What if you stop being so hard on yourself, let go of all the judgment and pressure to measure up and keep up? And what if you learn to truly value, love, and trust yourself? What would change for you?
My clients are growth-minded, self-aware humans in the middle season of life and include therapists, physicians, educators, coaches, creatives, and more. Many are highly sensitive or neurodivergent or want a slower, more soul-honouring pace. Many are navigating an exciting and/or vulnerable life transition or preparing to step into a new season of life.
But in every case, they are ready to quiet the conditioning and noise to (re)claim their freedom, wholeness, and joy.
Working with Krista one-on-one has been a deeply enriching process. While I have been focusing on various areas of personal growth for some time, there was nothing like one-on-one coaching to put my thinking into perspective, and to identify stories and hang-ups I wasn’t even aware I had about myself! Through coaching, Krista has given me very specific strategies to deal with the stress points that recur in my life. She has taught me to identify where my thinking may distort reality and how, being aware of both my physiological responses and my inner dialog, to make these situations no longer blocks in my life. I feel that I have moved from a place of feeling “blocked” to a feeling of empowerment, where I can move forward in my life in a way that embraces who I really am.
Valerie G
Gather in your support system: compassionate, trauma and grief-informed coaching for midlife women
My clients want less. Less hustle, less performing and people-pleasing, less judging themselves and comparing – and less feeling inadequate, behind, or afraid of what lies around the next bend in the road.
But they also want more! More joy – more meaning and intention – more spaciousness and rest – more self-kindness and being proud of themselves – more reclaiming their power of choice to direct their lives.
But the journey of befriending our True Selves, and handcrafting a brave, joyful, and purposeful life that honors our wiring and the full truth of who and how we are, can feel messy and deeply vulnerable.
It is wise and brave to ask for and receive support! Social connection and support are essential for a brave and beautiful life and I’m a big believer in gathering in our support system and prioritizing our mental, emotional, and physical health as an act of self-compassion. But also because when we are filled up, resourced, and healthy, what we spill over into the world around is also healthier and more hopeful.
Krista has an extraordinary gift of presence, attunement, and a rare, gentle fierceness. Over the last two years, she didn’t just help me get clear on my goals and purpose—she served as a rock-solid anchor as I unearthed deep grief, guiding me through the necessary descent and the climb back up. Krista sees what I cannot see, reflecting it back in ways that allow me to live a truly full, embodied life. She is as authentic as they come. A Real One. I would recommend her to my closest, dearest friends without hesitation!
Valerie Hager, Soulletting
Mind-body-life coaching for women in the middle season of life: quiet the conditioning and noise and finally be your True Self in the world
I believe that you are the expert on your life. I will help you stay in a place of agency as I come alongside to question, encourage, hold space, and gently challenge you as you do the work to unearth the truth of who you are and what you want, remember how to trust yourself, and continue building a brave and beautiful life that you feel proud of.
This is brave and vulnerable work. And it’s worth it!
When would we meet?
My clients begin with 8-12 sessions. Some clients meet weekly, others meet monthly (I don’t work with clients less than once a month). But I recommend meeting every 2-3 weeks at the start, after which you can move to a monthly rhythm if that works best for you. At the end of our sessions you’ll have the option to renew (most of my clients do).
Client sessions are scheduled for Wednesday and Friday in my time zone which corresponds to Thursday or Saturday in Asia-Pacific time zones.
We must connect via email or Zoom before you purchase to ensure we’re a great fit for working together. I have space for two new clients, beginning in Autumn.
Interested? Send me an email or schedule a free 25 min Zoom call.
Prices are in USD. 🍁 If you’re Canadian, you have the option of paying in CAD. GST/HST is included in your price. Save an additional 5% if you pay via e-transfer, when paying in full only (in lieu of PayPal transaction fees). Reach out.
I find working with Krista is a richer experience than any of my therapy in that we trust, respect and “see” each other. Her ability to share stories of her own truth, struggles, vulnerability and growth gives me the tools, belief and courage to slow down and breathe before reacting and to stop running, fighting or numbing because I thought it would be safer.
The best visual of Krista’s coaching for me is as if walking with a trusted friend through a dark, dusty, cluttered room. She helps me navigate more bravely by encouraging me to be curious: Pointing out new ways to repurpose a memory, tossing the clutter that’s not mine, discovering a dusty box of photos that reassure me there was love and joy there all along, and tearing down the tattered curtain of shame to see there’s a bit of light trying to get through. At the end of our journey, we find a full length mirror that I’m not afraid to look into anymore. And Krista whispers… “that’s freedom….and there’s more.”
Marla L
Coaching for women in the middle season of life seeking a brave, beautiful, soul-honouring life
Coaching is an evidence-based modality for fostering agency, and creating and managing lasting change. It’s not about giving you the answers or a one-size-fits all roadmap for your life. Instead, it creates the space and support for you to reconnect with yourself including the truth of who you are and what you want and need. And for you to access your own inner wisdom.
Coaching will help you make peace with the messiness of life and grow into (or remember) your wisdom, bravery, and strength.
It will also help you feel empowered in your life or reclaim your agency (your power of choice). It will remind you that you are the author of your own life and you get to keep writing your story.
And coaching will reveal old stories and patterns that pull you out of freedom, wholeness, and joy. It’s not about fixing you – you are not broken. It will help you meet and befriend (know, love, and trust) your True Self. And handcraft a soul-honouring life.
