Kristina J. Smart, M.S.
Being Human Therapy (LMHCA pending)
Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Complex Trauma • Attachment • IFS-Informed Psychotherapy
Radical Compassion • Loving Presence

What if you could see yourself through loving eyes?
What if healing isn't about fixing what is broken, but remembering your wholeness?
I believe we are born whole, then life teaches us to forget.
Through trauma, loss, grief, shame, and patterns of behavior or thought developed out of survival, we can lose touch with our inherent worth, wisdom, and capacity for connection.
Healing isn't about fixing what is broken. It's about remembering what has always been there.
I am a trauma survivor, an imperfect, ever-evolving human, and someone deeply committed to the practice of radical self-compassion. I have experienced grief, pain, and loss. I have lived with self-loathing and shame, and I know what it is to wonder if things can ever feel different. I also know that healing is possible—not because I have everything figured out, but because I have experienced the messy, sometimes painful process of learning to understand and relate differently to the parts of myself that have carried pain, fear, and shame.
I bring lived experience, education, and professional training to this work. I am here for those who have spent years feeling at war with themselves—those who have been told they are too sensitive, too much, not enough, or simply misunderstood. Together, we can begin to understand the parts of you that developed to protect you, rather than judging them for the ways they learned to survive. You don't have to fight yourself into healing.
My role is to walk alongside you with empathy, compassion, and curiosity. With loving presence and radical self-compassion, you can begin to see yourself through loving eyes, soften the grip of shame and self-criticism, and remember that you are far more than the stories you learned to believe about yourself.