Founder of The Still Room Dermal Apothecary
Hi, I’m Krystina Dion, a Holistic Skin Health Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience working with skin.
Over those years, I’ve trained and worked across a broad range of disciplines that have complemented and deepened my work as a holistic skin and spa therapist. My extended training includes advanced dermal therapy, corneo-therapy, aroma-science, traditional herbal medicine, natural cosmetic chemistry and culinary wellbeing.
Alongside this, I owned and worked within my own natural skin and spa clinic, where I specialised in sensitive and reactive skin. I drew on this combined expertise to develop professional skincare formulations and treatment programmes that harnessed the therapeutic properties of essential oils and herbal preparations.
In addition to what is now more than 35,000 hours spent in the clinic room observing and working with skin, my curiousity has always taken me beyond the treatment room.
Over time, I became increasingly interested in why some sensitive and complex skin conditions responded beautifully to topical treatment, while others did not. That led me to look beyond skincare alone and explore the wider influences on skin health — from food and nutrition to our environment, daily habits and the way we live.
That curiousity has become a significant part of my work today.
Alongside holistic skin advice, I teach a food-as-medicine-first approach, including growing and cultivating herbs for their nutritional and therapeutic value, understanding the importance of healthy soil, and returning to traditional methods of growing, preparing and cooking food. For me, these aren’t separate interests. They are part of understanding some of the modern imbalances I increasingly see reflected in the skin.
I also teach online educational programmes in acne and, after retiring from full-time hands-on clinical practice, I am now studying Health Science full-time to continue developing and updating my knowledge.
The Still Room brings these worlds together
My work has always sat somewhere between the traditional and the scientific.
There is the art of hands-on, intuitive work — observing the person in front of me, listening carefully, understanding how they live and recognising patterns that don’t always appear on a product label or treatment chart.
And there is the science: understanding skin and body mechanics, formulation, plant chemistry, nutrition and the therapeutic properties of the herbs and essential oils I have worked with for decades.
I believe the body has an extraordinary intelligence of its own. Quite often, we humans have a habit of getting in its way.
My approach has therefore developed through years of observation: looking at the skin, understanding how the body functions, listening to people and considering the environment they live within.
Because skin doesn’t exist in isolation.
It can reflect imbalances occurring within the body, but it can also respond to what is happening in our outside world. Finding a way forward often begins with identifying where those imbalances may be coming from.
Sometimes the answer is relatively straight forward, but difficult to change. In these cases we address barriers to change and lifestyle adjustments (using certified life coaching techniques and aroma therapy).
Sometimes the answer is simply a change in skin care.
That’s where my skills as a Skin Detective come in.
After more than 35,000 hours of observing skin and the people living inside it, I’ve developed a way of working that is very much my own — looking for patterns, asking questions and helping people make sense of what their skin may be responding to.
If you would like guidance on the skincare most appropriate for your skin, or you have a persistent or complex acne condition that has been difficult to understand, you are welcome to book a consultation with me using the link below.
.
