Our Services
Vida Entera offers psychotherapy, educational consulting and coaching services, as well as clinical supervision for counselors and social workers.
Vida Entera is comprised of two fully licensed therapists, as well as a clinical intern to help meet your needs. Read on to find out more about what we offer, and how we might work together.
Psychotherapy
We believe the key to transformative psychotherapy is the therapeutic relationship. As humanistic practitioners, empathic understanding, authenticity, and acceptance without judgement are the core of our practice. We believe a person, when given the proper environment, has the potential for positive growth, and we dedicate ourselves to providing the safe container necessary for that growth.
FAQs About Psychotherapy
What is the fee for psychotherapy services? The full fee for therapy is $150 per hour. Please see the More About Us page for information about insurance coverage. Ask about our reduced rate options if you are experiencing financial hardship and your insurance plan is not listed.
What is the difference between counseling/psychotherapy and coaching? Counseling/psychotherapy focuses on managing and/or alleviating mental health problems that are resulting in emotional or behavioral distress so that functioning is improved. Whereas, coaching focuses on setting and achieving wellness/life/spiritual goals, developing potential, and improving performance with clients who are generally functioning well and want support toward greater mind-body-spirit wellness.
Can I video-conference my sessions from anywhere? Psychotherapy can only be provided to clients located within the practitioner’s state (New Mexico) or a state that maintains a virtual network.
Clinical Supervision
Casey and Chris are both approved clinical supervisors for provisional and Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs) and licensed social workers (LBSWs and LMSWs) in the state of New Mexico. With extensive experience in clinical practice and supervision, they are dedicated to fostering a supportive environment that empowers new professionals.
Supervisees often report feeling more calm and confident after supervision, enabling them to explore new therapeutic approaches. Our supervision philosophy is rooted in a humanistic approach, much like our therapy practice. We focus on self-awareness, empathy, and authenticity, helping supervisees bring their full selves into their client work.
Our goal is to create a collaborative space where supervisees can process challenges, reflect on cases, and trust their own decision-making. Rather than giving direct advice, we guide them to explore their own thinking, building their confidence as therapists. Supervisees are encouraged to take an active role in shaping their professional development, and we help them feel secure in their unique strengths. We believe that an empowered supervisee becomes an empowered therapist, ready to make a lasting impact on the lives of their clients.
We also enjoy sharing valuable resources—research, tools, and case studies—so supervisees leave each session with both insight and practical knowledge. Our aim is to help them develop a strong foundation for effective, compassionate practice.
Featured Specialization: Hypnotherapy
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a tool that involves relaxing into an inwardly focused state - and then utilizing the imagination to create healing, deeper insight, relief from symptoms, and/or change of behavior. This altered state of consciousness is a natural process involving focused attention that occurs every day (when you do things like read or watch a movie).
When in this state, you are still aware and in control, just less distracted and more open to connecting to the healing aspects of the subconscious mind. Hypnosis is a great way to augment other therapeutic tools to increase effectiveness.
Some experiences hypnosis may assist with: anxiety, panic, phobias, trauma, grief, depression, chronic or acute pain, medical and dental procedures, childbirth, and habit disorders (e.g. consuming substances, food, media, etc. or picking, biting nails, and other obsessive or compulsive behavior).
Can hypnosis help with trauma?
Trauma lies at the root of other issues such as habit disorders, anxiety, and phobias. Hypnosis is effective for addressing wounds to the mind, body, and spirit that result in dysregulation.
Hypnosis makes learning to regulate the nervous system easier. It also allows us to revisit traumatic events in a relaxed and aware state so that we can dissolve shock in the body and re-learn ways of thinking and behaving that we adopted to help us survive.
Our conscious mind does not remember everything that has happened to us, but our subconscious mind and body does. Without awareness, these subconscious memories control our present behavior and how we feel emotionally and physically. Hypnosis can help us access the subconscious mind to discover the root cause(s) of underlying destructive beliefs and accompanying behaviors and re-learn thought patterns and behaviors at the subconscious level.
Is it true that hypnosis can help with pain, IBS, and childbirth?
Hypnosis for Pain
Hypnosis can help those with acute pain, and help those with chronic pain reprocess it. Many cases of chronic pain are mind-body responses to trauma. I teach hypnosis-augmented practices to help people unlearn their pain. For more information, visit www.thismighthurtfilm.com.
