St. Joseph, Missouri · In-person & Virtual
Your body is already speaking.
Come listen.
"Healing does not always begin with a story.
Sometimes it begins with a sensation."
About Christina
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected from yourself can make everyday life feel heavy. Anxiety may show up in your body before you can name it. Old experiences may still shape how safe you feel in relationships.
Christina is a Licensed Master Social Worker who offers therapy that is collaborative, grounded, and deeply respectful of each person's lived experience. She believes that you are the expert in your own life. Therapy is not about being fixed. It is about creating space to slow down, listen inward, and build a relationship with yourself that feels steady and supportive.
Her approach is informed by social justice values and a deep respect for autonomy, identity, and context. She works with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, burnout, life transitions, relational patterns, and identity exploration — especially those who are highly sensitive, deeply reflective, or used to being the strong one for everyone else.
Services
Sometimes there are no words for what happened. Color offers another language. Through guided use of hue, shape, and intuitive expression, you may access parts of yourself that feel unseen or difficult to articulate. The body does the coloring. We make meaning together.
A supported group space to explore the body's wisdom through writing and reflection. Somatic journaling invites you to track sensation, impulse, and felt sense as a pathway to deeper self-understanding and nervous system regulation.
Not sure if we're a good fit? A free 15-minute consultation to explore your needs, answer your questions, and see if working together feels right. No pressure, no commitment.
The Approach
Somatic Experiencing® invites you to slow down enough to notice what your body has been holding. Rather than reliving trauma, this approach helps you build capacity and resilience. You may explore subtle shifts in breath, temperature, tension, or impulse for movement.
Over time, the nervous system begins to reorganize. What once felt overwhelming becomes manageable. What once felt stuck begins to soften.
Color Mending works through symbol, image, and creative process. Through guided use of hue, shape, and intuitive expression, patterns become visible. Insights surface naturally. Integration unfolds at a pace your system can sustain.
Begin the Conversation"Healing can look like feeling more at home in your body. More choice where there was once reaction."
Sessions are collaborative and responsive to you. The focus is not on fixing. It is on supporting regulation, awareness, and meaningful change — at the pace your nervous system can sustain.
Together, these approaches offer therapy that is experiential, embodied, and deeply attuned.
Ready to Begin
Booking is done through Acuity Scheduling, which syncs directly with your Google Calendar. Sessions available in-person in St. Joseph, MO or virtually.
816-408-0245 · St. Joseph, Missouri
Writing
Christina writes on Substack about the inner life — the places where healing, identity, and ordinary human experience intersect. Essays on the body, grief, relationships, and what it means to come home to yourself.
Read on SubstackThe wound is not the ending. It is often the portal.
From the Substack — The Mother Wound Series