Christina Kantzavelos is a California-licensed psychotherapist and writer. She received her Bachelor’s and Master's of Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her Master of Library and Information Sciences from San Jose California State University (SJSU).
She has visited over 30 different countries and documented most of it on social media. However, it was in completing the Camino de Santiago (500-mile pilgrimage across Spain) at the end of 2015, that she realized her strong affinity with writing. She decided to start @BuenQamino, an award-winning, gluten-free, and health-conscious lifestyle, travel publication.
In her clinical practice (@BeginWithinToday), she treats and is an advocate for those with chronic illness, including Lyme disease, and physical, developmental and age-related disabilities, and also specializes in neurodivergent diagnoses, complex trauma, and psychedelic integration therapy.
She published the Begin Within Daily Health Wellness Journals for chronic illness and mental wellness, which she is turning into an app called @WithinMeApp.
She currently sits on the board of Ride Out Lyme, an organization that provides grant funding for patients with Lyme disease, volunteers as a group support facilitator, and sits on the board for San Diego Lyme Alliance (Bay Area Lyme Foundation affiliate).
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