Trauma Integration Coaching
Trauma Integration Coaching for the frontline helpers who carry what others can't see — nurses, doctors, EMS, fire, police, dispatchers, medevac, and coroners.
Transform trauma memories from active intrusions to history.
You've Held Space for Everyone Else
You've carried death exposure, moral injury, grief accumulation, and the quiet ache of institutional betrayal. The symptoms you may know all too well:
Body & Sleep
Chronic fatigue, decreased sleep, GI issues, intrusive sensations, memory gaps.
Heart & Mind
Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, emotional numbness, decreased joy, irritability.
Soul & Connection
Loss of purpose, isolation, grief, feeling like you don't fit in, strained relationships — and sometimes reaching for chemical relief or other unhealthy ways of coping.
This is not weakness. This is what happens when people who care
deeply keep showing up.
A Different Kind of Care
This isn't therapy. It isn't wellness fluff or another resilience model. It is trauma-informed coaching with clinical realism — built to help you metabolize what we cannot avoid.
Hear & Hold
I listen first. We name the pain — death exposure, moral injury, grief accumulation, institutional betrayal — so you can finally see what you've been carrying.
Honor & Humanize
Your story matters. We honor the weight of what you've witnessed and humanize the helper who has been pouring out for years without refilling.
Harness & Heal
Better boundaries. Cleared stuckness. Trauma growth. We move active intrusions into history — often in just a three hour session.
Foster, Don't Fix
I'm not here to forestall the inevitable. I'm here to change the way we view what we do — so you can keep helping without losing yourself.
Coaching Packages
Choose the pace that feels right. Every path starts with a conversation — there's no pressure, no rush, and no wrong way to begin.
Discovery Call
A no-pressure conversation about your pain level, symptoms, and whether this work is right for you.
3-Hour Intensive
One focused session to metabolize a specific exposure, or work through a series of exposures from a particular season of your career, and move active intrusions into history.
6-Week Coaching
Six one-hour sessions to clear stuckness, build boundaries, and foster trauma growth at a sustainable pace, while also creating space to talk about future goals or if you're needing support in your current position.
8-Week Deep Work
Eight sessions for layered, cumulative trauma — the long carry of a full frontline career, while also working on building boundaries, creating space to talk about future goals, or if you're needing support in your current position.
Hi, I'm Kristen
I have over 30 years in medicine — As a RN I worked ICU, CVICU, ER, L&D, ambulances, fixed wing, and 700 medevac flights. As a Nurse practitioner working in emergency medicine and palliative/hospice care. Teaching BSN nursing students as adjunct educator since 2018.
I've stood at the bedside and been in the field of life's hardest moments. I know the weight of those moments from the inside. As a palliative care NP, I held space for retired doctors, nurses, fire and police, who carried decades of unspoken burden into their final days. It broke my heart — and lit a fire.
We don't have to wait until the end of a career to set it down. My vision: a world where frontline helpers never lose themselves to career-related stress and trauma.
Voices From the Front Lines
Real stories of healing, insight, and support.
“Kristen had a way of making me feel heard and seen. She validated my feelings, met me where I was, and created a safe-feeling container with non-judgmental empathy and compassion. Working with Kristen was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. She helped me sort through difficult feelings, make realistic goals, and face long-carried fears with a plan and hope.”
“Working with Kristen has been, honestly, one of the most transformative experiences of my life. During our first session and I immediately knew it would be an amazing encounter. Being a newly disabled nurse practitioner and not working for 18 months, I felt lost. Working with Kristen helped me sort out feelings and make realistic goals with someone who gets it. By this, I mean, someone who understands the feelings, demands, responsibilities and expectations of our field.
My biggest insight that happened as a result of one of our sessions was acknowledging fears and concerns of my life both professional and personal that I have carried for decades and facing them with a plan to work through.”
“Working with Kristen has been so helpful during one of the most challenging seasons of my nursing career. As a travel nurse navigating burnout, workplace dynamics, and the emotional weight of patient loss, I came to Kristen feeling overwhelmed and uncertain. She met me exactly where I was.
Kristen helped me process trauma I had been carrying from COVID-era patient losses - grief I didn't even realize was still affecting me. She helped me reframe my relationship with compassion and empathy, and gave me practical tools to set healthier boundaries without losing the heart that drew me to nursing in the first place.
Beyond the emotional work, she helped me clarify my professional goals and think strategically about my future. Kristen is insightful, patient, and genuinely invested in her clients' growth. I can't recommend her highly enough.”
“My biggest win during this journey was realizing that many of my negative thoughts were rooted in past trauma—and that I had the power to release that hold. I came to understand that, at the time, I was doing the best I could with the skills and awareness I had.
One of my most meaningful insights from our sessions was learning to see myself with greater love and compassion. I now truly believe that we are not defined by our mistakes or our limitations.
I would absolutely recommend Heal The Help as it provided me with powerful self-awareness and supported me in a process of genuine healing.”
“I loved the analogies she provided and the approach she gave with the HEAL acronym, as well as the types of betrayals we can experience as nurses. I have been a nurse for almost 8 years and I had never heard of those things.
My biggest insight that happened as a result of our coaching sessions was learning how to view traumatic events in life or at work as past events from which I can grow and no longer need to worry. I tend to ruminate on past mistakes, beating myself up or questioning myself. This was very helpful.
