Somatic Psychotherapy & Energy Coaching | Psychotherapy in New York · Coaching Worldwide
Your Gifts Are Real. It's Time to Trust Them.
Where Tarot, Astrology, & Mysticism meets folks who are spiritually alive and chronically self-abandoning.
Cristina Maria Fort GArcés, LCAT, ATR-BC
The Problem
You think you need more discipline. You don't.
You're thoughtful, track synchronicities, and pull tarot for clarity. Hope sparks each time your patterns make sense.
Then it fades: evenings hijacked by vicious thoughts, ("did I sound stupid?") leaving you doom spiraling into shame and drafting texts for 3 hours.
Of course this keeps happening. Therapy unpacks childhood wounds but skips your spiritual downloads. Woo spaces deliver cosmic "aha"s but leave you nail biting on Sunday nights.
You've gathered brilliant pieces: journaled insights and clarified transits, but they live in your head while your body clenches with dread, untouched by insight.
You're not broken but insight alone can't stop the vigilance wired into your body, and it leaves you stuck with better stories but not better mornings.
That's because your spiritual knowing needs somewhere safe to land.
Here
your
intuitive
downloads can finally become
clear action plans that stick and feel good all week.
THE TRANSFORMATION
This is what happens when you stop abandoning yourself.
Something quiets. Not all at once, but on a random Wednesday, you realize you didn't spend the commute home dissecting every little thing you said in the meeting.
You catch the inner critic rev up and you don't follow it down the hole. You sit with a friend and actually say the hard thing, shaking a little. The friendship doesn't collapse. You realize the thing you’ve been avoiding didn’t destroy your life, it changed it.
You start:
- Making decisions without polling three+ people to confirm you're not crazy.
- You contribute to the meeting with confidence, no frenetic, 48-hour replay.
- Choosing rest without earning it first, and not calling yourself lazy for it.
- You open your Notes app and the idea that's been "almost ready" to launch is no longer terrifying. It's just next.
Finally, you stop waiting for it all to fall apart.
And when you're ready for this, there's a space built exactly for that
THE SOLUTION
Where the shift starts staying instead of just visiting.
You've seen yourself in your chart. You've left a ceremony knowing something shifted, and then watched real life put that in a choke hold.
The insight was real. The integration just never had a place.
This is that place.
We go to
the part of you that’s still bracing
for impact,
and we don’t skip it. We tap into
the intuition
you keep second-guessing,
and use
the spiritual tools you love
but don't quite know how to integrate.
Our work may include:
- Somatic therapy so your body stops time-traveling to age 8 every time your manager's tone sharpens
- Astrology and tarot to support what you know but are too scared to trust
- Ritual and intuitive practices so insight goes beyond the journal and into your behavior.
- Dream and symbol work so the image that keeps returning finally hands you directions.
Instead of collecting more explanations, you start living differently.
When you can't keep going the way things are.
Every day feels the same. Work, sleep, scroll, repeat, somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling like yourself. You look fine on the outside, but inside you’re anxious, disconnected, and quietly wondering or screaming inside: “Is this really all there is?”
You’re outgrowing this phase of life and you’re not sure what’s left to hold onto. It’s a disorienting place to be.
Part of you wants change, the other is terrified to let go.
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.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic and spiritually grounded therapy for sensitive souls, spiritual professionals, & space-holders in New York State. When your nervous system & spirit are asking for integration, not more coping.
Energy Coaching: The Remembering
A sacred space for spiritual integration, combining ritual, energy work, & sacred tools to support transformation beyond talking. For women, LatinX folks worldwide.
WHO This work is For
For the Ones Who Look Like They Have It Together...
You’re intuitive and thoughtful, but your mind rarely slows down.
You might recognize yourself here:
- You feel the room shift before anyone says a word, and spend the next hour trying to figure out if it was about you
- You’re incredibly compassionate toward others but awful to yourself.
- You go quiet in relationships rather than risk saying the thing that might push someone away.
- You feel pulled toward tarot, astrology, or ritual, but you’re not always sure where that part of you belongs in your life.
- You’ve tried talk therapy, workbooks, and personal growth tools, but something deeper still hasn’t shifted.
- From the outside, people think you have it together. Inside, you're white-knuckling it through the day.
