ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF LOVE IS HEALING

Founding Philosophies & Spiritual Underpinnings

All staff and interns receive weekly supervision, where they receive trauma-informed clinical support and shamanic reiki support. All staff and interns receive regular training (at least once a month) to enhance their work with clients.

Trauma-informed care centers everything we do at our agency. Love Is Healing was founded because spirituality has always driven the major decisions Magnolia has made in her life and she has found spirituality really adds to holistic healing. We know trauma isn't easy to live with, and, yet, all of us have it to some degree. In blending the spiritual and the intellectual, we are adept at "holding space" for clients to heal. Where there is shame, we meet with love.

Love Is Healing is meant to be used as a healing affirmation that embodies the spiritual Truth that "love is healing," for it is in love that forgiveness happens and we are able to truly heal; it is in coming to terms with all of life's happenings and accepting ourselves and others, despite life's adversities, that we are able to truly heal and integrate parts of self.

All clinicians are trained in shamanic reiki because we find that shamanic reiki healing embodies all the best practices that are recommended for trauma treatment, especially when coupled with a trauma-focused clinical lens: attachment-focused work, emotion-focused work, CBT, solution-focused work, psychoanalysis, multi-sensory interventions; it allows for the facilitation and integration of different parts of Self, as well as profound and lasting healing of Self and of challenging relational patterns we may experience.

Most spiritual traditions honor the wellness that is found in the balance between the body, mind, and spirit. For, when they are all in resonance, we experience peace in our lives. As practitioners and clinicians, we support client wholeness, in this way.

ABOUT OUR SPECIALITIES

Holistic Trauma Recovery

Magnolia has found that narcissism highly permeates our current world culture and this has caused a lot of damage to humankind. For this reason, we specialize in continuously learning how this impacts mental health and overall health.

Areas of specialty for all staff and interns:

Attachment-Focused Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Complex Trauma
Complex PTSD
Emotion-Focused Therapy

Functional Medicine Approach
Holistic Health

Integrative Health
Multisensory Therapy & interventions
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Person-Centered Therapy
Polyvagal Theory
Root Cause Approach

Solution-Focused Therapy
Somatic Therapy

In 2024, staff and interns will be learning more about:

the gut-brain axis and ways in which consumption impacts mental health, for better and worse.
overall gut health
herbology & plant medicine
natural remedies (food, topical, etc).
chakras, meridians
astrology & personality development
motivational interviewing
developmental psychology
different religions and spiritual belief systems
personality disorders
cognitive processing thearpy (CPT)
art therapy

JEFFERY, MPH Intern

PUBLIC HEALTH INTERN

Jeffery has an associates and bachelors degree in Public Health and is completing his applied practice experience as a final step in his Masters of Public Health. He has 11 years’ experience as Active-Duty Air Force Public health and has a broad exposure to different aspects of healthcare delivery. From humanitarian disaster health responses to disease prevention program management Jeffery is well versed in Public Health principles and high stress situations. The basis of any aspect of public health is effective patient education for self-management and disease prevention.

Jeffery is skilled at guiding patient populations through sensitive topics like sexual and reproductive health education along with effective health promotion. Jeffery is understanding of the many issues facing veterans and military populations and is hopeful to improve health outcomes not only within this population but those lives that are impacted by military service. With Jeffery’s focus in health promotion and patient education he hopes to meet people where they are on their personal health journey and help them understand the critical role they have in their healthcare and quality of life. Jeffery is pro LGBTQ+ and is able to deliver education from a non-judgmental, open-minded foundation.

AREAS OF SPECIALTY: Military, Veteran, Multicultural, Prevention, improving health outcomes

Services provided:

Community Integrative Health Workshops
Public Health Trainings
Public Health Workshops

Payment:

By contract only

Locations:
Virtual
Oklahoma
North Texas

MARY BETH, LMSW

Under the supervision of Magnolia
THERAPIST

Mary Beth is a Licensed Master Social Worker in both Texas and New Mexico. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work with a concentration in mental health. With over 19 years of experience working with individuals who have been affected by domestic violence and intimate partner violence, Mary Beth has also served patients in mental health and substance abuse facilities, has provided street outreach to persons living with HIV, and has helped victims of domestic violence find their way from victimhood to survivorship.

Focusing on each person’s physical and emotional safety, Mary Beth will create a safe space free from judgment. She is interested in working with people who are focused on their own emotional healing.

Mary Beth is at a place in her career where she has chosen to pursue her clinical license to help others as a mental health practitioner so she can focus on helping them heal. She has experience in trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and empowering others through self-advocacy. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Mary Beth is honest, genuine, and open-minded. She ensures holding a safe, welcoming, and encouraging space for those whom she works with, and she enjoys meeting people where they’re at in their healing journeys. Mary Beth hopes to work with and learn from others as they create their own paths of recovery and healing.

Mary Beth also has experience working with active duty military and veterans.

