Dr. Christina Hibbert is a clinical psychologist, international speaker, and bestselling, award-winning author who has spent more than 25 years helping women understand the emotional side of health.

She is the author of the #1 bestselling, award-winning memoir “This Is How We Grow”, along with “Who Am I Without You?” and ‘8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise”.

Her fourth book, “Reluctant Warrior: A Memoir & Breast Cancer Emotional Survival Guide”, releases October 5, 2026.

Christi’s advocacy began in maternal mental health. She founded the Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition, produced the internationally distributed *Postpartum Couples* program, testified before state legislators, and built continuing education for the clinicians who treat women. She was named Most Inspirational Women’s Health Professional in 2018 and 2019, and Arizona’s Mother of the Year in 2018.

Then, in 2019, she moved to the other side of the exam table.

Diagnosed at forty-four with triple-negative breast cancer and the BRCA1 genetic mutation, Christi went through chemotherapy, cold-capping, and fifteen surgeries — and then into the chronic illnesses that followed, including POTS, MCAS, and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. What she found there was the same gap she had spent her career closing in maternal mental health, wide open again in cancer care: almost no one asked about her mind.

That gap is now her work. Through her writing, her speaking, and her online community, Christi advocates for whole-person care — for the idea that emotional healing belongs alongside medical treatment, not after it. She won a WEGO Health Award, “Best in Show: Blog,” for her advocacy in breast cancer and women’s mental health, and she facilitates “Growing Through Breast Cancer,” a Facebook and monthly virtual emotional support group.

She continues to supervise clinicians working toward licensure, and co-leads a weekly addiction recovery group with her husband.

A wife of 31 years and mother of six, ages 30 to 18, Christi lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. When she’s not keeping up with her family or attempting some precious “alone time,” she enjoys traveling, songwriting, naps, reading in hammocks, and dark chocolate — often all at the same time.