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About Reflective Relationships

Reflective Consultation supports each professional’s use of self-reflection to enhance services and the ability to assist others in reflecting. Current studies have shown that this type of supervision has the ability to increase job satisfaction, decrease burnout, and decrease worker turnover. This, in turn, impacts positively the services being provided to children and families, deepening relationships and increasing social and emotional skills.

Meet Kristi

Professional Highlights include:

10 years experience as a Reflective Consultant

5 years as Director of Endorsement and Reflective Practice at the Washington Association for Infant Mental Health, building out RSC practice throughout the state. In this role, she vetted providers of reflective supervision and supported over 200 professionals to become endorsed in Infant Mental Health

Co-author and lead of a 4-state effort, involving over 125 stakeholders across the Greater Northwest to create the publication: “Reflective Supervision: A Guide from Region X to Enhance Reflective Practice Among Home Visiting Programs,” that has been utilized around the globe.

Creator and facilitator of RSC supervisor trainings and mentorship groups which empower community agencies to increase RSC leadership within. She uses evaluation to adapt curricula to best meet the needs of different professional groups and communities.

Member of Reflective Supervision Research group with the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health, committed to increasing RSC evaluation and research practices.

Presenter/educator for conferences and IECMH organizations all over the United States, including at the national Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health Reflective Supervision Symposium and Zero to Three Conferences.

Owner Kristi Armstrong is a seasoned leader of Reflective Supervision Consultation (RSC) facilitation, training, mentorship, and systems building. She is committed to equity and social justice. Her work is guided by core principles of RSC and centers relationships in her support of prenatal to five professionals and leaders across the nation and diverse fields within Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. As a community connector and mentor in the field of RSC, Kristi has created a network of skilled reflective consultants, and Reflective Relationships is committed to providing services for groups with a professional who best fits their needs.