Our Credentials

Formal Education

National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach

ADAPT Certified Functional Health Coach 

 

Lifestyle Medicine Coach

 

Care for preventing chronic pain and addiction Certificate 

Practical elements to enhance resilience, grit, and mental toughness Certificate

ISTTC-Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate 

Communication with Communication Science emphasis

Liberal studies with transfer emphasis

Professional Photography Certificate

Emphasis of business, portrait, and commercial photography

 

 

About Kristen

Kristen lives in the Pacific Northwest.  She enjoys hiking, kayaking, and biking with her blind dog, Maiya.  One of her continuous goals is maintaining her year-round garden.  She tries to eat at least one thing that she has grown each day.

When working with clients, Kristen enjoys embracing many parts of being human… from working with the imagination, to utilizing the senses, and blending learning styles to best suit client needs.  She also enjoys integrating elements of mindfulness, working with the body (somatics), and Non Violent Communication (or compassionate communication) into health coaching.

For those of you who like extra depth and thoroughness, check out Kristen’s additional supplemental class list below.  

Kristen’s pursuit of knowledge in the healing arts is impressive.  She has independently researched a number of pathways to healing, including allopathic and alternative, born out of her own experience with a medical condition that took years to remedy.  She emerged from this experience with a deep compassion for those struggling with various medical conditions, determined to do what she can to help others and do so holistically. 

