Kjerstin Gurda, LCSW  (she/her/hers)

Kjerstin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who partners with clients to foster healing, growth, and resilience. Committed to anti-racist practice and ongoing (un)learning, she welcomes individuals from historically marginalized identities and communities.

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She provides trauma-specific therapy for adults and parent-child (0–5) pairs, using EMDR, Brainspotting, IFS-informed parts work, Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy.

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Kjerstin has extensive experience supporting women and families through (in)fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage & loss, childbirth trauma, postpartum adjustment, identity integration, foster care, adoption, and attachment challenges. As a Certified Perinatal Mental Health practitioner (PMH-C), she draws on her background as a Doula and Certified Lactation Consultant. She also supports women around peri/menopause and the mid-life passage. 

 

Other focus areas include grief and loss, life transitions, medical concerns, attachment and relationship patterns, somatic work, CBT, TF-CBT, experiential and play therapy, and liberation-informed approaches. With over 20 years of experience, she views therapy as a collaborative, resource-building process of healing.