Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
How Lidia works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Licensed in
- New Mexico
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lidia
Lidia Atencio is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico with 16 years of experience. She emphasizes a warm, accepting approach and helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or hurt. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and anger.
She also supports people coping with trauma, addiction, grief, and life transitions. She uses practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to bring everyday skills into clients' lives.
Background and approach
Sessions are centered on clear goals and steps people can try between meetings. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and communication. The Gottman Method informs couples work when appropriate.
Lidia aims to make sessions feel nonjudgmental and respectful. She describes her style as offering unconditional positive regard, which means paying attention to what each person needs and helping them set realistic goals. That approach can make it easier to try new behaviors and test what works.
Her background includes helping people recover from emotional or physical trauma and supporting those with ADHD, bipolar concerns, and chronic stress. She also addresses issues like body image, caregiving strain, adoption and foster care topics, and codependency. Her experience spans many life stages and situations.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Lidia works with video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats, and she uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What Lidia works with
Everything Lidia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lidia's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lidia lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, practical steps that reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful routine, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ongoing stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks concerns into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then tests new ways of responding. It teaches concrete skills like managing worry, improving sleep, and changing patterns that feed anger or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, which can help with intimacy and relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their situation and preferences. Sessions can mix approaches as needed to focus on coping skills, relationships, or deeper patterns over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read body language and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible ways to stay connected between appointments or to choose a format that feels easier on a given day.
Questions people ask about Lidia
What concerns does Lidia help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, anger, self-esteem, parenting, ADHD, and related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style centers on unconditional positive regard and a respectful, nonjudgmental stance while using practical, goal-oriented methods.
What experience does she bring?
She has 16 years of experience as a counselor working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns, including trauma and long-term stress.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is available to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.