Linda B. -Mentor

additional Classes & Workshop list
  • 6/26/2020 CNVC Worldwide Gathering
  • 11/2020 Strengthen Your Resilience During Covid-19 – Dr. Arielle Swartz
  • 10/2020 Stress, Recovery, & Resilience: How Wellness Coaching Can Help pt.1 – Michael Arloski
  • 10/2020 Stress, Recovery, & Resilience: Recovery pt.2 – Michael Arloski
  • 10/2020 Stress, Recovery & Resilience: Building Resilience pt. 3 – Michael Arloski
  • 1/15/21 Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program – Miki Kashtan (1st Free Session only) 2/12/2021
  • Combatting the Loneliness Pandemic, The Omega Institute – Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt
  • 6/10/2021 Too Many Words! Interrupting to Increase Connection, Mary Mackenzie (NVC)
  • 5/2021 Rebounding From Burnout – Dr. Andrea Pennington
  • 6/2021 Lecture from Steven Hoskinson with Organic Intelligence, on Wisdom For Life
  • 8/16/2021-9/28/2021 Autoimmunity workshop (7 week Course) – Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac.
    • Week 1:The Functional Medicine Approach to Autoimmune Disease
    • Week 2: How to Use Diet and Food to Calm Your Immune System
    • Week 3: The Gut-Autoimmune Connection
    • Week 4: Supplements and Herbs for Immune Balancing
    • Week 5: Cultivating Resilience and Vibrant Health
    • Week 6: Mindset and Lifestyle: From Surviving to Thriving
    • Week 7: Functional Medicine Testing and Treatment for Autoimmunity
  • 10/2021-11/2021 NICABM The Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma (5 sessions)
    • How to work with emerging defense responses to trauma (beyond the fight/flight/freeze model)
    • How to Identify and treat dissociation (even when it’s subtle)
    • How to ease the pain of trauma-induced shame
    • How to work with patients whose trauma triggers problems in their current relationships
    • Strategies to treat patients trapped in the freeze response
  • 10/2021-4/2023 ADAPT Certified Functional Health Coach training program
  • 12/15/2021 The New Science of Pain and the Nervous System- Karin Edwards
  • 12/15/2021 Navigating the Nervous System- Karin Edwards
  • 2/2022 The Science of Effective Coaching – Professor Richard Boyatzis (on the Institute of Coaching)
  • 6/6/2022 NICABM Working with Fear course
    • Week 1: Fear in the Brain and Body
    • Week 2: Strategies to Help Clients Confront Fear
    • Week 3: How to Help Clients Develop Healthy Ways to Cope with Fear
    • Week 4: How to Ease Fear at its Source
    • Week 5: How to Help Clients Identify and Cope with their Fear Triggers
    • Bonus: How Choice Points Provides a Pathway through Uncertainty
  • 10/2022 Super Sleep Conference (following classes only)
    • The 7 Types of Rest- Dr. Saundra Dalton
    • Healing PTSD and Trauma for Optimal Sleep – Charlie Morley
  • 10/2022 The Science of Stretch, from Conversations that Matter: Helene Langevin, MD, CM interviews with Stuart McNish
  •  11/10/2022, 12/12/2022 NBHWC Exam Prep – Parts 1 &2
  • 12/2022 Anxiety Super Conference (following classes only)
    • How to get Unstuck – Britt Frank
    • Anxiety as a Stage of Grief – Claire Tidwell Smith
    • Mindfulness and the evolution of anxiety – Dr. Ronald Siegel
    • Discover your attachment style – Dr. Dianne Poole Heller
    • Understanding Anxiety as a Stored Survival Response – Irene Lyon
    • Webinar: the three types of anxiety – Alex Howard
    • Sensory-based Approach to Anxiety – Dr Cathy Malchiodi
    • EFT Tapping for Anxiety Relief – Nick Ortner
    • How to Transform your Sleep – Charlie Morely
    • Anxiety and coming home to the body – Dr Arielle Schwartz
    • Self-Regulating for Trauma Healing – Dr Peter Levine
    • Managing Anxiety with DBT – Dr. Sophia Graham
    • The Relationship between anxiety and pain – Dr. David Hanscom
    • Changing Gene Expression to Calm Anxiety – Dr Kara Fitzgerald
    • Functional Medicine Approach to Anxiety – Evan Brand
    • Brain Science, Gut health, and Psychedelics – Dr. Maya Shetreat
    • How your gut bacteria affects your anxiety – Dr. David Perlmutter
    • How to cultivate a sense of safety – Dr. Stephen Porges
  • 1/5/2023 Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail – Kevin Cloninger, PhD (Anthropedia)
  • 1/20/2023 Working with Attachment Injury Embedded in Complex Trauma (First free class only, not whole series) – Dr. Peter Levine & Diane Poole Heller
  • 1/25/2023 From the Holistic Psychotherapy Summit (following classes)
    • Nervous System Regulation: An Introduction – Irene Lyon
  • 1/26/2023 Breathing for Energy: Ari Whitten
  • 2/10/2023 NICABM The Trauma of Racism – (following class only)
    • Module 4: Common missteps that can erode trust and potentially re-traumatize (and how to avoid them)
  • 2/18/2023 Trauma Super Conference 3
    • Can you bio hack trauma healing? – Irene Lyon
  • 4/12/2023 The Truth About Mindfulness and Trauma, how to mitigate risks and promote health for trauma survivors (intro class only)- David Treleaven
  • 5/15/2023 The Reset Super Conference (following classes only)
    • Building inner safety for deep healing – Dr. Peter Levine
    • Holistic healing in a divided world – Dr g (Claudette R Glasgow)
    • The Power of Attachment – Dr Diane Poole Heller
    • How to cultivate a state of safety – Dr. Stephen Porges
  • 6/5/2023 Somatic Movement Summit (following classes only)
    • Rewire your resilience: vagal toning for self-discovery, embodied healing, and meaningful change – Dr. Arielle Schwartz
    • Fluid Movement, A shift in consciousness, and trauma healing – Manuela Mischeke-Reeds
    • The Art of Peace: transforming your emotional and physical pain through somatic education, body awareness, and the principles of Akido – Richard E. Sims MSME, MSMT, CPT
    • Discover emotional clarity and resilience with the emotional body® method: somatic movement summit – Laura Bond
    • How our reflexive responses to stress are intertwined with body, emotions, and movement – Martha Peterson, CCSE
  • 9/27/23-12/21/23 Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program

  • 4/09/2024-6/25/2024 Wellness Coaching Elevated NBHWC Exam Study Group

  • 7/8/2024 NBHWC practice test

  • 7/16/2024 NBHWC Exam

  • 8/1/2024 Passed the NBHWC Exam.  Became a NBC-HWC National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach

  • 8/26/2024 Understanding & Overcoming Exhaustion: A Mind-Body Approach – Anthropedia: Dr. Kevin Cloninger and Dr. Nigel Lester

  • 6/3/2025 Lifestyle Medicine Coach Certificate – American College of Lifestyle Medicine

  • 7/3/2025 Completed certificate: Transformative care for preventing chronic pain and addiction: a course for health and wellness coaches – The Center Within

  • 7/21/2025 Completed certificate: Practical elements to enhance resilience, grit, and mental toughness – Catalyst Coaching Institute

  • 9/9/2025 Tara Brach grief teachings:

    • When clients avoid grief
    • Feeling our feelings
    • A larger sense of belonging

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