About Naja
Naja Druva is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico with nine years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and related stress problems and listens with a calm, straightforward style. She keeps conversations down to earth and uses practical tools to help people manage daily strain.
Her work centers on building trusting connections and using approaches that match each person's needs. Sessions often include skills practice, grounding exercises, and chances to talk through painful or confusing experiences.
Background and approach
Humor and lightness are used when appropriate to ease tension. Naja draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape today's reactions. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize what the person wants to address in sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques appear in her work when people need concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She has supported people dealing with trauma, grief, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related struggles. Other areas she addresses include parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, body image, and issues around adoption, abandonment, or blended families.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Naja works with each person to find a pace and format that fit their life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step gets the process started.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current reactions and relationships. Online sessions can use conversation and reflective exercises to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities and choices in sessions. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps clarify goals during video or messaging exchanges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and handling crisis moments. Skills such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation can be practiced in live sessions or reinforced between meetings via text or chat.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean combining attachment ideas, client-centered conversations, and DBT skills over several sessions to see what helps most.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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