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Kristin Herbert

  • Multiple and varied neurodiverse relationships including partnering and parenting

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  • Former careers in literary and academic book publishing, creative and professional writing, and education of college students, incarcerated youth, and children with learning differences

Kristin Herbert

At A Glace

Specialities & Certifications

  • Neurodiverse Individual Therapy

  • Parenting Specialist

  • Neurodiverse Couples Specialist

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 

  • Certificate in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Clinical experience and training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and relational therapy

  • Specialize in couples, creatives, and others who identify as “highly sensitive”

  • LGBTQIA+ allied

  • Culturally sensitive approach

Life Experience

  • Multiple and varied neurodiverse relationships including partnering and parenting
     

  • Former careers in literary and academic book publishing, creative and professional writing, and education of college students, incarcerated youth, and children with learning differences

Education

  • M.A. in Clinical Psychology

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 

Kristin's Story

Conceived accidentally during the “summer of love,” I was surrendered by my birth parents as an infant, then adopted and raised as one of two adopted children. Reunited with my birth parents and extended families on both sides as an adult has resulted in an inconclusive, ongoing self-study of nature and nurture. 

 

Following my divorce as a young adult, I earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh in an effort to turn my heartbreak into poetry. My writer’s resume, in addition my own published poetry, fiction, journalism, and creative nonfiction, included working as a university instructor, in academic and literary book publishing, as a massage therapist, and at educational nonprofit for underserved populations including foster youth.

 

After my second divorce,  as a single parent navigating complex relational trauma recovery and learning to accommodate and support the neurodivergence in my family, I earned a Masters degree in clinical psychology and began training to became a therapist.

 

Now, I am ten years along in a blended family that includes a spectrum of neurodiverse brains and nervous systems: those of my own and my partner, our combined four children, and our dog and cats. 

 

I find inspiration and meaning from my ongoing work with an array of clients who share the courage to turn inward in order to better understand their experience and relate ever more deeply to themselves and the people they love most.

Kristin's Story
Areas of Focus

Other Areas
of Focus

  • Parenting & Co-Parenting

  • Understanding and Healing Family Dysfunction

  • Establishing Healthy Boundaries

  • Implementing Self-Compassion and Self-Care

  • Processing Relational Trauma (cPTSD) & post-traumatic growth

  • Mapping Attachment Patterns 

  • Processing Grief 

  • Healing from Infidelity and Betrayal Trauma

  • Discernment Counseling

  • Identifying and Healing Burnout

  • Supporting Life Transitions

  • Exploring Identity

Clients
 

  • Couples 

  • Individuals (including Single Parents)

  • Families (including divorced and blended families and single-parent families)

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Modalities
 

  • Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples

  • Existential Therapy

  • Experiential Therapy

  • Attachment-based Therapy

  • Compassion-focused, Humanistic Therapy

  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Psychodynamic/ Relational Therapy

  • Trauma-Informed Therapy

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Coaching

License
 

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #141308

  • Employed by New Path Therapy

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