Kristin Dalzell, LMFT
Kristin Dalzell, MA, LMFT
Kristin is a licensed mental health professional with specialized expertise in trauma treatment, crisis response, and victim advocacy. She is EMDR-certified and brings extensive experience working with survivors of domestic violence, victims of violent crime, and individuals impacted by acute and complex trauma.
As a certified Trauma-Focused family therapist with a background in emergency services and Advanced Life Support (ALS) systems, Kristin has worked at the intersection of mental health, emergency response, and public safety, providing trauma-informed assessment, stabilization, and clinical insight in high-risk and high-acuity contexts. Her work emphasizes evidence-based, survivor-centered, and culturally responsive care.
Kristin has served as a court advocate and professional liaison for victims and survivors, collaborating with legal systems, law enforcement, victim services agencies, and multidisciplinary teams to support safety, access to services, and continuity of care. She has direct experience supporting clients involved in the Victim of Violent Crimes programs, navigating forensic, legal, and psychological systems with a trauma-informed lens.
As a subject-matter expert, Kristin contributes to clinical perspectives on:
• Trauma-informed and EMDR-based care
• Domestic and interpersonal violence
• Crisis intervention and emergency mental health response
• Survivor advocacy and systems navigation
• Health equity and access to mental health services
Kristin is a licensed mental health professional with experience in trauma-informed and LGBTQ+-affirming care. Her work focuses on improving access to equitable mental health services and supporting individuals, families, and communities impacted by stigma and systemic barriers. Kristin is available for education, and policy-informed discussions related to mental health and human rights.
She believes 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