Kristen believes that everyone has the potential to live a fulfilling life. Her counseling services are designed to help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals from the inside out. Let her help you find your thrive.
Feelings are somatic experiences felt through the biological cascades set off by your nervous system. Everyone has a unique set of feelings, reactions, and stories related to how they experience their nervous system. Re-negotiate your relationship to your nervous system by discovering root causes of your nervous system conditioning and how it impacts your present life experiences.
Self-awareness is the first step toward understanding yourself, the world, and yourself in the world. Genuinely get to know yourself. Connect with your inner voice. Befriend your shadow self. Create compassion for your past version of you. Align with your core personality. Learn self-acceptance. Embody your highest self.
In modern society, it's common to struggle with substances, sleep, food, work/life balance, relationships, or other daily habits. You can shift these patterns through biohacking your mental health. Learn how to make daily routines the foundation for your happiness by understanding your motivations, and through enacting slow, structured, and sustainable changes.
The most important step is creating a personalized inventory on the factors that influence your life.
Learn to practice self-care to improve coping and distress tolerance.
Develop clarity around ways you contribute to your own maladaptive cycles and behavior patterns and change them.
Genuinely accept yourself for all that you are, every version of yourself that you have been, and who you are striving to become.
Mental health counseling is more than what meets the mind.
It is unleashing the courage, confidence, and character that embodies your most authentic self.
Kristen helps you to facilitate an impactful shift in your worldview by examining how you view yourself, how you view the world, and how you view yourself within the world.
Kristen wants you to thrive and develop strategies that
optimize your health, mindset, relationships, and lifestyle.
Experience a 4 step therapeutic processing plan called :
Endogenous Aesthetic Processing.
This style of processing helps clients::
-Identify obstacles to your growth
-Elevate your existing mental health strengths.
-Maximize your prevention strategies for managing future challenges.
-Examine your day-to-day experiences through the lens of an unbiased professional.
-CREATE CHANGE
-Break free from unnecessary social expectations.
-Discontinue what no longer serves you.
-Attend to your personal needs and desires.
-Detach from toxic behaviors and relationships.
-Achieve your unique wellness goals.
-Create a life that feels satisfying for YOU.
Cultivating the next best version of yourself often leads to impacting and elevating others in your community. The more we come into alignment with ourselves, the more we can elevate, care for, and appreciate others.
By investing in ourselves, we all thrive.