Kristine Medea is a practicing psychotherapist and founder of ThrivingHeart Healing Arts Associates based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked extensively with at-risk populations and a maintains a life-long commitment to trauma resolution and healing. Her expertise is focused on trauma resolution and attachment facilitation with children and adults, working with individuals and families who have experienced extreme traumatic events, abuse, emotional abuse, interpersonal and community violence, abandonment and neglect, conversion or “reparative” therapy, and other deeply impactful experiences.

In addition to her clinical practice, Ms. Medea is known for her inspirational keynote speaking, experiential training, onsite staff development, and program development consultation.

Now that the credentials and initials are out of the way, here’s what Kristine wants you to know about her: Due to abuse, neglect and mental illness in her birth family, she was raised in foster care and psychiatric institutions in Oregon. She was shuttled from place to place, lived on the streets, spent time debilitated by chronic depression, and had moments of wondering if she could survive. Her book, "Cray, Cray: The girl who climbed out of the cuckoo’s nest and found her way to a thriving heart" is the story of her life and is reflective of her unrelenting belief in the power of relationship and love and the existence of a path to healing for every person.