Creative Now Therapy, Cris Maria Fort Garcés (she/they)

Our self-esteem is deeply connected to our formative experiences and the space that was or was not given to us. Through mindfulness/body-based practices, creative arts therapy explorations, and exploring the present moment, we can uncover the roots about our self-beliefs and begin to transform them safely and with great care in the therapy situation.

Depression is deeply unique to each individual but has in common that over our lifetime we have learned to shut off parts of ourselves that were too painful to be expressed, whether done consciously or not. This brilliant protection is part of our bodies intelligence, but eventually this can be like throwing a wet blanket over our whole system. We can help you safely recover the parts that have been exiled so you can start to come back into your aliveness.

Our energy is tied up in the stories about our anxiety or what we feel is safe or unsafe to step into. We attempt to manage or control the uncontrollable as a way to avoid potential pain points because we were not supported as children to tolerate difficult situations. In therapy, we learn to become more comfortable with the unknown and free up our energy to support what we can do and where our strengths and resources lie in order to live with more agency instead of guessing at the future.

Our energy is tied up in the stories about our anxiety or what we feel is safe or unsafe to step into. We attempt to manage or control the uncontrollable as a way to avoid potential pain points because we were not supported as children to tolerate difficult situations. In therapy, we learn to become more comfortable with the unknown and free up our energy to support what we can do and where our strengths and resources lie in order to live with more agency instead of guessing at the future.

Our energy is tied up in the stories about our anxiety or what we feel is safe or unsafe to step into. We attempt to manage or control the uncontrollable as a way to avoid potential pain points because we were not supported as children to tolerate difficult situations. In therapy, we learn to become more comfortable with the unknown and free up our energy to support what we can do and where our resources lie in order to live with more agency instead of guessing at the future.

Our energy is tied up in the stories about our anxiety or what we feel is safe or unsafe to step into. We attempt to manage or control the uncontrollable as a way to avoid potential pain points because we were not supported as children to tolerate difficult situations. In therapy, we learn to become more comfortable with the unknown and free up our energy to support what we can do and where our resources lie in order to live with more agency instead of guessing at the future.

Somatic therapy brings attention to our body, including sensations, emotions, feelings, & thoughts, and how they interface to generate awareness and change. Many of us have had to survive by (or have been socialized to) diminish the connection to our body. While this was a great solution for us as children, as an adult, we can feel dissatisfied by this disconnection, noting that we feel stuck, anxious or depressed. Somatic therapy can help you feel safer in your body and the world.

In Gestalt psychotherapy, we bring attention to your present moment experience, the therapist–client relationship, environmental and social contexts, and the myriad of adjustments we make from moment to moment to bring to light beliefs and ways of being that are not in our awareness but are deeply impacting our behavior and choices. We engage in real-time therapeutic experiments to deepen our awareness + try out new behaviors to co-create organic coping skills.

Art therapy can assist us in accessing core material that can often slip under the radar in talk therapy. Because it activates a different part of our brain and engages our creativity, we can move out of the experience of stuckness and into visualizing solutions, calming our nervous systems, becoming reacquainted with our strengths, or discovering something new about ourselves or our situation.

Beyond talking, we help people connect to their inner resources by bringing attention to the way their bodies & emotions mix with their beliefs & thoughts, essentially your unique traumas. Clients often find that the somatic and creative process gets to the essence of their core wounds and promotes growth, improves self worth, and gives them the ability to better manage difficult feelings.  Let's build a different relationship to your trauma.

I am a trained Hakomi Practitioner. Hakomi is a somatic and mindfulness-based experiential psychotherapy that is really impactful in shifting the self-beliefs and stories that are no longer working for us. Thereby, helping us to have more agency and choice to make the changes we need.