Welcome to Freedom BHS El Paso, TX
At Freedom Behavioral Health Solutions, our mission is to empower individuals on their path to mental and emotional well-being. We're committed to liberating minds and enabling everyone to make the most
of their time on Earth. Life is short, let's live it to the fullest!
Meet our Providers in El Paso:
Alynna Manriquez-Sikes
Alynna Manriquez is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, board-certified, (PMHNP-BC) with more than 20 years of experience in behavioral health. Alynna has practiced within the El Paso community for over 10 of those years.
Alynna is a native El Pasoan and is passionate about providing quality behavioral health services for the community in which she resides and raises her family. Having attended El Paso community college, the University of Texas at El Paso, and New Mexico State University; she understands and values the uniqueness of our beautiful border community as well as our relationship with Ciudad Juarez and Fort Bliss.
Alynna firmly believes in collaboration when creating an effective individual treatment plan. She values open communication and mutual trust and respect with the client.
During her down time, you will find Alynna with her husband and 5 children hiking, camping, or simply enjoying the beautiful weather and outdoor activities the region has to offer.
Krystal Speier
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become!”
-Carl Gustav Jung.
Krystal’s passion has always been with helping others and has a long history of supporting families through difficult times while helping them find the light in the darkness of difficulty. She prides herself in being able to understand others’ needs, whether it be couples, individuals, adolescents, or the whole family to experience the most this life has to offer.
She actively works as a team player with her clients to help them discover solutions to the issues they experience. She specializes in working with trauma and abuse, PTSD, children, adolescents, and adults. The treatment modalities she primarily works with are CBT and Trauma Systems Therapy.
Krystal graduated from Fort Hays State University with a BS in Psychology and went on to get her MS in Community Counseling. She has a long history of working with a variety of clients, having spent years working in psychiatric hospitals for children and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) with children and their families. She has worked with children and families in the foster care system to assist in achieving permanency in the home or getting back into the biological home. Krystal has engaged in individual, group, family, and couple’s therapy. She obtained her clinical license in September of 2014 and became a nationally certified counselor in 2017.
In 2020, Krystal became a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor.
She is currently licensed in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Texas as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. In addition to her direct client care services, Krystal became the clinical director in 2022 for the private practice contracts with, where she overseas 35+ clinicians.