Testimonials about working with me...
I am now 98% pick free!
“After working with Christina for a few months, for the first time in my life I have been 98% pick free; and it has only been a couple of months putting what she taught me into practice! She is amazing. She is wise, supportive, and warm. She genuinely cares, and that alone means so much to me. I would (and already have) recommend her to anyone dealing with skin picking or hair pulling. “
Danyelle S. Philadelphia, USA
Working with Christina as a coach
“Before I started working with Christina, I wasn’t sure I could really change and didn’t feel confident in my ability to breakthrough old ways of being. I would constantly feel nervous all the time. Working with her, I learned that with time and sufficient practice, I could – and would – break through any pattern or habit I no longer wanted to be enslaved by. I feel comfortable in my own skin and like I can handle anything that comes up now. Christina has an honest, patient, and gentle approach, allowing her to create a ‘safe container’ for enabling someone’s transformation. If you are considering working with Christina I would suggest not to wait! To at least give her a call with your concerns because even if your struggles are not what she specializes in I guarantee you she can find you someone to help you with your needs within her vast network knowledge of scientists, medical specialists and counselors!”
Anonymous Norfolk, VA USA
Christina is Amazing to Work With
"I feel a transformation beginning in my life - fueled in large part by the teaching, coaching and practical tools that Christina provides me in her Mindfulness classes. While reducing impulses is the primary stated goal and I do feel encouraged by what I've experienced, it's bigger than that to me - I'm feeling much more grounded in my life - not 'zoned out' and 'on autopilot'. I'm SO grateful!"
Karen S., Akron Ohio USA
So Grateful
“Christina's number one strength is her caring. I can feel and see how much she loves me, and loves all of us who struggle. This love is enabling; it helped me to feel like I could do this, or anything I wanted to do. Her experience adds a great deal of weight to what she says and asks us to do. I thought, okay, if Christina did this and it helped her, then maybe it will help me too. And knowing that she has experienced BFRBs for herself, knowing that she is trying to help others with similar struggles, I immediately felt a large amount of trust and respect for her.
Most of all, I learned more about myself--who I am, how I work, how I can change. I think differently about BFRBs than I did before. I think and feel more positively about myself, and more gently about my behaviors. I was already going this direction, but this class urged that forward. This gentleness and positivity and mindfulness have helped me have more peace (which to begin with was my goal). I also feel equipped to take on the hard things that are yet ahead of me, because of that gentleness and mindfulness. I know what to do now, when I am starting to become overcome with emotion or stress or whatever--I have learned incredibly valuable tools. The biggest indicator to me that I had changed was when an old friend, someone who had really loved me, passed on. There was so much emotion. And I was able to feel it, and experience the waves of grief, and accept what I was feeling. It amazed me.
And being in class with a group of people who struggle with BFRBs - I had never experienced this before, and the community that I felt was amazing.
Laura D., Atlanta GA USA
Got Much More Than I Expected
“Christina is THE expert on BFRB's - she has been in the trenches like the rest of us and knows the depths of our issues like no one else does. She has empathy for us and also the communications skills, self-education, and personal experience from years of building this community from scratch - those translate into expertise in helping her students. And she has recovered from those BFRB's - using tools that she now teaches us. The fact that she can translate what she has used to recover into a system for us to use is PRICELESS! No one else can do that with the same perspective as she.”
Anonymous, Bismarck North Dakota, USA
Worth the Time & Money
“To learn the elements of a system that does work for reducing BFRB's is truly wonderul.. While I haven't put all of those elements into place in my life, I know for sure that those things we learned in class are a real pathway to reducing them. The weekly personal calls with Christina are extremely helpful. Also, in the last class, we each had a chance to provide other class members input/feedback and one doesn't get that kind of input often. I found it very valuable to hear 5 other people provide objective input about me - the impressions people have of me. It's a very reasonable price to spend so much time in a class and in contact with other students that is so interactive!
Karla Simmons, TN USA
Good Stuff, That Works if You Work It!
“As one of the first original students, I was honored to see how beneficial the potential for this subject could truly be for many people dealing with BFRB's. Christina's strengths are her ability to listen sincerely and say from her heart what needs to be said. Taking the MBIR class has peaked a real interest in me to pursue this work because I believe I can learn so much more; not only from classes but also just from my own personal application to my daily activities. The interaction with the group, finding similar struggles and sharing with others is so powerful. (Christina’s) course offers so much - all of it may not be for everyone, but I believe some part of it will resonate with everyone!”
Bridget Mills, New Jersey USA
I am Thrilled to Be Able to Ramp Myself Down!
“Thank you so much for providing this opportunity to take your mindfulness based course on line. It has been money well spent. To be able to do this for 9 weeks and in my own home is so beneficial! I have learned so much in just the past 5 weeks! I feel less anxious and enjoy the mindfulness exercises. I am happy to feel less stressed and able to calm myself much more effectively. Things I have learned in the past, I am re-visiting which is very helpful. I am very encouraged as well, that you will be offering an ongoing, online weekly drop-in session, free for any alumni! This will be so crucial to keeping myself on track. I am currently experiencing a pull-free week!! I know that it is the result of following your expert guidance. Your intimate knowledge and understanding of Trichotillomania, as well as your practical stress reducing ideas to combat it, are not only helping but are also reassuring when so few people really “get it”. Thank you again, Christina…..I am looking forward to the rest of my time with you and also our other delightful class members.”
Debby, Ottowa, ON Canada
Hands Down, the Best Thing I’ve Done for My Recovery!
“Taking Christina’s mindfulness class has been hands down the best step I have taken in my pursuit of living a pull free life. My pulling is 90% better, and today I have more confidence in myself and my future than ever before. I will be forever grateful for Christina and her work on behalf of all of us.”
K.N., CO US
Profoundly useful
“Christina’s mindfulness class was a profound and life changing experience in my life. With the skills I learned in her class, my impulses to pick my lips have reduced more than they have in 17 years! Today, I am more accepting, compassionate, and loving towards myself and my behaviors than ever before. I would highly recommend this course to anyone suffering from BFRBs!”
Jessica P., Wash. DC, USA