Therapist in Beacon, NY | Somatic, Art & Gestalt Therapy

I believe that the most honest healing happens when we stop dividing the person into what is clinical and what is sacred. I offer virtual therapy across New York State for the creatives, healers, and soul seekers who have been quietly carrying the weight of transformation without a space that truly knows how to hold it. If something in you has been asking for a depth that ordinary therapy has not yet offered, I built Creative Now Therapy for exactly that.
Beacon has become something rare: a former factory town that transformed itself into a living arts destination without losing the texture of what it always was. Dia:Beacon draws visitors from across the world to its cathedral-like galleries along the Hudson. Main Street is lined with studios and small galleries and the kind of coffee shops where people actually talk. Fishkill Creek moves through the center of the city, and Mount Beacon rises behind it all, visible from everywhere, a constant reminder of what it looks like to be both grounded and oriented upward at the same time. The people who are drawn to live here tend to feel things deeply and have chosen a place that reflects that back to them.
And even in a community this alive with creative energy, there is a specific kind of exhaustion that goes unnamed. The artist who is making beautiful things and quietly falling apart. The transplant from the city who moved here for space to breathe and still cannot exhale. The healer who has built a practice around holding others and has not been held in longer than she can remember. As a therapist in Beacon, NY offering work that brings the body and the sacred together, I am interested in the person underneath the beautiful life, the one who knows something is missing and is finally ready to name it.
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Here’s what our work might look like:

We Begin in the Real Moment


We don’t have to dig through your entire history to start healing,  we begin with what’s happening right now: your breath, your posture, the tightness in your throat, the image you can’t shake.


We Drop Into the Body (and the Beyond)


Together, we drop in slowly and intentionally, tracking sensation, emotion, and the symbolic language of your body. We name what’s been exiled, what’s been performing, and what’s quietly asking to be witnessed.

We Unwind Shame, Self-Attack, and Old Survival Roles


Your body holds the places where you learned to shrink, overgive, or turn against yourself. We track these patterns with compassion until they soften, loosen, and lose authority.


We Integrate the Work Into How You Live, Love, and Lead


Your insights don’t stay in the room, they become embodied. You speak up without collapsing, rest without guilt, show up without masking, and move through your days with more presence and fewer spirals.

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Creatives often live intensely in the body and intensely out of it at the same time. The work pours through you and then you do not know where you went. The making happens and the maker disappears. Somatic therapy is where I help those two things find each other, the body and the person inside it. In sessions, I track what is happening in the nervous system while we are together. The held breath, the eyes that shift, the moment when presence arrives and then vanishes again. I am not analyzing these things. I am listening to them with you, until the body starts to trust that being noticed is safe. I offer this work virtually throughout New York State. What changes over time is not just the tension. It is the whole quality of being in your own body, moving from something to be managed into something to be inhabited, from a problem into a home.
In a town where art is taken seriously, I find that art therapy often reaches people here in a way that is immediate and particular. The creative process is already a native language for many who live in Beacon, and using it as a therapeutic portal is less a metaphor and more a genuinely familiar form of access. I guide the creative process in sessions not as expression but as excavation. What emerges through image and mark tends to name things that the mind had been organizing away. The color that comes out louder than expected. The shape that arrives before the thought does. I follow what comes and we work with it together. No mastery is required and no artistic self-concept. I am not interested in the product. I am interested in what the making reveals. And what it reveals, in my experience, tends to be older and more essential than anything that had a name before we began.
The people who come to gestalt therapy in my practice are often the ones who have the most sophisticated understanding of themselves and still keep running into the same wall. Not because they have not worked hard enough. Because the place where the pattern actually lives has not been touched yet. I work in the present moment. What is happening right now in the body. What the posture just did. What your eyes moved away from. The pattern is not only in your history. It is operating in real time, in how you are inhabiting this conversation, and that is exactly where I meet it. Over time, the body starts to register something different in those moments. Not because we analyzed our way through them but because we were genuinely present for them. That presence, practiced consistently, is the thing that actually changes the shape of a life.
There is something about a town that transformed itself that I find deeply resonant with shadow work. Because transformation always leaves something behind, and what gets left behind tends to still be alive somewhere underground, asking to be retrieved. Shadow work is not about excavating pain. It is about recovering what was buried alongside it. The desire that felt too bold. The rage that felt too inconvenient. The part of yourself that was too much for the rooms you were in before you found this place. Those parts did not disappear. They are waiting. For those in Beacon who came here because something called them and are still not sure they have fully arrived in themselves, shadow work offers the next depth. Not another becoming, but a return to what was always true beneath every version you have tried to be.

Start Therapy in Beacon and Let Yourself Fully Arrive

I hold virtual sessions for clients across New York State and feel a particular connection to the Hudson Valley communities along the river. If you are in Beacon, Cold Spring, Fishkill, or the surrounding Dutchess and Putnam County area, I want to hear from you. Sessions travel to wherever you feel most yourself.

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

hi i'm crisCristina Maria Fort Garcés-Somatic Therapist & Nervous System Healing

I am a licensed psychotherapist and somatic guide offering virtual therapy across New York State, including Beacon and the Hudson Valley. My practice brings somatic intelligence, shadow work, art therapy, and gestalt awareness into a single container for the deep feelers and creative souls who have outgrown what ordinary healing can offer. I have spent nearly twenty years in clinical rooms and a lifetime in sacred ones. Not everything that aches in you needs fixing. Some parts are asking to be seen, remembered, and reclaimed.

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FAQ about my psychotherapy services

  • How does virtual therapy work?

    Sessions are held weekly through a secure, HIPAA-compliant Zoom link. You only need a private space, a stable connection, and a device with a camera and microphone. Each session lasts 45 minutes and is designed to build trust and continuity, allowing the process to unfold with depth and safety.



  • What kind of therapy do you offer?

    I offer somatic therapy, gestalt therapy, shadow work therapy, and eco art therapy. Each modality blends intuitive insight, spiritual reflection, and body awareness to support deep healing and self-understanding.



  • What if I need to cancel or reschedule a session?

    Please give at least 48 hours’ notice if you need to cancel or reschedule. Late cancellations will be charged in full. You may cancel up to four times per year with proper notice at no charge. This structure helps maintain the flow and depth of our work together.



  • What if I’m not sure this is the right fit?

    You can book a free 15-minute consultation to see how it feels to work together. This conversation helps us sense alignment before beginning the process.



  • With whom do you work and where?

    I work with women and gender-expansive adults based in NYC metro area and serving clients across New York. My clients often seek clarity, healing, and energetic balance as they move through transitions or rediscover their purpose.