She goes past what my “story (my words),” are saying and guides me to what my body is holding and trying to tell me.
How to describe, in words, what I experience in my body and emotions when I’m with Kelsey? I laugh, cry, sing, rage, and sit in silence. Once, while reenacting one of my childhood memories, we had a fall-on-the-ground belly laugh. I’ll never forget that moment. She amazes me with what she does. Kelsey is unique. I am continually surprised by where she “takes me.”
Kelsey intuits things about me that I don’t even know about me. She goes past what my “story (my words),” are saying and guides me to what my body is holding and trying to tell me. She recognized, in our first meeting, that knowledge is how I cover feelings and avoid pain. I was not aware of this strategy. Together, we are revealing my True Self.
Kelsey’s approach is invitational, curious, accepting, and playful (at times). She knows that my body knows itself best and she invites it toward possibilities. She guides it toward limitations without overwhelming the system. I’ve experienced many different types of breath-work, gentle yoga movements, vocalizations, meditations, learning to recognize my self-states and so much more. These different practices often bring insight to trauma that is held in my body. My body has said more than my thoughts ever could.
Kelsey, genuinely self-effacing, never speaks of all she knows; she is brilliant. I know she is a trauma-informed Yogi, a therapeutic, somatic practitioner with a working understanding of neuroscience and physiological/emotional states-of-being. She pulls from Ayurvedic ancient wisdom and wellness of breath and body. Beyond these, Kelsey has a “knowing” that is beyond taught skills. If I had to give a definition of “embodiment,” it would be “Kelsey.”
Though our 20 months together has been primarily virtual, I feel connected to her during our time together and even outside of sessions. It feels like she embodies me as much as another person could do that.
Bobbie Mohler: wife, mom, grandmother, mental health therapist, spiritual being, hopeless hoarder of tomes of knowledge and information—Indiana