ABOUT KRISTE

I am a professional certified coach (ICF accredited training graduate). My work is grounded in the ICF Code of Ethics, including commitments to integrity, confidentiality, professional boundaries, client autonomy, and acting in the client’s best interest at all times.

My coaching is psychology-informed and trauma-aware, shaped by years of independent study, ongoing professional education, and participation in international psychotraumatology conferences. My work is about supporting clients in developing self-understanding, clarity, and agency as they move toward meaningful future goals.

I do not diagnose, treat, or process trauma, nor do I provide psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions. Instead, I support clients in developing self-understanding, clarity, agency, and internal resources while remaining attentive to ethical boundaries. When deeper therapeutic work is needed, I work transparently and collaboratively, supporting clients in accessing appropriate care while ensuring they are not left without support.

Depending on each client's goals and preferences, I integrate a range of coaching tools into our work, including reflective inquiry, mindfulness techniques, metaphor cards, values exploration, strengths-based approaches, and evidence-informed coaching frameworks. These tools are always used in service of the client's agenda and within the scope of professional coaching.

My work is informed by foundational knowledge in areas that commonly intersect with coaching conversations, including stress and emotional regulation, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, emotional childhood neglect in adult children, family relationship dynamics, narcissistic parenting and its impact on adult daughters, spiritual bypassing and spiritual abuse, attachment, trauma responses, burnout, resilience, and personal development. This knowledge helps me recognize patterns, ask thoughtful questions, maintain ethical awareness, and identify when coaching remains appropriate or when referral to a mental health professional would better serve the client.

My professional background is multidisciplinary and international. I have lived and worked in Lithuania, Sweden, Spain, and India, and I speak Lithuanian, English, and Spanish fluently. I bring experience from people-centred, responsibility-heavy environments including tourism, cultural institutions, financial services, and education. This has shaped my ability to work with complexity, cultural nuance, and real-life challenges in a grounded and practical way.

I am deeply committed to ongoing personal and professional development, including long-term therapeutic work, reflective and reflexive practice, supervision, and continued education. I believe ethical coaching requires not only training, but self-awareness, emotional regulation, and accountability.

At the core of my work is one intention:

to help people understand themselves more deeply, so they can live with greater authenticity, clarity, and fulfillment.

Coaching with me is a space for thoughtful exploration, honest self-reflection, and conscious forward movement.