Meet Our Founder

Founder and Executive Director

Christin Frederick is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and mental health organizational consultant. Her career spans private practice, community mental health, domestic violence services, adult education, school leadership, business strategy, and leadership in the United States Marine Corps.

Christin founded Joya Sagrada Integrative Therapy after working with individuals, couples, and families in community-based clinical settings. Her experience in direct care, professional training, and organizational consulting shaped her interest in strengthening both the people who provide healing services and the systems that support their work.

The idea for the Healing Fields Foundation began when Christin observed the confidence, resilience, belonging, and personal growth young people experienced through a local surf program. She began exploring how therapists and graduate trainees might support similar community and immersive experiences. Over time, the idea evolved into a broader question: How can the conditions that support transformation be understood, taught, and responsibly reproduced?

This inquiry led Christin to develop the Healing Fields Model—a shared framework for understanding how relationships, environment, embodied experience, nervous-system regulation, and meaning work together to support change. She later expanded the model into role-based training that prepares co-facilitators to support immersive experiences with clear boundaries, ethical safeguards, and referral pathways.

Through HFF, Christin brings together clinical supervision, workforce development, organizational consulting, and program implementation. Her work prepares emerging therapists and facilitators for clearly defined roles while helping mission-driven organizations create consistent, teachable, and replicable programs that can grow without losing their integrity.