Kristin Dalzell, LAMFT
Clients want dignified and empathetic evidence-based results and dignified experiences of therapy where they are always treated with respect, actively listened and attuned into, and engaged in a safe space, and therapeutic alliance created by the therapist. When meeting with Kristin, clients will enjoy completing integrative in-session and between-session creative therapeutic interventions and activities, engaging in self and emotional regulation, relaxation, and self-care techniques, and receiving feedback as well as providing feedback for therapist while actively pursuing their journeys/goals in life.
Relationship therapies have been her passion from early childhood and from the first time she heard her parents arguing venomously with each other from her childhood room. Working within relationship systems and the structural and strategic world of intimacy and world of lovers, excites her, provokes her intimate Self passions, and has been pivotal to her experience of life and journey to date.
Ideal clients are wanting to process their childhood and adult trauma exposures within a safe, trauma-focused, integrative eye movement desensitization and reprocessing certified EMDR Institute, therapeutic and integrative approach to obtain a better understanding of how those relational, relationship with The Self, transgenerational challenges, daily levels of happiness, effective communications, physiological functioning, chronic or single-event traumatic exposures, have affected their lives, recovery, debilitating symptoms, and ongoing perpetual challenges, in their worlds.
"We tell people about their effects on us. We hear people’s stories of pain and we cry with them. And when they recognize that self-hatred or despair is not them, but a problem that had become internalized, we rejoice. When Madeline told me, in a trembling voice, that, for the first time, that she understood she deserved to have a say in her life, that the internalized 'voice of torture' no longer determined her every move, and told of treating herself to a local restaurant to celebrate, a tremendous pleasure stayed with me for days. I feel that pleasure again every time I pass the restaurant or revisit the memory. I’ve told Madeline what this has meant to me and our combined telling have become a combined experience that helps her fight the voice of torture and helps me in authoring my story as a therapist. Knowing that we can be on such teams makes life and work very rich, indeed.”
- Freedman & Combs, 1996, p. 288