“Early in the COVID season when the virus was raging, I received a call from Able To, through my health insurance, offering counseling. I knew I need that. Due to the news and the isolation I was in despair. I was assigned two listener/counselors, one to talk about my struggles and one to help with strategies to deal with isolation and my husband’s creeping dementia. Christen was one of those. Soon I felt heard and cared for. With the encouragement and strategies they offered, my life became much more manageable. I’ll mention one idea I received from Christen. It was to get out of the house and take my husband for a drive. That led to “eating out “ by ordering on line from our favorites restaurants or going to a drive through and parking somewhere to watch the traffic. Another idea was to write down three positive things in my life at the beginning of the day, thus starting the day on a positive note. I’ll add that at the time I was in my early 80s and now I’m 88 and still living with the counseling I received from Christen.”

Betty S.

"I have known Christen for many years, and she has helped me through countless emotional mountains! Her open ears, quiet compassion and warm hugs have brought me up from some very dark places. Christen is intelligent, insightful, and so much fun to be around. She genuinely cares about everyone she comes into contact with, and somehow sees and hears beyond the surface presentation to get to the heart of things. She has been a blessing in my life!"

Ellen

"Christen has been a wonderful liaison for my mother in law who is elderly, blind, has MS, and lives in a nursing home. I live 3 hours away and Christen’s visits have been rays of sunshine in my mother in law’s sometimes very empty and gloomy days. Christen is warm and loving and professional and thorough."

Jenn F.

“I have had the pleasure of working with Christen as a nurse colleague and having her as a personal friend. Christen has compassion and the ability to understand like no other. She is a wealth of knowledge and has been a great teacher in the professional setting. Christen is kind, funny and honest and has such a strong faith that it makes it impossible not to have your own faith. Anyone who has the chance to work with and know Christen is extremely lucky.”

Brittany W.

“Both of our parents entered in to a nursing home together about 2 years ago. they were both in need of 24-7 care and eventually the nursing home was not able to give them the full care that we as their children wanted them to have and that is how we were guided to Christen. We were in need of a loving ,caring, compassionate devoted Angel to help guide us and my Dad to transition home. He had some deep struggles that required nursing and companionship and most of all, a Heart felt connection to be with him through the nights that we could not be available for Dad. Christen brought that to him and us during the times when there was no other nursing staff available at the nursing home.Her Nursing skills were so appreciated because of my Dad’s end of life needs that were too specialized for the nursing home staff. There is no amount of Gratitude from myself and our family that could equal the the piece of heaven that Christen brought in to our lives during that time of our urgent need. Christen is a Heart centered nurse, with God given passion and skills. She cared for my Dad, and our family, till he died.”

Jeffrey T.