Kirstine Keel, CMHC
&
The Path to Peaceful Power
BACKGROUND
Master’s degree as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC). Kirstine's main focus is working with teenagers, adults, and families suffering from childhood trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, and the loss of a child.
​FAMILY
Raised in Beverly Hills during the classic era of the '50s and '60s, I saw life through a lens of privilege. My father was MGM movie star Howard Keel who starred in such notable movies as Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane, Show Boat, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Kismet, among others. The world of Hollywood entertainment presented an outward sense of beauty and power but lacked the internal sense of belonging I craved.
I became a Christian and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of 19 and increased my spiritual understanding of life and the importance of family. As a mother of five children, the loss of each of my four sons as adult men created a personal interest in the consequences of addictive behavior. My oldest son, David, and I appeared on Utah’s KTVX CW30 News to advocate for the bill that made it possible for first responders to carry Narcan shots in the state of Utah.
I wrote and illustrated a children’s book entitled, Marley the Motmot in the Land of Trees. Artistic endeavors include oil portraits and my association with an organization conserving the Peninsular Bighorn ram. My art has appeared in its publication of Path of the Bighorn, Connecting a Community. Recently, I have written my memoir, Hollywood to Heaven, Opening the Gates to Peaceful Power Miracles. I continue to offer clients my guidance in their search for belonging and peaceful power.
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My beautiful boys!
MISSION:
My mission is to share the story of my life to demonstrate how faith can make all the difference in creating a life of hope and happiness. Through compassionate wisdom gained from overcoming tribulation, my life demonstrates how faith can replace trauma with peace and shame with confidence. This is what I’ve experienced and has become my mission to share.
Clearing
by Martha Postlewaite, Poet
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create a clearing
in the dense forest of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
Falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know​
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.