“People Start to Heal the moment they are heard.” ~Cheryl Richardson
Therapists
P. Reed Larsen, Jr., LCSW
P. Reed Larsen, Jr. began working with children, adolescents and families almost 30 years ago. Reed has been practicing privately in New Mexico for 15 years but began his career as an agency outreach worker who brought play therapy into people’s homes, schools and foster care. Reed provides a safe, supportive environment for healing for children and families. Reed is a licensed clinical social worker and certified psychoanalyst.
Katie Hall, LCSW, DSIII
Katie Hall has been working professionally with children and families since 2005. She completed her Master’s degree and clinical hours in California before moving to New Mexico to work in early intervention. As a developmental specialist, her in depth knowledge of child development compliments her work with children in the play therapy setting. Katie is a firm believer in the power of “child-led play” and it’s ability to foster true transformation.
Faye Finley LPCC,
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
Faye is a licensed professional clinical counselor and registered Circle of Security facilitator. She is a graduate of Southwestern College in Santa Fe. Her counseling career has focused exclusively on children and families. As champion for children, Faye strives to provide a safe, welcoming environment for her clients to heal. In addition, Faye offers support to caregivers in their efforts to raise healthy, resilient children.
Yvonne Garley-Alvarez, LCSW, RPT
Yvonne is a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and Registered Play Therapist (RPT). Yvonne was born and raised in New Mexico and has worked with children and families throughout New Mexico in various agencies and school district’s over the past 15 years. Yvonne has been utilizing Play Therapy for the last 10 years of her career and strongly believes in the magic of Play Therapy and how it is effective in supporting the whole child in their healing and growth; as well as it being a beneficial model to work collaboratively with the child’s caregivers to support the child’s healing process.
Meredith Baca, LPCC, RPT, Board of Directors
Meredith D. Baca has worked with children and adolescents since 2011. She was born in Santa Fe and raised in Northern New Mexico. It was during graduate school at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where she found her passion for Play Therapy. She is an Independently Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and Registered Play Therapist (RPT). She has worked in inpatient, outpatient, residential treatment centers and in private practice throughout her career. She is passionate about Play Therapy and striving to provide a place of healing for all her clients.
Circle of Security Facilitators
Jeanne Du Rivage, MA, OTR/L, SEP
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
Jeanne is a licensed occupational therapist with over 30 years of experience working with children and families. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, an approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine, to address the impact of trauma. She specializes in working with sensory processing and social emotional challenges as well as developmental trauma. She is passionate about working with children and families and believes that empathy and love are powerful tools for healing. Jeanne is a Registered Circle of Security Parent Educator and values the opportunity to share the Circle of Security program with parents and caregivers.
Faye Finley LPCC,
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
Faye is a licensed professional clinical counselor and registered Circle of Security facilitator. She is a graduate of Southwestern College in Santa Fe. Her counseling career has focused exclusively on children and families. As champion for children, Faye strives to provide a safe, welcoming environment for her clients to heal. In addition, Faye offers support to caregivers in their efforts to raise healthy, resilient children.
We utilize an alternative leadership model to a centralized executive director.
Faye Finley LPCC,
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
Faye is a licensed professional clinical counselor and registered Circle of Security facilitator. She is a graduate of Southwestern College in Santa Fe. Her counseling career has focused exclusively on children and families. As champion for children, Faye strives to provide a safe, welcoming environment for her clients to heal. In addition, Faye offers support to caregivers in their efforts to raise healthy, resilient children.
Eliza Combs, LPCC, ATR, RPT, SAP®, RYT® 200, Founding Member, Advisory Member, Marketing & PR Director
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
Eliza is of working-class, settler, Irish, Cornish, German and ancestral lineages still being learned. Eliza is an Independently Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), nationally Registered Art Therapist (ATR), nationally Registered Play Therapist (RPT), Somatic Archeology Practitioner (SAP®), and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT® 200). Most recently, they have been studying and practicing American Sign Language, body-centered healing practices, Somatic Abolitionism, and Sensorimotor Art Therapy.
Eliza graduated from Freedom Lodge, a year-long historical trauma training, and integrates body-centered processes with creative modalities in their work as an expressive arts therapist. Eliza is guided in their work by an anti-racist, social justice framework, the earth, the body, mystery, presence, intuition, play, curiosity, and creativity. They have worked for over 25 years with children, adults, and families in community-based organizations. For the last 14 years, they have worked in New Mexico agencies in Chimayo, Abiquiu, Los Lunas, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe. Eliza is passionate about expressive arts, play, and body-centered therapy for all people.
Board of Directors
Meredith Baca, LPCC, RPT, Board of Directors, Board President, Therapist
Meredith D. Baca has worked with children and adolescents since 2011. She was born in Santa Fe and raised in Northern New Mexico. It was during graduate school at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where she found her passion for Play Therapy. She is an Independently Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and Registered Play Therapist (RPT). She has worked in inpatient, outpatient, residential treatment centers and in private practice throughout her career. She is passionate about Play Therapy and striving to provide a place of healing for all her clients.
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Geri Glover, PhD, LPCC, RPT-S, Founding Member, Board of Directors, Treasurer
Geri Glover has worked with children and families for over 30 years in education, day treatment programs, private practice, mental health clinics, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at New Mexico Highlands University. She completed research in Filial Therapy with Native Americans residing on the Flathead Reservation in northern Montana in honor of her Salish ancestry. Her research has appeared in such publications as The School Counselor Journal and The International Journal of Play Therapy. Dr. Glover is a strong advocate of multicultural awareness and its importance in the therapeutic relationship. She has numerous publications, and is co-author of Play Therapy Interventions with Children’s Problems.
Advisory
Kathleen Benecke MA LPCC IMH-E IV
Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator
After a 21 year
career as a Pediatric, Hospice and HIV nurse, Kathleen received her Master of
Arts in Counseling from the University of New Mexico in 1997 and is Nationally Board
Certified Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She initially worked as a
Hospice counselor in Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties. In 1999 she was
instrumental in establishing the Community Infant Program which was the first
Infant Parent Mental Health program in Santa Fe. In 2007 she was intensively
trained in DBT and has been interested in incorporating that work into Infant
Mental Health. She has been endorsed by the New Mexico Association of Infant
Mental Health (NMAIMH) since 2008. She is also intensively trained in the
Circle of Security Parenting Model and is a Registered Circle of Security
Parent Educator. In June 2015, she
completed an eighteen month training in CPP-Child Parent Psychotherapy. Kathleen
has been in Private Practice since October 2012 and has been a member of the
Northern New Mexico Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Team since December
2012
Geri Glover has worked with children and families for over 30 years in education, day treatment programs, private practice, mental health clinics, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at New Mexico Highlands University. She completed research in Filial Therapy with Native Americans residing on the Flathead Reservation in northern Montana in honor of her Salish ancestry. Her research has appeared in such publications as The School Counselor Journal and The International Journal of Play Therapy. Dr. Glover is a strong advocate of multicultural awareness and its importance in the therapeutic relationship. She has numerous publications, and is co-author of Play Therapy Interventions with Children’s Problems.
