Kristi Shaw

Personal and Group Empowerment for Women and Mothers

Personal Empowerment:

I offer narrative therapy counselling and strengths-based mentoring in a calm, respectful, and non-diagnostic space. Narrative therapy supports you to explore challenges without being defined by them, strengthening agency, values, and choice. Mentoring uses Appreciative Inquiry to support clarity, purpose, and future-focused change. I also offer Reiki as a gentle, complementary practice to support relaxation and regulation.

My work is holistic, collaborative, and honours the whole person.

Group Empowerment:

Women RISING with Purpose is a locally connected, facilitated group for mothers caring for anxious or avoidant children. Using a collaborative, strengths-based approach (Appreciative Inquiry), mothers connect, share insight, and take purposeful action together to support wellbeing for themselves and their families.

• This group is for mothers caring for children with moderate to high anxiety or avoidant behaviours. It is not suitable for families currently in crisis or requiring urgent support.

Women’s Spiral Circles are facilitated, reflective group spaces for women seeking connection, shared understanding, and meaningful conversation. Using a gentle, structured sharing format, each circle offers equal opportunity to reflect, listen, and explore themes of life, choice, and balance in a calm, supportive environment.

• These circles are not therapy or crisis support; however, they offer a supportive and reflective space that many women experience as nourishing and beneficial.

Forest Circles for Women are facilitated, nature-based group experiences that support connection, presence, and wellbeing. Through slow, sensory-guided time in the forest, shared reflection, and gentle group practices, women are invited to settle, reconnect, and experience calm, grounded connection with themselves, others, and the natural world.

• This group is not therapy or crisis support and is intended to support connection, presence, and wellbeing.

A little about me:

I am a Narrative Therapist, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, and parent of young adults, with long-standing experience supporting mothers, young people, and families. My work is strengths-based, non-diagnostic, and grounded in collaboration, care, and holistic wellbeing. Reiki is offered as a complementary practice.

My website is currently transitioning from Totally Connected to RISING. 

E: [email protected]

M: 021300328