Kris Brightbill, MA, LPC, NCC,
Certified Secondary Guidance Counselor
Kris is the founder and director of Turning Tides Transitions, a customized and supportive aftercare planning program in the suburban Philadelphia area. She has over 23 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.
Kris has been a volunteer, speaker and mentor with the Andrew l Hick Jr Foundation (www.alhjr.org) since their inception in 2010. She also serves as a Board Member at Harbor of Hope, a non profit organization that is committed to making Mental Heath Services & Education accessible for all. She has been part-time and adjunct faculty in counseling and psychology programs. She is a Clinical/Therapeutic Consultant with Redwood Educational Services. She also speaks professionally, at seminars and trainings, on mental health and relationship issues.
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.
Certified Secondary Guidance Counselor
Kris is the founder and director of Turning Tides Transitions, a customized and supportive aftercare planning program in the suburban Philadelphia area. She has over 23 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.
Kris has been a volunteer, speaker and mentor with the Andrew l Hick Jr Foundation (www.alhjr.org) since their inception in 2010. She also serves as a Board Member at Harbor of Hope, a non profit organization that is committed to making Mental Heath Services & Education accessible for all. She has been part-time and adjunct faculty in counseling and psychology programs. She is a Clinical/Therapeutic Consultant with Redwood Educational Services. She also speaks professionally, at seminars and trainings, on mental health and relationship issues.
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.