AREAS OF SPECIALITY: domestic violence, intimate partner violence, substance abuse, adults

Services Provided:

Psychotherapy (Individual, Couples,Family)

Payment:
$160-210 per session
Aetna (Texas only)
BCBS
Cigna (Texas only)
Magellan
Presbyterian

Western Sky
Cash
Card

Locations:

New Mexico (Telehealth)
Texas (Telehealth)

ANNA, MSW Intern

Under the supervision of Magnolia
THERAPIST INTERN
(Telehealth only)
***Habla Español***

Anna Cruz is currently pursuing her master’s degree in clinical social work, building upon her bachelor’s in psychology. With a diverse background, she has experience working with adolescents, families, children, adults, and individuals with disabilities. Being a child of immigrants, Anna is bilingual and harbors a strong desire to aid the Latinx community.

Anna's professional passion lies in breaking taboos and promoting the power of vulnerability within therapy. She advocates for a redefinition of therapy, particularly within the Latinx community, aiming to destigmatize mental health issues. Currently enrolled in a trauma-informed program, Anna eagerly anticipates applying her skills within an agency.

Anna emphasizes continual self-education to enhance her client care. Beyond academic pursuits, she delves into attachment styles, childhood wounds, and their physiological impacts on well-being. Recognizing the profound connection between physical movement and mental health, Anna encourages clients to integrate somatic shaking and yoga into their daily routines, aiming to motivate and empower them toward holistic wellness.

AREAS OF SPECIALTY: Latinx/Latine populations, anxiety, depression, trauma, CBT, MI, person-centered therapy, attachment-focused

Services Provided:

Chakra Balancing
Cord-Cutting
Distance Reiki

Inner Child Work
Limpias
Psychotherapy (Individual, Family), in NM, FL, OK, and TX
Reiki/Shamanic Reiki
Removal of Intrusions
Shamanic Healing
Soul Retrieval

Payment:
$160-210 per session
Cash
Card

Locations:

Florida (telehealth; private pay or BCBS commercial insurance)
New Mexico (Telehealth, In-Person: insurance, private pay)
Oklahoma (telehealth; private pay or BCBS commercial insurance)
Texas (telehealth; private pay or BCBS commercial insurance)

Worldwide (Distance Healings only: private pay only)

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Magnolia

Magnolia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the states of Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, and is a certified Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher trained in Shamanic Healing practices. She received her degrees from the University of California Riverside and New Mexico State University. She is a proud, humble, grateful military wife. She has full-heartedly dedicated her life to her spiritual path and all it has to offer.
She has an obvious passion for teaching others and empowering them to heal themselves to improve their quality of life by facilitating their connection with their spirituality.

Magnolia is radiant, calm, warm, gentle, confident, and competent. She has experience working with the whole age spectrum, from infants to toddlers, children, adults, older adults. She has worked with active duty military, veterans, LGBTQIA+, different races and cultures, substance abuse, and peoples of different socioeconomic backgrounds.

She works best with older teens and with adults seeking to commit to their growth and healing. She is rehearsed with helping people navigate biculturalism and military lifestyles. She enjoys helping others heal their "inner child" and integrate trauma through an eclectic, client-centered approach.

Her passion is helping others heal and integrate their trauma histories, to live their best, most healed and integrated lives. Magnolia has found her background and experiences in studying spirituality and psychotherapy have proven to be a wonderful recipe for helping others find efficient inner and outer healing. She is a philosopher, educator, and a healer, with the mission to teach each client about the natural healing powers they hold within. She has studied trauma, religions, spirituality, and cultures her whole life, with her strongest bases in Christianity, New Age beliefs, and paganism.

Clinically, Magnolia has specialized training in the following (among many other things):
Street Yoga, Nurturing Parenting, working with youth who have caused sexual harm. Her teachers, mentors, and peers have included: Dr. Carolyn Murray, Donna Lucero, Joann Schadale, Dr. Stephen Bavolek, Dr. Gail Leedy,
Dr. Carla Groves, Brittany Howell-Abbate, and Jenna Miller.

Spiritually, in line with her Mexican culture, Magnolia was raised Christian/Catholic and was exposed to shamanism, pantheism, [Mexican] indigenous medicine, functional medicine, frequency medicine, integrative health, herbology, spirituality, psychology since childhood. Her formal shamanic training began in 2017. Magnolia completed a three-year shamanic reiki apprenticeship program. Her teachers, mentors, and peers have included: Francisco Gonzalez, Jonathan Hammond, Heather Mackay, Stacey Gibbons, Rob Levy, Emily Wallace, and Llyn Roberts.

Magnolia is not currently accepting any new psychotherapy clients (waitlist only for now); only shamanic reiki clients.
Magnolia is also trained in EMDR, integrative health, and DBT.

Services Provided:
Chakra Balancing
Clinical Supervision
Cord-Cutting

Limpias
Psychotherapy
Shamanic Healing
Shamanic Journeys
Trainings
Reiki/Shamanic Reiki

Payment:
$200 per session
Cash
Card

Locations:

Florida (Telehealth: private pay only)
New Mexico (Telehealth: private pay only)

Oklahoma (in-person; private pay only)
Texas (in-person, telehealth; private pay only)