Hi, I’m Kelsey Maeve, Somatic Coach & Embodiment Facilitator.
My life’s work is composting pain into fertile soil.
I love helping folks alchemize difficult emotions & expand into their heart’s true medicine.
If you are seeking mentorship, guidance and body centered care on your post traumatic growth journey, you are in the right place.
As a certified post traumatic growth coach, educator and trauma informed embodiment facilitator, I have been supporting folks to heal trauma through their bodies for over a decade.
Through group programs, facilitation & 1:1 coaching, I support magical, creative women to rewire old trauma patterns and shamelessly embody their brilliance and leadership in the world.
Over the years, I have come to believe that embodiment is the “predictable miracle” of trauma resolution.
I believe that…
Trauma is not a life-sentence
The body is the most efficient portal to resolving trauma
healthy change is possible with small do-able steps
When we honor our limitations, we expand our capacity
Our bodies are an integral component of trauma healing
Our personal and collective healing are intimately bound up & both are so important
Believe it or not, embodiment hasn’t always come easy to me.
I am actually super heady (gemini moon) and ambitious (Aries sun) and can have a suuuuper hard time slowing down. My embodiment practice has helped me to temper my impulse to go go go and to get into a more healthy rhythm.
The practices I facilitate stem partially from my training, and also partially from what I found was missing when I was seeking support as a survivor. I often create offers based on what I most deeply yearned for myself.
As a trauma survivor myself, I’ve learned about post traumatic growth through personal experience.
I know the pain that life in a body can bring. I have lived with challenging trauma imprints stemming from sexual violation, developmental trauma & institutional harm.
Spending years investing in my own ongoing somatic coaching & therapy has greatly reduced my experience of panic attacks, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, toxic shame and chronic illness. I know it works!
My lived experience of healing informs the work I do as a coach, teacher & mentor.
Trainings & Credentials
What qualifies & prepares me to do this work?
Certified ReBloom Coach with Racheal Maddox
Certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator with David Emerson & Jen Turner
Somatic Experiencing trained at the Advanced level with Dave Berger, Lael Keen & Joshua Sylvae
Certified Expressive Arts Facilitator with Chris Zydel
Depth Psychology Masters Degree Program at Sonoma State University
Certified Forrest Yoga teacher with Ana Forrest
Certified Prenatal Yoga teacher with Britt Fohrman
Certified Birth Doula with Natural Resources
I have received Somatic Experiencing sessions as a client since 2003 (20+ years!)
I’m a human who has lived through continued healing of complex developmental trauma
The ReBloom Coaching Method is a model of Archetypal Trauma Resolution for Personal & Collective Healing.
Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model for healing trauma and other stress disorders.
My background & positionally
I’m a white, queer, cis, femme living in a semi-able body with complex trauma. I have Irish & Swedish ancestry and am the descendant of settlers in the colonial U.S. I committed to un-learning the systems of oppression and harm that I’ve inherited co-creating loving cultures and communities of deeply rooted care, trust and interdependence. I believe that personal & collective healing are intricately bound up and that both are much needed in our world today.
I was raised in a communal home in Berkeley, California by therapists, artists & astrologers where I was born at home into a literal singing circle!
To this day I have a community heart & can’t get enough singing, circling or communing around the fire with creative, mystical souls.
My godmother says I’m “living into my lineage” as a somatic practitioner. And I’d say I’m living into my lineage as someone questioning norms and co-evolving the field of trauma healing with my beloved community, clients, colleagues & mentors.
Lineages of Practice
I am so grateful for my teachers & the wisdom traditions that have shaped me as a somatic practitioner. The main methodologies that inform my coaching work with clients are Somatic Experiencing + ReBloom Coaching, however, I am shaped by everything I have studied & practice, and would like to honor & acknowledge my teachers & lineages that animate my work.
Professional Certifications & Mentors:
Certified ReBloom Coach (2020) - I completed the 14-month training in the ReBloom Method for Personal & Collective Post Traumatic Growth with Racheal Maddox twice, and became a member of the ReBloom “hive” aka teaching team where I served as a guest teacher & supervisor in the advanced training program for coaches.
Somatic Experiencing Student (2019) - I have been a client of Somatic Experiencing for over 30 years (!!!) and this body based trauma healing method, developed by Peter Levine, has become a deeply engrained part of who I am. I have completed the 3-years of training at the Advanced level & am completing my certification homework currently.
Graduate studies in Depth Psychology (2016) - I completed one year of graduate studies in Depth Psychology (a branch of psychology developed by Carl Jung) at Sonoma State University where I received education on dreamwork, archetypes, movement, art & other creative approaches to psychology, sand tray, MBTI, and mythology.
Certified Expressive Arts Facilitator (2014) - After painting with my godmother Chris Zydel for many years in her expressive arts studio, I completed the yearlong training to become a facilitator in this art therapy method, centered around the process of intuitive painting. It’s so fun!
Certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (2014) - I was part of the second cohort to study TCTSY- an evidence based modality - with Dave Emerson & Jenn Turner at Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center, becoming the first TCTSY instructor in California in 2014. TCTSY is now being offered through the Center for Trauma & Embodiment.
RYT-200 (Registered Yoga Teacher) (2009) - I started studying yoga in 2009 and have trained in many styles with many teachers including Peggy Berg, Shy Sayar, Kiki Lovelace, Britt Fohrman & Ana Forrest. In 2018, I decided to stop teaching yoga as an extractive practice & to focus on coaching instead.
Certified Birth Doula (2009) - In 2009, I became a birth doula through Natural Resources in San Francisco, and attended about 10 births until I realized being on-call is not for me. I got deep into the birth world teaching prenatal yoga & apprenticing with Britt Fohrman. I still draw upon this foundational skillset in my somatic work.
Additional education & un-learning:
Liberation Spring Grassroots De-colonial School with Anjali Nath - 2017-2018
Foundations in Somatic abolitionism with Resmaa Menekem, Dec 2021
Embodied Ancestral Inquiry with Marika Heinrichs, May - July 2022
Reparative Communal Consultations for white bodies- with Carlin Quinn, 2022
Post Capitalist Futures with Education for Racial Equality, Sept - Dec 2022
Traditional Irish Sean-nós singing with Mary McLaughlin 2017-present
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