Katrina Fields is a stress management specialist, certified nervous system coach, and the founder of Clear Mind Strategies, a consulting firm that partners with Fortune 500 companies to reduce workplace burnout and improve executive performance. Over the past fourteen years, she has worked with more than 8,000 professionals across technology, healthcare, finance, and law — helping them move from chronic overwhelm to sustainable high performance without sacrificing their health or personal lives.
Her approach bridges neuroscience, somatic psychology, and behavioral design. She holds certifications in applied psychophysiology from the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance and in trauma-informed coaching from the Trauma Research Foundation. She has completed advanced training in heart rate variability biofeedback, polyvagal theory, and cognitive behavioral coaching. Her methodologies draw on peer-reviewed research from Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research, Harvard's Stress and Development Lab, and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Katrina regularly speaks at industry conferences and corporate leadership retreats on topics including nervous system regulation for high-stakes decision-making, the physiology of burnout recovery, and designing workplace cultures that support cognitive performance. Her writing has appeared in *Harvard Business Review*, *Psychology Today*, and *Forbes*, where she covers the intersection of stress science and professional effectiveness.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is an avid trail runner, a volunteer facilitator for a local stress-reduction program for veterans, and a collector of cookbooks she fully intends to cook from eventually. *The Stress Reset* is her first book.