Karen Kral, M.A., LPCC

Karen is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of New Mexico.  Prior to going into full-time practice as creator and  co-owner of CoreQuest Business and Personal Development Services, she worked as a therapist at Life Healing Center of Santa Fe. In this residential setting, Karen helped clients heal from childhood trauma and abuse, as well as from various addictions. She worked extensively with dissociative disorders, depression, anxiety, and personality disorders, and often included partners and family members in therapy to establish healthier communication and boundaries.

What Others Say...

By working with Karen, I learned to authentically communicate with those inner aspects of myself that needed and wanted to be heard and loved.  Karen helped me do this because she has traveled this road herself.  Karen has been on her own daily journey for decades.  This, along with her years of study, training and working with hundreds of clients all over the world, enables her to be a most effective guide and teacher. 

Do you want to experience real transformation that changes who you are being in the world?  Then contact Karen.

Daniel Paul Brace, Avila Beach, CA

Karen has practiced Zen Buddhism for more than ten years and taught mindfulness and meditation based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. She also taught classes at Miraval: Life in Balance, a renowned spa and resort north of Tucson, and led week-long programs on mindful eating at Hilton Head Health Institute. She has a love for outdoor adventure, especially for hiking, mindful walking, and Native American Vision Quest, and enjoys incorporating aspects of these practices into her intensives. Karen has a background in business and worked for nine years in marketing, sales and management.

Karen has been an approved affiliate and certified facilitator of Inner Bonding^® since 2004.  Inner Bonding focuses on learning how to choose love over fear, new behaviors over conditioned behaviors, and trust in one’s spiritual guidance over desperate control by the ego.

Karen incorporates Psychodrama, Gestalt and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) into her dynamic, Spirit-inspired work, in addition to the spiritually-based practices of mindfulness and the teachings of A Course in Miracles.

New Mexico LPCC License # 0114611

Mark Lersch, M.A., M.I.M., LPCC

Before dedicating himself full-time to CoreQuest Business and Personal Development Services, Mark was the clinical manager at an intensive outpatient program (IOP) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped to build the program from the ground up.  He worked for five years as both an individual and group therapist at Life Healing Center of Santa Fe, a residential treatment center where clients came to heal addictions and underlying trauma.  He has worked extensively with clients whose issues include chemical addiction, sex and love addiction, eating disorders, financial disorders, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and codependency.  Working with the underlying issues of addiction, Mark has helped clients to explore childhood sexual and physical abuse, neglect, loss, the effects of natural disaster, and other traumas.  However, he has found that much more important than what has happened in the past, is how we are relating to and aligning with ourselves right now, in this moment.  At the heart of the work he does with all clients is teaching them how to develop a loving relationship with themselves and learning to align with the divine within.

Mark’s psycho-spiritual approach to healing is influenced by his own interest in spirituality and healing.  He has been a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, in the tradition of Maezumi Roshi, and has had the opportunity to practice mindfulness at the Monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.  Mark holds a black belt in Aikido, a non-violent martial art, which teaches how to find one’s own “center”, to extend “ki” (life force), and to blend one’s energy with opposing forces and redirect them in non-harmful ways.    Mark has found the principles of Aikido helpful not only in psychotherapy, but also in dealing with the stressors of daily life.

Mark has an undergraduate degree in psychology, a graduate degree in international management (M.I.M.), and a graduate degree in counseling psychology.  Mark has training in a variety of therapy modalities and his counseling approach is eclectic and unique to each client.  He is an approved affiliate and certified facilitator of Inner Bonding^®.

New Mexico LPCC License # 0099171

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