What Clients Have to Say

Lost her freedom and joy

I’d been in therapy before and really thought I understood myself and had good insight and tools, but I was just stuck. Stuck in frustration and stress. I love my life. But I didn’t like my days, my moods, my reactions.

When I came to Kris, I felt like I had lost the freedom and joy I usually cultivate easily in my life, and knew it was more than just stress or “over-functioning” (which I now realize I took way too much pride in!)

Kris’s knowledge of the Enneagram as a guide to seeing the layers of our personality helped me make changes with more compassion than I’ve ever been able to have for myself.

And using NET, we’ve explored the root causes and beliefs shaping my world view and my reactions so I can really see what is happening in my life today without all the filters and messages from the past. I’ve had to dare to let go of my old crutches to really heal.

It’s the hardest work I’ve ever done, and Kris has been warm, compassionate, witty, gentle, and solid as a rock every step of the way.

I’m a therapist too, and knew I needed someone really savvy or it would be hard for me to let her guide the ship.

She educates really naturally, and she gently pushes me return to feel my vulnerabilities when I drift into clinical curiosity. I trust her implicitly and have so much gratitude for how fluid she is in her approach and how dauntlessly she does the work.

Everyone wants to work with the very best…You’ve found her!

– Beth, 53, Psychotherapist

New carpet subconsciously triggered a painful event

I have been around chiropractic, health, and NET for the last 12 years. Since I have been working with NET practitioners, I have been clearing emotions from all aspects of my life. 

Then about 6 months ago my practice became stagnant, and I could not see the light of day. My life started taking a nose dive, and I felt as if I wasn’t going to find help. 

At a workshop with Kris, I was able to access an emotion around my stagnant practice that I had not been able to access for the past 6 months. In a matter of minutes, I had shed huge emotions that have been sabotaging my life for almost 20 years. At which point we were able to highlight an allergy to the brand-new carpet that had been put in my office 6 months earlier. 

Immediately, I had remembered in 4th grade with our school going through renovations, I had been humiliated when I was told to come up in front of the music class and sing. I remembered wanting to hide from everyone. 

In my current situation, I was hiding from my work, my patients, my colleagues, and my assistant and I suffered greatly. With the new carpet reminding me subconsciously of 4th grade, I had reverted back to a 9-year-old childish mentality of, “No, I just want to run away.”

Kris had such a great demeaner with me and she gave me full attention and love as I was processing my emotions. Her vast knowledge and excellent care facilitated a warm, heartfelt visit and changed my life.

After that emotion was cleared and a few days of supportive homeopathy, I was back to work helping others overcome their fears and removing subluxations.

-Dr. John, Holistic Chiropractor

Hated her job

Kris, I hear your voice and your advice in my head whenever I am facing tough times. Thank you for everything! I love my job now, life finally seems to be good for me and I am sooo much stronger because of you! You touch and take care of so many people! Thank you for letting me one of them!  

-Leslie, 63, Business Manager

Impending divorce

Kris, I just wanted to call and thank you for being on this planet, for being part of our lives and your talent which is absolutely extraordinary. The long and the short of it is I feel like an entirely different human being than I did prior to walking in the door of your office yesterday and I want to thank you immensely for that. 

I also wanted to tell you that I have not even discussed visiting with you to Tina (wife). I have opted to move to a place of nurturing…and giving her the space to reach out for what she needs. If she needs you, she will call. Bottom Line. That’s not a negative place that is probably the most positive place I can come from.

I don’t know why but the entire situation seems so far less dire now than it did yesterday afternoon – not that it has changed at all, but I think removing that emotional charge absolutely changed everything for me and really did a lot to change my head so thank you again and have a blessed day!

 -Ken, 44 Outside Sales

Emotional healing

I have been a client of Kris’ for almost a year. I began my journey of emotional healing 3 years ago. Last year, I began looking for someone who could help me transform my pain into healing.

I live 2 states away, and I was initially skeptical about how effective phone sessions would be. I can honestly say that not only have the phone sessions been effective, but they have been life changing. 

I love that Kris “walks the walk” drawing upon her own learnings as examples of transforming them into understandings. Kris is a supremely gifted and intuitive counselor and I am grateful to be working with her. 

With much love and appreciation!    

-Mandie, 39, Neo Natal Nurse

Helping the Healers

As a holistic health care professional and one who spends most of her time giving to others, I realize the importance of also getting help and working on myself to keep my mind, body, and spirit healthy and energized.

I feel extremely blessed to have met Kris Kirkbride. Along my “healing path,” I had peeled away many layers of “stuff.” Within what seemed like minutes, Kris got to the core of what really going on…she helped me to face and feel what was happening on the inside because I definitely was unconsciously fighting to hold back.

Kris remains calm and comfortable which allowed me to be the same and also let me know and feel like I could trust her completely. Her experience, skills, and gift of listening and guiding you, as the client, to a decision you know is best/right for you is incredible.

I not only had a major breakthrough with only 1 session but I was also able to pick up some of her incredibly beneficial skills that I can now apply with my patients with amazing results.

