THE RELATIONSHIP CENTER
KRISTINA HEWIS
Focus Areas
Trauma & PTSD: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and a holistic wellness approach offer powerful, evidence-based support for individuals healing from trauma and PTSD. With a strong emphasis on overall wellness—mind, body, and nervous system—therapy also incorporates skills for emotional regulation, stress reduction, and resilience. Together, these approaches help clients regain a sense of safety, reduce symptoms like anxiety and hypervigilance, and move forward with greater clarity, stability, and empowerment.
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Executive Functioning & ADHD: CBT and a wellness-centered approach can provide meaningful support for individuals with executive dysfunction and ADHD. CBT helps clients identify and reframe unhelpful thought patterns that contribute to procrastination, overwhelm, and low self-esteem, while building practical strategies for organization, time management, and follow-through.
Worry, Panic, & Anxiety: Utilizing CBT, EMDR, and a client-centered approach can help clients break free from cycles of anxiety, panic, and chronic worry. With an integrated focus on overall wellness, therapy supports nervous system regulation, stress management, and self-care practices—helping clients feel calmer, more grounded, and better equipped to navigate life with self-assurance and resilience.
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Sadness, Anger, & Depression: I support clients with these concerns by identifying negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to low mood, hopelessness, and irritability, while also building skills to improve emotional regulation, motivation, and daily functioning. If necessary, EMDR can help process unresolved experiences, losses, or emotional wounds that fuel depressive feelings or suppressed anger.
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Kristina Hewis
She/Her/Hers
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
EMDR Trained Clinician
TRC Mayfield Village
Approach
No matter the concern, I take a strengths-based approach. We will start with what you already do well and build from there using a variety of tools and strategies to help you reach your mental health goals. As a counselor, I am a navigator rather than a leader. I will walk alongside you, offering other perspectives and paths and even challenging you when necessary, but if something doesn't fit, we won't force it. Ultimately, you're the boss of you. It's important for you to be as comfortable in session as possible: say what you want to say the way it needs to be said. You won't offend me, and I won't judge you. Pinkie Promise.
Qualifications
I came to this career later in life, but it was always my dream. I have been a clinical mental health therapist for nearly 5 years, but the bulk of my working life has been spent in public education where I have worked for 25 years. By day, I am a school counselor in an alternative school for students in grades 6-12. In the evenings and school holidays, I wear my therapist hat with college-age and adult clients. My previous background as an English teacher has made me a prolific note-taker, which helps me track your trajectory of change. (Just a heads-up: if I make a "stankface" during a session, it is definitely directed at my own typing errors!)
I am an LGBTQ+ ally, neurodivergent affirming, and am committed to supporting diverse populations while honoring each client’s lived experience.
Personal Information
My husband and I are recent empty-nesters now that our daughter has joined our son at Ohio University. We are navigating this new era of our lives as partners as well as learning how to be parents of really cool adults. Our three dogs Fatso, Chloe, and Toby Wan Kenobi keep us busy when the kids are away. Aside from the doggos, I love the Guardians, relaxing at our camper in Hocking Hills, travelling, reading, playing board games, and watching documentaries.