Meet Krista Day-Gloe
Krista Day-Gloe, LCSW
Therapist · Founder · Author · Speaker
Krista Day-Gloe, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and founder of Healing Roots Wellness Center.
She brings a body-led, nervous system-informed approach to mental health care, helping people understand how physiology, chronic health conditions, hormones, and stress responses influence mood, behavior, and overall well-being.
Clinical Focus & Philosophy
Krista believes that mental health begins in the body and that the nervous system responds before conscious thought. Her work helps individuals and groups learn how to listen to the body’s signals and understand how hormonal rhythms and chronic health stress can shape behavior, mood, and long-standing patterns. She teaches that awareness of these physiological influences often opens the door to deeper, more lasting change.
She specializes in supporting individuals navigating:
- Chronic health issues and their emotional impact
- Eating disorders and disordered eating patterns, especially where they intersect with chronic illness
- Hormonal influences on mood and physiological rhythms
- Trauma and trauma-related nervous system dysregulation
- Anxiety, depression, irritability, and burnouts
Krista’s approach is from a bottom-up perspective to mental and physical health. She emphasizes nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and psychoeducation alongside traditional clinical tools to help people build resilience, deepen self-understanding, and helping people live more connected and embodied lives.
Professional Experience
Krista holds a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree, and clinical licensure in social work, and she has completed extensive trainings in EMDR therapy, nervous system-based protocols (including Safe and Sound Protocol work), and integrative mental health practices. She is a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) and has trained with facilitators in somatic and trauma-informed methods.
With close to two decades of experience, Krista has worked in diverse settings. She has worked in community based home visiting models, in residential treatment facilities, to now owning her own private practice for over 10+ years. She has spent thousands of hours with clients using approaches that respect the complexity of lived experience and physiology.
Teaching, Speaking & Thought Leadership
In addition to her clinical work, Krista is a sought-after educator, consultant, and speaker. Her teaching focuses on body-led mental health, emphasizing how physiology, nervous system regulation, hormonal rhythms, and chronic health stress influence mood, behavior, and emotional resilience across the lifespan. She is especially known for her work at the intersection of eating disorders and chronic health conditions, approaching all diagnoses through a bottom-up, nervous-system-informed lens.
Krista’s workshops, trainings, and presentations support clinicians, interdisciplinary teams, and community audiences in understanding anxiety, depression, irritability, burnout, and restrictive patterns as meaningful physiological responses rather than personal failures. Her teaching bridges research and clinical insight with accessible, practical language—helping complex science become usable, human, and applicable in everyday life.
Krista also shares her work through the Body-Led Mental Health blog https://bodyledmentalhealth.substack.com/ and leads educational workshops such as Mood & Moon, https://healingrootswellnesscenter.com/online-courses/ which support women (or AFAB individuals) in understanding cyclical hormonal rhythms, mood shifts, and body-led mental health across the menstrual cycle.
What Clients & Colleagues Can Expect
Krista’s work is grounded in compassion, clarity, and a deep respect for the complexity of human experience. Whether working one-on-one or in group settings, she helps people:
- Feel seen and validated through education and empathy, by identifying how patterns are influenced by physiology and the nervous system
- Identify patterns rooted in survival responses rather than character or willpower, and gain insight into how the body’s physiology shapes both mental and physical health
- Develop regulation skills that support insight, change, and emotional stability
- Cultivate self-awareness through nervous system awareness that leads to meaningful, sustainable growth
Her goal is to help people feel more embodied, informed, and empowered in their healing journeys — not just symptom-reduced, but better connected to themselves and their capacities for well-being.
If you’re curious about working with Krista or bringing this work into your organization or community, you’re invited to reach out through the contact form to start the conversation
