Today we’d like to introduce you to Rachel Kelly.
Hi Rachel, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
Hi! My name is Rachel Kelly. I am originally from New York and moved to San Diego the summer of 2019. I am the youngest of 3 and have always been an emotional healer at heart. My parents met in Social Work School and were both therapists so the healer was already being nurtured in me from a young age. I then followed in their footsteps and got my masters in Clinical Social Work. I worked in the traditional therapy field for 8 years and then discovered the online coaching world right before I was about to sit for my final therapy licensure exam. I realized the coaching model was much more of a fit for me because it allowed me to communicate with my clients on the daily rather than just a weekly therapy session. I made the though decision to pivot from my original dream of opening up a private practice for therapy and instead began my online coaching/healing business, Rachel Kelly Coaching.
This was largely inspired from doing my own deep trauma healing work with my own coach. After working with clients using traditional talk therapy and evidenced-based practices like CBT and DBT, I found my own coach who trained me in her method that was inspired from Dr. Gabor Mate’s work as well as Polyvagal theory. This method truly changed my life and was more effective than all my past therapy combined. I started using it with clients and noticed them having massive transformations due to this approach really getting to the ROOT of their issues and quite literally re-wiring their nervous systems. I wasn’t able to help people to this extent in the traditional therapy world because of the limitations that were imposed on therapists in combination with therapists being so burnt out working in such a traumatized system.
Finding the online coaching world changed my life. I have now been doing my own nervous system healing for almost a year and then helping all my clients in my signature 1:1 healing program INSIGHT for almost a year as well now. I’ve learned the more I heal myself, the more I’m able to help heal others as well.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
The biggest challenge was choosing authenticity over attachment. Everyone in the therapy field I worked with as well as my family expected me to go down this original road that I had carved out for myself. No one, including myself, ever thought I would make such a big decision as to literally burn my therapy papers and never look back.
Starting my own business has been one hurdle after another because starting a business truly brings up all the trauma responses. It brings up fear, avoidance, and resistance to expansion. That is why my own healing of creating internal safety in my body to show my nervous system I am safe to receive abundance, success, expansion, and so on was KEY to my ability to start and continue this business to where it’s at today.
Growing a healing business takes great faith in yourself and trusting the process that despite the bumps along the way, committing to yourself and creating your dream life is so worth it.
As you know, we’re big fans of Rachel Kelly Coaching. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
Rachel Kelly Coaching is a business that serves men and women in helping them heal their nervous system and release trauma out of their bodies. I am known for helping people heal their attachment wounds from childhood, their relational trauma, and their anxiety. I am able to take all my clinical training from the therapy world and apply it into a coaching model where I support my clients daily when life happens. I am able to provide a reparative experience for them and teach them how to reparent the younger part of themselves. I am so proud of how my own deep healing journey has helped form the business I have today. I am proud of how I have learned to transform my pain and lived experiences into my purpose in helping others do the same. I am so proud of my clients and all the healing they have done.
I currently have my signature 1:1 program INSIGHT where I help men and women re-wire their nervous systems to feel safe in their body so they’re no longer acting from their trauma responses or from their activated inner child but rather from a place of safety and their highest selves. I also just launched a men’s healing group called Real Men Heal with my fellow therapist friend, Anna. We are providing a safe space for men to heal their own attachment wounds, explore their relationship to their own masculinity and help them experience their emotions more fully in order to release addictive behaviors. I am also in the process of creating a group called “Come Home to Yourself” for anxiously attached women. I want to show them that despite how deep their attachment wounds run, healing is so very possible. I want every human to feel so deeply connected and securely attached to themselves so they can feel how they want to feel in life and not live in survival mode their whole lives. Humans are not meant to just survive but to truly believe they are powerful co-creators in their own lives.
Have you learned any interesting or important lessons due to the Covid-19 Crisis?
I have learned that humans at times need to be encouraged to slow down, get still, and further connect to themselves. I learned from COVID that our world is still living in a traumatized state and that healing starts with each of us as individuals so we can collectively heal as one. I have learned how pain can alchemize to purpose seeing so many people learn how to work completely remotely, start their own business and make the best out of a crisis like Covid. I learned how resilient humans are and also how much learning/healing we have left to do in order to shift how we relate to ourselves and one another.
Pricing:
- $1750 for 1:1 coaching
- $2500 for 3 months of men’s group coaching
- $2,444 for 3 months of women’s group coaching
- $47 for my meditation series called “Come Home to You”
Contact Info:
- Website: www.rachelkellycoaching.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_kelly_coaching/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100074898207744
