- Skills-focused
- Trauma-informed
- Mindfulness-based
About Naja
Naja Druva is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico with nine years of clinical experience. She emphasizes straightforward conversations and practical skills in sessions. Naja values a warm connection and uses humor to ease tense moments when it helps clients relax and engage.
Her approach mixes skill-building with attention to relationship patterns. She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills for intense emotions and on trauma-focused methods to address distress from past events. Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at recurring relationship and intimacy problems.
Clients can expect a down-to-earth style. Naja listens closely, then offers tangible tools people can try between sessions. She often uses mindfulness exercises to slow down strong reactions and build awareness.
Naja works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and issues around identity and intimacy. She also supports people facing parenting strains, burnout or compassion fatigue, and those coping with life changes such as separation or fertility struggles.
She pays attention to complex situations like blended family dynamics, attachment and abandonment worries, and sexual expression within BDSM and kink contexts. Naja also addresses the emotional impact of natural or human-caused disasters and other crises.
People who prefer a pragmatic, person-focused therapist tend to find her helpful. She encourages collaboration and practical steps toward clearer thinking and calmer days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Naja often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive actions by teaching concrete coping skills. DBT exercises focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication, which can be practiced between sessions.She also draws on trauma-focused methods to address memories and reactions that follow difficult events. These approaches aim to help people process upsetting experiences and build safer patterns of responding over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
If you’re considering online therapy, confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking because the biography did not list them. Online work can make regular check-ins easier to schedule, allow shorter targeted sessions when needed, and reduce commuting time. It also lets people use mindfulness and skill practices in the context of their everyday routines, so learning transfers more readily to real life.
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Experience
9+ years
Credentials
New Mexico
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does she help with?
Naja supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also addresses parenting strain, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes including disasters.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then teaches skills and mindfulness practices people can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has nine years of professional experience working in clinical settings and community care. Her work emphasizes skill-building and therapeutic connection.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LPCC credential and practices in New Mexico as an NM LPCC.
Can people meet with her if they live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients; confirm specifics when arranging sessions.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.