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MEET DR.
KIMBERLY
CRAWFORD

Dr. Kimberly Crawford is a former professor in the Social Work Department at Northwest Nazarene University. During that time, she served as the Director of the Social Work Department and the head of the Mental Health and Additions track. Dr. Crawford has been a mental health therapist for over 30 years and specialist in trauma resolution from a neurobiological perspective. She is the founder of Wellness Innovations, LLC, a consulting and training institute that focuses on trauma resolution and resilience development.

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Wellness Innovations based in Boise, Idaho utilizes Somatic Therapy practices to provide relief from a variety of symptoms: anxiety, depression, relationship distress, difficulty sleeping, increased use of alcohol, erratic behavior such as overeating, risky sexual choices, excessive spending or simply feeling you are tired of going through the motions of life.

Dr. Kimberly Crawford has over 30 years of experience in the mental health profession and has extensive post-doctoral training in the areas of Somatic Experiencing, Somatic EMDR, and Touch-Skills for Trauma Resolution. She has also been a professor of both counseling and graduate level social work, most recently tenured at NNU.

Somatic Psychotherapy is distinctly different from ‘talk therapy’. Talk therapy focuses on helping the client to ‘process’ through situations by talking. Somatic Psychotherapy focuses on the body’s natural adaptive survival responses to threat and stress and assists the client to move from a state of fight/flight/freeze to the desired state of safety and connection. Sessions focus on the ‘body’s story’ which doesn’t require the client to go into details describing events.

Testimonials

Kimberly is so compassionate with my emotional and physical sorrows. She has the knowledge and experience to give me insights to issues I have that need to be resolved by me. She has many tools in her little box of wisdom that are helpful in selfcare and maintenance for me to do. I am so grateful I found her almost 4 years ago. She’s an exceptional therapist.

Barb

Dr. Crawford is extremely professional. She has created a safe environment to help me facilitate healing present/past wounds & traumatic experiences. She has also been incredibly helpful in giving my husband and I effective communication tools so we can have a deeper connection with one another & in other relationships, with family & friends.

Carrie

After 25 years of working as a first responder and regularly seeking out mental health hacks, it became clear that nothing was working at a root level. Dr. Crawford presented at a local fire chiefs conference, and it felt like she spoke directly to me and knew all of my issues. After her third presentation, I dared to work with her at an agency and personal level. The somatic modality Dr. Crawford practices and her ability to cut through my protective armor was challenging but probably the most meaningful work I have done for myself, my family, my agency, and my community. I’ve personally been able to utilize somatic practices at work and with my coworkers to assist in creating a culture of emotional health. Beyond agency culture, I have watched it transform emotional health in critical incidents and in the moment. It has also been very useful at home and allowed me the ability to be more present and aware with my wife and children. I cannot recommend Dr. Crawford enough and urge everyone to work hard with her at both individual and organizational levels. If you are an organizational leader, this is vitally important work, and it requires that you lead from the front and that you embrace the suck. The rewards far outweigh the pain.

Garrett de Jong, McCall Fire Chief

Kimberly has the perfect blend of professionalism, empathy, and humor to work with first responders and those of us who feel the need to rescue the world at a significant cost to ourselves.   She offers a realistic and straightforward perspective on understanding how my body reacts to my choices, leading to me making more authentic decisions.  Her dual approach—combining scientific insights with a spiritual perspective—helps me to navigate complex topics and make real progress. Kimberly is that safe place to reboot that so many of us need to find in this stressful world.

Kris

Somatic counseling has been a great tool in my healing process. Learning how our bodies have memories and can be stuck in the past, I’ve gained a greater capacity in responding in a healthy way when trauma triggers appear.

Kameron

When I met Dr. Crawford she introduced me to a new concept regarding how therapy can work. Talk therapy is the normal tradition, but learning about how trauma affects the body was a game changer! This new field of treating traumatic events with a completely different approach enabled me to see how trauma influenced not just my thoughts, but my body’s storing of these events. Understanding my body and how I can release the events was and is very healing!

Maria

G.R.I.T. Workshops

Grounded Resilience Immersion Training

  • Understand resilience, stress, and threat from a neurobiological perspective.
  • Recognize when the body is in a regulated state vs. a dysregulated state.
  • Experience moving from one nervous system to another.
  • Practice Somatic skills to regulate the nervous system.