- Integrative narrative approach
- Trauma informed care
- Focus on resilience
About Sibella
Dr. Sibella Salazar is a psychologist licensed in New Mexico with eight years of experience as a mental health provider. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship or identity concerns. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her interactions.
Her background includes two years at a community clinic in Minneapolis where she worked closely with Indigenous communities. There she supported people dealing with complex, historical, and intergenerational trauma, removal from primary caretaker homes, and adjustment difficulties in multiple areas of life.
She uses a warm, interactive, and relational style. Narrative therapy is the foundation of her work, and she combines ideas from cognitive-behavioral approaches, person-centered methods, and mindfulness to match what each person needs. Indigenous Ways of Knowing informs how she frames healing and resilience.
In sessions she focuses on the stories that brought people to therapy and on practical steps to change those stories over time. She helps clients identify patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen self-worth. The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s goals.
Dr. Salazar aims to support people through grief, identity shifts, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma. She pays attention to cultural and systemic factors that affect mental health and brings that perspective into treatment planning.
Her background includes two years at a community clinic in Minneapolis where she worked closely with Indigenous communities. There she supported people dealing with complex, historical, and intergenerational trauma, removal from primary caretaker homes, and adjustment difficulties in multiple areas of life.
She uses a warm, interactive, and relational style. Narrative therapy is the foundation of her work, and she combines ideas from cognitive-behavioral approaches, person-centered methods, and mindfulness to match what each person needs. Indigenous Ways of Knowing informs how she frames healing and resilience.
In sessions she focuses on the stories that brought people to therapy and on practical steps to change those stories over time. She helps clients identify patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen self-worth. The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s goals.
Dr. Salazar aims to support people through grief, identity shifts, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma. She pays attention to cultural and systemic factors that affect mental health and brings that perspective into treatment planning.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.