RISE - Key Persons
Karen works with adults, children, adolescents, and families. She has over 15 years of experience working with families and individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, and attachment challenges. She particularly enjoys working with families and using a strength-based, trauma-informed, and solution-focused approach to exploring and addressing challenging interpersonal and family dynamics. Karen's practice draws from a variety of therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Structural Family Therapy. As a Queer woman of color, she strives to provide a safe and welcoming therapeutic relationship for all participants, and particularly for those who have experienced the layered impacts of marginalization. In her spare time, Karen enjoys spending time communing with nature or at home cooking and hanging out with her pets.
Kjerstin partners with her clients to nurture healing, growth, and resiliency. She offers trauma-specific therapy including EMDR, Brainspotting, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for adults, teens, youth, and parent-child pairs. Kjerstin enjoys supporting children from infancy to teens around attachment and trauma work, engaging parents in their own healing and growth, and working with women around fertility, loss, pregnancy/birth, postpartum, and parenting issues. Kjerstin also often works with participants in the areas of racialized trauma, grief, healthy relationships, health concerns and positive identity development. Kjerstin is a white, cis woman who has two young kiddos, loves doing things outdoors, and has a weakness for flamin' hot Cheetos.
Job Titles:
- Community Member / Small Business Owner
Robyn aims to support those she works with from an authentic, empowering, collaborative, and strength-based approach. She works with youth, adults, and families, and has experience supporting those with self-esteem challenges, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. She uses an eclectic approach, borrowing from cognitive-behavioral (CBT and DBT), experiential and interpersonal therapy, motivational interviewing (MI), and structural family therapy. Robyn is skilled in providing parent and co-parenting skills support. She is a cis, white woman and a self-identified movie-buff who enjoys gardening, music, good food, and loves her fur-kids (1 cat and 2 dogs).