Welcome to Luna Counseling!
Luna Counseling specializes in trauma-informed and evidence-based therapy modalities.
Lorri Ballard, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, IFS & EMDR certified therapist, and IFS-Approved Clinical Consultant founded Luna Counseling to provide holistic and client-centered behavioral health services, transformational coaching services and IFS consultation to the communities of New Mexico.
Lorri is committed to providing services that honor the wholeness of each person and strives toward reprocessing trauma and life’s struggles while moving toward re-establishing inner trust in Self and increased resiliency and success in life. Lorri’s clinical experience includes helping people with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, life transitions and relationship conflicts. She holds a compassionate and grounded space to support each individual the opportunity to explore their unique struggles and strengths. Please call or email to talk further with Lorri about services provided and if they will meet your current mental health needs.
Lorri Ballard, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, IFS & EMDR certified therapist, and IFS-Approved Clinical Consultant founded Luna Counseling to provide holistic and client-centered behavioral health services, transformational coaching services and IFS consultation to the communities of New Mexico.
Lorri is committed to providing services that honor the wholeness of each person and strives toward reprocessing trauma and life’s struggles while moving toward re-establishing inner trust in Self and increased resiliency and success in life. Lorri’s clinical experience includes helping people with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, life transitions and relationship conflicts. She holds a compassionate and grounded space to support each individual the opportunity to explore their unique struggles and strengths. Please call or email to talk further with Lorri about services provided and if they will meet your current mental health needs.
Lorri Ballard, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, IFS & EMDR certified therapist, and IFS-Approved Clinical Consultant founded Luna Counseling to provide holistic and client-centered behavioral health services, transformational coaching services and IFS consultation to the communities of New Mexico.
Lorri is committed to providing services that honor the wholeness of each person and strives toward reprocessing trauma and life’s struggles while moving toward re-establishing inner trust in Self and increased resiliency and success in life. Lorri’s clinical experience includes helping people with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, life transitions and relationship conflicts. She holds a compassionate and grounded space to support each individual the opportunity to explore their unique struggles and strengths. Please call or email to talk further with Lorri about services provided and if they will meet your current mental health needs.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Lorri Ballard is a certified EMDR therapist.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an evidenced-based therapeutic modality proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. EMDR therapy, rather than focusing on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, allows the brain to resume its natural healing process. EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time”. EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Sandplay Therapy
Depth Therapy
Transformational Coaching
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Lorri Ballard is a Certified IFS Therapist and IFS-Approved Clinical Consultant
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based therapeutic modality that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities (parts) or families within each person’s mental system. These parts are created in situations to help protect and survive. These parts consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such as anxiety or anger, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. The parts can be in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self. Self is a concept in IFS that describes the confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual. IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.
Sandplay Therapy
Sandplay Therapy
Sandplay is a well-documented and recognized therapeutic modality that is used with clients of all ages. Sandplay is based on the work of Carl Jung and was developed by Dora Kalff. This modality is used frequently with clients who have experienced trauma or who are experiencing anxiety and/or depression as a way to identify and reconcile conscious and unconscious conflicts. It provides a language beyond words and access to deeper parts of Self that ego tends to keep hidden. The client creates a picture in the sand that is a symbolic representation of their experience; the picture often will reveal truths that cannot be accessed through words.
The therapist provides the client with a “safe and protected space” to allow both conscious and unconscious content to emerge so that is can be processed and integrated into the client’s conscious reality so that life can be lived more authentically.
Depth Therapy
Depth Therapy
Depth therapy is a process of bringing unconscious material (behaviors, thoughts, ideas, dreams) into the conscious realm so they can be explored, processed and integrated to create a more authentic way of living in the world. Techniques used to explore this realm include Internal Family Systems (IFS), sandplay, collage, insight-oriented talk therapy and dreamwork. Depth therapy can create a more aligned and profound connection with Self, others and the world.
The depth therapy that I employ in my practice is based primarily around the psychology developed by Carl Jung. It involves looking closely at the personal unconscious but also how it is interwoven and influenced by the collective unconscious, which involves taking a closer look at the archetypal realm. This process journeys toward greater wholeness and consciousness, ultimately carving a path of greater individuation, or a more authentic and whole Self.
Transformational Coaching
Transformational Coaching
Transformational coaching is a process that incorporates modalities that support and invite clients to choose from a Self-led place, which seamlessly leads to integration of meaning and purpose and aligns clients with authentic life goals.
Lorri primarily utilizes the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to support coaching clients with living and choosing more authentically. Transformational coaching allows space for clients to realize that their creativity, curiosity, compassion, confidence, clarity, courage, calmness and connectedness are inherent and inextricable from who they are and how to consciously and intentionally manifest these qualities both personally and professionally.
This type of coaching is meant for those who desire inner congruence and are willing to suspend the status quo and welcome transformation in the multitude of ways it can show up.
