Psychoanalytic Therapists in Santa Fe, NM

I am passionate about helping others make peace with their suffering and overall live a more grounded life. I work with individuals (adolescents to adults), couples and families. I love helping others find new meaning after trauma and grief, manage depression and anxiety, as well as help others build healthy self-esteem. I specialize in teaching tools to help others better communicate and repair relationships, heal attachment wounds, gain skills to set healthy boundaries, time manage, build a secure attachment, self-motivate, and adjust to life changes, including medical diagnosis, breakups/divorce, loss, and career changes.

Tandeka is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in New Mexico and Massachusetts. Throughout her career, she has worked in psychiatric hospitals (outpatient/inpatient), community mental health clinics, and school based settings. She has extensive experience working with patients across the lifespan, with a wide variety of presenting concerns and diagnoses. Tandeka specializes in supporting patients in recovery from addiction, managing developmental complex trauma/grief, and those facing individual/community identity issues. She also has speciality practices with the following populations: adolescents, athletes, and couples.

Sooner or later life brings us challenges that feel overwhelming. And yet, many of us find it difficult to seek support. If this is you, I can help. My clinical approach is grounded in a commitment to help you to reduce the suffering you are experiencing. Adult life can be very stressful and finding a way to balance work, money, children, relationships, and past trauma without a loss of physical and emotional well-being is not easy. I work holistically to help you to restore the mind, body, and spirit connection.

I use an interactive method in psychotherapy. I am Jungian in theory and bring together all aspects of our experience, including the emotional, physical and spiritual. My ideal clients understand the value of Depth Psychology, even as therapy sessions may be focused on immediate life challenges.

Are you interested in mindfulness or already have a meditation practice? My clients are often spiritually curious, fascinated by life's big questions, and willing to meditate. I support you on your journey, and we rely upon your innate tools of contemplative introspection to gain insight. My therapeutic approach focuses largely on shining the light of awareness on our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Mindfulness helps us to catch the subtle inner-workings of mind and body. By developing awareness, and finally acceptance, of our whole life, we can ultimately find a deeper sense of purpose and more fulfilling relationships.

I take a holistic approach to the transformational and healing process. I offer the opportunity to explore personal growth through the mind, body, and spirit. I use mindfulness practices to guide individuals and families through relationship challenges, grieving difficulties, and issues related to substance abuse, trauma, and other life stressors.

I am a experienced and creative psychotherapist who believes in your ability to heal yourself. I am practical, down to earth and have the insight to see beneath the surface. I specialize in working with couples practicing consenual non monagamy . I am allied with the queer community and have a compassionate understanding of the needs and positive outcomes that are achievable. I utilize many techniques but the relationship that we build together will allow you to create a new state of being that fits with identity . In utilize a variety of interventions reflecting affirming diverse practices that address underlying traumas.

Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of thoughts and feelings, especially when many of us are told not to listen to what is happening inside. People seek therapy because they want to have a more satisfying life, and have been unable to achieve their goals due to internal and external stresses. It is difficult to discover what we already know and to bring that knowledge usefully into the world in the midst of the incessant demands of everyday life. I work with adults, adolescents and families on anxiety, depression and interpersonal problems that cause them concern. I find it very rewarding, working together toward a richer life.

Forty years as a depth psychotherapist, with wisdom gleaned from C.G. Jung and yogic principles, has given me the skills to help people find their own path to meaning, self-awareness, balance and authenticity. Through careful exploration of memory, fears and dreams, I help clients work toward well-being by helping them understand psychic wounds, abandon outmoded patterns of self-protection, and apply useful strategies for handling the inevitable conflicts of daily life.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist for the past twenty-five years. I believe we have all experienced challenging events in our lives that have never been adequately resolved, especially difficult childhoods and family disfunction. My unique specialty is to assist in discovering and moving beyond old patterns and belief systems in order to allow more self-understanding, authenticity, and sense of self-worth. I do this through my training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a gentle form of bi-lateral therapy called EMDR.

Being felt, heard and seen are healthy, natural and essential needs throughout our lives. The therapeutic relationship is a unique and healing one and has the potential to transform our earliest relational patterns and unconscious attempts at repair. I bring my presence, deep, active listening, attentiveness, curiosity and positive regard to individuals and couples seeking therapy. Applying my extensive knowledge, training, and practice in attachment based research and depth-oriented approaches, I enjoy working with the imaginal, dreams as well as our relationship in the here and now as it may reflect the past.

Ultimately, my purpose as your therapist is to help you find joy in life. I use a Strengths-based, Feminist, Trauma-informed approach to empower you to trust yourself, and tap into your inner resilience. I believe that you are the expert in your own life. Together we can work to process and heal past traumas, gain insight, and replace harmful behaviors with more positive ones. I work with women and non-binary folks who have experienced relational trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, and Disordered Eating. I also work with Highly Sensitive people.

You don’t understand why you feel this way. You’ve worked so hard to get here but it feels different from what you had hoped for. On the surface things are going well but you still feel dissatisfied, empty, distant, and disconnected. There is a side of you that stays hidden from us and it is so exhausting for you to keep it that way. You feel like connecting and understanding will help you through this but another part of you is terrified of getting what you want. You’ve tried other therapists and perhaps medication, too; things feel a bit better for a little while, but you always come back to this. You want deeper, lasting change.

I help couples regain love, find shared meaning and improve ability to listen and be heard. Additionally, the transition to parenthood, while longed for, can place huge strains on relationships. Being a parent brings up unresolved feelings of all kinds from one's own childhood that may interfere with being the parent you want to be. I help parents and children feel good about their families. My goal is to help parents find greater competence and confidence to recognize and respond to their children's fundamental needs.