Christina A. Kemp grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has been following the terrains of soulful, relational, embodied, psychological and expressive forms of healing throughout the course of her life. At heart an artist, healer and teacher, Kemp’s works hone the examination of the subtle, nuancing the exploration of our experiences as they unfold amid the relationship to the inner self, over the life, among others, within culture and in the home of the natural world.
Alongside her own personal informative experiences, Christina brings with her over 20 years of formal study in the field of psychology. In 2017 she earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and has carried her work into multiple streams of expression, formation and service. She has taught as an adjunct professor of psychology at Seattle University and is currently a faculty member at Bainbridge Dance Center, where she teaches ballet and creative movement to developing dancers. A multidisciplinary artist, she began choreographing original works and performing in the greater Seattle area as a dancer and movement artist in 2023. An author, her debut memoir Across the Distance: Reflections on Loving and Where We Did & Did Not Find Each Other was published in February 2022 (Sidekick Press). Both analytical and poetic in her writing, she combines her psychological background with reflective prose and ethereal, spiritual undertones. Her other work, including poetry, nonfiction prose and photography, has appeared in literary journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Mulberry Literary and Last Leaves Magazine, and the anthology True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. III.
Formally trained in the art, science and rigor of therapeutic counseling, Christina’s call has carried her to work with individuals outside the walls of psychological diagnostic criteria and organizational nomenclature. In 2021, she created Healing, Guidance & Conversations: the Art of Being. She believes her role is to stand alongside others as they navigate the often solitary processes of becoming—as they sense, engage, question, integrate and change. With a settled openness toward the wisdom that resides in quiet places of the unknown, she gently questions, guides and reflects back the deepening intuition, discernment and practice of liaising between what is visible and unseen, and all that happens when we are witnessed by another in curiosity and respect.
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