My name is Desiree Garcia, MA, LPCC. I am a board certified Professional Clinical Mental Health Counselor. I have been serving Albuquerque, NM since 2012. I started my private practice in June of 2020. Expanding to a group practice in 2023. I enjoy working with teens and young adults. My passion is to help others feel safe and comfortable while in session, so that they can process what is truly on their hearts.
My primary modalities are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I am extremely passionate in helping others over come their trauma, settle their anxiety, depression, and work through emotions and feelings. I also enjoy helping students overcome their daily stressors by helping them manage a daily routine, schedule and making sure to add self-care.
I never want you to feel alone. I want you to know how much you matter. I understand mental health, as I have had my own personal battles. Life sometimes seems like it will never get better. Bad times don't have to equal a bad life. Your past doesn't' define you. Your life is worth taking the first step in talking to someone. Don't give up. Time heals, people change and working on ourselves is the biggest battle of them all. When you're ready, I'll be waiting. I support you.
Desiree Garcia, MA, LPCC
Owner/Psychotherapist
My name is Chelsea Warren and I am excited to join the team at You Matter Counseling. I have a heart for helping clients navigate their counseling needs and I look forward to being a friendly face for those who walk into the agency. Currently, I am working towards becoming a therapist and personally I am growing to understand the impact each of our stories play in our lives and with others. I am a native New Mexican and I am glad to call Albuquerque home. In my spare time, I enjoy a good cup of coffee with friends, running, traveling with my husband Jeremy, and spending time with our three energetic kids.
Chelsea Warren
Office Admin
Mac Morrison has been a counselor 25 years – first as a Licensed Independent Mental Health
Counselor and Multi-Faith Chaplain, later as a community counselor and outreach counselor working
with homeless families and youth and currently as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in
New Mexico.
Mac is well-trained in trauma-informed work, and practices strength-based Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Narrative Therapy, expressive arts therapy, and
Narrative Therapy, as well as counseling for grief, loss, and life transitions.
Mac strongly believes in honoring the client’s unique inner strengths. She believes there is no “ one
size fits all” approach to counseling, and that the process is a creative collaboration between
counselor and client to achieve the client’s goals and needs.
Mac is also a multicultural counselor, working with persons of all races, cultures, spiritual beliefs, and
backgrounds. She has also worked extensively with members of the LGBTQ + community and also
those identifying as Highly Sensitive People. Mac was raised in a multi-racial and multi-cultural
family which she believes informs her current commitment to equal rights and social justice for all
people. Mac was the recipient of the Ethel Lance Civil Rights Award in 2017 for her work in
Restorative Justice.
Mac works with adults experiencing depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and
persons who have experienced direct or vicarious trauma, and with those who are experiencing grief, loss, and major life changes. Mac works with survivors of human trafficking and presents at
national and international conferences for counselors on the topic of healing from trauma as well as
trafficking.
Mary "Mac" Morrison
LMHC, MAT, NCE
Psychotherapist
.jpg)
My name is Isaac Penner, MA, LMHC. I was born and raised in New Mexico and am a proud Veteran. I am a board certified Licensed Mental Health Counselor with skills in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). My work is trauma-informed and I am educated on brain organization and dysfunction and how this can play out in daily life. I understand that making the decision to pursue therapy can be extremely difficult; therefore, my goal is to provide a safe place to allow my patients to explore their inner experience of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. I believe that knowing and accepting oneself is key to growth and my focus is to be someone who travels alongside you in that journey with empathy and compassion.
​
​
Isaac Penner MA, LMHC
Psychotherapist
Christina Williams, MA, LMHC
Psychotherapist
My name is Christina Williams, MA, LMHC. I am a board certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Before pursuing my degree in counseling, I worked for a human service nonprofit company for 14 years. Working with people has always been my passion. I am also a voracious reader and dabble in crochet.
Each person is unique in their outlook, history, and being. With respect to each person’s uniqueness, I believe in a multi-modal approach keeping in mind a person’s intersectionalities. I am well versed in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy centering mindfulness practices.
Making the decision to pursue therapy is difficult and takes courage. I wish to honor that courage with empathy, compassion, and a collaborative effort towards wherever the client’s therapy journey takes them.
​