Your Grief Guide: Dr. Christina
Dr. Christina is a Doctor of Psychology, grief educator, end-of-life doula, vibrational sound healer, professor of criminal justice and trauma, breast cancer survivor, and someone who has buried both of my parents and best friend while walking my own path of healing.
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Her work is not theoretical. It is lived. It is earned. It is embodied.
It exists because she had to learn how to survive grief in its rawest, most complicated forms, not just clinically, but in her own bones. For nearly 15 years, Dr. Christina has supported people across every stage of life and death: children recovering from abuse, families in crisis, adults navigating trauma, military service members in behavioral health training, communities facing generational harm and oppression, and individuals on the threshold of dying. Today, she specializes in helping people move through grief with clarity, depth, and compassion, especially when the loss is complex, identity-shifting, or tied to illness, caregiving, and anticipatory grief.
A career built on depth, courage, and service
A Communicator at Heart
With a B.A. in Communications & Media Studies, Dr. Christina became fascinated by how stories shape people, influences society and vice-versa.
A Mental Health Practitioner by Calling
Dr. Christina's Doctorate in Clinical Forensic Psychology grounded her in clinical excellence: trauma, crisis, diagnosis, treatment, the ways harm lives in the body and the nervous system. She has worked with children experiencing profound abuse and neglect where grief was not abstract but a daily, urgent, and real experience.
A Leader in End-of-Life Care
As a hospice manager and end-of-life doula, Dr. Christina learned that dying teaches us how to live. She sat at bedsides, trained volunteers, facilitated programs, and provided care with love, rigor, and presence.
A dynamic Educator
Dr. Christina has taught psychology, criminal justice, and behavioral health everywhere from universities to military bases. Today, she teaches Healing and Transforming Trauma, helping graduate students build capacity to hold complexity, pain, and transformation with skill and integrity. Her path has taken her to Administrator roles at a charter middle school leading a team of behavioral interventionists and therapists to bring therapy where it should be: at school where the children are.
A Defender of Community Mental Health
From community clinics to schools, Dr. Christina has worked directly with Black, brown, families experiencing housing and food insecurity, and underserved communities, developing programs that treated grief, trauma, and emotional distress with dignity rather than punishment.
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If you make the courageous choice to work with Dr. Christina, you are choosing someone who brings:
✔ Lived experience
✔ Clinical mastery
✔ Teaching excellence
✔ End-of-life wisdom
✔ Somatic and spiritual grounding
✔ Leadership and program-building expertise
✔ Unmatched commitment to your evolution
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This is grief work done at the highest level, and she would be honored to walk alongside you.