29.83° N / 81.32° W – St. Augustine, FL

Therapy for
What You Want More of
in Life

For when life gets hard, complicated, or messy

  • In-person in St. Augustine, FL
  • Children, families & adults
  • Coaching for aviation professionals
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The Journey

My clients have spanned a world of experiences.

Here are just a few examples.

Maya Theo Capt. Dave Sandy

One of them may represent you – or someone you know.

Maya

Maya* Has Read Every Parenting Book.
None of Their Advice Works.

Maya has tried the calm voice, natural consequences, and a deep breath before responding. She has a color-coded chore chart and a family meeting every Sunday. And somehow, none of it is working.

Her eight-year-old, Eli*, melts down over the wrong color cup. Her five-year-old has decided bedtime is optional. And Maya is lying awake at midnight, Googling whether she’s somehow ruined two kids at once.

She loves her children fiercely. She’s also exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.

The guilt at the end of a hard day – when she said the thing she swore she’d never say – is becoming a nightly ritual. She keeps telling herself she just needs more patience. More consistency. A better system.

What Maya needs is someone who can help her understand why her kids do what they do and build strategies that work for her real family – not a textbook one. She doesn’t need to be a perfect parent. She just needs a map.

Theo

Theo* Doesn’t Have the Words.

Theo was fine. And then he wasn’t. The move to a new neighborhood last spring hit harder than anyone expected.

Now he’s seven years old, crying every morning before school, clinging at drop-off, and claiming a stomachache the doctor can’t explain.

His parents have tried talking to him about it. He shrugs. He doesn’t know what’s wrong – and he doesn’t have the words.

His parents wonder: Is this normal? Is this anxiety? Is therapy really appropriate for a second grader who mostly wants to play Minecraft and eat cereal for every meal?

Theo doesn’t have to talk.

Play is how children process what they don’t yet have words for. In a safe, warm space with a therapist who meets him exactly where he is, Theo can start to work through what’s weighing on him: through play, movement, creativity, and connection. No couch. No notepad. Just a space where it’s okay to be exactly who he is right now.

Captain Dave

Captain Dave Handles
Every Emergency.
Except the Ones at Home.

Dave* has logged thousands of flight hours. He’s handled engine anomalies, weather diversions, and passenger medical emergencies without breaking a sweat. He is, by training and by temperament, the person who holds it together. That’s the job. That’s the identity.

It’s a good one. Until it’s the only one he knows how to play.

At home, the same self-sufficiency that keeps him steady in the cockpit keeps him walled off from his wife, distant from his kids, and quietly enduring an anxiety that doesn’t show up on any checklist. The idea of getting support feels risky – not because he thinks it’s weakness, exactly, but because the FAA exists and most therapists don’t understand his world, his schedule, or what’s actually at stake.

Sea Hope Counseling is one of the few practices built with aviation professionals in mind. I understand the culture, the pressures, the lifestyle demands, and the unique stakes of getting mental health support when your career and your medical certificate are part of the equation. This is a confidential space where Dave can set down what he’s been carrying and start showing up more fully at home, too.

Sandy

Sandy* Has Always Thought She Was Just “a Lot.”

Sandy is 42, successful by most measures, and absolutely exhausted by the effort it takes to be her. She’s the one who forgets appointments but can recall song lyrics from 1994. The one who loses her keys four times before noon but hyper-focuses on a project for six uninterrupted hours.

She has built elaborate systems to keep herself functional, apologized constantly for things she couldn’t control, and quietly assumed everyone else found life this hard, too.

Then her daughter got diagnosed with ADHD at nine years old. Sandy sat in the evaluation office, reading the checklist – and saw herself in every single line.

Late diagnosis brings a complicated mix: relief that there’s finally a name for it, and grief for all the years spent trying to fit into a box that was never made for her brain. Sandy doesn’t need someone to tell her to try harder. She needs someone who understands what it means to build a life that fits – not one that’s just a better workaround.

*The above names and stories are fictionalized composites of real clients I’ve supported.

What Changes When It Works

There’s a difference between getting through the day and living it.

Therapy at Sea Hope isn’t about advice-giving, judgment, or someone telling you to take more deep breaths.

It’s a space to slow down, be honest, and understand what’s happening – in your family, in your nervous system, in your life. From that understanding, real change becomes possible.

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Hi, I’m Kristin.

I work with children, adults, and families:

People who are going through something hard and are ready (or almost ready, which counts) to get some support.

Here’s the honest truth: I didn’t come to this work from the outside looking in. I’m neurodivergent myself and visually impaired; I’ve spent enough of my own life learning to navigate a world that wasn’t built for my brain to feel genuinely passionate about helping others do the same.

I know what it’s like to build systems just to keep up.I also know what it’s like when the right support changes everything.

My approach is warm, individualized, and grounded in the science of how the nervous system works – what researchers call interpersonal neurobiology, which is a way of saying that healing happens in the context of safe, attuned relationships.

I use something I call “ifs-and-thens” with neurodivergent kids and adults: a structure-based way of making rules and expectations make sense to a brain that needs the logic spelled out. It works better than it sounds.

I’ve spent 30 years in and around aviation – I understand the FAA stakes, the culture, and why most therapy spaces don’t feel safe for pilots and aviation workers. That’s why I built one that does.

If you’re looking for a therapist who takes your life seriously and never makes you feel like a problem to be solved, I’d love to connect.

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A Few Months Later…

Maya still has hard days – but now she has tools to help her handle them. She understands what’s driving Eli’s meltdowns, she’s stopped blaming herself for what she couldn’t control, and Sunday family meetings have gotten a lot more peaceful.

Theo’s stomach doesn’t hurt before school anymore. He doesn’t know what changed – but his parents notice he’s lighter, more himself, more willing to try. He still wants cereal for every meal. Some things are non-negotiable.

Dave is still flying. He’s also, for the first time in years, present when he lands. His wife noticed. His kids noticed. He’s still not great at talking about feelings, but he’s a lot better at showing up for the ones he loves.

Sandy stopped apologizing for how her brain works. She’s building a life that works for her – not a better workaround, but the real thing. She says it feels like finally reading a map in the right language.

I’m Here to Help

When you’re ready to talk about your kid, yourself, or your family that’s been stretched too thin, Sea Hope Counseling is here.

I want to understand and support you in your situation and help you learn how to move forward to a better life.

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