About Lidia
Lidia Atencio uses a warm, person-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She is an LPCC - licensed professional clinical counselor - practicing in New Mexico with 16 years of experience. Her style emphasizes respect and acceptance so people feel heard and understood.
She blends practical tools with a focus on personal values. That means helping people notice what matters most, and then building small, doable steps toward those goals.
How Lidia works
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to increase psychological flexibility. Her work also addresses difficult life events such as abuse, grief, major life changes, and caregiving strain. She supports people managing attention differences, sleep and eating concerns, addictions, and bipolar challenges.
Relationship and intimacy issues, communication problems, and parenting stress are also part of her practice. Lidia uses Attachment-Based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. She includes Gottman Method principles for practical skills around communication and conflict.
Sessions focus on creating clear, realistic goals and practicing new ways of responding between meetings. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. People who choose to work with her typically start by completing a brief questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Lidia aims to collaborate on a therapy plan that fits each person's life and values.
Lidia lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Lidia works with
The areas below are the ones Lidia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
How Lidia’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life changes, and coping with chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to relieve symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current ways of connecting and can help with intimacy, communication, and relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as needed to match what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a short break from work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging are practical for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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