Our Telehealth Practice
Casa de Luz Counseling provides secure, compassionate telehealth counseling to clients throughout New Mexico. Connect with one of our experienced therapists from the privacy and convenience of your own space.
MEET OUR TEAM
Licensed psychotherapist, MS LMFT
Frances Thomaslee
Founder and Clinical Director
Frances is the Founder and Clinical Director of Casa de Luz Counseling and has a special passion for helping teens and adults who are navigating trauma, PTSD, anxiety, grief, and difficult life transitions. She also enjoys supporting women in early adulthood and established professional women as they navigate relationships, careers, changing roles, personal growth, and the many transitions that come with different seasons of life.
Frances brings warmth, compassion, and a down-to-earth approach to therapy. She works alongside clients to better understand their experiences, recognize patterns that may no longer serve them, and discover healthier ways of coping, connecting, and moving forward.
Frances specializes in trauma and PTSD and offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy when appropriate. She believes healing looks different for everyone and meets each client where they are, creating space for growth, self-discovery, and meaningful change.
Licensed Psychotherapist, MS LMFT
Whitnee Nicley
When the mind has worked its hardest and something still feels unresolved or unmet, it doesn’t mean something is wrong or broken. Often, it is communication from the nervous system—a signal that something moving through the body is asking to be witnessed, understood, and integrated as part of your wholeness.
Sometimes this appears as something carried for so long that it feels like background noise: tension in the chest, a mild hum of anxiety, or patterns in relationships that keep repeating. The mind names it, analyzes it, and tries to resolve it, yet it remains. This is often where the body is waiting to be included in the conversation.
Whitnee’s work sits where ancient healing arts meet modern therapeutic practice. Through somatic therapy, energy-centered healing, and cognitive restructuring, she helps clients build a personalized toolkit to bring mind, body, and spirit into greater harmony. Her work creates space for deeper connection with yourself, healing, and personal growth.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MS LCSW
Beatrice Villegas
Beatrice is a client-centered, strengths-based therapist who provides a supportive and nonjudgmental space for clients to explore challenges, build resilience, and work toward meaningful change. She works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds.
Her experience includes supporting clients with anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, grief, life transitions, and career challenges. She also welcomes clients seeking faith-based or spiritually integrated counseling.
Beatrice draws from CBT, DBT, solution-focused and narrative approaches, motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed care. She collaborates with each client to identify strengths, develop practical coping strategies, and create goals that support healing and personal growth.
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Licensed Associate Psychotherapist, MS LAMFT
Shawn Adams
Feeling stuck in your relationships, your faith, or within yourself? Shawn provides a warm and compassionate space for individuals, couples, and families to better understand the patterns and connections that shape their relationships and everyday lives.
She supports clients navigating anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, questions about faith, and times when life simply feels overwhelming. Shawn welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ clients, people of faith, and those seeking a place where they can be themselves without having to explain or defend who they are.
Her approach emphasizes genuine conversation, curiosity, connection, and working together toward greater clarity and meaningful change.
Licensed psychotherapist, MS LMFT
Kristina Bravo
Kristina has more than 20 years of experience in mental health, with a special focus on autism and neurodivergence, trauma and PTSD, women’s issues, relationships, and Latin American family experiences. She works with adolescents and adults, as well as partners, parents, and family members of autistic individuals.
Her approach is compassionate and collaborative, incorporating DBT, systems theory, depth psychology, and liberation psychology. Kristina helps clients explore patterns, strengthen emotional regulation, improve relationships, and develop new ways of coping while honoring each person’s individual experiences and cultural background.
She has a particular interest in supporting autistic and neurodivergent individuals experiencing burnout, exploring autism or ADHD, navigating relationships, or healing from trauma.
How We Can Help
Compassionate support for life's challenges and changes
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Anxiety
Career Counseling
Coping Skills
Depression
Divorce
Family Conflict
Grief
Infidelity
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital Counseling
Peer Relationships
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Racial Identity
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Spirituality
Trauma
Other Emotional and Relationship Concerns