About Naja
Naja Druva is a licensed counselor practicing in New Mexico with nine years of professional experience. She holds the LPCC credential and draws on practical therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Naja keeps the room relaxed and direct so conversations can get to the heart of what matters quickly.
Her style centers on listening first and tailoring the next steps to each person. She uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and trauma-focused methods to teach coping skills and reduce intense emotions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and attachment-based ideas guide work around relationships, self-worth, and connection. Naja often helps people who are navigating relationship pain, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, or identity issues including LGBT-related challenges. She also supports those dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, and the ripple effects of adoption, abandonment, or family-of-origin wounds.
Practical skill-building is a frequent part of sessions. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to match a person’s needs. Expect straightforward conversation, skill practice, and occasional uses of humor to ease tension.
Naja appreciates the everyday realities clients bring and adapts homework and strategies to fit busy lives. Many clients focus on building emotion regulation, improving communication, or working through past trauma. Naja combines evidence-informed tools with an approachable manner so people can take small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier reactions.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to identify attachment needs and practice different ways of getting close without repeating old dynamics. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and handling conflict. In remote sessions clients learn and practice those skills through guided coaching and real-time problem solving. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of past harm using paced, trauma-aware techniques to reduce distress and build safety over time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and daily routines and then recommend which methods to emphasize. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made or as needs shift.
Online formats provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or check in after practicing new skills. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life situations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English