Kristy Snedden, LCSW has been a Brainspotting enthusiast since 2013 and is a Brainspotting consultant with a specialty consultant endorsement in Brainspotting with Children and Adolescents. She runs “Brainspotting Through the Poet’s Eye” which is a monthly group for Brainspotting therapists/writers and she offers on-line webinars and writing retreats. She lives in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia where she maintains a full-time private practice treating clients of all ages. She specializes in working with trauma, attachment, and creativity, with a special interest in Brainspotting and Creative Writing. In her spare time, Kristy is a poet, whose poetry appears or is forthcoming in a variety national and international on-line and print journals and anthologies, most recently storySouth, CV2, The Examined Life Journal,  and The Power of the Pause Anthology. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 recipient of the Small Orange Press Emerging Woman Poet prize. She serves as the Book Review Editor for Anti-Heroin Chic and studies at Phillip Schulz’s Writers Studio.

(*James Diaz, an established poet who founded and is the editor in chief of Anti-Heroin Chic, an online collective journal of poetry, photography, art work,  essays, interviews and more established in 2015 to create community and support for those suffering from addictions and trauma.)