I am so grateful. My work with Kris is life changing! Thanks to the universe for bringing her into my life and allowing our paths to cross.

Infinite love and gratitude,                            

-Dr. Cari, 41, Holistic Chiropractor

Breaking free of an unhealthy and abusive marriage

There are people who touch our lives, at pivotal points during our life’s journey, and as a result of these divine experiences, we are forever changed and forever grateful for having met them, and for the growth that they have helped us to achieve.

In my life, Kris Kirkbride is one of those people.

When I first met Kris through a mutual friend over 8 years ago, I was in a very toxic and immensely physical, emotional, and verbally abusive marriage with a man that eroded much of my confidence and self-concept. I was completely shut off from the truth of my reality, and I was deeply suffering from trauma bonding, low self-esteem, PTSD, Stockholm syndrome, co-dependency, and overall battered woman’s syndrome.

I knew I desperately needed and wanted to chart a new path in my life’s journey, but I had no clear vision on how to create that. I also did not have the emotional clarity to navigate a way out of my circumstances, nor did I really even have the ability to understand the scope of my full situation. My trauma, and life experiences up to that point, had created a reality where I was completely blind to my patterns, and even more importantly, to the process of how to view those patterns with any distance in order to consciously create positive change in the response to my circumstances. 

Kris has helped me experience the type of healing and personal growth, that for me was unimaginable. In a loving, compassionate, and focused manner, Kris has helped me to identify both the destructive behavior patterns that led to my current reality’s situation, as well as the traumatic events and family history that contributed to the initial creation of those destructive patterns.

Most importantly, Kris has taught me how to dive into the depths of my being in order to consciously change those destructive patterns, and how to replace them with positive, healthy, self-affirming ones.

As a result of working with Kris, I have created the changes needed to free myself, and my children, from a horrific situation that so many never get the chance to break free from. She truly has been the midwife to the birth of my new life’s experience. 

This is where Kris’ tremendous gift lies. No matter the current life situation that one finds themselves in, she instinctively guides you on a journey back to the truth of one’s being. Kris has an indescribable and intuitively gifted talent for telling it like it is, even sometimes even before you are ready to hear it, and I am often left in awe by her gifts. 

She always senses when I may be stumbling on my path of growth, weighed down by self-imposed negativity, and offers kind and intuitive insights that are beacons of light in one’s dark thoughts. She always knows exactly the right questions to ask, or tools to suggest, so that I may see the positive steps that I need to take, which are often right before me. No matter how I may have felt upon entering her office, or before I get on the phone, I always feel seen and heard and like my overall truth has been restored when our session is complete.

I have come to immeasurably value and appreciate her expertise, insight, dedication, empathy, and true life’s passion in helping others to see the truth of their greatness. She consistently provides a unique and effective reflection of conscious connectedness, which allows her clients to see the invaluable gift of the true potential they hold within.

When you work with Kris you always feel like you have a powerful ally rooting for you at every turn. Her caring nature and dynamic personality allow her to work well with any personality structure and she is easily able to connect on a soul level with those she works with.

Kris truly respects others’ opinions even when they differ from her own. For to be truly able to counsel or guide anyone, the individual receiving the guidance must feel fully seen and completely heard, and Kris creates that environment flawlessly. 

These are just a few of the impressive qualities that make Kris outstanding as a human being and effective as an emotional guide to those that are lucky enough to work with her. I am forever grateful for the experience of working with Kris, and honestly, my words cannot even accurately convey how much I would recommend her to anyone who is looking for guidance along their life’s journey. I will spend the rest of my life in immense gratitude for the experience of her mentorship, guidance, coaching, friendship, and therapy…because when Kris Kirkbride is in your corner, you can truly achieve anything!

-Sarah, 43, Body Detoxification Specialist

Needed more patience

Holy shit, Kris! I came to you to through the Enneagram to help me have more patience with my kids and wife. As someone who has been in the transformational scene for 20 years, I really thought I was one of the “woke” ones. Boy, was I in for a true wake up!

You helped me recognize that my ego was running the show almost all of the time and I was getting stuck thinking other people should change, not me. I really appreciate your no-nonsense and non-judgmental style. I feel so much freer in my heart now. Softer is the new strength!  Thanks, Kris!

-Matt, 55, Physician

About Kris

“Kris is one of those therapists–no people–who have both style AND substance. Her style got me in the door and her substance kept me there.”

-Sylvia, 44, Artist

Wanted better boundaries

I came to see Kris specifically to help me set better boundaries when communicating with my 27-year-old son that has moved back home. One of my friends had met Kris at an Enneagram workshop and began seeing her to heal up the riffs between her and her adult daughter.

I knew my Enneagram type and my son’s type tend to clash and didn’t have the language or the ability to set healthy boundaries. It has been 9 months and my son is now enrolled in grad school and my husband and I helped him move into a place near campus last weekend. Best of all, my son and I have healed up our hurts and I love him more now than before.  Thanks, Kris!

 -Lynne, 71, Retired

Inside out rebirth

“You are like an emotional midwife to opening people’s consciousness!!”

