Speaking, workshops, and resilience-informed education for workplaces, conferences, agencies, and helping organizations.
For Organizations
Krista's work may be a fit for:
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healthcare teams
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hospice and palliative care organizations
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hospitals, clinics, and community health agencies
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mental health and social service organizations
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frontline workers and first responders
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veterinary teams and veterinary conferences
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educators, schools, and post-secondary institutions
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leadership teams and management groups
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human resources and workplace wellness teams
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non-profit and community organizations
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conferences, retreats, and professional associations
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teams impacted by grief, loss, crisis, or critical incidents
Krista supports organizations in strengthening resilience, reducing burnout risk, and responding more thoughtfully to grief, stress, trauma, and emotionally demanding work. Her presentations and workshops translate neuroscience, trauma-informed care, grief education, and practical regulation strategies into clear, accessible learning for real-world settings.
She is available for conference speaking, leadership workshops, and a variety of established trainings. Topics and deliverables are based on your context and goals, or she offers a variety of trainings through the Trauma & Grief Institute and CTRI.
Areas of Focus
Krista is an author, speaker, social worker, psychotherapist, and founder of the Trauma & Grief Institute. She provides education and facilitation for organizations, conferences, healthcare settings, hospice and palliative care groups, veterinary audiences, frontline teams, and helping professionals.
Her work translates trauma-informed care, grief education, nervous system science, burnout prevention, and practical regulation strategies into accessible learning for real-world settings.
Recent Presentations:
• After-Death Communication in Grief Care at the Vancouver Island Federation of Hospices Conference 2026
• EMDR-GRIEF at Gray Matters Therapy Workshops 2026
• Supervising Clinicians Working with Grief at Canadian Clinical Supervisors 2026
• Grief & EMDR at the EMDR Canada Conference 2025
• Vicarious Trauma (CTRI) at the Mother's Matter Conference 2025
Inviting Krista to Your Event
Whether it be a large scale conference or a smaller team meeting, Krista will work with you to create a custom experience .
Suggested topic list:
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Nervous System Literacy for Leaders
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Burnout & Recovery
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Building Resilience in Emotionally Demanding Work
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Grief-Informed Workplaces
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Supporting Teams After Loss or Critical Incidents
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Sustainable Helping Work
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After-Death Communication in Grief Care
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Trauma-Informed Communication for Leaders
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Meaning-Making, Resilience, and Human Recovery
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Understanding Pet Loss and Client Care
She also offers nervous-system-informed breathwork experiences for groups using the Elemental Rhythm approach.
CTRI Speaking & Workshop Topics
As a facilitator for CTRI Krista can be requested for conferences, staff development days, leadership teams, helping professionals, wellness events, and community organizations.
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De-escalating Potentially Violent Situations for Health Care Workers
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De-escalating Potentially Violent Situations
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Trauma Informed Care – Building a Culture of Strength
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Vicarious Trauma –Strategies for Resilience
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Anxiety – Practical Intervention Strategies
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Brief Focused Counselling Skills
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Critical Incident Group Debriefing
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Motivational Interviewing
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Trauma – Counselling Strategies for Healing and Resilience
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Narrative Therapy
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Family Violence
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Navigating Difficult Client Relationships
Critical Event Response
When organizations experience sudden loss, workplace incidents, community trauma, or emotionally disruptive events, teams often need more than a standard debrief. They need structured, trauma-informed support that helps stabilize the nervous system, reduce distress, and create a pathway for recovery.
Through the Trauma & Grief Institute, Krista offers critical event response services that may include group debriefings, stabilization strategies, ASSYST-informed support, EMDR-IGTP-informed approaches, and guidance for leaders navigating the aftermath of difficult events.
Krista's Professional Approach
Krista's organizational work is practical, grounded, and trauma-informed. I focus on helping people understand what happens in the body and mind during stress, grief, burnout, and disruption — and what supports recovery, connection, and sustainable functioning.
Rather than offering generic wellness advice, she helps organizations build shared language, practical tools, and more thoughtful ways of responding to human stress and loss.
If you are planning a conference, staff training, leadership session, wellness event, or organizational response to grief, stress, or critical incidents, Krista would be happy to discuss what would best support your group.
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
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.
