Kirstien Bjerregaard, PhD MBACP
Kirstien has trained and coached leaders, frontline professionals and individuals 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, the 3 Principles 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.
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.
Education & Accreditation
Academic & Professional Qualifications
PhD in Social and Organisational Psychology — University of Exeter (2015)
Advanced Diploma in Integrated Psychotherapeutic Counselling — Dartmoor Centre of Psychotherapy (2016)
Registered Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP, since 2016)
Specialist Training
3 Principles Practitioner Training — One Thought (9 months, 2017–18)
3 Principles Mentoring (2018 - 2025) — variety of courses & mentoring include Drs Petitt 2019-21, Pranskys 2022, 3PGC Touching Your Soul - Creating Impact - 2025
Narrative Transformative Coach Training — InterBe (6 months, 2014)
Group Analysis Facilitator Training (1 year, 2006)
Rewilding the Body: Embodiment Workshop (3 days, 2020)
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Accredited Programme with Somatic and IFS integration — Integrated Psychiatry Institute (1 year, 2024)
Member, Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (since 2024)