Christina Conrad

Christina Conrad, LPC-S, SEP, founder and executive director of Palo Santo Therapy, believes deeply in learning how to exist with what is, searching for what we can let go of and living out lives with the capacity to be fully present to ourselves and those around us. Furthermore, learning to live present to the joy that exists in our lives, rather than being overcome by its struggles.

Christina has extensive training in the physiology and neurobiology of trauma. As an attachment-based therapist, Christina works to heal developmental trauma and the shame that accompanies it.

Christina’s expertise lies in trauma – childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse, PTSD, combat trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, attachment and shame resiliency. Christina also has extensive experience in addiction and believes it to be a disease of disconnection and trauma. Christina has worked inpatient and outpatient facilities, as well as in domestic violence shelters and community mental health.

As a Somatic Psychotherapist, Christina works to determine how the Central Nervous System is holding and existing with the effects of past trauma and current stressors. She blends a variety of evidenced-based and holistic approaches to healing the whole, including but not limited to meditation, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, somatic movement, spiritual and entheogen (psychoactive) medicines. The goal of this work is to assist the body in releasing what SE calls stored trauma energy, which can show up as anxiety, PTSD, Chronic Pain, relationship difficulties, addiction and codependence. She does so by working with our innate fight, flight, freeze and collapse responses and assisting the body to complete these responses, therefore, moving out of a “stuck” or habitually debilitating way of existence.

Christina is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and supervisor , an EMDR-trained practioner, a Psychedelic Integration Therapist, and an iRest Yoga Nidra Level One Teacher.