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Retreats & Classes

Join Krista for an immersive experience with Elemental Rhythm Breathwork or deep integrative processing using the ASSYST protocol for release, restoration, and reconnection.

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Hi, I’m Krista. 
Let’s make space for the natural intelligence that helps us become whole.

Exploring the science of healing and the mysteries that move us.

Krista Helman Author

The Work and Vision of Krista

Krista Helman is a social worker, author, educator, and sought-after speaker known for her integrative approach to trauma, grief, and human resilience. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Trauma & Grief Institute (TGI) and the developer of EMDR-GRIEF©, a clinically grounded and compassion-based protocol that integrates EMDR principles with contemporary grief processing.
 
She is also the author of books such as Over the Rainbow: The Love, Loss, & Legacy of Your Dog, a heartfelt exploration of love, loss, and continued bonds that has resonated deeply with readers navigating the death of a beloved companion and the wider experience of human grief.
 
Krista’s work bridges evidence-informed psychology with a deep curiosity about the unseen dimensions of connection and healing — those human experiences that science can observe but not yet fully explain. Drawing from neuroscience, psychotherapy, and the lived wisdom of those she teaches and supports, her voice is both grounded and visionary.

Through writing, retreats, and education, Krista explores what she calls The Four Currents — a way of tapping into the natural intelligence that guides us toward balance. Her work reminds us that wholeness isn’t something we chase or fix; it’s something that unfolds when we make space for calm, compassion, connection, and aligned action. This quiet intelligence helps us move through grief, find direction after burnout or trauma, reclaim identity during transitions, and restore meaning after disconnection.

Whether in therapy, teaching, or public speaking, Krista’s message is clear: Balance isn’t found — it’s remembered, each time we return to stillness a little clearer than before. We aren’t broken. Our body’s reactions are designed for survival; we simply need to make space for the natural intelligence of becoming whole. The goal is not healing as an endpoint, but living in relationship with your own natural intelligence — that quiet spring within you that knows how to restore balance when you listen.
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Clinical Consultation

Individualized support for therapists seeking guidance on complex trauma and grief cases, integrating EMDR, parts work, and attachment-based approaches to enhance clinical confidence and client outcomes. Hours can also be applied towards EMDR Certification.

Discover Her Books

Transformative Reads on
Healing and Human Resilience

"Over the Rainbow: The Love, Loss, & Legacy of Your Dog"

Over the Rainbow isn’t just another self-help book about losing a dog — it’s about remembering what love teaches us about healing, and who we are when the ones we love are gone.

This interactive book explores how connection can continue beyond loss, including through scientifically documented experiences like After Death Communication (ADC), offering a pathway to deeper healing and renewed meaning after goodbye.

Available in audiobook and paperback on Amazon HERE.

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"Self-Care Moments: A Workbook to Navigate Your Grief"

Offers gentle, evidence-informed practices to nurture calm, reflection, and resilience for those who are experiencing loss.

Available in paperback or spiral bound.

"EMDR-GRIEF"

A companion manual providing clinicians completing EMDR-GRIEF© training with structured protocols, case reflections, and compassionate guidance for integrating grief work within EMDR practice.

Available in paperback or sprial bound.

"Every story of loss carries within it a quiet map toward meaning, connection, and renewal."

Words that hold space.

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Speaking & Training Engagements

Krista is available to speak at conferences and professional events or to design customized trainings that blend clinical expertise, lived insight, and practical strategies for trauma, grief, and resilience-informed care.

The Four Currents:
From our inner spring to everyday life, discover the natural intelligence of becoming whole.

Inspired by the movement of water, The Four Currents reflect the quiet intelligence that lives within each of us — the adaptive capacity to find balance when we create space through Stillness, Flow, Continuity, and Resonance. Each current embodies a natural movement that helps us return to equilibrium after life’s disruptions and sustain a sense of wholeness in everyday living. They each stand alone, yet every one strengthens the others. Stillness steadies us. Flow reshapes us. Continuity unites us to each other and something bigger. Resonance carries us forward with purpose and meaning — and we return to Stillness, clearer and kinder than before.

Stillness
Where stillness returns us to the inner spring of wisdom.

