About Kristie

Hello, I’m Kristie Ives

— Transpersonal Therapist, Kinesiologist, and the heart behind Heartspace.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by healing, consciousness, and the deeper mysteries of human experience.

As a teenager, I was first drawn to reiki. From there, my path widened into hands-on and subtle explorations: massage and reflexology; the quiet languages of flower essences and aromatherapy; periods of study in naturopathy, homeopathy, and colour therapy. Each offered a way of listening — to the body, to energy, to what moves beneath words — yet none, on its own, felt complete.

Discovering kinesiology was a turning point for me. It brought many of these threads together, offering a way to listen through the body and work integratively with physical, emotional, and psychospiritual experience. For more than a decade, I worked in private practice as a kinesiologist, accompanying people through the many challenges and openings life can bring our way.

Alongside professional training, my own practices have shaped me just as deeply. Meditation and breathwork, creative journaling, dreamwork, and long periods of quiet reflection have been part of my life for many years now.

They have steadied me, challenged me, and slowly taught me how to stay present with what is uncomfortable rather than move quickly to fix it.

Over time, this changed the way I work. I’ve come to trust that what supports healing is not technique alone, but the quality of attention we bring. When there is enough space and care, people begin to meet what is already there — in their own way and in their own time. Much of this work is the practice of getting quiet enough to notice.

This recognition led me into transpersonal therapy. From the outset, it felt less like learning something new and more like finding language for a way of working that had been present all along — one that could hold healing and self-discovery, meaning and mystery, creativity and care, with both depth and integrity.

More than just influencing my practice, it articulated something I had long sensed to be true: that healing, creativity, spirituality, relationships, and our connection with the wider world are not separate threads, but part of a larger whole. That life is always speaking to us through dreams, symbols, relationships, nature, and the patterns that quietly emerge within our lives, if we learn how to listen. In many ways, it gave shape to a philosophy and practice I had always intuitively lived by.

On a more personal level, my husband and sons have also been some of my greatest teachers. They continue to inform how I listen and how I hold others, returning the work again and again to what is real, embodied, and human. They remind me that growth and healing do not happen apart from everyday life, but within it.

Today, these strands are no longer separate. They have ripened into an integrated offering best described as Inner Work— grounded in transpersonal therapy, shaped by presence and relationship, and informed by years of embodied and subtle practice.

I am fortunate to live and work in the beautiful Perth Hills of Western Australia, where Heartspace is quietly attuned to this place — its seasons, its slowness, and the living presence of the land on which I meet others.