Kirstien Bjerregaard, PhD MBACP
Kirstien has trained and coached leaders and frontline professionals in a variety of organisations on topics such as communication, conflict transformation, resilience and wellbeing. She draws on the latest in neuroscience, psychology, nature based therapies and peoples lived experience to illustrate how we are naturally designed to recover, adapt and flourish no matter what the circumstance.
With a background working in international emergency relief, Sure Start programs, organisational leadership, development and coaching as well as therapy.
Education & accreditation includes:
PhD Social and Organisational Psychology (Exeter University, 2015)
Registered Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP, (since 2016)
Advanced Diploma Integrated Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Dartmoor Centre of Psychotherapy (2016)
3 Principles Practitioner Training (One Thought, 9 months, 2017-18)
Narrative Transformative Coach Training (InterBe, 6 months, 2014)
Rewilding the Body - Embodiment Workshop 3 days (2020)
Group Analysis Facilitator Training (1 year, 2006)
Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Accredited Training integrated with Somatic work and Internal Family Systems (Integrated Psychiatry Institute, 1 year, 2024)
Psychedelic Practitioner Practicum Training with Experiential Training Institute (5 days, 2024)
Member of Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (since 2024)
Kirstien believes that encouraging an expanded sense of awareness and being out in nature boosts the psychological immune system, encourages creativity and play, and helps people connect with the universal intelligence which lives within us all as fields of possibility.
Kirstien delights in being a force of nature, the calm as well as the storm. Some of her favourite past-times include drinking mugs of tea outside in stormy weather, swimming, writing, gardening, dancing and being a mum.