Kelly Sobczak

Exploring self-identity often involves examining belief systems, including spiritual and sexual understandings, which can be a distressing yet crucial process. A supportive environment facilitates this by focusing on an individual's personal values and strengths. This helps define what creates meaning and purpose, enabling you to envision your future and actionable steps. This approach is sensitive to diverse beliefs, minimizing external influence during self-discovery.

Living with chronic illness can be incredibly challenging, bringing grief over lost abilities and frustration with the healthcare system. I provide the "I believe you" that allows you to heal your relationship with the impact of your illness and/or disability. I then help you explore and resolve the effects of medical trauma, assist you with self-advocacy and protecting your rights, and provide supportive resources and referrals.

Exploring self-identity often involves examining belief systems, including spirituality, sexuality, religious trauma, and how they intersect, a distressing yet crucial process. A supportive environment facilitates this by focusing on an individual's personal values and strengths. This helps define what creates your meaning and purpose, enabling you to envision your future and actionable steps. This approach is sensitive to diverse beliefs, minimizing external influence during self-discovery.

Eating disorders are challenging, multi-systemic illnesses to overcome, but with help, recovery is possible! Eating disorders are complex, often not really about food but rather other underlying, unresolved issues or traumas. Generally, the eating disorder plays some sort of role in giving the person a sense of safety, control, protection, coping, or a number of other things. I have the experience and training to address eating disorders from an integrative, interdisciplinary approach.

Based on my foundational counseling training, my use of integrative therapy provides an individualized, holistic approach by combining concepts and techniques from various approaches according to your unique needs. I offer flexible and inclusive therapy that considers your mental, physical, and emotional health as a whole while we work together to understand the origins of your presenting concerns, giving you a voice in your therapy.

I am EMDR-trained through EMDR Consulting (EMDRIA-approved) and integrate other therapies into my EMDR practice. I am able to offer EMDR sessions in-person or virtually after assessing your appropriateness for treatment with EMDR. Many clients like that EMDR allows them to stop "thinking so hard" and letting their brain do the work. I always ensure that you are equipped with resources and strategies for your self-care and wellbeing between EMDR sessions.

ACT helps you accept what you can't personally control and commit to doing things that can improve your daily life. We clarify and leverage your values and strengths to guide and motivate you to focus on what is important to you and reach your potential for a meaningful and purposeful life. My training and experience allow me to apply ACT to any presenting concern.