Kristin Dalzell, LMFT
• EMDR Certified Therapist
• AAMFT Clinical Member
• Gottman Method Levels 1 & 2 Trained
• Certified Trauma-Focused Family Therapist
• LGBTQIA+-Informed Therapist
Kristin is a licensed mental health professional with specialized expertise in trauma treatment, crisis response, victim advocacy, and relationship therapy. She brings extensive experience working with survivors of domestic violence, victims of violent crime, and individuals impacted by acute and complex trauma.
As a 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, LGBTQIA+-informed, 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 Victims of Crime programs and navigating forensic, legal, and psychological systems with a trauma-informed lens.
As a subject-matter expert, Kristin contributes 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
• LGBTQIA+-informed and affirming mental health care
Kristin is passionate about improving access to equitable mental health services and supporting individuals, couples, families, and communities impacted by trauma, stigma, and systemic barriers. She is available for educational presentations, consultation, and policy-informed discussions related to mental health, trauma, and human rights.
She believes clients deserve dignified, compassionate, and evidence-based care, along with a therapeutic experience in which they are always treated with respect, actively listened to, and deeply understood. Kristin strives to create a safe and collaborative therapeutic alliance where clients feel empowered to pursue meaningful change. Clients may engage in integrative in-session and between-session creative therapeutic interventions and activities, self- and emotional-regulation practices, relaxation and self-care techniques, and opportunities to both receive and provide feedback while actively pursuing their personal journeys and goals.
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 couple relationships excites her and has been pivotal to her experience of life and journey to date.
Kristin works well with individuals, couples, and families who are seeking to process childhood and adult trauma exposures within a safe, trauma-focused, and integrative approach. Through EMDR and other evidence-based modalities, Kristin helps clients obtain a better understanding of how relational experiences, transgenerational patterns, communication challenges, physiological functioning, chronic or single-event traumatic exposures, and their relationship with themselves have affected their lives, recovery, symptoms, and ongoing challenges. Her goal is to help clients foster resilience, strengthen relationships, and experience greater fulfillment and well-being.
"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
For a more in-depth list of all the areas our therapists focus on individually, please email info@abettertomorrowcounselingservices.com or call 856-266-4983.