News & Articles
Please find Southwest Family Guidance Center & Institute articles, announcements, events and job openings posted below. Thanks!
  • Hybrid Health Options

    Southwest Family has adapted to meet the needs of our community. SWFGC is fully enabled to safely and securely deliver all services via telephone and video conferencing. We are open…  MORE >

  • MST Research & Statistics

    For more than 30 years, MST has consistently demonstrated positive outcomes with chronic juvenile offenders. Based on the program’s success, rigorous randomized trials were conducted to explore the feasibility and effects…  MORE >

  • Understanding EMDR Therapy

    EMDR therapy works with the understanding that the mind, like the body, has the capacity heal. Standing for “Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing,” EMDR is a proven and effective treatment for…  MORE >

  • Las Cruces MST Team Receives Two Prestigious Awards

    Southwest Family’s Las Cruces MST Team has received the impressive Sustained Excellence Award for Team Adherence. Las Cruces MST therapist, Megan Garcia, was also presented with an Excellence Award for Therapist Adherence. These…  MORE >

  • What Is Play Therapy, Anyway?

    Play therapy isn’t simply entertaining a child and calling it beneficial. It’s a delicate and sophisticated way to diagnose and measure internal emotional dynamics that might not easily be identified…  MORE >

  • SW Family Distinguished For Work With Problem Sexual Behavior Youth

    Southwest Family Guidance Center’s MST-PSB program has received a rare distinction for addressing youth with problem sexual behaviors. Blueprints, a nonprofit evaluator of evidence based programs, with the endorsement of MST Associates (the body…  MORE >

  • Positions Available

    Southwest Family Guidance Center, a growing and thriving counseling agency with offices in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Lunas, and Las Cruces, always accepts resumes for Therapist positions. Successful candidates must…  MORE >

  • Southwest Family Receives Precious Gems Award

    For 3 years, Southwest Family Guidance Center & Institute has partnered with the New Mexico Child Abuse Prevention Partnership (NMCAPP). Because of the work with child abuse issues we perform throughout the…  MORE >

  • Managing Back-To-School Stress

    Does this sound like a typical day for your family? Wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast (maybe), feed kids, search for backpacks, pack lunch, find shoes under the couch, run…  MORE >

  • Working Together To Stop Bullying

    As we all know, bullying has become an epidemic, a hot topic, a buzz word. We have all seen the heart-breaking news stories of young people committing suicide to escape the…  MORE >