Healing begins when we become aware of the storms that haunt and protect us. Our water calms and the sediment settles. In that quiet clarity, we can finally see to the bottom and notice what has always been there — just hidden beneath the surface.
 
Through grounding, breath, soothing affirmations, and sensory awareness, we reconnect with the body’s quiet intelligence. Here, deep regulation and restorative rest naturally emerge when the body feels safe.
 
Only when the body recognizes that it is now safe to feel safe can it begin to release what it no longer needs, receive what has been missing, and open to relearning more helpful ways of being.

Flow
Where movement becomes integration.

This water carries the current of change. As emotion and memory resurface, we learn to make meaning and reshape old patterns. 

 

Each time we choose awareness, we guide the current instead of being swept away by it. We can slow the current with pacing and anchors; integration prefers gentle movement over force.

 

Like a river adjusting to new bends, we adapt to what life brings — finding our way forward through nourishment, movement, reflection, and compassionate awareness.

 

What was once fragmented begins to move together again.

Continuity
Where healing completes itself through connection.

This water reminds us that wholeness is not found in isolation as a singular drop. It deepens through relationship — with others, with nature, and with something greater than ourselves.

 

Through ritual and shared meaning, we remember that we were never meant to journey through life alone.

 

It’s the Water of belonging, purpose, and shared meaning — like a river joining the ocean, merging into something vast, steady, and whole.

Resonance
Where flow becomes alignment in motion.

In physics and in nature, resonance occurs when waves moving at the same frequency amplify one another — when energy in water, sound, or even the body finds harmony.

 

This water reflects that same truth within us. When clarity of intention meets emotional engagement and purposeful action, the mind and body begin to align — creating the sense of flow where effort feels like ease. What we focus on becomes more visible; what we practice becomes more possible. Through visualization, gratitude, and consistent daily choices, we prime the brain to recognize and move toward what sustains us.

 

Like a pebble cast into calm water, each thought and action creates ripples that reach farther than we can see. Resonance invites us to live as though the state we long for already exists — to think, feel, and act from that inner alignment until the world naturally reflects it back.

When resonance slips into dissonance, realign with one small honest action and a kinder inner voice, so values and behaviour move together again.

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Want to hear more about Krista's work and vision?

Invite Krista to share about Over the Rainbow or The Four Currents with your audience, and stay tuned for her upcoming book exploring how we find our way back to wholeness.

In the Press

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Podcast with the Designer Practice Podcast on EMDR-GRIEF

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Episode 138: EMDR-GRIEF: A Revolutionary Technique for Managing Grief with Krista Helman

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Tune into a chat about Over the Rainbow:

Unfiltered Conversation
on Bravery and Transformation

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Editorial by Kathy Sparrow

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Healing from Pet Loss

Testimonials

"Krista is a phenomenal presenter. She speaks from a perspective of someone who understands intimately her topics and not just from a theoretical perspective. She makes topics easy to understand and then apply in practice. She is knowledgeable, approachable and an enjoyable presenter to listen to.”"

Julie Marquis, RP

Over the Rainbow
"I loved it!  Even though it was a difficult subject, I found it refreshing and positive."

Josée Ouellette, owner of a Heart Dog

"Krista is engaging and impactful. Even as a seasoned therapist I learned a lot from her well-researched presentation."

Alison Sharp, RSW, LCSW

Over the Rainbow and Self-Care Moments
"Recommending Over the Rainbow is easy. This book will truly help you honour that sweet four-legged friend you’ve lost by leading you from grief to treasuring your memories. Read the book, do the exercises, use the workbook."

Grace Douglas, Heart Dog owner

"Krista's presentations are well-researched and organized. She is clear, personable, and engaging. She integrates theory into practice with plenty of examples, videos, and opportunities for learners to practice the skills discussed. I have learned a lot from Krista and value her knowledge regarding EMDR, parts work, and grief counselling."

Emily Davison, MSW, RSW

Over the Rainbow
"Krista expertly merges the worlds of storytelling of her own and other dog-owners experiences along with the incorporation of therapeutic techniques and theories."

Hannah O'Reilly, RP

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