Integrative Healing for Body, Mind and Heart
Inspiring wellness and vibrant living through registered clinical counselling and mindful yoga practice.
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Registered Clinical Counselling
Availability:
Crista practices out of Ma Wellness and Yoga. She is available weekdays, evenings, and weekends. She is happy to do in-person, virtual, or phone sessions.
Holistic healing requires an integrative approach to psychotherapy. Crista incorporates a psychosocial approach to counselling through blending mindfulness and somatic practices with cognitive talk-based therapy to ensure healing and growth in the mental, emotional, physical, and social domains for trauma-informed, strengths-based practice tailored exactly for you!
Areas:
She is trained and experienced in providing support for topics such as mental health (including anxiety and depression), life changes, addictions, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, trauma, separation and divorce, communication, assertiveness, boundaries, suicide, grief and loss, spirituality, and how to live life with meaning and purpose. She supports persons of color, LGTBQ+, and Indigeneous persons.
Crista has a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and is certified Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC #28187). So, counselling with Crista may be covered through your work benefits. Staff at Ma are happy to provide receipts for reimbursement.
Yoga Instruction
Crista passionately loves the healing and empowering effects of yoga! She is a highly trained and extensively experienced vinyasa power flow yoga instructor of over 20 years. Crista offers yoga classes, workshops, teacher training, and mentorship.
Crista loves to witness students sweat, release stress, and have fun! Her classes are dynamic and challenging, while also light-hearted and fun! Crista uses creative, peak pose sequencing to work up to bigger poses including inversions and hand balances. In her classes, expect to work hard and laugh along the way :)
Crista has completed numerous yoga teacher trainings: 5 Elements Vinyasa with Janet Stone, Vinyasa with Clara Roberts-Oss, Prenatal with Teresa Campbell, Advanced Hatha Teacher Training, Meditation, and Advanced Pranayama (yogic breathing), all from Sivananda Yoga in India. She has attended an Ashtanga Shala in Mysore several times, and has completed numerous workshops with master teachers such as Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Annie Carpenter, Max Strom, Kino MacGregor, and many others. She has completed numerous silent Meditation retreats in India including Vipassana, Zen, and Open Dharma.
Availability:
Crista teaches drop-in classes at Ma Wellness and Yoga and the Lab Victoria. She also teaches workshops, retreats, provides mentorship, and facilitates Yoga Teacher Trainings.
About Integrative Practice
Crista passionately believes in your innate ability to heal, grow, and transform your life to your fullest potential, live radiantly and be fully alive. The key is increased awareness in all the aspects of your Self: through awakening the physical, emotional, mental, social, and energetic domains so that you feel balanced and complete, in alignment with yourself, and empowered to choose the life you truly aspire to. Please feel free to reach out!
“and you, too, have come into the world to do this: to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” -Mary Oliver
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