About Lidia
Lidia Atencio is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico with 16 years of experience. She uses a kind, accepting approach to help people facing common life challenges. Her work often includes stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD.
Lidia treats people who have experienced trauma and abuse and those coping with addiction or compassion fatigue. She also supports clients dealing with parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, career transitions, and mood conditions like bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Her style centers on unconditional positive regard. That means she listens without judging and helps clients set practical goals that match their values. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings.
Lidia draws from several methods to fit each person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, client-centered conversation, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. She explains tools in plain language and practices them together with clients. People who choose her can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative goal-setting.
Lidia welcomes international clients and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She aims to make therapy workable for busy lives and changing circumstances.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles by focusing on meaningful steps rather than fighting every difficult thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and is useful for improving closeness, trust, and communication in relationships.Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try approaches, check what works, and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time practice of skills. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, support between sessions, and a flexible option for people who need shorter or more frequent contact.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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