Dr. Sibella Salazar, NM Psychologist PSY1700

Dr. Sibella Salazar is a New Mexico licensed psychologist with eight years of experience supporting people through a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, complex grief and loss, motivation, self-esteem, identity development, and trauma and abuse. She brings specialized experience from two years at a community clinic in Minneapolis where she worked closely with Indigenous communities addressing complex trauma, historical and intergenerational trauma, sociocultural stressors, removal from primary caretaker homes, and adjustment challenges both inside and outside the home.

Her therapeutic stance is warm, interactive, and relational, guided by respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She emphasizes the importance of understanding historical and systemic influences when working with members of historically marginalized communities. Dr. Salazar practices from an integrative perspective with narrative therapy as the foundation and draws on Indigenous Ways of Knowing - a paradigm informed by Indigenous epistemologies of holistic being - to shape how interventions are selected and applied.

Interventions are chosen to meet each person where they are and may include strategies from cognitive-behavioral therapy, person-centered work, and mindfulness. Dr. Salazar views personal histories as stories that shape present experience and aims to empower people in crafting narratives of resilience, healing, and change. She is licensed in New Mexico - NM Psychologist PSY1700 - and conducts her work in English.