Kelly Stracener (she/her)

I have completed the Somatic Experiencing and Transforming Touch trainings that focus on the treatment of PTSD.

I have 10+ years of practice with NVC. It has shaped how I think and interact in my personal life as well as how I understand clients.

I have completed trainings in multiple types of somatic therapy, including Somatic Experiencing, Transforming Touch, and BASE. The somatic perspective helps us address symptoms that haven't resolved by traditional talk therapies.

I first learned about attachment theory as a caregiver, and it has since shaped how I work as a therapist. Feeling safe and secure in your relationship with your therapist is an important foundation for doing healing work together.

I use what I've learned from the DARe model (dynamic attachment re-patterning), from the Transforming Touch model (initially created for people with attachment disruptions), and from my years of experience taking care of young children. Each gives me a different kind of understanding and is equally important to how I see attachment relationships.

I use what I've learned from the DARe model (dynamic attachment re-patterning), from the Transforming Touch model (initially created for people with attachment disruptions), and from my years of experience taking care of young children. Each gives me a different kind of understanding and is equally important to how I see attachment relationships.

Somatic therapies bring new tools and understanding to the treatment of anxiety. When we look at anxiety through a somatic therapy lens, it can help us make sense of anxiety as a "flight response" (part of "fight or flight"). We can use the feelings and sensations in the body to help guide the way back to what it would feel like to have the anxiety settle.