Unifying depth psychology and oriental medicine
for grounded insight, guidance, and transformational change
What is Depth Psychology?
Depth psychology explores the unconscious and transpersonal facets of our human experience to give us greater access to transformational change.
As a tool of depth psychology, tarot can be used to reflect and identify inner archetypes, bringing our unconscious and semi-conscious psychological processes into our conscious awareness.
The integration of psychological opposites provides greater clarity and agency to our intentional choices.
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal. —C.G. Jung
Our Services
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Psychospiritual Counseling
Having many years of professional experience in body-based healing modalities and meditation groups, as well as having completed graduate work in mental health counseling, Kristin’s approach to the therapeutic process is highly intuitive while simultaneously down to earth so that feelings, revelations, and guidance can be experienced and assimilated at a pace that is natural and organic for the client. Utmost care is taken to honor the client’s unique perspectives and cultural viewpoints, and sessions are led by the client’s inherent values and wisdom. This, in concert with gentle inquiry, facilitation, and, at times, challenges to limiting beliefs and self-judgments, provides a vehicle for deep inner shifts whereby a fuller and more enlightened self can be realized and put into effect outside the counseling session. Kristin offers a complimentary consultation for potential counseling clients.
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Tarot Consultation
Some clients are not looking for a deeper psychological dive as much as they are purely spiritual mirroring and reflection, or they would like the benefit of having tangible art and conversation pieces to stimulate discussion. For these people, a tarot consultation can sometimes be helpful. Kristin uses the Voyager Tarot deck which reflects modern psychological understandings of archetypes and inner family systems while also holding to Jungian concepts of wholeness and shadow work, providing a structurally-sound and beautiful template for the inner narrative to unfold.
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Herbal Medicine
The therapeutic use of plants has a long history. Medicinal plants played a role in virtually all ancient civilizations, including in China, India, Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. Herbal medicine practiced today draws on these and other traditions as well as modern approaches informed by scientific study. From a holistic perspective, the therapeutic use of plants offers a potent way to leverage our integration and interdependence with the natural world for the purposes of maintaining health and well-being. Therapeutic uses of plants for psychological and emotional health have proven to be especially effective for how they can work on subconscious and unconscious levels of energy, facilitating deeper connections with ourselves to inspire positive change. Kristin offers a complimentary consultation for potential herbal medicine clients.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. —Sigmund Freud
About the clinician
Kristin has always had a deep curiosity about people and culture—as well as the psychological and spiritual aspects of the human experience. This has led her to explore a wide array of both eastern and western healing arts including acupuncture, shiatsu, reiki, massage therapy, dance/movement therapy, and herbal medicine and also to study anthropology and mental-health counseling.
Kristin believes that mind, body, and spirit are equal aspects of what it means to be human, and this perspective informs her personally as well as professionally.