Cristina Isabel Slaney, MA, LMHCA

Being a person is hard. When you've spent your whole life in survival mode, living a life you love is even harder. When your soul feels like it is perpetually bleeding, it feels impossible to just be and enjoy your one short 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 of your own body and a liability to your relationships. Youre afraid that if people really got to know you, no one would be able to accept you. Believe me, 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. In our work together, we will begin to heal your imagination for what holistic flourishing looks like in your life and build confidence to make movement in your journey. I would love to be that safe space to partner with you on this most tender and essential journey. Feel free to book a free 15-20 minute phone consultation, and let's see if we are a good fit.

My therapeutic approach is to work with our relationship in the here and now, in the space between us. I will partner to support and guide you with gentle curiosity and empathic attunement to help you explore your fear, anxiety, desires, dreams, and existential dread that are keeping you from living the life you want and becoming the person you are made to be. I  am a creative with a curious spirit, a passion for learning, and a heart for supporting and developing people.  In my therapeutic practice, I am dynamic and collaborative. Together we will create space to deepen your connection to your inner world, give meaning to past experiences, transform thinking patterns, and explore new styles of being and relating. I am dedicated to being a strong, consistent, warm, and honest sojourner on your journey toward a freer and more satisfying way of living and being. I am a depth psychotherapist, and my approach is informed by Jungian, psychodynamic, and existential theories. In session, I utilize somatic and trauma-informed practices, and I work from a social justice framework. The relationship we build will allow us to explore and bring awareness to adaptive patterns that are now contributing to dis-ease and begin to re-integrate your mind, body, and emotions through the reparative experiences between us that you can carry into the rest of your life. You can begin to face your fears and limitations and have more agency in choosing what it is you want for yourself.