Dr. Sibella Salazar

Dr. Sibella Salazar is a licensed psychologist in New Mexico (NM Psychologist PSY1700) with eight years of experience as a mental health provider. She has worked with people facing a broad range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, complex grief and loss, motivation and self-esteem challenges, identity development, and experiences of trauma and abuse.

Her work has included two years at a community clinic in Minneapolis where she focused on serving Indigenous communities. There she addressed complex trauma, historical and intergenerational trauma, sociocultural stressors, removal from primary caretaker homes, and adjustment difficulties both inside and outside the home.

Dr. Salazar practices with a warm, interactive, relational style. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, compassion, and attention to historical and systemic influences when working with people from historically marginalized communities. Her clinical orientation is integrative with narrative therapy as the foundation, and she draws on Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) to guide the selection of interventions.

To meet each person where they are, she incorporates techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy, person-centered approaches, and mindfulness, tailoring strategies to the client’s needs. Dr. Salazar describes her role as helping clients shape and strengthen their stories toward resilience, healing, and change.