Coaching + education help you keep writing your story
In addition to coaching I also offer education to my clients, where appropriate. I’m a questioner and do best when I understand (or grapple with) WHY something matters to me. Information, ideas, even research with a solid evidence base, can just be more noise if we don’t connect to why it serves our precise needs/goals, in this season.
Because there are many paths to wholeness, many routes to a beautiful life, I take an individualized approach to all of my work. I’m also committed to a culturally responsive, trauma and grief-informed, compassionate practice as I offer my coaching for midlife women. I’m not promising perfection, but I am promising a commitment to ongoing learning. Compassion and curiosity create the felt sense of safety required so we can learn, grow, and become.
The most meaningful shift for me was recognizing this season of life as a kind of “deep winter.” That perspective helped me soften my striving and release the need to constantly push forward. In that space, I’ve begun to build a more genuine friendship with myself—something that feels both grounding and quietly transformative. Thank you for walking alongside me during this time—it has been truly meaningful. I’ll carry what I’ve learned into this next chapter.
Natalie P
What does the process of working together look, sound, feel like?
Step One: You respond to a set of pre-consult questions and 1-2 other assessments where applicable. This pre-work serves as a powerful exercise in self-awareness for you. It also helps me get to know you, your goals, and your unique needs and life circumstances so I can offer you tailored support.
Step Two: If you’re a new client, we meet for a 90-minute consult and then shift to 60-minute consults via Zoom. Together, we clarify a vision for where you want to go and some of the skills and areas of education that will take you there.
Step Three: I show up prepared for each session but your needs that day take precedence over my plans. If helpful, you leave each session with 1-5 action steps to support your growth. And I provide additional resources as needed.
Step Four: You have 2 weeks of optional email or Voxer (asynchronous voice messaging) support after each session. This is an opportunity to share how you’re practicing, what you’re noticing, and receive encouragement as you go.
If you are in pain, need to heal or are looking to grow, or all 3 at once, do not hesitate to give yourself the gift of spending some time in Krista’s wise and kind presence. I started off working with Krista at a time when I was coming up for air after a very difficult decade of my life. She immediately got where I was coming from, made me feel at home and ‘normal’ in her company and helped me self-lovingly to move forward. And taught me to do it at the speed that works for me and my frazzled nervous system which immediately started to calm down with the tools she suggested. As I said, if you can, just give yourself the gift of her beautiful, kind, calm, totally non-judgmental and so, so wise presence in your life – all of you will thank yourself and her.
Karen V
Who am I to help?
I’ve been serving midlife women for 12 years as a holistic mind-body-life coach and educator.
I specialize in helping midlife women get to know, love, trust, and be their True Selves. And handcraft soul-honouring lives (lives that are an expression of who they truly are and what they most care about).
I believe that I cannot lead others where I’m not willing to go and take ownership for my ongoing healing, growth, and practice.
Our sessions will approach your relationship with yourself and your life from a holistic perspective. From learning to hear your inner wisdom, building a practice of examining your beliefs and rewriting old unhelpful stories, education around nervous system regulation, to befriending your inner critic and developing a practice of self-compassion. From learning how to honour your wiring and capacity in every season, clarity around how to communicate healthy boundaries, to learning how to thrive forward through and beyond painful loss or transition, our work could cover a lot of ground.
Theory and discussion alone cannot change your life. But consistent imperfect action as you practice a kinder way of being in your body and life can. So I will support you in understanding and applying what you learn in our sessions in practical ways.
Everything we explore together will ultimately help you befriend yourself (know, love, trust, and be your True Self) and live a life that is true to yourself. And when you are filled up, and you know how to be on your own side, everything else in your life will feel lighter and easier.
Working with Krista has given me an entirely new perspective and priority on self care. I have learned that putting other peoples feelings first at the expense of my own well being is a price I’m no longer willing to pay. I truly feel like a different person and value my own feelings. I have come to recognize unhealthy thought patterns and now have the skills to “shift them”. I look forward to our bi-monthly meetings and always have my notebook and pen ready!
Angi A
Ready to connect?
I offer my work as a grief and trauma-informed educator and mind-body-life coach. My coaching for midlife women is not offered to diagnose, treat, heal, cure, or prescribe for any medical condition. Because of my experience with suicide loss, I don’t work 1:1 with clients who are in the first 18 months after suicide loss. Instead, I encourage trauma therapy and grief work.
Schedule a free 25 minute Zoom call with Krista or ask questions via email.
Working one-to-one with Krista has been one of the most valuable parts of my healing and rebuilding process over the past several months. What makes her coaching so impactful is her remarkable ability to intuitively understand what is actually needed in the moment — whether that’s emotional support, nervous-system grounding, practical strategy, accountability, or simply helping you reconnect to your own inner knowing.
Every session feels deeply personalized and adaptive rather than formulaic. Krista has a gift for helping complex emotional situations feel manageable and actionable. I never leave a session feeling overwhelmed or stuck; I leave with practical tools, clear takeaways, and small next steps that genuinely help me move forward in real life.
Her coaching has helped me build stronger boundaries, greater self-trust, more nervous-system awareness, and the confidence to create a life that feels safer, calmer, and more aligned with who I’m becoming. I’m incredibly grateful for both her intuition and her practical wisdom.
Tracey M