You're not here to be convinced this work matters. You already know it does.
You want a place where your mind, body, and spiritual life stop living separately.
You’re not broken.
You’re on the edge of remembering. And you don’t need another fix, you need a space that sees all of you.
This isn’t failure. It’s the threshold. And it’s time to stop fixing and start remembering yourself.
Who this work is for:
You want to feel connected, to your body, your magic, your sense of aliveness, but instead, you feel numb, shut down, or stuck on autopilot, unsure how to get back to yourself.
You’re the one people come to for wisdom, care, or healing, but privately, you feel frayed, untethered, and quietly falling apart, afraid to admit how much it’s costing you.
You crave spaces that go beyond surface talk, but everything you’ve tried has felt too polished, too clinical, or too constrained to hold your full truth, your grief, or your spiritual weird & WOO.
You’ve done everything “right” followed the playbook, but nothing touches the deeper ache underneath it all, and you’re starting to wonder if it ever will.
You’ve tried to figure yourself out, podcasts, journaling, all the tools, but you still feel lost, like you’re falling behind, falling apart, or faking it more than anyone knows.
Healing That’s Mystical, Grounded, & Fully Embodied.
Meet Your Guide
Hi, I’m Cristina Maria Fort Garcés
Clinically Trained. Mystically Tuned. Deeply Human.
A LatinX psychotherapist, somatic alchemist, and cosmic mirror. I've spent 20 years in clinical rooms and a lifetime in sacred ones, and I refuse to separate them.
I firmly believe that healing is less about becoming someone new and more about stripping back the noise until you hear your own soul clearly again. I started Creative Now Therapy & beyond because I couldn’t find a space that held both the sacred and the messy, both spirit and the nervous system, or the mystical and the clinically sound, so I built it.
After a lifetime of listening to the deeper, spiritual layers of human experience, I’ve become
a guide for the
you
who is about to leave the expected version of yourself and needs somewhere to land while the new one takes shape.
Let's find and support that you together.
How I Work
Where Spiritual Insight Becomes Real Change
Weaving together evidence-based somatic interventions & the spiritual. A bit like remembering something ancient.
We Slow Down and Notice What's Actually Happening
We
track what your body already knows before your mind catches up: the tightening, the bracing, the vigilance you've normalized. That's where we start.
We Go Beneath the Surface
Your chart, your cards, that recurring dream, they've been trying to tell you something. We finally stop and listen, together, until it makes sense in your bones.
We Unravel the Story You Inherited
We go beyond the inner critic to what it's guarding. The "too much" story starts to lose its teeth. You stop punishing yourself for things that were never your fault.
We Anchor the Shift in Your Body
We mark every small shift, the convo that didn't spiral, the rest that didn't need earning, and wire it into your body so it stops feeling like luck and starts feeling like you.
This is how insight stops being something you understand and starts being something you live.
What clients say...
When I first met Cris, I was at a moment in my life where I was unsure of every possible direction. All of my decisions were based on fear and a recent change in my health had me wondering what kind of life I would have and holy crap I'm going to die. Being in front of Cris's intellect, warmth and grace literally gave me strength I didn't know was there and the assurance of my ability to navigate conflict with grace and evenness. A truly gifted guide and stellar human being.
- Grey
Cris has been integral to my growth. She is incredibly kind, understanding, and supportive, while also challenging me to face things I may have been ignoring/dismissing. I’m really grateful to have been able to work with her.
- Autumn
Cris is a wonderful therapist. As a pediatrician, I was prone to over-thinking. She has helped me to work through my thoughts and to be in tune with my body.
- Lisa
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If you’re ready to follow the part of you that refuses to disappear, come closer.
When Insight Isn’t Enough, and Your Soul Is Asking for More.
You’ve done the therapy. You’ve journaled, reflected, and processed. You’ve studied healing, helped others heal, held space, and held so much. You’ve become emotionally aware, maybe even spiritually open, but despite all of it, something still feels disconnected.
You don’t need more insight. You need a place where your nervous system can exhale, where your identity isn’t split between personal, cultural, and spiritual parts of you, where grief doesn’t have to be named to be honored, where you don’t have to shrink—or explain—to be seen.
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