Kris Brightbill, MA, LPC, NCC, Certified Secondary Guidance Counselor
Kris Brightbill, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor (and certified secondary guidance counselor) with a full independent private practice. She is also the founder and director of Turning Tides Transitions, a customized and supportive aftercare program in the suburban Philadelphia area. She has over 19 years of clinical experience. Turning Tides Transitions utilizes her experience as a clinician, an educator and certified guidance counselor to ensure client’s success before, during and after treatment away from home. Her practice is limited to working with adolescents, young adults and their families when treatment has occurred or becomes necessary in wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment facilities and/or inpatient drug and alcohol programs. She enhances her program through visiting and collaborating with treatment programs throughout the United Sates. She earned her “Wilderness Therapy Certification through a CRC/Aspen sponsored event in 2013.
She has been part-time and adjunct faculty in counseling and psychology programs. She also speaks professionally, at seminars and trainings, on mental health and relationship issues. Most recently she was a presenter at the NATSAP Southeast conference in Asheville, NC.
She is passionate and devoted to this extraordinary work, benefits from meeting and getting to know the quality, like-minded people in this helping professional , truly enjoys supporting and coaching others and is currently recruiting both of her sons to become part of this “industry!”
Kris Brightbill, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor (and certified secondary guidance counselor) with a full independent private practice. She is also the founder and director of Turning Tides Transitions, a customized and supportive aftercare program in the suburban Philadelphia area. She has over 19 years of clinical experience. Turning Tides Transitions utilizes her experience as a clinician, an educator and certified guidance counselor to ensure client’s success before, during and after treatment away from home. Her practice is limited to working with adolescents, young adults and their families when treatment has occurred or becomes necessary in wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment facilities and/or inpatient drug and alcohol programs. She enhances her program through visiting and collaborating with treatment programs throughout the United Sates. She earned her “Wilderness Therapy Certification through a CRC/Aspen sponsored event in 2013.
She has been part-time and adjunct faculty in counseling and psychology programs. She also speaks professionally, at seminars and trainings, on mental health and relationship issues. Most recently she was a presenter at the NATSAP Southeast conference in Asheville, NC.
She is passionate and devoted to this extraordinary work, benefits from meeting and getting to know the quality, like-minded people in this helping professional , truly enjoys supporting and coaching others and is currently recruiting both of her sons to become part of this “industry!”