Somatic Psychotherapy in New York and NYC metro areas · Energy Coaching Worldwide

Your Gifts Are Real. It's Time to Trust Them.

Guiding spiritually alive but chronically self-abandoning women & queer adults back to the wild self they hid to survive.

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Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, Psychotherapist & Coach

The Problem

You think you need more discipline. You don't.

You're thoughtful, track synchronicities, and pull tarot for clarity. Hope sparks each time your patterns make sense.​


Then it fades: evenings hijacked by vicious thoughts, ("did I sound stupid?")  leaving you doom spiraling into shame and drafting texts for 3 hours.


Of course this keeps happening. Therapy unpacks childhood wounds but skips your spiritual downloads. Woo spaces deliver cosmic "aha"s but leave you nail biting on Sunday nights.


You've gathered brilliant pieces: journaled insights and clarified transits, but they live in your head while your body clenches with dread, untouched by insight.


You're not broken but insight alone can't stop the vigilance wired in you, leaving you stuck with better stories but not better mornings.


Your spiritual knowing needs somewhere safe to land.


Creative Now Therapy is the place where your intuitive hits can finally become action plans that feel good all week and stick around.

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THE TRANSFORMATION

This is what happens when you stop abandoning yourself.

Something quiets.  Not all at once, but on a random Wednesday, you realize you didn't spend the commute home dissecting every little thing you said in the meeting.​


You catch the inner critic rev up and you don't follow it down the hole.  You sit with a friend and actually say the hard thing, shaking a little. The friendship doesn't collapse. You realize the thing you’ve been avoiding didn’t destroy your life, it changed it.​


You start:


  • Making decisions without polling three+ people to confirm you're not bonkers.​
  • Contributing to work meetings with confidence, no frenetic, 48-hour replay.​
  • Choosing rest without having earning it first, and not calling yourself lazy for it.​
  • Working on the idea in your Notes app that's been "almost ready" to launch because it's no longer terrifying. It's just next.


Finally, you stop waiting for it all to fall apart.


And when you're ready for this, there's a space built exactly for that

THE SOLUTION

Here the mystical stops living in your head & transforms you.

You've seen yourself in your chart. You've left a ceremony knowing something shifted, and then watched real life put that in a choke hold.​


The insight was real. The integration just never had a place.


This is that place.


We go to the part of you that’s still bracing for impact, and we don’t skip it. We tap into the intuition you keep second-guessing, and use the spiritual tools you love but don't quite know how to integrate.


Our work may include:


  • Somatic therapy so your body stops time-traveling to age 8 every time your boss's tone sharpens
  • Astrology and tarot to support what you know but are too scared to trust
  • Ritual and intuitive practices so insight goes beyond the journal and into your behavior.
  • Dream and symbol work so the image that keeps returning finally hands you directions.


Instead of collecting more explanations, you start living differently.

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Now Let's Choose Your Path Into This Work.

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Services:


TWO PORTALS, ONE PATH TO WHOLENESS

Powerful pathways grounded in ritual, transformative tools, and methodologies designed to meet you in your evolution.

Choose your path:

Somatic Psychotherapy

Licensed mental health care for women & queer adults who are physically located in New York State.


It may be the right place to begin when anxiety, burnout, harsh self-criticism, or longstanding survival strategies need clinical care.

Energy Coaching: The Remembering

A non-clinical, spiritually oriented coaching relationship open for women & queer adults anywhere in the world.


It may fit when you are seeking direction, integration, self-trust, and support in trusting your knowing and living by it.

If both resonate, book a free 30-minute consultation and we will find your starting point together.

Meet Your Guide

Hi, I’m Cristina Maria Fort Garcés

Clinically Trained. Mystically Tuned. Deeply Human.

A LatinX psychotherapist, somatic alchemist, and cosmic mirror.  I've spent close to 20 years in clinical rooms and a lifetime in sacred ones, and I refuse to separate them.


I firmly believe that healing is less about becoming someone new and more about stripping back the noise until you hear your own soul clearly again. I started Creative Now Therapy & beyond because I couldn’t find a space that held both the sacred and the messy,  both spirit and the nervous system, or the mystical and the clinically sound,  so I built it. 


After a lifetime of listening to the deeper, spiritual layers of human experience, I’m a guide for the you who is learning to leave behind the roles that were expected while the one you’ve been hiding learns it’s safe to be seen. Let's find and support that you together.

