Kelli Dumas
Kelli’s passion for helping others is rooted not only in her professional experience, but also in her own personal journey of resilience, recovery, and healing. Her authentic, compassionate, and grounded approach to therapy reflects the core mission and values of New Growth Counseling — meeting people where they are while helping restore hope, dignity, and connection.
Throughout her career, Kelli has worked extensively with trauma, PTSD, addiction recovery, suicide risk, operational stress, and crisis intervention. She has served military personnel worldwide across all branches of service, worked within humanitarian and disaster response efforts, and helped support individuals, families, first responders, and underserved populations through some of life’s most difficult challenges. Her work with the National Health Service Corps and Department of Defense has allowed her to provide care in remote communities, crisis environments, and integrated healthcare settings throughout the country and abroad.
Kelli brings a deeply relational and trauma-informed perspective to her work, believing strongly in the healing power of human connection, compassion, and practical skill-building. Her therapeutic approach integrates evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, mind-body approaches, existential concepts, and parts work to help individuals build resilience, emotional awareness, and lasting growth.
At New Growth Counseling, we value clinicians who lead with authenticity, humility, and heart — and Kelli embodies those qualities fully. Her dedication to service, commitment to access to care, and passion for helping others rediscover strength and purpose make her an incredible addition to our growing clinical team.
We are grateful to have Kelli joining the New Growth Counseling family and look forward to the experience, wisdom, and compassion she will continue bringing to the individuals, families, first responders, military personnel, and communities we proudly serve throughout New Mexico.