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

I built Creative Now Therapy for the people who kept going. Not because it was easy or because they had what they needed, but because stopping was never an option anyone offered them. I offer virtual therapy across New York State for the healers, caregivers, and deep feelers who are finally ready to stop and ask a different question: not how do I keep going, but what have I actually been carrying all this time.
Binghamton sits at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers, a Triple Cities landscape that has always known how to hold things together. The six historic carousels still turning in the parks across the region are evidence of a city that keeps its promises long after the era that made them has passed. Binghamton University brings an energy of scholarship and first-generation aspiration. The former IBM campus in Endicott still sits as a testament to an era of industrial certainty that left something complicated in its wake. The rivers run through it all, patient and persistent, the way certain kinds of people run through every difficulty they meet.
The people I most often find reaching out from Binghamton and the Triple Cities carry a particular kind of strength that has never been called by its right name. The first-generation college student holding the weight of her family's hope. The nurse who has been absorbing the region's grief for years without a container for her own. The person who stayed when others left and has been carrying the weight of that choice without anyone noticing it was a weight at all. I work with the therapist in Binghamton, NY who honors that strength and also asks what it has cost.
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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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The body that has kept going through everything learns a particular fluency: forward. It knows how to push and absorb and continue. What it often forgets, over time, is how to stop. How to be still. How to receive. Somatic therapy is where I help the body remember the rest of its vocabulary. I track what the nervous system is doing in real time. The held breath. The chest that has been tight since the hardest years and has simply become the baseline. The moment of genuine quiet that arrives in session and immediately generates a list of things that still need to be done. I work with those things with you, honestly and patiently, at exactly the pace the body can actually hold. I offer this work virtually throughout New York State. What opens over time is not a softening of the strength. It is the discovery of what the strength was always protecting, a softness underneath it that has been waiting a very long time to be acknowledged as the most essential part of all.
A city that maintains six antique carousels across its parks understands something about the relationship between beauty and resilience. Art therapy in my practice draws on that same understanding: that the creative act is not a luxury and not a reward for having the rest of it together. It is a form of access to what the keeping-it-together has been holding aside. I guide the creative process in sessions as a way of reaching what narrative has left untouched. The image that comes before the thought. The mark that tells a different story than the one the mind had decided on. What emerges through the creative process tends to be older and more essential than anything the composed self had ready, and once it has been given form, it can finally begin to move. Nothing artistic is required. No history with making, no comfort with materials. Only the willingness to let something emerge that management and endurance and getting through it together could not produce. That willingness, in my experience, tends to open exactly what the healing has been looking for.
When the whole of the life has been organized around perseverance, the present moment can become something to move through rather than something to inhabit. The goal is always the other side of the difficulty. The reward is always later. Gestalt therapy asks what happens when later is actually now. I bring the present moment into the center of our sessions. What is alive in the body right now. What the quality of this specific conversation is offering. The pattern is not only in the history of perseverance. It is operating right here, in how you are holding this moment, and this is where I work with it. What shifts over time is the felt experience of the present moment as something worth inhabiting rather than something to survive. The body starts to trust the now. The reflex toward forward starts to allow for here. And here, it turns out, is where the actual life has been waiting.
Resilience has its own shadow: the parts that never got to not be resilient. The grief that was inconvenient to the perseverance. The need that was too vulnerable to survive the scrutiny of a hard time. The longing for something easier that felt like a betrayal of everyone who had it harder. Shadow work is where I go to find those parts with you. I come to this work with real reverence for what got put away in order to keep going. Those parts were not weaknesses. They were wise adaptations to circumstances that genuinely required them. The work is not to judge what went underground but to bring it forward into the fullness of who you actually are. For those in Binghamton who have been the strong one for as long as they can remember and are quietly wondering if it is ever their turn to be held, I want to offer this: it is. And this is where that begins.

Begin Therapy in Binghamton and Let Yourself Be Held

I hold virtual sessions for clients across New York State and feel a genuine connection to the Southern Tier communities. If you are in Binghamton, Johnson City, Endicott, Vestal, or the surrounding region, 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 Binghamton and the wider Southern Tier. My practice holds the somatic and the sacred in a single space, for the ones who have kept going through everything and are finally ready to ask what they have been carrying and what it would feel like to set it down. 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.