Cristina Maria Fort Garcés

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

You can see everything except yourself.

Somatic Therapy & Energy Coaching for women and queer adults who are done splitting their mind & body from their soul.

The Problem

Spiritual items line your altar while your inner tyrant tortures you.

You're the friend everyone calls,  the one who always holds it together for them.

But lately the self-doubt and overthinking have become obscene...you're trash-talking yourself all the time.​

There’s another important layer, you feel drawn to mystical practices.  But you keep it private, it's a bit embarrassing. So you live separated: your mental health here, your spiritual curiosity over there...

You're never fully yourself anywhere.

You collect beautiful tools: a crystal, a deck...but you’re left wondering: "Why isn't this changing anything?"

Because you've been healing in installments.

If this feels familiar, you’re not alone, I understand this from the inside out.

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 pulsing through us.

Now I hold space for others to come home to that same field. To put down the exhausting performance. To find out that the real version of them is the one people actually want. This isn’t about fixing, it’s about remembering.

And it’s real, raw, sacred work. 

* If you want to read about my training, education, and experience, that's further down.

How I work

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

I don’t separate the psyche from the soul.

My work blends somatic therapy with spiritual practices.

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

Psychology and spirituality work together, turning vague intuition into clear actions you trust.

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 spirit start working together.

So the insight you already have isn't just great logic that lives in your head but becomes your North Star.

The Transformation

The change we create together:

At first you may:

• Notice you’re not calling yourself an a$$hole 4,000 times a day.

• Start feeling more comfortable in your skin, instead of always on the VERGE.

• Let your body stop being the thing you drag through the day and start being the thing you live in.

• Wake up and think, "holy sh*t I slept more than 4 hours."

As we deepen, you start:

• Dropping the performance of "doing life right" for an audience that was never watching.

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

• Choosing what's true for you, not the version that's perpetually people pleasing.

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

And then it happens...

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

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 supported hundreds of clients, I've worked inpatient units, and studied ritual work, and I refuse to pretend those are different jobs.

I blend science, spirit, and lived experience.

As a first-generation kid of immigrants, I learned early how to hold complexity,  the analytical with the mystical. That way of seeing the world shapes my practice: weaving somatics with intuitive tools and earth-based wisdom for people who want something deeper than coping. Who want 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 dedicated to helping people stop abandoning themselves mid-sentence, mid-decision, mid-life.

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

Training, Certifications, Education, & Experience

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

Training, Certifications, Education, & Experience

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.

Rooted in Science. Shaped by Soul.

For when you’re done with more understanding and ready to stop abandoning yourself in real time.

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 overthinking, shrinking, & hiding.
  
  
• You’re spiritually curious: drawn to tarot, astrology, ritual and weaving them with somatic interventions.
  
  
• You’re a helper, soulful professional, or caregiver who’s always holding space for others except yourself.

• You're done performing being "fine," for your family, your clients, your Instagram, yourself.

• Something is ending or unraveling, and you need somewhere to do that without being told to reframe it.
  

This work is for those who are done splitting themselves in two. The grief and the glitter.  The sacred and the shadow.

Here, you don’t have to translate your sensitivity or tone down your mysticism. You get to unravel, integrate, and remember who the f*ck you are. 

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 tell you what to do, or quickly fix you, instead of helping you access your wisdom.

• You’re not open to blending in spiritual practices and prefer to stay in talking and rational analysis, avoiding body-based and creative work.

• You feel stuck in blame and aren’t ready to explore your part in patterns or receive compassionately challenging feedback.
  
  
• You need crisis-level intervention or frequent on-call support.

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.

Let’s get honest, embodied, and a little bit magical.



The portal’s open. Step in when you’re ready.

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