Therapy in Beacon, NY | Counselor Cris Fort
Light begins to fill the space as the session starts. Quietly, your breath slows and your thoughts begin to settle. Gradually, you start to see what had been hidden beneath the noise the calm glow of your own clarity rising within. Radiant and alive, Beacon feels like a place that reminds you of your own light. Clients often arrive feeling clouded, uncertain, or heavy, and leave with a sense of brightness and perspective that feels like exhaling after a long time. Every session becomes an experience of illumination. Awareness expands, energy softens, and the truth that was once dim begins to shine again.
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 MOREThe body always keeps time. It holds both memory and possibility. Through somatic psychotherapy, those two meet, the past softens, the present opens, and you begin to inhabit yourself in a way that feels both new and deeply familiar.
Shadow Work Therapy
LEARN MORESome emotions arrive like storms, sudden, intense, uninvited. Instead of resisting, this practice helps you meet them with awareness. The storm becomes movement, and movement becomes release. In that release, self-forgiveness takes root.
Expressive eco art therapy for emotional healing
LEARN MOREEco art therapy uses color, texture, and natural materials to awaken the inner world. You begin by following curiosity and end by uncovering emotion that transforms into light. The process feels playful, meditative, and deeply revealing.
Many clients share that they leave with renewed clarity and emotional peace, as if creating has opened a window inside them.
Gestalt Therapy
LEARN MOREAwareness becomes liberation. The work is experiential; we notice tone, gesture, emotion, and breath. Each becomes a window into understanding how you relate to others and to yourself. As you bring attention to these living moments, authenticity and self-trust begin to return.
I serve women in Beacon NY
Virtually present and deeply connected, I offer online sessions for women who live in Beacon and are ready to reconnect with their energy and clarity. This luminous town, known for its creative light and peaceful rhythm, mirrors the work we do together. Many clients arrive feeling dimmed by life’s demands and leave feeling clear, centered, and bright from within.
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 who believes that healing begins with presence. My work centers on listening deeply, guiding you to reconnect with your inner calm and to live with more clarity and confidence.
How does virtual therapy work?
Simple and deeply effective, virtual sessions create connection no matter the distance. We meet once a week for 45 minutes through a private, HIPAA-compliant Zoom link. Gradually, the screen becomes a window of presence where you feel seen, supported, and grounded.
What kind of therapy do you offer?
I offer an integrative path through somatic therapy, gestalt therapy, shadow work therapy, and eco art therapy, designed to bring harmony to your emotional and spiritual life.
What if I need to cancel or reschedule a session?
Respectfully maintaining continuity supports your healing rhythm. If you need to change your appointment, please contact me at least 48 hours in advance. Sessions canceled later are charged in full. Flexibly, you may cancel up to four times per year with notice at no cost, helping keep our work balanced and consistent.
What if I’m not sure this is the right fit?
Naturally, uncertainty is part of beginning something new. I offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can experience the energy of the space before committing. Usually, clients leave this first call with a sense of clarity about whether the work feels aligned for them.
With whom do you work and where?
Virtually available throughout New York State, I offer 45-minute weekly online psychotherapy to women, femmes, queer, Latinx, gender-non-conforming, and trans adults aged 21 and older. Compassionately informed by 17 years of experience, I specialize in supporting those navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, burnout, toxic shame, negative self-talk, and life transitions. Additionally, I provide online supervision for new therapists seeking guidance in somatic, Gestalt, and creative arts approaches, as well as support in building their own private practices anywhere in the world.