Kristie began her career as a business journalist and editor, working with professionals and companies from different industries and corporate functions in Asia Pacific and internationally. A decade later, she became a counsellor as she was drawn to helping others through pain and difficulties.

Since then, Kristie has journeyed with children, youth, adults, and families on issues such as interpersonal trauma, depression, anxiety, suicidality, self-harm, stressful life transitions, relational difficulties, parent-child relationships, and family/couple conflict. She has worked in various social service and healthcare organisations providing counselling, mental health assessments, casework management, as well as court-mandated counselling and reunification work for families afflicted by domestic violence. She has also conducted group therapy, public workshops, and talks on emotional regulation, crisis management, financial literacy, and mental well-being.

Kristie’s therapeutic approach is humanistic and integrative, influenced by theories in attachment, neurophysiology of trauma, psychological flexibility, parts work, family systems, and self-compassion. Her former experience as an international business editor and writer has exposed her to the myriad cultural nuances around the world and helped her gain an appreciation of working with individuals from different backgrounds and with varied lived experiences.

Grounded in compassion and authenticity, the very principles in which she strives to live her life, she believes in offering a safe and inclusive therapeutic holding space for clients. Most importantly, she remains humbled by and appreciative of the openness and vulnerability that people bring to the therapy room, where she believes purpose, growth, and healing reside.

Qualifications:

• Master of Counselling

• Certificate in Foundational Systemic Thinking & Applications in Social Work & Clinical Practice

• Schema Therapy Level 1 & 2

• Advanced Approaches to Working with Individuals & Families Impacted by Trauma

• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

• Professional Certificate in the Management of Family Violence

• Sexual Assault First Responder

• Gottman Method

• Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy

• Psychological First Aid