About Me

ABOUT KRISTEN

I love my work.

One of the reasons I am so passionate about helping people navigate the shadowy parts of Self, that surface in times of deep transformation, is because I get it. I've lived through dark moments, traversed trauma, and confronted subconscious fears that perpetuated my own mental dis-ease. I am continuously learning and integrating skills to cope with "symptoms" that are, honestly, quite often appropriate human responses to the burdens we carry.

We've all inherited wounds and survival strategies that need our conscious, loving awareness.

We must FEEL to HEAL.

My soul's purpose is to be a guide and mentor for folks ready to re-source their nervous systems in order to heal the rich wellspring of their subconscious.

When we heal as individuals, we weave a legacy of love in this world.

Come, let us weave a new paradigm.

Let us pass down healing instead of trauma.

Let us leave the world more healed than wounded.

A little more bit about me...

After graduating from Lesley University, in Cambridge MA, with a dual masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (LMHC #11000) and School Adjustment Counseling, I began my career in the field as a social worker in public schools. I had to opportunity to work with students, grades PreK-12th grade, and their families.

Since the pandemic, I've shifted my focus to expanding my body work and distilling my wisdom into a signature framework that is both approachable and accessible to those on a journey of mental, emotional, and spiritual growth.

While many theories, exercises, and practices inform my style of coaching and healing, at the heart of my work is the relationship we build together. This is because emotional wellbeing is accelerated in a space that promotes psychological bravery. In other words, ALL parts of you belong.

I practice holistic, trauma-informed coaching, no matter the offering or capacity in which we work together. I am committed to providing mental health care that centers your story, voice, and lived experiences in order to promote deep and integrated healing. As such, I am affirming of all types of diversity including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, citizenship status, religion, abilities, and size and actively work to decolonize my practice, business, and myself.

You may feel invisible right now or stuck in a space where life is swirling around you while simultaneously leaving you behind. But I see you. You are brilliant, sensitive, and deeply empathetic about the state of the world and the people in it. It would be my sincere honor to join you for a piece of your journey.

Meet Bisou.

Bisou is our resident psychiatric service dog! If you are interested in having him join an in-person session, he would also love to connect with you. As his name suggests, he will likely greet you will many kisses.

Our Company Values

As the name suggests, the SOUL of this business is to ignite a REBELLION deep within – an awakening that declares you are more than the boxes you’ve been conditioned to check and the cages you’ve managed to squeeze and contort yourself in order to fit in. On some level, you already know this because you found your way here. This recognition is the ember that will light with flame for your rising.

You will feel anger. You will feel pain. You will move into the heartache as you dismantle the shackles of shame that have kept you playing small. This work requires courage, persistence, and the willingness to release beliefs and patterns that at one point in time, helped you survive.

This soul-work is not for the faint of heart. And that’s the point. Because if the soul of the work is to ignite a rebellion, the heart of the work is to find your way back into love and compassion.

Compati, the Latin word for compassion, literally means “to suffer with.” When you learn how to hold space for the parts in you that are suffering, you breathe light into your shadows. The embedded fears and traumas become the very experiences that guide you back to love. This radical compassion will transmute the grief and pain into an embodied confidence that will unlock you energy in all the ways.

I know this because I live this. Everyday, I return to this compassion as my guiding principle: And everytime I “suffer with” the parts in me I am afraid to look at, I liberate them from fear and I fall deeper in love with mySelf and my life.

This is possible for you, too. The world needs you in love with yourSelf as we co-create a new paradigm for generations to come. It would be an honor to teach you the exact methodology I use to return to this sacred place within. This is the healing balm you’ve been seeking and it is found tucked up under your heart. Let me guide you in.

Our JEDI/Anti-Racist Values:

Rebel Soul Coaching is committed to creating an equitable, anti-racist, decolonial company. We aspire to dismantle and divest from the extractive qualities of the white colonial mindset. We commit to open conflict and allow for discomfort to arise as we allow space for community members to be heard and deal with the underlying issues. We take responsibility through action, investments with BIPOC mentorship, and ongoing culturally responsive trainings.

Psychological bravery is a core tenet of the liberatory work we do at Rebel Soul Coaching. As we hold space to dismantle our own inner systems of oppression, we are intentional about translating that into external actions of equity.