Our Team

Meet Our Practitioners

Every person on our team brings a unique blend of experience, compassion, and care. Read their stories and connect with the practitioner who feels right for you.

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Kimberly Crispeno

MACP, MDIV, LMHCA · Mind-Body & Systems Care

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Kim brings diverse experience in psychotherapy and relational work to her practice with individuals, couples, and families. Her own personal mind-body work as a partner, mom, and individual informs how she supports and creatively works with her clients.

Her psychodynamic approach combines Internal Family Systems (IFS), art therapy, neuroscience, and systemic understandings to help clients reclaim their agency and voice, discover their vitality, and create a life that is their own.

Who they work with:

  • Individuals navigating complex trauma, anxiety, identity, and life transitions
  • Couples seeking deeper connection
  • Families working through relational challenges
  • People exploring the inseparability of mind and body

Beauty and creativity are foundational to her. She loves long walks, creating art, writing, and is an eclectic and avid reader. A book she regularly returns to is Pema Chodron's When Things Fall Apart.

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Trisha Wilkerson

Bereavement Group Facilitator, Holistic Health Coach & Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga Teacher

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Trisha is a Bereavement group facilitator, Holistic Health Coach and Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga Teacher dedicated to guiding individuals through the landscape of loss. She offers a compassionate, body-centered approach to grief. Her work creates a safe, curious space to quiet the noise, settle the nervous system, and gently transform pain and shame into love, connection, and self-care.

Who they work with:

  • Adults navigating recent or long-ago loss
  • People seeking a body-centered approach to grief
  • Those wanting nervous-system support during bereavement
  • Anyone looking for compassionate grief coaching or group support

She loves yoga, reading, walking and talking with her partner of 26 years, and cooking for her family of 8. A book she regularly refers to is The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride.

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Meredith Stinson

Resources, Systems & Navigation

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Meredith is the one who finds the needles in the haystack. She connects clients to the right people, programs, and resources so families and systems can move forward without getting lost in complexity.

Her background in advocacy, systems design, and education gives her a unique toolkit to customize support for each client. She approaches every connection with curiosity, kindness, and a practical focus on what will actually help people thrive.

Outside work, she's gardening, reading fiction, and reflecting on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — a favorite for its simple wisdom about hope, kindness, and connection.

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Kim Varner

Grief Mentor, Song Leader, Community Circle Facilitator

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Kim offers community grief circles for all people navigating the waves of grief — from loss of loved ones or pets to life transitions, from health diagnoses to the parts of ourselves we hold in contempt, from climate grief to grief over world events. She creates a space where all grief is valid and important, where communal grief may be witnessed and felt through embodiment, sharing, singing, and ritual.

Kim has been a student of community grief ritual since 2020, tending her own extensive personal, ancestral, and communal grief. She completed a grief tending mentorship program and began facilitating grief circles in the Edmonds area in 2024.

Her 14-year background in clinical research provides a strong foundation for consent-based practice, leading groups, and holding space for families and individuals navigating complex diagnoses and medical systems.

Outside of grief and research work, you'll find Kim playing with her kids or at their hockey games, singing and drumming, growing vegetables in her garden, hiking or camping in the mountains, and spending time with her community.

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Carmen Crispeno

Financial Navigation & System Support

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Carmen helps clients untangle financial stress while strengthening the systems around them. With decades of experience in real estate, credit counseling, and financial planning, he guides individuals, families, and organizations through debt, savings, and long-term planning with empathy and clarity.

His approach is practical and grounded: no judgment, no selling — just guidance to help clients feel calm, confident, and empowered.

Outside work, he's jamming to 70s and 80s tunes, keeping gas tanks full, and enjoying life with his partner, Kim, of 32 years. He co-hosts the 'Street Talk' radio show and serves as an off-ice official for the Seattle Kraken — roles that sharpen both his big-picture thinking and attention to detail.

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Kelsey Garvey

PT, DPT · Co-Founder & Integrative Physical Therapy Consultant

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Kelsey is a licensed physical therapist and co-founder of The Aftermath Agency.

Kelsey brings the body into the conversation as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and strength coach. She helps people connect with their bodies, discover what movement feels like when it's safe, and explore how physical resilience and emotional and relational well-being are interdependent.

She doesn't just treat symptoms—she listens, observes, and co-creates ways with you to feel physically capable and strong. She blends neuroscience and understanding that every body has its own story.

While she does not maintain a traditional weekly patient schedule through Aftermath, she partners with our team to provide specialized consultations and integrated Mind + Body Sessions for clients who may benefit from both physical and emotional care. Her expertise is available through select collaborative appointments and special programs.

Coffee, quiet mornings, and planning her next adventure fuel her energy outside of work. Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen is a touchstone in her approach to life and care.

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