THERAPY SHOULD BE SOULFUL.

Hey there, I’m Kristen.

In my practice I work with individuals and couples to move towards a life rooted in connection, trust, and ease. You are welcome here.

People work with me for:

  • Grief Work

    Feeling out of orbit after loss and heartbreak

    Grief changes everything. I’m here to support you orient to a new reality while softly building up your capacity to hold and move through feelings such as hopelessness, loneliness, existential dread, and despair.

    Grief needs a witness.

  • Abortion Affirming Care

    Grief and Relief

    Feelings of loss, anxiety, uncertainty, relief, sadness, or disappointment are all welcome. If you are having a challenging time after one or multiple abortions, you are not alone. I’m here to help guide you back toward ease, trust, compassion, safety, and acceptance.

  • Relationship Issues

    Rupture and Repair

    For people exhausted by ambivalence, repairing from boundary crossing and betrayal, and/or navigating separation and divorce. I’ll help you to explore what nourishing and safe connection looks, feels, and sounds like. Creating individual and shared practices for truth telling, intimacy, pleasure, communication, forgiveness and joy.

  • Trauma + Addiction

    Understanding the Nervous System and the Body

    Help with integrating top down (the knowing mind) insights from early childhood experiences that may have led to current troubling behaviors with bottom up (the wisdom of the body) knowledge of how the nervous system and the body lives and copes with trauma. Feeling safe is possible.

  • Self Trust

    Intuition and Empowered Decision Making

    Steady guidance to lead you back to your intuition through guided grounding meditations and somatic techniques. It takes a tender attention and loving devotion to move away from the circular battle with the inner-critic. Your relationship to yourself comes first.

INSIGHT IS NOT ENOUGH

Insight into your family history, behavior that disconnects, relationships, and attachment style are inherently valuable. However, it does not equate to change. 

Change takes time, devotion, and space. I nurture a sense of curiosity and compassion in our sessions to support your endurance to be with your ever changing process and life. From here we will confront the places you get stuck so you can create new pathways that support a life based in connection you self and community.

Testimonials

  • Kristen’s experience, both personally and professionally, provided us insight into the complex topic of abortion. We learned that developing the skills to truly support the choices of your patients requires a commitment to personal reflection. After this talk, we felt prepared to make that commitment.

    John A Burns School of Medicine Class of 2025

  • Kristen creates a space where each individual is able to explore and find their path to recovery and healing that is their own, learning and reconnecting to what we know and value about ourselves. She does this through a combination of both adept clinical skill, a clarity of intention, and the ability to integrate levity and lightness in the most wonderful of ways. I hold her with great trust, respect, and gratitude.

    Amanda, Berkeley CA

  • Working with Kristen, I experience a space of being deeply understood and cared for. With tenderness, authenticity, and skill, she shines a soft light on new perspectives and empowers me to find and create my own abilities to heal my pain. It's an experience on eye-level, without judgment. I feel a true care for my well-being.

    Ragna, Germany