Krista’s goal as a therapist is to provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your internal struggles without judgement. She believes you to be the expert on your own life, and her goal is to work collaboratively towards a better understanding of what is needed to move forward. She values the importance of empowerment and using the strengths of those she works with.

Krista’s style of practice focuses on a diverse clinical style that includes working from a strengths-based, anti-oppressive view using evidence-based interventions geared towards your individual client needs.

Krista’s clinical career has been working with both short and long term therapy in the hospital setting helping clients through grief, loss, trauma, and crisis intervention. Krista has experience with both youth and adults in education and community settings, with struggles including, but not limited to, anxiety, depression, self image, separation, developmental, and emotional regulation barriers. In addition, as a physician assistant, Krista has the knowledge and understanding of illness and how it impacts us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Through her personal and professional experience in women’s health, she has gained an understanding and passion for empowering individuals through their struggles of pregnancy, parenthood, life and role transitions, eating disorders, relationships, and sense of self. Krista is committed to ongoing education, research, and training to best support her client’s needs.

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Working with me, we will co-create a space of listening, learning, and growth that serves as the base for our work together. I am passionate about issues surrounding life transitions, anxiety, emotional intelligence, vocation, and unhealthy coping mechanisms.

My therapeutic training allows me to draw from a variety of therapy modalities suited to help clients working through the above issues, and much more. Such modalities include Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and individuals, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). This knowledge base helps me frame issues through a personal, humanistic lens that validates and recognizes the individual’s specific experiences, while also acknowledging the systems and relational patterns clients participate in that can contribute to distress and stuckness. Each client receives an evidence-based personalized, integrative treatment perspective and plan because even though we all experience suffering from time to time, no two people are exactly alike. If my work with clients can reduce the aloneness we all feel at times, then I believe a core human need is being fulfilled.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND DEGREES:

• REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST (QUALIFYING), THE COLLEGE OF REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPISTS OF ONTARIO (CPRO)

• MASTERS OF DIVINITY IN CLINICAL COUNSELLING

• BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY FOR INDIVIDUALS (EFIT)

• AEDP IMMERSION TRAINING

• DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY: FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

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I believe that vitality and the chance to flourish happens when it’s safe enough to honestly be yourself. I consider it a privilege to accompany people through their pain, coping, self-discovery, healing, transformation, and joy. For the last 15 years I have served my community in the field of social services, working alongside people living through trauma, substance use and addictions, poverty, mental health dual-diagnoses, developmental disabilities, and criminality.

My areas of clinical care include trauma, abuse, violence, PTSD and C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, dissociation, substance use and addictions, shame, anger, grief, relationships, sexual and gender identity, and spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and integration. I seek to embody a clinical stance that is compassionate, curious, anti-oppressive, and non-pathological. My approach uses an attachment-based, trauma-informed framework, which means my work is often experiential, and emotionally and relationally focused. I work with individuals and couples.

After hours, I enjoy time spent with my family, making music, cooking, playing sports, a good cup of tea, writing, and celebrating with friends.

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