About Krysta Szkarlat
Christian Therapist in Barrie, Ontario
I’m passionate about supporting Christian women to heal and grow so that they can be all that God created them to be.
In particular, I have so much compassion for women struggling with anxiety, women wrestling with body shame and disordered eating, and women whose sex lives are on auto pilot, devoid of safety and pleasure.
Let’s be honest.
Most of us don’t get far in life before shame comes on the scene whispering to us that we are not good enough. Trauma often also finds us, destroying our sense of safety.
For me, it was childhood trauma that created shame and stole my sense of safety, as well as big emotions that often left me feeling overwhelmed and alone. Trying to combat the shame and absence of internal safety, my nervous system developed strategies to keep me afloat: people-pleasing and perfectionism. If I could just keep everyone around me happy and if I could just be perfect, maybe I would feel good enough and maybe I would feel safe. Diet culture also offered me safety and reprieve from shame through the pursuit of shrinking my body and concealing any perceived physical flaws.
It was the love of God and the support of a trauma therapist that changed everything. It was God’s unconditional love and compassion that broke shame’s hold over me and helped me find peace. And it was working with a really great trauma therapist that I began to heal the strategies I had developed and calm my dysregulated nervous system.
Through all of this, I developed a passion to support women who are determined to heal their anxiety and body shame, and to flourish in their sexuality as God intended!
So, that’s my story.
And I’d be honoured to hear yours.
When I’m not counselling women, you’ll find me watching The Office with my husband, or obsessively engaging in my current favourite activity (ADHDer here!) whether that’s a DIY decor project, researching a topic that’s caught my interest, or doing some other creative pursuit.
Qualifications & Education
Registered Psychotherapist,
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, 2021
Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor,
The Original Intuitive Eating Pros, 2023
Advanced Clinical Sexology Training,
Northwest Institute on Intimacy, 2022
Certified Conscious EFT™ Practitioner,
National Emotional Freedom Techniques Training Institute, 2022
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP),
Yorkville University, 2021
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (BA),
Nipissing University, 2008