Services
Kristin believes that everyone has the power within themselves to heal. The role of the therapist is to help the person find his or her own inner wisdom.
Kristin understands the courage it takes to ask for help from a professional and has deep respect for anyone willing to engage in the process.
Kristin understands the courage it takes to ask for help from a professional and has deep respect for anyone willing to engage in the process.
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Adaptive Behavior Assessment
Utilizing the ABAS-3 (Adaptive Behavior Assessment System)
Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics ™ (NMT) Assessment – Functional Brain Map 
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics ™ (NMT) is a developmentally-informed biologically respectful approach to clinical problem-solving developed by Bruce Perry MD, PhD. The Neurosequential Model™ is not a specific therapeutic technique or intervention; it is a way to organize a child’s history and current functioning.
This is a clinical tool that can help parents, caregivers, and providers understand the impact of earlier adverse experiences on an individual’s development and ways this impacts current functioning and needs. The NMT Assessment looks at a child's history of adverse experiences, history of relational health, current relational health and current functioning. The process provides a "map" or a picture of current functioning along with specific and sequentially ordered recommendations with how to focus interventions to best help positive growth and development for the child/teen. This process has the benefit of wrapping around all supports in a client’s network (teachers, caregivers, caseworkers, guardians, mentors, etc.) to give common focus and language and make specific plans to meet the client’s needs at community, family, and individual levels. To learn more about the Neurosequential Network click here. |
Consultation, Training, and SupervisionConsultation
Kristin offers trauma-informed clinical consultation to individuals, private practices, schools, and agencies. Concepts from the Neurosequential Model™ are the lens from which she approaches working with children who have experienced trauma and adversity. Single 1-hour consults or multi-session consult packages are available. The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics ™ (NMT) is a developmentally-informed biologically respectful approach to clinical problem-solving developed by Bruce Perry, MD, PhD. NMT is not a specific therapeutic technique or intervention; it is a way to organize a child’s history and current functioning. This clinical approach helps professionals determine the strengths and vulnerabilities of children, and helps them create individualized intervention, enrichment, and educational plans to match each child’s unique needs. To learn more about the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics ™ click here. Training:
Kristin provides training to individuals, private practices, schools, and agencies, grounded in concepts from the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™ (NMT) and from the Tenets of Synergetic Play Therapy™. As a registered play therapist, Kristin has been trained in a wide variety of play therapy approaches that she integrates into her training. In addition to teaching skills and concepts, Kristin focuses on the development of the therapist or educator. She offers training in play therapy and working with children, as well as how to effectively work with those who have experienced developmental trauma. Kristin has a wholistic approach in how she works with children and trauma. Supervision:
As a registered play therapist supervisor, Kristin provides individual and group supervision for therapists who are working with children and wish to incorporate play therapy into their practice. She can provide in-person or online supervision for those working towards licensure or becoming a Registered Play Therapist. Kristin is a Certified Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor, using a model of supervision that incorporates techniques and skills from Synergetic Play Therapy. Additionally, she is trained in Reflective Supervision and incorporates these principals into her supervision sessions. |
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Kristin’s primary approach to working with children is play therapy. Play therapy is an approach in which a trained play therapist enters the child’s world through play. Children often do not know how to communicate their thoughts and feelings in words; play is the language of children. Through their play, children are able to express and process difficult, challenging, or traumatic experiences. When a child feels seen, heard, and understood they began to heal. Learn more about play therapy:
In her work with children, she uses Synergetic Play Therapy™, a research-informed model of play therapy combining the therapeutic powers of play with nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, physics, attachment, mindfulness, and therapist authenticity. This model of play therapy helps rewire the lowest regions of the brain and supports children in finding new ways to respond to stress and challenges in their lives. Learn more about Synergetic Play Therapy by clicking here.
You, as a parent or guardian, know your child best. Our partnership is an essential piece of child therapy. Each time you bring your child to a play therapy session, we will engage in a 10–15-minute check-in about challenges, wins and monitor your child’s progress. We will set up separate collaborative parent sessions outside of your child’s therapy as needed. To learn more about play therapy click here. Parents are the most important person in a child’s life. There are times when the best approach is to include the parent or guardian in the session. Kristin incorporates Filial Therapy with children. The origin for the word Filial comes from the Latin word filius which means son. In Filial Therapy Kristin teaches parents how to be the therapeutic agents for their own children to help facilitate change and healing.
Kristin is a Brainspotting practitioner and can use this technique to help process trauma that is stored in the body. Brainspotting is a brain-based therapy that helps access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain while physically looking at a specific location. To learn more about Brainspotting click here
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