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J. Kristin McIntyre

Licensed Professional Counselor | MS, LPC, NCC

Kristin leads with a personal touch, seeking to form a collaborative connection with you by normalizing the human experience of pain and suffering as something that is common to all of humanity. Joining with you on this common ground, Kristin validates, empowers, and encourages in a way that helps to facilitate healing in your life. Kristin believes in focusing on strengths and giving proper emphasis to “what is right with you” instead of “what is wrong with you.” She acknowledges your positive qualities, affirms what you are already doing well, and helps you apply these things to successfully problem-solve circumstances in your life. When you feel deeply discouraged, it can be difficult to climb out of the despair, see a different way, or make a change, but when you are aware of your positive qualities, skills, and strengths, you are more able to feel empowered to confront and resolve a difficult situation.

With training in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, Kristin also gives significant consideration to the relationships in your life and how they influence the dynamics of both past and present experiences. In this way, Kristin doesn’t only treat individuals, she also treats relationships. Some issues are best addressed in the context of marriage and family relationships, and Kristin may recommend these modalities of treatment for you.

Kristin has special interests in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment wounding, and trauma, which has led her into further study and specialized training in these areas. Interpersonal neurobiology is interested in how a person’s brain, mind, and relationships interact and intersect. Attachment wounds can occur when emotional needs in childhood are not consistently met by caregivers.

Kristin enjoys including her therapy dog, Dewey, in her counseling practice. Dewey is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with an irresistibly sweet and calming presence. Dewey earned his AKC approved Canine Good Citizen certificate and Therapy Dog certificate through the Springfield Alliance of Therapy Pets (in Springfield, MO) in 2022 and they remain current members of the Alliance.

Kristin began her clinical training in Marriage and Family Therapy and school guidance counseling at Northwest Christian College (now Bushnell University) in Eugene, Oregon. In 2002, Kristin completed her Master of Science degree (M.S.) in clinical psychology at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, also earning Evangel’s Outstanding Graduate Student award and the Ozarks Area Psychological Association Outstanding Graduate Student award. Kristin has been fully licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Missouri since 2003, and she is also a National Certified Counselor (NCC) since 2004, which means she voluntarily meets and maintains national board certification standards set by the counseling profession represented by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Kristin is also a trauma informed counselor and certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and holds membership with the EMDR International Association. EMDR is an extensively researched psychotherapy approach that has been proven to aid in recovery from distressful and traumatic experiences and is also finding its place as an effective treatment in a variety of other circumstances where reprocessing is beneficial. Additionally, Kristin holds membership with the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator since 2008.

Kristin’s earliest clinical experiences (beginning in 1998) involved working with youth with Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED), training foster parents, supervising teams in a wraparound system of care for kids and families in foster or adoption circumstances, providing services in multiple counties for family preservation and family reunification contracts, and providing counseling in a variety of service modalities to youth in transitional independent living settings.

Kristin enjoyed a brief period of adjunct teaching at Evangel University in the psychology program 2002-2005, during which time she also began working in private practice in outpatient community mental health clinics providing individual, marital, and family counseling.

After several years of inquiries from pastors and people in her community who were looking for a licensed Christian counselor, Kristin decided to establish All Things New Counseling in early 2009. She is delighted that her vision is meeting the needs of the community. The most common feedback she has received from her clients over the years is that they feel comfortable with her and her approach empowers them to address “hard stuff” and succeed in meeting their counseling goals.

And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Revelation 21:4-5a

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