About Dr. Conrad
Dr. Nydia Conrad is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience helping couples and individuals create real, lasting change, not just insight. She earned her Psy.D. and has spent two decades in private practice in the Tampa Bay area.
Her approach is integrative and relational, combining psychoanalytic (psychodynamic) and interpersonal process work with the Gottman Method, trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, and experiential techniques. The psychoanalytic work looks at where a pattern began. The interpersonal work looks at how it shows up in present relationships, including the therapy relationship, where it can be noticed and changed as it happens. With couples, the Gottman Method adds research-based structure: specific skills for managing conflict, repairing after a fight, and rebuilding trust. The goal is not just understanding; it is real behavioral change that lasts.
Her individual work covers anxiety, depression, trauma, phobias, relationship patterns, and major life transitions. She also works with adults on the autism spectrum and with executives and professionals who want to lead differently. With couples, she treats infidelity, betrayal, emotional shutdown, chronic conflict, and the slow, quiet distance that can set in long before anyone calls it a problem.
She also treats sexual concerns in individuals and couples, including sexual dysfunctions, differences in desire, sexual problems that strain a relationship, and compulsive sexual behavior, often called sex addiction. For couples recovering from betrayal involving compulsive sexual behavior, she works with both the partner seeking change and the partner who was hurt.
Her hands-on, outdoor style began during COVID, when the office was no longer an option and she had to get creative. She started meeting clients in nature, going on walks, and taking them kayaking in the Florida springs. Working that way let her add experiential exercises and teaching to each session. Clients who were actively engaged alongside her made remarkable progress, so when the pandemic ended, she kept it as part of her practice.
She founded Casa Lucida after recognizing what weekly therapy often cannot provide: the focused, uninterrupted time and immersive environment that true transformation requires. In Costa Rica, she offers two-day psychoeducational couples retreats grounded in Gottman research, and life and leadership coaching intensives for individuals ready to make significant changes in their lives. She sees individuals and couples for teletherapy across Florida and offers life, couples, wellness, and executive coaching nationwide by video.
Dr. Conrad’s work has been featured on ABC News, Fox 13 Tampa, News Channel 8, WINK News, Mira TV, The Mike Calta Show, and The Mike O Radio Show.
"Dr. Conrad is exceptional at what she does and has both saved and improved my marriage as well as helped me to grow and be a better person and more understanding father. Anybody lucky enough to get an appointment will benefit from her insight." — Anonymous
Mission
Casa Lucida exists for people who are done waiting for a slow change. Our intensives are not for everyone. They are for people who are ready to stop managing the problem and start solving in. In two focused days, in one of the most restorative environments on earth, we do the kind of work that can change lives.