Cristina Maria Fort Garcés

Somatic Therapist & Nervous System Healing | Kingston, NY & worldwide

Build a Self You Can Trust, Emotionally, Energetically, and Practically.

Spiritually Oriented Somatic Therapy & Energy Coaching for Sensitive, Spiritual, and Soulful Women & Queer Adults.

The Problem

For the Ones Who See So Much & Still Feel Stuck.

You’re the one who always holds it together:  the thoughtful friend, the perceptive one. You notice the emotional undercurrents in a room before anyone else.

But lately the self doubt and overthinking has become torture. You catch yourself speaking to yourself in ways you would never speak to anyone you love.

And there’s another important layer, you feel drawn to mystical practices.  But you keep it private, it's difficult or embarrassing to talk about. So parts of you live in separate places: your mental health in one, your spiritual curiosity in another.

You're never fully yourself anywhere.

You collect tools from different places: a crystal, a deck, a pendulum, but you’re left wondering: Why isn't any of this actually changing anything?

Because you've been healing in installments.

Eventually there’s a moment, quiet or dramatic,  when something in you realizes: I can’t keep doing it this way.

That’s when people find their way to me.

My Story

Hi, I’m Cristina Maria Fort Garcés and I’ve lived the burnout, too.

For years, I shaped myself around what others expected, running on Ritalin, praise, and a quiet desperation to outrun the discomfort of my anxiety. I was the achiever, the helper, and the rockstar. But underneath the performance was a body full of grief and a spirit begging to be met.

It wasn’t until I stopped running from my pain and started listening to it that something shifted. We don’t shift by ascending, we shift by returning. To the body. To the truth.  To the field of consciousness that’s been pulsing through us the whole time.

Now I hold space for others to come home to that same field. To soften their grip. To tune into the resonance of their own truth. This isn’t about fixing, it’s about remembering.

And it’s real, raw, sacred work. 

* (And if you want to read about the less exciting stuff: my training, education, and experience, that's down at the bottom of the page.)

The Transformation

What Becomes Possible Here:

I don’t promise quick fixes or spiritual bypass.  This work is slow enough to actually reach the places that need attention.

Over time, small things start to change.

- You sleep through the night more often.

- You notice you’re not calling yourself an a$$hole 4,000 times a day.

- You realize how exhausted you actually are, and for the first time, that feels like information instead of failure.

- You stop performing "doing life right" for an audience that was never even watching.

- Your body stops being the thing you drag through the day and starts being the thing you actually live in.

As the work deepens, you may notice yourself:

• Feeling more comfortable in yourself, instead of always on the VERGE.

• Spending less time in the courtroom of your mind, prosecuting everything you said.

• Saying what you actually mean, and staying in the room after you say it.

• Choosing what's actually true for you, not the version that's still trying to make everyone comfortable.

• Trusting yourself in the hard moments, even when every anxious thought is lobbying against it.

And then, quietly, without fanfare: it happens.

You're walking home, or making tea, or lying in bed at night, and nothing is on fire. And you think: Oh. This is what OK feels like

How I work

Systems that don’t honor the soul will always ask you to abandon yourself. 

I don’t separate the psyche from the soul.

My work blends somatic therapy with spiritual insight.

We pay attention to what’s happening in your body, emotions, and intuition, while exploring deeper meaning through tools like tarot, astrology, and symbolism.

Psychology and spirituality work together, so insight can actually move through your life.

I hold space for the parts of you that have been ignored or misunderstood.

Not the polished version of you.

The sensitive parts that notice everything.  The overwhelmed parts that replay conversations. The spiritual parts you’re not sure where to put.

All of it belongs here.

I guide you toward integration, not improvement.

This work isn’t about fixing you.

It’s about helping your body, mind, and intuition start working together.

So the insight you already have becomes something you live from, not just something you understand.

Services:

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.

This work is sacred, and it’s not for everyone.

Who this work is for:

• You’re a deep-feeling human who’s tired of shrinking & hiding.
  
  
• You’ve craving integration that weaves together the emotional, the somatic, & the spiritual.
  
  
• You’re spiritually curious and open: drawn to ritual, tarot, astrology, & ancestral wisdom.
  
  
• You’re a helper, soulful professional, or caregiver who’s always holding space for others except yourself.
  
  
• You’re moving through burnout, grief, or a moment of change, and need a space that honors your shadows.
  

This work is for those who are done splitting themselves in two. The grief and the glitter.  The sacred and the shadow. The healer who hides their rage, the artist who longs for ritual, the caregiver who needs holding.

Here, you don’t have to translate your tenderness or tone down your mysticism. You get to unravel, integrate, and remember.  This is a space where the ache becomes invitation and your wholeness has room to breathe.

This work might not be the right fit if…

• You struggle to honor boundaries around time, communication, payment, or session structure,  and find those limits frustrating rather than supportive.
  
  
• You want someone to be emotionally on-call or to tell you what to do, fix you quickly, or give direct advice instead of helping you access your own inner knowing.

• You’re not open to blending the clinical with the mystical and don’t want to work with creativity or spiritual tools.

• You feel stuck in blame or resentment and aren’t yet ready to explore your part in patterns or to receive reflective, self-responsibility-oriented feedback.
  
  
• You prefer to stay in talking and rational analysis only and avoid body-based work in session.
  
  
• You need crisis-level intervention or ongoing emergency support rather than a spacious, integrative process.

What I offer is relational & embodied. It’s spacious and boundaried. I walk with you, but I don’t carry you.

If you need something different, that’s okay. There are many forms of support. I’m happy to help you find the right resources.

My Background

Clinically Trained. Mystically Tuned. Deeply Human.

I’m a Latinx  licensed psychotherapist and somatic practitioner with nearly two decades of experience across clinical, creative, intuitive healing spaces. I’ve worked on inpatient units, led group practices, studied ritual work, and supported hundreds of clients,  including soulful professionals, healers, and highly sensitive adults.

I blend science, spirit, and lived experience.

As a first-generation kid of immigrants, I learned early how to hold complexity,  the analytical and the intuitive with the mystical. That way of seeing the world shapes the way I practice: weaving somatics with intuitive tools and earth-based wisdom for people who want something deeper than coping , something that honors both their nervous system and their soul.

This space is different, and intentionally so.

Most therapists won’t pull a tarot card or notice the symbolic meaning behind a shift. Most spiritual coaches won’t understand attachment wounds or how trauma shapes your nervous system. I hold both with care.  In my space, your grief, magic, lineage, sensitivity, and shadow all have room. My work is helping people reclaim their intuition, trust their knowing, and return to themselves with clarity.

This work is not clinical for me; it’s sacred.
It’s where psychology, the body, and the soul meet.

Rooted in Science. Shaped by Soul.

You deserve support that honors both your depth and your humanity.

I’m here to help you reconnect with what’s true: body, mind, and spirit.

Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC

Training, Certifications, Education, & Experience

Let’s get honest, embodied, and a little bit magical. The portal’s open. Step in when you’re ready.

If you’re standing at a threshold, I’ve got a lantern.