Hypnosis for IBS
The North Carolina Hypnosis Treatment Protocol for IBS has proven effective in 7 studies. Most patients show long-term improvement in symptoms and psychological well-being, even those unresponsive to medical treatments. The protocol includes 7 sessions over 14 weeks. For details, visit www.ibshypnosis.com.
Hypnosis for Childbirth
Hypnosis can be used to create a comfortable, positive childbirth experience without medication. These techniques promote natural hormones that enhance comfort, bonding, and reduce stress for both the parent and baby. We offer an8-session coaching package with resources and recordings to support pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.
There are many other uses for hypnosis, and Casey would be happy to discuss how we might use hypnosis in your healing and personal growth.
Educational Coaching
Parents and caregivers are increasingly moving children into homeschooling because they recognize that stressful and fear-based learning environments negatively impact the child’s wellbeing - and the ability to learn. However, where to start and how to meet those needs at home is often overwhelming. Vida Entera provides educational consulting and coaching for homeschooling families to assess the learner’s needs and create a wellness-first educational plan.
Recognizing that not everyone has the privilege or desire to homeschool, yet many families find themselves frustrated with supporting and advocating for their children, we offer services to support the educational journey for these families as well.
A holistic educational consultant supports learners (and their support networks) by providing assessments, learning plans, and resources. This planning helps to create an environment in which the learner will thrive. The assessment report provides insight into how the learner’s mind works and highlights learning strategies that will be most supportive. The wellness-first learning plan is created specifically for the child based on their strengths and goals. It also incorporates recommendations for educational materials, approaches, and holistic wellbeing. Assessments and learning plans are strengths-based, which means the learner’s strengths are leveraged to promote educational and personal growth.
Educational coaching offers ongoing support to help learners leverage their strengths, develop executive function skills, and grow their emotional intelligence. The coach supports the learner in exploring their gifts and growing into who they are. This also may include a focus on building skills in specific areas, such as reading and math.
Coaching may involve supporting parents or caregivers, so that they can create a supportive environment for the child. This may include parenting approaches, navigating the overwhelm, and advocating for the child’s needs.
FAQs About Educational Coaching
What is the main focus of educational coaching? Coaching focuses on setting and achieving goals by developing skills and improving performance.
Can I video-conference my sessions from anywhere? Yes! Educational coaching sessions are available across all states.
Educational Consulting
Our goal is to help build resilient, supportive, and healthy communities. We believe this goal can be reached through creating trauma-focused and multiculturally-focused ways of being in relationship with others. “Trauma-informed and multiculturally aware” is not enough. We must be focused. We must be humanistic, and listen to the stories of those we serve.
We offer consultation for schools, healthcare facilities, and recovery centers to transform their way of serving students and patients. Schools and healthcare facilities play a tremendous role in creating community wellness.
PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Casey is an educator by training, and a former licensed kinder-12 and special education teacher. She understands the challenges of the school environment. She offers consultation and workshops for parents and educators to create homes, schools, and communities focused on building resilience and belonging for children and adults. Consultation and workshops focus on changing classroom and school culture through developmentally appropriate (neuroscience-based), trauma-focused, and multiculturally-focused strategies and ways of being. She teaches how to use creativity, connection, and classroom climate to make meaningful shifts toward exceptional student growth.
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Drawing on her experience as a former instructor and director of academic enrichment at the university level, Casey offers consultation and workshops for colleges and universities. She can help transform your campus culture through the cultivation of resiliency and belonging, using trauma-focused and multiculturally-focused approaches. Student and faculty / staff development workshops topics might include: active and experiential learning, the role of creativity in education, creativity at work, moving through procrastination, supporting learning through wellness, trauma-informed campus cultures, and social-emotional learning. In collaborative discussion, we can determine what workshop topics might be best for your institution.
MEDICAL FACILITIES AND RECOVERY CENTERS
Casey offers consultation and group integrative practices to support medical facilities and recovery centers in developing humanistic, integrative programs and/or augment treatment with research-informed integrative practices. In order to do this, she draws on her training as a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Practitioner, as well as licensed mental health and substance abuse practitioner. Her research and practice focus on nervous system regulation through a variety of integrative practices such as polyvagal techniques, clinical hypnosis, mindfulness, and expressive arts. These techniques are research-informed for Casey’s specialty areas: chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, and addiction.
FAQs About Educational Consulting
What is the main focus of educational consulting? Consulting focuses on collecting data to develop strategies and make recommendations.
Where would educational consulting take place? Educational coaching is available on-site at your location.
Interested in psychotherapy, educational consulting and coaching, or clinical supervision services?
Reach out to Vida Entera and let’s get started together.