MEET the ALCHEMIST
Hey, I’m Kristen.
For more than 25 years, I’ve lived at the intersection of two worlds: healing and high performance.
My work brings them together to help people move through change with greater clarity, resilience, and trust in themselves.
I learned early that we can’t always force our way through.
After being diagnosed with lupus, I found myself asking questions that conventional answers alone couldn't satisfy. I wanted to understand not only what was happening in my body, but how stress, emotion, environment and the way we move through life shape our wellbeing.
That search eventually took me around the world—including living in the Himalayas and Bali, where I learned from healers whose understanding of the body, energy and transformation was very different from the Western world I knew.
Healing taught me there are some things we can't think or force our way through.
I’ve sat in boardrooms. And I’ve sat with people facing their own mortality.
For 25 years, I've advised Fortune 100 leaders through change, innovation, and leadership. I've also experienced corporate burnout twice and walked alongside people I love through cancer, mental illness, and serious health challenges.
Those experiences taught me something surprising:
Both rooms need many of the same things.
The ability to quiet the noise. To regulate the nervous system. To think clearly. And to respond from a place of steadiness rather than fear.
People don't need fixing.
They need the right conditions to reconnect with the wisdom, resilience, and capacity that have been there all along.
That's at the heart of everything I do.
I integrate neuroscience-based coaching with sound and frequency to help quiet overthinking, uncover patterns, and create greater clarity. The work is deeply personal—because what one person needs to move forward may be entirely different from what another needs.
The goal isn't for me to heal you. It's to help you reconnect with your own capacity for change.
MY ETHOS
Discover my signature approach that shapes our work together.
✦ Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about returning to what’s true.
✦ Recalibrate how you live. In a world obsessed with output, optimization, and achievement, I offer a recalibration at the root level. Not just a space to pause—but a scientifically grounded, energetically intelligent process that reconnects you with your deepest power.
✦ Your body holds ancient intelligence. And when you learn to listen to it, you stop outsourcing your truth.
✦ Burnout isn’t a time management issue. It’s an energetic mismatch between how you’re living and who you really are.
✦ Real healing doesn't come from templates. Or protocols, or generic plans. Your healing is as unique as your story.
✦ Honor your lived experience. Root-cause transformation needs to honor your lived experience to create sustainable shifts that last.
✦ Sound is powerful. Sound is one of the most powerful tools we have to shift what talk alone can’t touch.
✦ Clarity isn’t something you find by doing more. It’s something you unlock when your nervous system finally feels safe enough to receive it.
✦ The strongest people don't need more strategy. They need a nervous system capable of executing it. Otherwise, even the best strategy stays theoretical.
✦ You don’t need fixing. You need resonance. A frequency that brings you back into harmony with the life that’s already calling you forward.
Transformation doesn't happen because someone gives you the answers. It happens when the right conditions allow you to discover your own.
About Kristen Firpo
She has over 25 years of experience in the healing world and the corporate world. This began early on, when she was diagnosed with lupus and formally burned out twice in the corporate world. She’s also watched family and friends move through cancer and mental illness. Through these real-life experiences, she learned that we can’t force our way through things. She lived in the Himalayas and Bali, learning from healers there, then brought that back — along with the knowledge she brings to corporate leaders and people feeling stuck, struggling through a transition, or navigating an illness.
Today she brings both worlds into one room. People come to her sessions overwhelmed, stressed, stuck in fear — and leave lighter, clearer, and able to think again. Using exceptional sound frequency instruments and neuroscience-based coaching, she creates a sound experience personal to each person in the room, not to heal them for them, but to show them they already hold the conditions for their own healing — and send them home knowing how to create those conditions again, on their own.
She offers personal sound healing sessions and leads retreats built for exactly this kind of remembering.
CREDENTIALS & TRAINING
Breathe, and know you’re in good hands.
300-Hour Sound Healing, Ayurveda, & Yoga
Kailash Tribal School
Dharamshala, India
2015
Voice & Sound Alchemy Training
With Amma Sophia Rose
Bali
2016
Gong Certification
Level 1
With Sanjay Hall
Bali
2016
Published
Book
Author
The Alchemy
2026
500-Hour Professional Certified Coach
International Coaching Federation,
San Francisco, CA
2025
Published
Book Contributor
Leadership in the Age of AI
2025