Chris Warner

Chris Warner is an Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist in private practice.  She offers individual, couples, and group therapy sessions for adults, online, worldwide.  Her therapeutic style has been described by clients as “warm, playful, and “nonjudgmental,” as well as “clear and skillful.”  With a psychotherapeutic toolkit that is both deep and broad, she extends compassionate presence and spaciousness to every client, honoring and upholding the innate wholeness, dignity, and worth of every person.

Chris is honored and delighted to meet with you, to explore your needs as well as the possibility of a safe and good therapeutic fit;  a 15-minute Connection and Consult calls, via phone or Zoom, are always complimentary.  She also facilitates public psychoeducational skills and practice groups and a variety of mindfulness-based workshops throughout the year, see website for current offerings.

In addition to being a Certified Compassionate Inquiry© Practitioner, Chris is trained and experienced in a variety of up-to-date and evidence-based psychotherapeutic modalities, including:  Internal Family Systems (IFS), Trauma-Informed IFS, Somatic Psychotherapy, DBT, Somatic EMDR and Flash Technique, IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out, IFS-based couples therapy), Motivational Interviewing, Applied Polyvagal Theory, Buddhist Psychology, and Nonviolent Communication.  Chris is currently training in RLT (Relational Life Therapy), another area of specialty work with couples.

Chris also specializes in working with people in recovery from addictive substances, processes, and behaviors.  As an adoptee and a child who then grew up with loss, alcoholism and dysfunction, Chris has lived with untreated trauma and its effects.  Her own experience of post-traumatic healing and transformation affords her a grounded perspective for her therapeutic work with clients.  Additionally, a portion of Chris’s practice is ‘therapy for therapists.’  That is, Chris holds a keenly sensitive space for fellow professionals who wish to continue their own inner work of processing and integration within a safe relational container.

Chris’s work as a trauma therapist arose organically from nearly 30 years as a mind/body/spirit practitioner, and she has been teaching the Dharma, mindfulness meditation, breathwork, and yoga since 2001.  She continues to practice yoga and meditation daily.  Chris also teaches yoga and breathwork, and freely offers meditation groups online;  she also leads Sunday Sangha, a weekly donation-based Buddhist study and practice group for mindful recovery—all are welcome (see website for Zoom link).

https://www.chriswarnertherapy.com/