Shamanic Healing & Energy Work | Kingston, NY & Nearby Areas

For sensitive, intuitive humans who feel something deeper calling, without wanting dogma, labels, or spiritual performance

Body-based, spiritually attuned support for grief, transitions, burnout, and remembering who you are beneath survival. Offered as coaching worldwide and integrated psychotherapy in New York State.

What is a shamanic practitioner?

I want to be clear and intentional about language here.

I do not identify as a shaman, and I’m careful with the terms we use. When this page refers to shamanic-informed work, it means drawing inspiration from earth-based, ancestral, and ritual traditions, while staying ethical, trauma-informed, and grounded in the present.

Rather than adopting titles or replicating closed cultural practices, this work focuses on direct experience instead of belief systems, relationship with the body, the natural world, and the unseen, and creating enough safety for deeper material to emerge and integrate.



This is not about spectacle or transcendence. It’s about remembering what you already know in your bones.

Most common signs you might benefit from working with a shamanic practitioner

You may already be reflective, intuitive, or spiritually curious. You’ve likely done therapy, personal growth work, journaling, or spiritual practices,  and yet there’s a sense that something essential hasn’t fully landed.

You might notice:

• Old emotional pain or grief that doesn’t respond to insight alone
• A feeling of fragmentation, heaviness, or disconnection in your body
• Recurring patterns that feel bigger than willpower or mindset
• A sense that you’re standing at a threshold, an ending, a beginning, or an unraveling you can’t rush
• A pull toward ritual, nature, symbolism, or the unseen, paired with hesitation about where it’s safe to explore that

This isn’t a failure of effort. It’s often a sign that your system is asking for a different kind of listening, one that includes the body, imagination, and the parts of you that don’t speak in linear language.

How do I know if I am ready for shamanic healing work?

You’re not looking for dramatic breakthroughs or spiritual performance. You’re looking for something that feels steady, respectful, and real.

You may be ready if you feel called toward experiential, body-based exploration rather than purely cognitive processing, are open to spiritual language without rigid belief systems, and are willing to slow down so integration can actually happen.

You don’t need specific beliefs. Curiosity, consent, and pacing matter more than certainty.

Shamanic practitioner in kingston and nearby areas

Hi, I’m Cris Maria Fort Garcés.

A LatinX somatic psychotherapist and spiritual practitioner with nearly two decades of experience supporting people through burnout, trauma, grief, and identity shifts.

I grew up navigating multiple worlds, cultural, emotional, and spiritual, and I know firsthand the tension between what can be explained and what must be felt. That lived experience shapes how I work.

My approach blends nervous-system awareness, relational presence, creative expression, and spiritually informed practices rooted in respect rather than hierarchy. I don’t work from authority or mystique. I work from attunement, collaboration, and care for the unseen without bypassing the human.

This space exists for people who want depth without dogma, spirituality without performance, and healing that honors both the psyche and the soul.

How I approach shamanic healing in Kingston and nearby areas

This work is experiential, body-based, and guided by consent and pacing.

Each session begins by orienting to what’s present for you, emotionally, physically, and energetically. From there, we follow what’s ready to emerge rather than imposing a fixed method.

Depending on what feels supportive, our work may include:

• Guided inner journeys using imagery, sensation, and attention
• Energy-informed practices to help release stagnation or heaviness
• Ritual elements to mark transitions, grief, or integration
• Somatic tracking to keep the work grounded and regulated
• Space for symbols, dreams, ancestors, nature, and inner allies to arise organically

Insight is always paired with integration. We slow the work down enough that your nervous system can register change, so what happens in session can actually support your life outside of it.

This work can stand alone as spiritual integration or be woven into psychotherapy when clinically appropriate.

What topics can we explore in shamanic healing sessions?

• Grief, loss, and emotional integration
• Burnout and nervous-system exhaustion
• Life transitions and identity shifts
• Fragmentation, dissociation, or feeling disconnected from self
• Meaning-making, symbolism, and spiritual integration
  

Tips and resources for getting the most out of your shamanic healing

• Come with curiosity rather than expectation
• Allow the work to unfold slowly
• Notice what shows up in your body, dreams, or daily life between sessions
• Remember that integration matters more than intensity
  

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TWO PORTALS, ONE PATH TO WHOLENESS

Deep Healing for Your Body, Spirit, and Story.

Creative Now Therapy  & beyond offers two powerful pathways into this work, grounded in ritual, transformative tools, and methodologies designed to meet you wherever you are in your evolution.

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Ready to Explore What’s Calling?

If something here stirred recognition, not urgency, but resonance, you’re invited to reach out.

A free consultation is a spacious conversation to ask questions, name what you’re sensing, and see if this work feels aligned.