Aloha, I am Kristen Hale. I have been a practicing licensed clinician for over 20 years. My approach to therapy is to build trusting relationships that cultivate honesty and authenticity, allowing for the deeper work to unfold. I support people to recognize their inherent wisdom to move past unhealthy patterns and heal old wounds. In the work, we focus on acquiring strategies to live in our ever changing world, developing new more hopeful stories about ourselves, our bodies and our spirit. By increasing self awareness we set on the path towards growth and healing.

I am traditionally educated as a clinical social worker and have decades of experience as a psychotherapist working across the life span with children and families and now adults. I am also trained in trauma informed bodywork and licensed as a massage therapist. I am a somatic practitioner with training in energy work and body attunement.

I specialize in treating trauma and all its complexities and manifestations as trauma shows up in our thoughts, emotions, bodies and our energy. I uniquely have training across various therapies and am able to skillfully and safely integrate a mind body healing experience for those I work with. In the therapeutic process I focus on attunement and blend somatic tools within the container of psychotherapy to offer a more whole and integrated approach to healing.

I appreciate your commitment to yourself, to your personal growth and healing by seeking out care. Feeling comfortable and safe with your therapist is important and necessary for the change process to unfold. I encourage you to reach out and contact me to see if working together in therapy feels like a good fit.