Kristin Burns

I am passionate about guiding clients in restoring more aliveness, wholeness and ease in their lives. My practice utilizes a holistic approach that incorporates Somatic, Relational, and Spiritual healing techniques that support moving toward restoration and coherence of the mind, body, and spirit.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters of Social Service and Administration from the University of Chicago. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and a Training Assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute nationally. I am also certified in Diane Poole Heller’s groundbreaking attachment healing work, Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience, (DARe) and am a Training Assistant in this work nationally as well. I provide personal sessions and case consultations for current students of DARE.  I am trained in Kathy Kain’s Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists, as well as Dave Berger’s BASE (Relational Bodywork & Somatic Education) using touch for trauma recovery and for deepening somatic awareness. I am a Level Two Therapist with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and have studied Somatic IFS with Susan McConnell. For over 25 years, I have immersed myself in both eastern and western modalities and philosophies to support healing and am a certified Yoga Instructor with the Yoga Alliance, Yoga Facilitator with Prison Yoga Chicago, Prenatal Yoga Teacher, Birth Doula, Reiki Master/Teacher, and Zen Shiatsu Practitioner.