About Us

Office Manager

Yazmine has been with Enchantment Counseling for over a year since we opened in 02/2021. She received her certificate in Medical Billing and Coding in 2020.  Very knowledgable with credentialing and daily operations.

My name is April S. Perkins (Lewis). I graduated from New Mexico State University in December 2007, with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and a Minor in Child and Educational Psychology. I graduated with Honors, as a Crimson Scholar, with a 3.5 GPA, or above. I graduated from New Mexico State University in May 2011, with a Masters Degree in Family and Consumer Science with a Minor in Alcohol and Other Drugs. I have been Independently Licensed in the State of New Mexico,as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), since December 2014. I am also a Licensed Substance Abuse Associate (LSAA), and am in the process of becoming a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC). I am also in the process of becoming a Supervisor. I adhere to Brief Solution Focused Therapy,with all my Clients. If a different modality is more appropriate, I use the more appropriate modality. I have worked in Outpatient, Residential Treatment Care, Day Treatment, an In Patient Hospital, Hospital, school, Juvenile Detention Center, and online settings. I have experience with Clients suffering from Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), grief and loss, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), drug and alcohol addiction, Personality Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), and Bipolar Clients. I also have experience with Clients who have suffered from grief and loss, were focusing on communication skills, children in CYFD Custody, children who were adopted, Religious Clients, EAP Clients, and Client suffering from gambling addiction and sex addiction. I have experience with Individual, family, group, and couples therapy

Rev. Dr. Melinda Pillsbury Arnold is an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, choreographer, and change agent recognized for the lectures and workshops she has presented internationally for the past twenty-five years to promote wholeness and peace. Dr. Arnold specializes in Solution Focused therapy in healing trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the separations among individuals and nations that produce conflict and war. An acknowledged innovator in the treatment of trauma, Dr. Arnold and colleagues have introduced bills to the New Mexico state legislature advocating PTSD treatment programs for women veterans of the Iraq War and for first responders and their families. At Enchantment Counsleing LLC, Dr. Arnold helps clients recover from trauma by recognizing and transforming ancestral patterns of violence that may be affecting them and others.

With a doctorate in ministry, as well as a master’s degree in transformational counseling and PH.D. studies in depth psychology, world religion, mythology, and cultural anthropology

She has studied with prominent scholars such as James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, Jean Houston, ecofeminist Susan Griffin, Matthew Fox, Andrew Harvey, Caroline Myss.   Intensive travels throughout the Middle East inform both her humanitarian efforts and therapeutic practice. Dr. Melinda Arnold, known as Merlinda, served as The New Seminary’s American representative in Israel during the Antifadah of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Additionally, she has led women’s groups in Egypt, Greece, and Crete, as well as throughout Europe and the Americas, to explore ancient feminine mystery rites. Her art and dance workshop program, “The Mystery Quest,” uses as a therapeutic tool a replica of the Phaestos disk from Crete dating to 175O BCE.  She has been a licensed psychotherapist.

Her sole proprietorship Sacred Way, blends contemporary psychology and ancient wisdom. Dr. Arnold produces projects such as “Breakthrough,” a multimedia dance and film celebration of nature’s grandeur and cyclical rhythms. Her video “Dancing on the Milky Way” was featured at the 2006 New Mexico Film Guild Festival.

She has been an improvisational dance instructor as well as produced healing dance workshops for PTSD and Trauma called The Dance of Ishtar and The Mystery Quest. She created her own healing modality from Egyptian manuscripts written by the renowned clairvoyant and mystic Omm Sety (which she has had in her possession for over 20 years) called the Ancestry SaRa Technique.

My name is Ryan. I graduated from the University of New Mexico with an MA in Counseling in 2022 and in 2019 with a BA in psychology. As a United States Air Force Veteran, I still uphold the core values distilled in me through my time of service: Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do. I have 9 years of experience in the mental health field ranging from inpatient (DD Waiver and Reactive Attachment disorders) to outpatient (Autism Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety, Compulsive Disorders, Depression, PTSD, Personality Disorders and even helping individuals find themselves). My approach to mental health is to provide you with a space to process difficult issues, help guide you through the processing and help teach skills needed for the reduction of symptoms through a Cognitive Behavioral Approach while still utilizing skills from other approaches such as Gestalt, Behaviorism, and existentialism. “A truly whole person has to have good guidance and also the ability to act.” – Fritz Perls-

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 Mental Health Counselor in New Mexico.

Mac has worked in substance abuse treatment centers, psychiatric hospitals, in homeless shelters and programs and in counseling agencies. Mac is certified in Crisis Counseling and in Telehealth Counseling. She is well trained in trauma-informed work, and practices  strength-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, expressive arts therapy, and Narrative Therapy, as well as counseling for grief , loss and life transitions.

Mac strongly believes in honoring client’s own 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 worked extensively with members of the LGBTQ community and also those identifying as Highly Sensitive People. 

Mac works with adults experiencing depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and persons who have experienced vicarious trauma, with those who are experiencing grief , loss,and major life changes, and with couples who have difficulty in their relationship involving disharmony, lack of effective communication and trust.

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.

In her spare time Mac is a Folk Art painter and mural designer, author and  documentary film-maker .She enjoys New Mexican cooking, hiking in our beautiful mountains, spending time with her family and friends and with her mischievous cat, Vato el Gato.

Education:

BA College of Santa Fe

Master of Theology Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary 

MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling New Mexico Highlands University