About Lidia
Lidia Atencio uses a warm, client-centered approach to guide people through difficult life moments. She is an LPCC practicing in New Mexico with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She writes goals with each person and focuses on respect and compassion in every session.
Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters and take small steps toward it.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at relationship patterns and closeness. The Gottman Method informs practical communication skills for people dealing with conflict or disconnection. Sessions are plainspoken and goal-focused.
She listens without judgment and helps people set realistic next steps. She also offers coaching-style support for career shifts, parenting strain, and coping with life changes. Lidia has helped people with addiction, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses specific concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image struggles. Therapy can involve short-term skill building or longer work on attachment and trauma. She adapts methods to each person’s situation and priorities.
International clients may work with her in English using online session formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take small actions toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people improve intimacy and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls let people meet face to face from another location, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English