-Julia, 38, Stay-at-home mom

Income went from $200,000 to over $600,000

I want to share the most amazing experience with Kris and NET. I have been a real estate agent for over 5 years and in the last 3 years my income has got to $200,000 but could never get any higher no matter when I hit that mark in the year of how many homes I had sold. 

All of the other male agents in my office (I’m the only female) earn over 5 or 6 hundred thousand so I was pissed. I found Kris though my good friend who is an NET practitioner in California. She had met Kris and told me to go to her.

I don’t know how to describe it. She uses muscle testing with my arm to see if I am OK with statements I say. I wasn’t OK making more than $200,000. She traced it back to when I was 12 and it had something to do with my family. I could not think of the specifics of the event and Kris found the emotions of fear, anger and emotional instability which I cleared. 

I called my mom that night and asked her what was going on when I was 12 and she told me my dad got let go from his corporate job of Director of Sales and he was really mad for months at “those people”- the President, the VP, and the Board.

I asked mom what dad made when he was at that job. She said $202,000. 

I was stunned. Suddenly, all the pieces fell together. 

I must have overheard and absorbed this information and now in my 30’s I had still felt like I had to choose between keeping the love of my father OR be one of “those people”.

I am happy to report that over the last 4 years now I have made well over $600,000 and even made agent of the year AND still have the love from my dad!

-Sherry, 37, Real Estate Agent

Gender transition

“Kris, I just wanted to thank you for helping me through my gender transition. You were one of the first people I met that didn’t see me as flawed and taught me that living in my truth would help my depression and anxiety. I am 3 months post top surgery and feeling so much more confident and outgoing. 

Thank you for all your emotional support!”  

-Jacob, 22, College student

Deja vu dating

“Kris, you were right!! I was dating the same type of guy over and over without realizing it! God, thank you for helping me to uncover my unmet needs, helping me to heal them and feel whole for the first time ever!!!

This mind body stuff actually works!

-Stacy, 33, Hairstylist

Wanted out of her life

I am so glad I found Kris when I did. I was sad, frustrated with my husband and my two teenage sons and I just wanted a divorce. Kris helped me to see that I wasn’t asking for what I needed because on some subconscious level I didn’t deserve it! 

The NET was so revealing that my self-esteem issues really went back to my upbringing and contributed to my feeling powerless now. I am happier in my marriage and now my boys know I mean business. No more pushover!                                                 

-Trish, 39, Business owner

Anguish over a loved one dying

Kris, I want to thank you so much for helping me and my husband with all of our trauma and grief after our gay son’s suicide. There were just so many layers and I had no idea if I would ever be back to normal again. 

The NET you did with me really helped me process all of my feelings that felt so bottled up inside. By feeling all of those scary feelings with you, I felt more and more like myself again. It has now been a full year and I can honestly say I am not afraid of my feelings and am feeling more zest for my life. Thank you!!

-Maria, 51, Caregiver

Lifelong skin issue linked to an emotional event

Since I was young, I have been dealing with a psoriasis patch about 3 inches in diameter on my scalp. Medicine kept it in check, but it never went away. After a trip to Hawaii and a shark scare there, Kris & I dealt with my having seen the movie Jaws at a young age (a NET treatment). Upon returning home from my treatment with Kris, I had a large flare up of the patch and about a day later, the psoriasis patch went away! During the treatment we did not realize that there was a connection, but now the patch is gone!

I have seen Kris regularly over the last 10 years to assist with all sorts of issues; muscle issues, pre-surgery emotions and family issues to name a few.

                                                                                                -Jane, 55, Retired

Manifestation, intention setting & practice management

I met Kris at a NET seminar and thought she may be able to help me sort out all I needed to do to start my private practice. She helped me to prioritize so I wasn’t so overwhelmed and decide what was important to me.

Kris also helped me to manifest what I wanted for my practice in terms of money, location, ideal client and then worked with me utilizing the NET to make sure I wasn’t sabotaging myself by thinking I couldn’t do it. It has been amazing!  My practice is now 6 months old, my patients pay me directly for my services (no insurance—yeah!) and my ideal clients are finding me!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

-Susie, 44, Acupuncturist

Performance Anxiety

I just wanted to thank you for all that you did to help may daughter prepare for her Bat Mitzvah. Her anxiety was so high that we delayed it a year and then found out about you from another parent. 

You worked with her for 6 months using NET to help her with her Hebrew, her performance anxiety and her confidence. I love that you even had a dress rehearsal with you playing the Rabbi and her with a music stand to emulate the big day. 

We are so grateful to you!                            

– Leah, 46, Stay at Home Mom

Sports performance

Kris, thanks so much for all of your awesome help with me this sophomore year at college.  My swimming scores were good, but not as good as I would have thought with all of this practice.

I knew something was holding me back and you found it! I never consciously thought I was afraid of beating my mom’s score time, but it makes sense. My mom was so proud when I finally beat her time this year. Oh, and the help with me and my boyfriend was great too 😊.    

  -Kyra, 20, Division I Athlete and Student