Kristen Schaer

Kristen Schaer (she/they) is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with more than eight years of experience helping support the needs and growth of their clients. They work collaboratively, drawing upon people’s strengths, wisdom, and lived experiences to nurture change and self-compassion. Though anxiety, loneliness, fear, grief, and self doubt can feel like profoundly isolating and painful experiences, they are also universal in ways that can be worked through. Kristen utilizes narrative techniques, somatic connection to emotions and physical feelings, awareness of thoughts, emotional processing, identity development, boundary exploration, breathing and grounding techniques, harnessing the power of creativity, and recognition that society and environment impacts how we show up in the world. When they are not counseling, they enjoy seeing live music, talking about movies and books, making up nicknames and little songs for their cats, going on impromptu adventures, and kayaking.