Therapy in Ithaca, NY | Counselor Cris Fort
Healing begins the moment you choose to stop carrying it all alone. Here in Ithaca, surrounded by waterfalls, winding trails, and the calm rhythm of nature, there’s space to exhale and begin again. This place holds a grounded, reflective energy, and that same feeling guides the way I hold our sessions. If you’ve been feeling disconnected, restless, or simply ready to find your way back to yourself, this work offers a path inward. Together, we’ll explore what your body has been holding, learn to trust your intuition, and soften the parts that have stayed guarded for too long. Healing isn’t about becoming someone else; it’s about remembering the wholeness that has always been within you. Each session invites you to return to your natural rhythm, much like the quiet flow of Ithaca’s gorges, steady, alive, and deeply peaceful.
Here’s what our work might look like:
This is a living, breathing container, rooted in clinical depth, mystical tradition, and intuitive truth. It meets you where you are and evolves as you do.
Free 20-Minute Discovery Call
A no-pressure space to sense resonance, ask questions, and feel whether this work is aligned with your soul’s current threshold.
Sacred Intake + Elemental Assessment
Before we begin, you’ll receive a set of reflective prompts and guided inquiries to help map your internal landscape, what’s shifting, unraveling, or calling for integration. This includes an elemental assessment to reveal imbalances across earth, air, fire, and water. We’ll then meet live to orient together, set intentions, and prepare the ground for our work.
Explore my services and specializations
Somatic Therapy
LEARN MOREHealing begins the moment awareness returns to the body. Somatic psychotherapy nurtures that return through sensation, breath, and grounded attention. Each session becomes an act of remembering that peace is not something to find, but something that’s been within you all along.
Shadow Work Therapy
LEARN MOREWithin every person lives a constellation of emotions waiting to be felt. Meeting them is not the end of the journey but the beginning. Each session helps you remember that integration is not perfection, it’s peace made real through presence.
Expressive eco art therapy for emotional healing
LEARN MOREHealing isn’t always about words. Sometimes it’s about movement, color, and creation. In eco art therapy, we use natural materials to give shape to your emotions, to express what’s been too deep or complex to say. As you create, you release. And as you release, you reconnect with your sense of flow, your playfulness, and your capacity for renewal.
Gestalt Therapy
LEARN MOREThis approach helps you come into contact with what is alive in you right now. Instead of intellectualizing, you feel, speak, and move through your experiences in real time. The result is integration, the merging of awareness and expression that allows you to live with more freedom, creativity, and truth.
I serve women in Ithaca, NY
I offer online sessions to women living in and around Ithaca, NY, including Trumansburg, Dryden, and nearby towns across the Finger Lakes region. Ithaca is known for its natural beauty, with its gorges, waterfalls, and vibrant sense of community rooted in creativity and learning. The area’s peaceful rhythm and connection to nature make it an ideal setting for reflection, renewal, and emotional grounding.
What clients say...
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
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
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
Hello I’m Cris Fort, counselor.
I’m Cris Fort, a counselor helping women embrace transformation with honesty and calm. My approach centers on presence and compassion, guiding you toward healing, clarity, and inner peace.
How does virtual therapy work?
Sessions take place weekly for 45 minutes through a secure, HIPAA-compliant Zoom link. All you need is a quiet, private space and a steady connection. Meeting regularly creates the continuity that makes healing possible.
What kind of therapy do you offer?
I offer somatic therapy, gestalt therapy, shadow work therapy, and eco art therapy. Each one helps you deepen awareness, restore balance, and reconnect with your inner truth through intuition and presence.
What if I need to cancel or reschedule a session?
You may reschedule or cancel up to 48 hours before your appointment. Later cancellations are billed in full. You can make up to four cancellations per year with proper notice at no cost. This structure keeps our rhythm steady while allowing flexibility.
What if I’m not sure this is the right fit?
I offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can get a feel for the connection and energy of this work. It’s a simple way to explore if this path feels right for you.
With whom do you work and where?
With 17 years of experience in Somatic, Gestalt, and Creative Arts psychotherapy, I work online with women, femmes, queer, Latinx, gender-non-conforming, and trans adults throughout New York State. My sessions reach clients in Red Hook and across the Hudson Valley, offering a space for restoration, balance, and emotional renewal.