About Sibella
Dr. Sibella Salazar is a New Mexico psychologist with eight years of experience providing mental health care. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges.
Dr. Salazar draws on her background supporting clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She spent two years at a community clinic in Minneapolis working with Indigenous communities.
There she focused on complex trauma, historical and intergenerational trauma, and adjustment concerns after separation from primary caregivers.
Background and approach
That experience shapes how she pays attention to culture and history in sessions. Her style is warm and interactive. She centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion while listening to each person’s story.
She describes therapy as relational work where trust and mutual understanding guide the process. Dr. Salazar uses an integrative approach with narrative therapy as a base.
Narrative therapy helps people name their experiences and consider different ways to shape their life story. She combines that foundation with practical techniques from cognitive-behavioral methods, person-centered work, and mindfulness to meet specific goals. Sessions typically focus on clear, manageable steps toward change.
People can expect a mix of talking, reflection, and concrete strategies for problems such as sleep trouble, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and stress. Her aim is to help clients build resilience and move toward meaningful, lasting change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Salazar often works from narrative therapy to help people make sense of their life stories and consider new ways to move forward. Narrative work focuses on how experiences are described and gives space to rewrite parts of one’s story to build strength and meaning.She also draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. These techniques are useful for managing worry, sleep problems, low mood, and stress by teaching practical skills to test and change thinking and actions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, written check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule work around daily life and keep continuity of care when in-person visits are not feasible.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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