About Kristin
My holistic, relational approach to therapy is informed by my own health journey as well my clinical experience, training, and skill. I honor healing as nonlinear, layered, and deeply personal, especially for those living with chronic illness or carrying complex emotional histories. With this in mind, my emphasis is always on attention over prescription. With the right support we can not only develop greater tolerance for discomfort and uncertainty but grow in our capacity to trust the unseen and support the body’s innate drive towards healing. I hold space with care and cultural humility, trusting the wisdom each person brings to their own healing.
My work is deeply shaped by nearly 15 years of lived experience navigating chronic illness. This journey has given me an intimate understanding of what it means to live with invisible conditions: the uncertainty and grief, the way it reshapes identity, relationships, and one’s sense of their place in the world. I bring compassion and clarity to the complexities of finding acceptance, practicing self-advocacy within often dehumanizing systems, tending to nervous system repair, building inner and outer resource, and setting boundaries that honor your energy and worth.
Over the past 20 years, my career in mental health and healing has taken a rich path across Dublin, Ireland, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles. Along the way, I’ve held roles in many settings that supported a diverse range individuals and communities, including anti-bullying hotline counseling, early childhood development in Head Start, families in foster care, inpatient psychiatric care, residential eating disorder treatment, trauma support for social media content moderators, and private practice.
After healing from an illness, I followed a dream of attending culinary school in 2012. I spent 7 years working as an in-home, health-supportive private chef in New York City. I designed and prepared healing recipes to support and nourish individuals and families through acute, chronic, and terminal illness. My recipes have been featured on Fran Drescher's Cancer Schmancer Movement and CBS News.
Since 2021, I’ve been a certified Reiki practitioner, integrating energy work into a holistic approach to well-being.
At the heart of all I do is a deep reverence for the earth, the elements, and the wisdom of cycles. My relationship with the natural world continues to guide me and those I work with through processes of healing, regeneration, surrender, and the often nonlinear movement of growth.