Kristin Hoins

Kristin Hoins is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern currently completing her graduate training at Northwestern University. She works with adolescents, adults, and couples, with a particular focus on supporting clients navigating trauma and PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, relationship concerns, life transitions, identity questions, and ways of coping that no longer serve them.

Her areas of clinical interest also include marital and premarital concerns, parenting, women’s issues, LGBTQ+ concerns, and school and peer challenges. Her therapeutic approach is grounded in psychodynamic, relational, existential, and family systems perspectives, and is informed by Internal Family Systems, attachment-based work, somatic awareness, and polyvagal theory. She is especially drawn to understanding how emotional experience, family history, identity, and nervous system responses shape the ways people experience themselves and others.

In addition to her clinical training, Kristin brings 25 years of experience as a K–12 educator, belonging researcher, and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), supporting students, families, and leaders through growth and transition. She views counseling as a thoughtful, interactive, and collaborative process that helps clients build insight, shift old ways of coping, strengthen relationships, and move toward meaningful change.