About Cornelia
Cornelia (Connie) O'Marra welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family concerns. She is a licensed clinical social worker with a long practice history in New Mexico. Connie aims to help people find practical steps that fit their lives and values.
Connie offers straightforward, calm guidance in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients clarify goals and try small, useful changes.
Background and approach
Her approach focuses on strengths and building coping skills for sleep, eating, mood, anger, and self-esteem problems. She brings attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect intimacy and family life. For people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care challenges, or blended family stress, she helps sort feelings and next steps.
She also supports those dealing with caregiving strain, codependency, guilt, shame, and isolation. Connie uses several practical methods during therapy, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, attachment-based ideas, and EMDR for trauma-related symptoms. She adapts methods to each person’s needs and pace.
With 24 years of experience, Connie draws on long experience in community settings and in work with Native and Hispanic communities. She is an enrolled Potawatomi tribal member and holds a licensed clinical social worker credential (LCSW). Her practice emphasizes collaboration, cultural respect, and building resilience.
Online methods and approaches that guide healing
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them identify goals and choices. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to make sense of feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Work in CBT uses experiments, small behavior changes, and thought-mapping to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift low mood.
EMDR can be used when past events continue to cause distress. In EMDR sessions, the work aims to reduce the intensity of troubling memories and the emotions tied to them, often helping with trauma symptoms and emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work together with each person to choose what fits best. She will discuss goals, preferences, and the practical pace of work so the plan feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy here offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, New Mexico
- Languages
- English