Kelsi Reeves, LPC-A

I have found that the most powerful way of engaging in this process is group therapy. I encourage most of the people I see to consider joining a group because group therapy creates opportunities to experience and understand how we tend to defend against emotions and feelings in the present moment by exploring these feelings with others in a climate of curiosity and tolerance. Participating in a group helps us to better identify and express our feelings. This can lead to more fulfilling relationships, being more effective at work, deepening friendships, and bringing our best to our family roles.

Each of us responds to disappointment, threat, and uncertainty based on unique learnings and emotional knowings we acquired as we live and connect with others in early and other significant relationships. Often, our struggles are rooted in hurts and hard learnings related to these responses and the meaning we make of them. I employ interventions and principles guided by what modern relational neuroscience teaches about the brain, the body, the mind, the nervous system, and their impact on well-being to create a therapeutic process unique to you. Healing and the brain changes that support growth-related learning and unlearning also happen within relationships. I prioritize nurturing ours while using an integrative approach informed by training in numerous evidence-based humanistic, holistic, somatic, and psychodynamic treatment modalities and ancient wisdom traditions to create a space where you can deepen self-knowledge and self-trust in ways that create the insight and emotional intelligence you deserve to thrive and experience a fulfilling life.

Most of the people I work with benefit from exploring their struggles through a more compassionate lens and this will likely be a focus in our work as we collaborate on helping you find what you long for by breaking patterns of dissatisfaction and disconnection while building on your strengths to open to life with enthusiasm and an expanded sense of “okay-ness” with the inevitable difficulties and challenges that show up

Who I Work With:

Teens (age 15 +)

I work collaboratively with teens and parents using trauma-informed, brain-based, nervous-system-informed perspectives and practices based on the work of Dr. Bruce Perry and Robyn Gobbel, among others.

Adults, Relationships, and Groups

I specialize in untangling the root cause of symptoms that create suffering in order to break free from the addictive patterns, behaviors, beliefs, and substances we use to manage, escape, and soothe emotional distress to live with more ease and less pain. I provide individual, relational, and group therapy to adults from all walks of life including the queer and neurodiverse communities I identify with and a wide range of ages, races, genders, spiritual beliefs, education levels, and income brackets. I am sex-positive, kink-allied, supportive of open relationships and non-monogamy, conventional or traditional relationships. Your unique combination of characteristics will be met with acceptance, curiosity, and validation. Some of the things I can help with include:

• Complex and Attachment Trauma
• Relationship Issues
• Guilt + Shame
• Spirituality
• Neurodiversity
• ADHD
• Addiction
• Emotional Dysregulation 
• Dissociation
• Borderline Traits
• Anxiety + Depression
• Alcohol + Drug Use
• Grief + Mourning
• Religious Trauma
• Identity Development
• LGBTQIA Issues
• Loneliness + Disconnection
• Life + Career Transitions
• Self-Harming
• Suicidal Ideation

Background

I am grateful to have found my way to this field after a 25-year career in high-stakes political and corporate roles as an advocate for social change, achieving outward success that often masked an inward sense of dissociation and disconnectedness. My personal journey through various forms of therapy and levels of care – individual, group, couples… at different stages of life, with different types of therapists has profoundly shaped my understanding and approach to healing and sparked a deep desire to understand the human condition and how the embodied integration of brain, mind, and relationships shape us. I love learning about this! This fascination led me to obtain academic credentials and advanced trainings that compliment years of personal studies and experiences with esteemed mentors in the healing qualities of somatic work, meditation, spirituality, storytelling, dance, music, and poetry so that I can support and serve others in their desire to increase well-being and reduce suffering. I spend my time away from work on walks with my dog listening to teachings, podcasts, and books, practicing Buti Yoga, water-skiing on occasion, and enjoying time with the people I hold dear.