
Hi, I'm Krista.
I translate neuroscience and the human side of meaning into increased recovery capacity — for leaders, clinicians, and everyday people.
I’m best known for my trauma and grief informed trainings, books, and practical nervous system tools that people can use during stress, conflict, and change. This includes applied breathwork, Safe & Sound Protocol, and EMDR. My work is grounded, evidence-informed, and designed to strengthen resilience in real-world settings.
Executive Director, Trauma & Grief Institute • Author • Educator & Speaker
I'm the founder and Executive Director of the Trauma & Grief Institute (TGI), a group practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Here, I lead a collaborative team of independent clinicians and wellness practitioners committed to holistic and evidence-informed care.
I'm also the author of Over the Rainbow: The Love, Loss, & Legacy of Your Dog and the developer of EMDR-GRIEF©, a grief-focused protocol that integrates EMDR principles with attachment and mourning frameworks.
A Registered Clinical Social Worker and speaker, I'm an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant who facilitates professional trainings, and provides clinical consultation and coaching to support therapists and leaders in building recovery capacity and sustainable practice.
I facilitate trauma-informed breathwork for organizations, retreats, and group settings, and I also offer speaking and training through both private invitations and my work with the Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI) for public and private sector teams and conferences.
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Organizations
Practical training and tools that strengthen healthy workplace culture, reduce burnout risk, and help teams recover well after stress and disruption.

Readers
Books and resources that hold space for love, loss, resilience, and meaning — with practices you can return to in real life.

Clinicians
Clinical consultation and training for therapists working with trauma and grief (booking hosted through TGI).
Speaking & Training for Organizations
What I offer
Workplace wellness often becomes either too fluffy or too complicated. My role is to make it usable, not just soft talk and a completed checkbox for training.
I’m a regulated health professional, author, and founder of the Trauma & Grief Institute. I show you how complex neuroscience can be used in clear, practical steps that supports healthier teams, steadier leadership, and better recovery after stress.
“Practical. Respectful. Designed for real workplaces.”
This is a fit if
“If any of these sound familiar, you’re in the right place.”
You’re seeing signs of burnout risk (absences, turnover, strained morale, compassion fatigue)
Leaders want guidance that’s practical, not performative
Teams need shared language for hard moments (conflict, mistakes, pressure, grief, critical events)
You want a healthier culture where repair, boundaries, and recovery are normal
You’re ready for tools and protocols that don’t disappear after the workshop
You'll Walk Away With
Practical self-regulation tools leaders can teach and model in under two minutes
Team-ready grounding and reset practices that fit into real workdays
Burnout prevention guidance that focuses on capacity and culture (not just “self-care”)
Simple protocols for after a critical incident, conflict repair, workload surges, and return-to-baseline practices.
A tailored playbook your leadership team can keep using long after I leave
Ways to Work Together

My Books 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.



Self-Care Moments: A Workbook to Navigate Your Grief
This self-help workbook 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 for clinicians completing Krista's EMDR-GRIEF© training with structured protocols, scripts, case reflections, and guidance for integrating grief work within EMDR practice.
Available in paperback or spiral bound.
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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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








