Therapist profile
Naja Druva, LPCC
LPCC counselor - family and parenting concerns
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- DBT skills
- Trauma work
- Attachment focus
About Naja
Naja Druva is an LPCC licensed in New Mexico with nine years of professional experience. She focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, and identity-related topics including LGBT concerns and attachment difficulties. She also lists help for anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Naja uses practical skills and conversation to help people manage overwhelming moments. Sessions often include clear strategies drawn from approaches like DBT and trauma-focused work, plus attention to how relationships and early attachments shape current patterns. She keeps things direct and approachable, and sometimes uses humor to ease tension.
Her background includes extended practice applying dialectical behavior therapy and trauma-informed tools alongside client-centered and mindfulness approaches. That mix is used to teach emotion regulation skills, improve communication, and reduce reactivity after difficult events. Naja names attachment concerns and adoption or foster care issues among the topics she addresses.
People who come to her can expect short, concrete exercises as well as time to talk through family-related stresses and parenting strain. She mentions interest in working with kink and alternative sex culture topics, blended family issues, fertility and abandonment themes when relevant. Her style balances skill-building with straightforward listening.
For those weighing next steps, she asks for a short initial matching questionnaire and a scheduled first session to start. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and on how early bonds affect current behavior. Online sessions can use discussion and reflective exercises to identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. In online sessions this looks like learning brief breathing and grounding exercises, practicing distress tolerance tools, and reviewing skill use between meetings.
Trauma-focused methods concentrate on reducing the ongoing impact of past harm and building coping strategies for triggers. Sessions combine calm, paced conversation with practical strategies to increase safety and reduce reactivity after difficult events.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit the person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative selection helps shape how sessions proceed and what skills are emphasized.
The biography does not specify exact session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy home life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also lets people use visual or audio-only sessions depending on comfort and bandwidth.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
New Mexico
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of home and family concerns does she help with?
She lists family, relationship, parenting, blended family issues, and family of origin problems among her focus areas. She also works with divorce and separation, fertility issues, and adoption and foster care topics.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her approach blends client-centered listening with skills-based work. Expect practical exercises, DBT-informed skills, and trauma-focused strategies alongside straightforward conversation.
How much experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional work experience practicing in clinical settings and with individuals facing stress, trauma, and relationship challenges.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is an LPCC, licensed in New Mexico. Her listed location is New Mexico.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not list session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking to know whether video, phone, or messaging is offered.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
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