Guiding You Back To YourSelf
… and what matters in your life.
Understand how your nervous system works. Develop the skills to return to ease, connection, choice, empowerment & health.
Somatic Experiencing and IFS Therapy Is For Anyone Who Is…
Feeling Stuck and Struggling to Take Action Toward What Truly Matters to You
Wanting to Experience More Fun, Joy & Ease in your Life.
Wanting To Feel more Self-Connected, Self Confident & Self Trusting.
Seeking Support And Skills For Navigating Difficult Transitions, Relationships And Grief.
As a Holistic Mental Health Occupational Therapist, I love working with individuals who :
-Feel curious about how the body-mind & sensory systems are impacting their mental health, physical symptoms and stopping you from doing what you love or feels important.
-Feel like there has been a “missing piece” in purely cognitive based talk therapy…. and wanting a depth!
-Are interested in exploring Internal Family Systems or Somatic Experiencing alongside other holistic supports to move toward your goals. .
-Wanting a more easeful, harmonious, connected relationship with yourself, your body, your relationships.
-Desiring to have deeply compassionate, trauma informed support for move past patterns and habits that are keeping you stuck.
– Are amidst a challenging life transition and feeling burnt-out and unclear about how to move forward.
-Are Autistic or Neurodivergent and desiring deeper understanding of your sensory needs and help with daily life skills.
Though education about how your brain an body work + developing “deep listening” skills…. you CAN learn how to befriend and support your nervous system and move beyond what is keeping you stuck.
“The essence of trauma is disconnection: so the real question is, how did we get separated and how do we re-connect?”
– Gabor Mate
Somatic Experiences &Organic Intelligence
Somatic Experiencing & Organic Intelligence are mindfulness & body 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, be rooted in 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 creativity . The primary goal in SE and Organic Intelligence work is on building nervous system CAPACITY, and be able to more efficiently and effective process stress so you can have energy to move toward what is meaningful for you. As the founder of Organic Intelligence, Steve Hoskinson says, “our goal is to help you FEEL BETTER BY FEELING BETTER.”
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 be in more authentic and connected relationships with others.
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.
This work includes a large focus on developing the capacity for being able to slow down and drop into the body for “deep listening”
Click Here To Learn How Polarities Show Up With Our Parts:
- Part of you wants to prioritize taking better care of your health, yet other parts of you feel intensely obligated to take care of others needs and desires.
- Part of you likes your job and feels comfortable there, but other parts of you feel unsatisfied, unfulfilled and wishing that you could expand toward your passions and income.
- Part of you wants to give up a harmful habit, but other parts of you feel like you might die if you don’t have this coping method for relieving anxiety or sadness.
- Your body is in chronic pain, yet other parts of you still push you to keep up your full time schedule, social life and you struggle to ever feel better.
- Part of you deeply wants to connect/ make more friends, but other parts of you \ are incredibly anxious and fearful of social interactions and therefore you avoid making any close friendships.
- Part of you is tired and fed up and exhausted trying to achieve your “ideal” body, yet other parts of you feel certain that this is the only way to feel good about yourself or in control of your life.
- Part of you wants to forgive someone, another part wants nothing more than to run and leave and not risk feeling hurt ever again.
What Is Internal Family Systems Therapy
IFS is an evidence based, powerfully transformative model for understanding our mind & body and having language for self understanding and moving beyond areas of stuckness and inner values conflicts. IFS is a healing modality that believes that we all have a personality system which makes up multiple “parts” with each of us. Due to prior negative experiences, traumas, or early life attachment wounding, some of these “parts” of us develop extreme or confusing ways of being, and continue to feel, act and hold onto adaptive coping mechanisms and old ways of learning to protect ourselves.
We first get to work to know your parts (mental and physical) that are primarily involved in your presenting problems. Through gentle inquiry, we learn more about them, where & how they show up in the body and nervous system states, and begin to find NEW ways of relating to these parts from a more integrated cohesive SELF led way that can create much more spaciousness to move toward your goals and values aligned priorities.
Healing is a PROCESS. The hardest part can be finding the right help and getting started.
Schedule A Free Consultation
Learn more about Somatic IFS and answer your questions.
Attend Your First Session
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