
Kristina S. Brown, Ph.D., LMFT
Credentials & Education
M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy, University of San Diego
Area of Focus
Publications & Presentations
Editor of the Feminist Family Therapy Book Series:
- Women’s Health: Gender and Pain (2025)
- Women’s Health: Women and Cancer (2025)
- Women’s Reproductive & Sexual Health (2025)
Walker, N.J, Park, C.N., Brown, K.S., Hawkins, T. (2025). Feminist Intersectional Couple, Relationship, and Family Therapy. In J. Jodry & K. McCleskey (Eds.), Feminist Intersectional Therapy: Fourth Wave Clinical Applications. Rowman & Littlefield.
Brown, K.S. (Ed.). (2024). American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Systemic Ethics Textbook. AAMFT.
Sterrett, E., Sutton, A., Brown, K.S., Culver-Turner, R., Ketring, S., & Rastogi, M. (2023). “I was simply trying to make it through the day”: A collaborative autoethnography of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy Program Directors in a diversity and anti-racism peer consultation group. Family Process, 63 (2), 594-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12907
Brown, K.S. (2023, November). Endometriosis afflicts millions of women, but few people feel comfortable talking about it. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/endometriosis-afflicts-millions-of-women-but-few-people-feel-comfortable-talking-about-it-203829
Brown, K.S. (2023, March). Moving in with your partner? Talking about these 3 things first can smooth the way, according to a couples therapist. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/moving-in-with-your-partner-talking-about-these-3-things-first-can-smooth-the-way-according-to-a-couples-therapist-194226
Bender, S., Brown, K.S., ^Kasitz, D.L.H., & ^Vega, O. (2023). Kids at the door: An autoethnography of our shared research identity as academic mothers in virtual collaboration. In S. Trocchio, L. Hanasono, J. J. Borchert, R. Dwyer, & J. Harvie (Eds.), Academic Mothers Building Online Communities: It Takes a Village (pp. 319-342). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26665-2_20
Brown, K.S., ^Schmidt, B., ^Morrow, C., & Rougeaux-Burnes, G. (2023*). Pre-cohabitation conversations for Relationships: Recommended questions for discussion. Contemporary Family Therapy, 45, 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-021-09594-6 *Published online in 2021
^Paquelet, D.R., & Brown, K.S. (2023). Parental alienating behaviors in Noah Baumbach’s high-conflict divorce films, The Squid and the Whale and Marriage Story: A cinematherapy tool for (training) mental health providers. Contemporary Family Therapy, 45, 450-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-022-09656-3
Brown, K.S.*, & Gale, J.* (2022). Dyadic interviews: A chronological review of the literature with research recommendations. Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, v16(n3), 196-206. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1359947 *Co-first authors
Brown, K.S., Bender, S., Lambrechts, A., Boutelier, S., Farwell, T., ^Martinez-Suarez, A., & ^Larasatie, P.^ (2022). “Set your soul on fire”: A feminist-informed co-constructed autoethnography of sixteen multidiscipline, multicultural, and multilingual globally located academic women exploring gendered academic productivity during Covid-19. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 6(2), 242-264. https://doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/12291
Brown, K.S., Farwell, T., Bender, S., Boutelier, S., Leonoqicz-Bukala, I., ^Martinez-Suarez, A., & ^Lariset, P. (2022). “Part of something larger than myself”: Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multilingual international research team of academic women. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211073209
Bender, S., Brown, K.S., ^Kasitz, D., & ^Vega, O. (2022). Academic women and their children: Parenting during Covid-19 and the impact on engagement in scholarship. Family Relations, 71(1), 46-67. http://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12632 *Top cited article published in an issue between January 1, 2021 to December 15, 2022 (also listed under Honors & Awards) *Top cited article 2022-2023 among work published between January 1, 2021 to December 15, 2022 (also listed under Honors & Awards)
Brown, K.S., Bender, S., ^Vega, O., & ^Kasitz, D. (2021). Academic womxn and their partners: Managing scholarly expectations within the couple relationship in quarantine. Family Relations, 70(4), 939-954. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12572
Brown, K.S., ^Iverson, L., & “Cari.” (2020). Using BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism) to manage endometriosis pain: A case report. Journal of Pain Management, 13(4), 395-399. https://novapublishers.com/shop/volume-13-issue-4-journal-of-pain-management/
Diamond, R., Brown, K.S., & ^Miranda, J. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on the perinatal period through a biopsychosocial systemic framework. Contemporary Family Therapy, 42(3), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-020-09544-8
Brown, K.S., ^Londergan, K., & Bluvshtein, M. (2020). And they lived happily ever after: An intimate closeness of Systems and Adlerian Theories in the case of a transgender couple. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 76(1), 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2020.0023
Brown, K.S. (2019). #metoo: Sexual harassment within Psychology, Social Work, and Marriage/Couple and Family Therapy training programs. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 31(4), 195-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952833.2019.1676958
Torres Bernal, A., Le, K., West, A. M., & Brown, K.S. (2017). An examination of rates, rank, advancement, and salary of women faculty in COAMFTE-accredited training programs. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 29(1-2), 88-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952833.2016.1268449
Harvey, R., Brown, K.S., Miller, B., Williams-Reade, J., Tyndall, L. & Murphy, M. (2016) Theory into research practice: Reflections and recommendations on collaborative feminist research. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 28(4), 136-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952833.2016.1235410