance your ability to get your needs met, make better choices, move more easily through life, & develop a better relationship with uncertainty. Therapy can support you in feeling safer in yourself and your body. I’d love to be a part of helping you feel more alive and excited about your life.

A little more about me: Please call me Cris! I offer 45-minute psychotherapy and coaching sessions to women, femmes, gender non-conforming/binary, and trans folks aged 25 years and up.

My areas of focus & expertise: trauma, depression, anxiety, life transitions/events, alternative lifestyles & relationships, identity exploration, & trauma.

I am a Certified Gestalt and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapist, a Hakomi Somatic Therapy Practioner, and a Licensed Expressive Arts Therapist.

Identities: My pronouns are: she/they, and I identify as a first-generation Ecuadorian and Spanish Latinx person. I am 42 years old.

Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC

Fees

250

Techniques/Modalities

  • Client-Centered
  • Coaching
  • Ecotherapy/Nature-based
  • Experiential
  • Expressive Arts Therapy
  • Gestalt
  • Indigenous Practices
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Informed Therapy
  • Tarot

Specialties

  • Anxiety
  • College Students
  • Communication Issues
  • Depression
  • Estrangement
  • Grief & Loss
  • Identity
  • Isolation
  • LGBTQ+ Affirmative
  • Non-Binary Identities and Experiences
  • Perfectionism
  • Spirituality
  • Trauma and PTSD

Office Details

  • Accepting New Clients
  • Free Consultation
  • Online Therapy

Licenses

License

LCAT

License Number

001500

State Issued

New York

Education

SVA
  • Master in Creative Arts Therapy
Gestalt Associates For Psychotherapy, Center For Somatic Studies, Hakomi Institute
  • Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist, Certified Developmental Somatic Psychotherapist, Hakomi Somatic Practitioner, Board Certified Art Therapist.

States Licensed In

New York

Fees

Fees

250

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Location

280 Soper Road, Ulster Park, New York 12429, United States

Closed

  • Monday

    2:42 pm - 2:42 pm 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Tuesday

    10:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Wednesday

    10:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Thursday

    10:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Friday

    10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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  • Local time

    March 22, 2025 2:42 pm

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