Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC

Diana received her bachelors of arts in Theater and Art from Oberlin College, in Oberlin, OH. She graduated with a masters in counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM, and has been a psychotherapist since 2008. She has worked extensively with individuals, families, and adolescents in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Before moving back to Santa Fe, she was a primary and specialty therapist at the world-renowned Cottonwood de Tucson in Arizona, an inpatient residential treatment center for addictions, trauma, and other mental disorders. She has a passion for groups and facilitated therapy groups in every place she has worked, most recently for Native American men recovering from addictions at New Moon Lodge in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico. She taught Group Dynamics and Developmental Psychology at Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM. Diana has over 700 hours of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy training and enjoys incorporating experiential processes, mindfulness, and artwork into her therapy. She practices with an orientation towards trauma resolution, is Internal Family Systems informed, and has been certified in EMDR levels I and II. She is trained to teach skills in stress and trauma reduction from The Center for Mind Body Medicine, based out of Washington, DC. Currently, Diana is a therapist and co-owner with her husband of Alder and Oak Counseling in Santa Fe and Los Alamos, NM. She enjoys spending time in nature, practicing intuitive painting, and going hiking with her puppy Dolly.