I’m Kelly - a trauma-informed coach and healing practictioner who helps humans like you recalibrate your nervous system, reclaim your energy, and return home to your body.
More about me.
I’m deeply passionate about weaving together a life of service, conscious parenting, and changemaking with holistic healing and wellness.
For over 25 years, I’ve worked in public health, social justice, and healing - supporting individuals and communities on their paths to transformation, both locally and around the world.
My Experience & Training
Before stepping fully into the healing space, I studied Psychology and Spanish at Macalester College. I then moved to post-war El Salvador to research collective trauma and support community healing—work that evolved into the creation of a mental health program for youth and children in communities of former combatants and refugees.
After five formative years in El Salvador, I returned to the U.S. to deepen my understanding of systems-level healing and earned a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University.
My holistic healing training includes:
200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification
Holistic Health Coach Certification
Healing the Light Body Shamanic Healing Certification
Sacred Depths Coaching Certification (with Joanna Lindenbaum)
Ongoing study in somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and behavioral change
Together, these experiences inform a trauma-informed, body-based, soul-centered approach that I bring to all my work—from private sessions to group programs and healing retreats.
What Guides My Work
My work is grounded in deep listening, love, and the belief that healing happens when we reconnect to our bodies, calm our nervous systems, and remember our wholeness.
Whether you’re a changemaker, parent, leader, or caregiver, I offer space to slow down, recalibrate, and reclaim your sense of peace, purpose, and vitality—so you can live and lead from a place of inner alignment.
My Healing Journey
My path into healing wasn’t linear. Two decades ago, in the midst of a mysterious illness that left me depleted, anxious, and barely able to function, I found myself at a crossroads. Western medicine offered no answers, and I knew I had to chart my own course toward healing.
So I did.
I immersed myself in yoga, meditation, herbal medicine, acupuncture, nutrition, energy healing, and more. And slowly, through the integration of mind, body, spirit, and nature, I healed. That experience didn’t just change my life—it gave me a calling. I’ve since dedicated my life to helping others heal deeply and sustainably, using the very tools that helped me find my way back to wellness.
A Few Things That Make Me, Me
I’ve lived in four countries, worked in six, and danced salsa in all of them.
I’m a mom to a radiant human who continues to be my greatest teacher in compassion, humanity, and joy.
I once stayed calm while translating a hijacking at gunpoint in El Salvador—a moment that taught me everything about trauma, resilience, and nervous system regulation.
I break into Broadway songs during deep conversations and still believe dark chocolate counts as medicine.
I live by a few mantras: “The crack is where the light shines through.” and “Don’t ask me to take away the symptoms—the symptoms are the messengers.”
If you’re craving healing that’s deep, lasting, and rooted in both science and spirit - you’re in the right place.
I’m so glad you’re here.
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I’m here to support your healing, your leadership, and your rising.
Reclaim your vision.
Maybe you're ready to step into a new season of purpose. Maybe you're dreaming of more ease, clarity, or impact - in your work, your relationships, or your body. It starts with tending to the roots.
Build your capacity.
It’s hard to lead, create, or care when your nervous system is fried. Through embodied practice, grounded support, and soul-aligned strategy, I’ll help you regulate and rise with confidence.
Expand into who you're here to be.
Whether you're navigating burnout, building something big, or longing to feel like yourself again - this is your place to grow, heal, and come home to your full power.