Kintla Striker is a recognized trauma expert, a bridge between East and West, science and spirit, and a pioneer in the adaptation of ancient mind-body medicine for integrative trauma treatment and sustainable mental wellness. 

For the past nearly 17 years since Kintla first started Kintla Mind-Body Global (originally Kintla Yoga, LLC), her work has continued to grow out of her own healing and the seed of a dream to be of service to others in a meaningful way.

Currently, she is moving through her own healing yet again—“like a phoenix,” as one colleague recently observed—rising to begin again from recent tragedy, injury, and the most profound loss of her life.

Kintla’s offerings include her evidence-based, trauma-adapted integrative trauma treatment—the KYT Approach—with individuals and groups, international lectures and trainings, trauma education, trauma research, private and public helping organization advising, case consultations, partnering with academia, and humanitarian efforts.  

Collectively, her research and individual and group session work has included those seeking a more equanimous way through the challenges of daily life, chronic stress, and moreover survivors of often severe traumatic events including childhood abuse and/or neglect, sexual assault, military war theater deployment (veterans), college sexual assault, rape, mass sexual assault (Larry Nassar), human trafficking (labor and sex), disasters, mental health providers (secondary trauma), institutional betrayal, prison (men), addiction/substance use disorder (women in drug treatment courts), domestic violence, emigration/ immigration (refugees), auto accidents, medical trauma, and more. 

Kintla’s approach to integrative trauma treatment is a response to the limitations of Western-only top down, blank slate methods prevalent at the time she began her work and the healing power of heartfulness and social engagement in trauma recovery.

Beyond or alongside of (or integrated into) talk therapy there is a place for whole-person healing—a safe, connected, heartful meeting place, devoid of power dynamics and filled with choice to cultivate the reconnect of mind, body, and heart (spirit).

Learn more about Kintla’s journey of a lifetime and research here

Additionally, Kintla has a 30-year active special interest in seeing an end to human trafficking. She has extensive experience in this arena ranging from working with survivors to providing educational lectures to advising organizations and being interviewed in the multi-award-winning documentary Break the Chain, which raises awarenss of human trafficking in the United States. The groundbreaking film has been broadly watched by the general public and used as a training film for judiciary, police departments, and other social service organizations. Watch the trailer below.

Kintla Striker’s dedication to trauma awareness and advocacy for survivors extends beyond clinical work. She was interviewed in the award-winning documentary Break the Chain, a nationally recognized film exposing the realities of human trafficking in the United States, raising awareness, and advocating for survivors. 

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Kintla Mind-Body Global was established in 2009 (originally Kintla Yoga, LLC) in East Lansing, Michigan at a time when talking about trauma was not an acceptable part of public discourse. In fact the very mention of the word was seemingly off-limits. Collectively, we’ve come a long way since then.

Through opening to deeper understanding of ourselves both individually and collectively we’re learning that healing is more than the story of what happened; it is the art of transmuting and weaving those experiences into the fabric of who we are, guiding both our everyday living and the dreams we carry forward. 

Our mission has always been simple: Empowering post-traumatic growth. 

We also continue to visualize a world where mental wellness is honored as a basic human right. A world where compassion and simple, trauma-adapted mind-body-heart tools are easily accessible to ALL people, everywhere.

Kintla Mind-Body Global is honored to have its founder, Kintla Striker, interviewed in the groundbreaking documentary Break the Chain — an award-winning independent film and educational tool that sheds light on the hidden-in-plain-sight issue of human trafficking in Michigan and across the United States.

Kintla has long been a dedicated advocate for vulnerable populations, particularly survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking.

This powerful documentary features the stories of two survivors of sex and labor trafficking, revealing how this crime thrives undetected within our communities. Break the Chain challenges widespread misconceptions and invites viewers to recognize their connection to this billion-dollar industry—empowering us to change what we support and how we, together, break the chain.

The film also serves as an educational training resource for students, law enforcement, first responders, social workers, and healthcare professionals. In 2018, Break the Chain received a national grant to tour the East Coast through the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation On-Screen/In-Person Program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Watch the Trailer