Kristen Hornung, MA, PhD

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Welcome to a Space for Healing, Growth, and Connection

Author: Kristen Hornung

  • Holiday Self-Care: A Trauma-Informed Perspective

    Navigating Holiday Stress with Trauma-Informed Self-Care The holidays and family gatherings can be meaningful and joyful…and they can also feel like being trapped in a pressure cooker. For many people, family events activate nervous system responses shaped by earlier experiences. Impactful memories could include conflict, emotional or physical abuse, addiction, or unpredictable family dynamics. Add…

  • Practical & Compassionate Self-Care

    Rethinking Self-Care When people think about self-care, they often imagine things like massages, pedicures, or shopping trips. While those can be enjoyable, they aren’t the whole picture, and for many people, they aren’t what’s most helpful in moments of stress. Today, I want to offer a different way of thinking about self-care; one that’s more…

  • How Therapy Works

    Does Therapy Actually Help? Understanding How Change Happens Many people think about starting therapy and immediately feel uncertain. You might wonder if talking will really help, whether you’ll have to revisit painful experiences, or if therapy will actually change anything. These questions make sense. Therapy is an investment, and it’s important to understand what you’re…

  • Do You Want to Be a Therapist?

    Here are Some Steps to Prepare Yourself By Kristen Hornung, MA, PhD, LPCC The process of becoming an effective mental health therapist is unique from many other careers because it often requires both personal development and advanced education, training, and supervision by an experienced licensed professional. Therapy is both an art and a science. It…