Founder Introduction
Krista L. Hawkins is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist, and Art-Based Life Coach with over 15 years of experience supporting women through emotionally transformative seasons of life.
She founded Authentically You Family Therapy to provide specialized, emotionally attuned care for women navigating reproductive transitions, identity shifts, relationship changes, and the invisible emotional weight that often accompanies these experiences.
Her approach is warm, relational, culturally responsive, and deeply rooted in helping clients reconnect with themselves with compassion rather than criticism. Sessions are designed to feel emotionally safe, personalized, and grounded in genuine human connection — not rushed, clinical, or one-size-fits-all.
Why I Created the Practice
I created this practice because I saw how many women were quietly carrying emotional over whelm while trying to continue functioning for everyone around them. Pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood, reproductive transitions, and major life changes can profoundly impact emotional well-being, identity, relationships, and a woman’s sense of self. Yet many women struggle to find care that feels deeply understanding, emotionally safe, and truly specialized to their lived experience.
Too often, women seeking support are met with symptom-focused care while longing for something deeper: a space where they do not have to explain everything, where they can exhale, where they feel emotionally held, and where their experiences are understood with both clinical expertise and compassion.
As both a therapist and a mother of two adult daughters, Krista understands firsthand how profoundly reproductive and life transitions can impact emotional well-being, identity, relationships, and a woman’s sense of self. Her own experiences with postpartum emotional challenges and a birth-related hemorrhage deepened her understanding of how vulnerable and unsupported women can sometimes feel during these seasons of life.
Over the years, she has also witnessed family members, friends, and clients quietly carry the invisible emotional weight of pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood, grief, anxiety, identity shifts, and emotional overwhelm — often while appearing “fine” on the outside.
Authentically You Family Therapy was created to offer high-quality, personalized care for women seeking more than “covered therapy.” This is a space for women who value depth, emotional safety, specialized support, and meaningful healing.
