Thalia Longchamp

I’m a born and raised New Yorker, and I’ve been in practice since 2019 as a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy practitioner and spiritual counselor. I have worked with and have had publications for MyWellbeing, Alma, and various mental health platforms in New York and San Diego. Currently I am in school studying psychology to pursue my PsyD in Clinical Psychology. In addition, I work at Vibrant Emotional Health as a Crisis Counselor and as a Family Coach for Safe Families, a non-profit dedicated to providing social support to marginalized low-income families within the New York area. As of December 2023, I had the honor of being asked to join the board of Young Life Ministry, a global Christian organization devoted to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith.

I started developing my faith and relationship with God at a young age. I was raised in a Catholic family and attended Sunday school, but felt oddly connected to all things around me. I was extra sensitive to nature, people, and experiences in general, so I believed God had something big in store for me--but I couldn’t put my finger on what. These big questions about who I was, who God was and my purpose consumed me and ultimately left a spiritual door open for what was to come. In my early 20’s I thought I found my answer with the self-help industry and pop-spirituality. This led to my walk with God getting intercepted when I was led down a complex path of New Age spiritual practices to try and understand myself and place in the ‘universe.’ I became enamored with all things “spiritual”— all things scripture explicitly names which we are not to idolize or participate in.

It wasn’t until I became skeptical, scared, and did deeper research on the New Age practices I cultivated and taught, that I realized Jesus was nowhere in them. I ultimately chose to walk away from trying to help others when I hit rock bottom with the fruitlessness of New Age healing modalities and its many dangers. But Jesus had other plans. He met me in my mess and desparation, so I let Him into my heart to show me who He is: the freedom, love, and acceptance I had always been searching for; and the Healer I needed to turn clients towards. This is what God had in store for me all along—to know Jesus.

Spirited Therapy is a new chapter in my walk with God and in my career. A walk that may help bring others closely to Him, and in turn themselves, by recognizing the God-shaped hole which exists in all of us and filling it with the one name above all names—Jesus Christ.