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This isn’t self-improvement. It’s soul retrieval.


Let's call your magic back.

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How I Work

Where Spiritual Insight Becomes Real Change

Weaving together evidence-based somatic interventions & the spiritual. A bit like remembering something ancient.


We Slow Down and Notice What's Actually Happening
We track what your body already knows before your mind catches up: the tightening, the bracing, the vigilance you've normalized. That's where we start.


We Go Beneath the Surface
Your chart, your cards, that recurring dream, they've been trying to tell you something. We finally stop and listen, together, until it makes sense in your bones.


We Unravel the Story You Inherited
We go beyond the inner critic to what it's guarding. The "too much" story starts to lose its teeth. You stop punishing yourself for things that were never your fault.


We Anchor the Shift in Your Body
We mark every small shift, the convo that didn't spiral, the rest that didn't need earning, and wire it into your body so it stops feeling like luck and starts feeling like you.


This is how insight stops being something you understand and starts being something you live.

THE PRACTICES

Practices That Support Your Evolution


I draw from many worlds, and so do your sessions

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Somatic & Gestalt Practices


Your body is a source of intelligence & healing, we track it in real time: the held breath, the shoulders that rose when you said that word, the stillness that felt suddenly unsafe.


What this makes possible:  You begin loosening patterns of anxiety, self-criticism, and overthinking so your body stops feeling like managing a feral animal.

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Tarot & Symbolic inquiry


We work with tarot, myth, and symbolic reflection to name what's been living below the surface of every conversation you've been having with yourself.

What this makes possible:  The thing you couldn't find words for finally has a shape, and once it has a shape, you can know what to do with it.

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Breath-led Exploration & Guided Inner Journeying


We follow the breath into the interior, into the images, voices, and scenes that arise when the thinking mind gets quiet enough to let something older through.


What this makes possible:  The quieter voice in you stops getting drowned out by the louder, crueler one.

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Astrology, Lunar Cycles, & Elemental Awareness


We work with your chart, the lunar cycle, and the living rhythms of the natural world as a map for what's asking to be released, built, or rested in you right now.


What this makes possible:  The exhaustion stops feeling like a personal failure and starts making perfect sense for where you are right now.

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Ritual, Earth-Based, & Creative Integration


We use ceremony, nature, and creative acts to mark what's changing, because transitions that go unnamed tend to go unfinished.


What this makes possible: The version of you that showed up differently this week gets witnessed, rooted, and remembered.

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Animal Kin & Spiritual Guides


We work with the
creatures, natural world, & guides that keep showing up in your dreams, your sessions, and the world around you, and take seriously what they're pointing at.


What this makes possible: You stop writing off the hawk that appeared three times this week. The natural world starts speaking a language you know how to hear.

These tools meet you where you're at and evolve as you do.

You've ignored that quiet voice. You know how that goes.


Book the call.

A no pressure free 30-minute conversation to learn more about how I work and to see if we'd be a fit.


Schedule your call today by clicking the button below. 

What clients say...

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When I first met Cris, I was at a moment in my life where I was unsure of every possible direction. All of my decisions were based on fear and a recent change in my health had me wondering what kind of life I would have and holy crap I'm going to die. Being in front of Cris's intellect, warmth and grace literally gave me strength I didn't know was there and the assurance of my ability to navigate conflict with grace and evenness. A truly gifted guide and stellar human being.

- Grey
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Cris has been integral to my growth. She is incredibly kind, understanding, and supportive, while also challenging me to face things I may have been ignoring/dismissing. I’m really grateful to have been able to work with her.

- Autumn
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Cris is a wonderful therapist. As a pediatrician, I was prone to over-thinking. She has helped me to work through my thoughts and to be in tune with my body.

- Lisa
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Rewriting Your Inner Story: A Somatic + Art Journal

Creative and body-based prompts to loosen the grip of the inner critic and find the voice underneath it, the one that actually knows what's true.

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You Are the Living Tarot: A Somatic + Mystical Guide

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A sacred companion for the spiritually curious & soul-tired. This guide offers intuitive prompts and archetypal invitations via the tarot to help you remember what’s inside.

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Your soul is done living by rules that were never written for you.

If you’re ready to follow the part of you that refuses to disappear, come closer.