Guiding You Back To YourSelf
… Holistic Occupational Therapy for moving toward what matters most in your life.
Understand how your nervous system works. Develop the skills, to return to ease, connection, choice, positive routines, empowerment & health.
Holistic Occupational Therapy Is For Anyone Who…
Feeling Stuck and Struggling to Take Action Toward What Truly Matters to You
Wanting to Experience More Fun, Joy & Ease in your Life.
Strength Based Support Navigating Sensory Challenges , Neurodivergence and Complex Health needs.
Seeking Support And Skills For Navigating Difficult Transitions, Relationships And Grief.
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As a Holistic Mental Health Occupational Therapist, I love working with individuals who :
-Feels curious about how the nervous system is impacting their mental & physical health and are wanting support accessing more ease, joy and well-being.
-Are amidst a challenging life or job transition and feeling burnt-out, stuck and unclear about your priorities, needs and how to move forward.
-You feel like there has been maybe a “missing piece” in purely talk based talk therapy…. and want more help understanding your BODY and ways to support yourself…. so you can implement more insights . You’d like help implementing grounded change in your daily life, work and relationships.
-Are Autistic or Neurodivergent and desiring deeper understanding of how to befriend and support your unique nervous system and sensory needs…. I LOVE supporting individuals to discover your strengths, gifts and a deeper understanding and build a greater sense of AGENCY, empowerment and self trust.
-Together, we can experiment and find customized routines and habits that fit YOU and your values and unique system with more ease.
-Are amidst a challenging life or job transition and feeling burnt-out, stuck and unclear about your priorities, needs and how to move forward.
……Though education about how your brain an body work + developing “deep listening” to your own inner wisdom and values…..more ease is possible for you!
***This practice structure is not equipped to provide care for acute, severe or crisis level mental health concerns. Please reach out if you have any questions about this . I am happy to provide you with referrals if your needs exceed what I can offer and help with.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Approaches that inform my Holistic, Occupational Therapy perspective:
Somatic Experiencing & Organic Intelligence are mindfulness & biologically based therapeutic approaches designed to support our bodies get unstuck and moving beyond states of fight, flight and freeze and build the biological capacity for expanding the range of emotional regulation, These approaches are subtle but powerful ways to return to the present moment and deepen your capacity for joy, ease and pleasure in life. Our nervous system is designed for resilience, but can sometimes get “stuck” in states that leave us struggling and feeling disconnected from ourselves, the world around us and keeping us from fully inhabiting our deepest Self and access our sense of agency .
The primary goal in SE and Organic Intelligence work is on building nervous system CAPACITY, and be able to more efficiently and effectively process stress so you can have energy and agency to move toward what is meaningful for you. As the founder of Organic Intelligence, Steve Hoskinson says, “the goal is to help you FEEL BETTER BY FEELING BETTER.” I am here to helping you find the small doable steps, and creating conditions for your biology to do so more easefully on its own, not by force or sheer willpower.
Being connected with our body senses and our external environments is an essential skill for everyday “good living” and allows us to inhabit our mind, body and spirit more fully and in more authentic and connected relationships.
Click Here To Learn About The Benefits Of Somatic Therapy
- Understand how your nervous system works and learn how to come back to feeling present, centered, and grounded.
- Feel connected with your body, your intuition, and your power.
- Become highly attuned to your boundaries through bodily intuition; know your true “yes” and “no” and how to confidently hold them.
- Build a greater capacity to feel joy, pleasure, freedom, and genuine self-compassion.
- Safely move through and integrate traumatic experiences in a gentle easeful way.
- Learn how to regulate emotions so secondary coping strategies are not needed to tolerate uncomfortable feelings and emotions.
.. how do I learn to do more of what I want in my life?
Through our work, I offer a wide variety of tools to help you learn to befriend your challenges and stuck points and learn more generative ways relate to your mind & body. Very often our struggles can soften with the right support, education and having clarity and a companion in the process of implementing DOABLE steps toward your most aligned action and deepest values.
As an OT, my focus is supporting you to build cognitive and nervous system self awareness and “meta-cognition” capacity and safely deepen your interoceptive awareness ( felt sense) so that there can be more ease moving forward in caring for yourself and ease moving toward what matters most to you.
Through gentle inquiry, dialogue, body listening prompts and sometimes in creative projects and activities, you will gain a greater understanding of the complex interplay between your beliefs, nervous system states, sensory profile and daily routines and environments you find yourself in …often, when we do this, we can find NEW ways of relating to yourself with more spaciousness, self kindness and ease moving toward your goals and values aligned priorities.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”- Carl Jung
Deep change work is a PROCESS that does take comittment…. we can go so much faster with the right support.
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Learn more about Somatic IFS and answer your questions.
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Establish goals: what is between you and what you most want?
Continue Your Journey
Follow your body’s pace toward what matters most to you.
About Kelly
It is a profound honor and joy to walk alongside so many individuals on their healing path coming back into mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. I deeply believe that with the right support, we can move beyond our survival adaptations and build our capacity to return to feelings of ease, joy, satisfaction, ALIVENESS and reconnect with a sense of radical “wholeness” and authenticity.
As an Occupational Therapist with a broad box of mind and body tools, my deepest hope is to help you reconnect to your own sense of agency and feel empowered to move toward what is meaningful and important to you.
I believe that our greatest pains are tremendous opportunities to redefine how we move through the world, and come into a renewed relationship with ourselves and others.
I look forward to working along side you in your healing journey.
“Working with Kelly has been a transformative experience. I began working with her during one of the lowest times I have ever experienced in my life, and her care, the space she holds and her skill in guiding me into deep work was exactly what I needed to begin to heal, and – even more – to grow. I have gained a deeper understanding of myself and how to listen to my parts, and have been armed with tools to help me continue the work we do outside of our sessions together with her support and collaboration. I can’t recommend her highly enough to anyone looking for a collaborative and nurturing therapist to help them become more truly who they are.” – Client