Kelsey Harper (she/her)

Experiencing chronic emotional distress and dysregulation can leave us feeling isolated and alone, and like we can't get connected to ourselves. I have worked extensively with people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and Borderline Traits for years with empathic validation and effective Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Many of my clients utilize DBT skills to soothe distress, regulate emotions, and truly build a life that's worth living.

Trauma fundamentally shapes how we perceive the world, how we function within it, and how we take our next steps. Trauma is a psychological injury, and it is highly treatable and reparable. I utilize Attachment Focused EMDR to process and repair traumatic experiences, reinstate a sense of integrity to the self, and deeply heal traumatic wounds.

I specifically work with survivors of sexual trauma. As a survivor myself, I intimately know and understand the challenging process of recovery. I hold safe and validating space for survivors, and offer feminist justice-based interventions to repair trauma, rebuild a life worth living, and reconnect to community.

I have received extensive training and experience working with trauma recovery in individual, family and community spaces for over a decade. I am trained in Trauma Focused CBT, Prolonged Exposure, EMDR, and Child Parent Psychotherapy. I have worked with clients recovering from trauma in all levels of care and acuity, and continue to dedicate my work to offering effective treatment for all disorders related to trauma.

I am intensively trained (Level I, II, and III) in EMDR and Attachment focused EMDR. I have applied this model effectively for my clients to process traumatic memories and experiences throughout the lifespan, instill a sense of resilience, and integrate memories into a greater narrative and understanding of the self.

I am an intensively trained DBT therapist, I received intensive training for DBT, DBT with adolescents, DBT for couples and families. I have worked in immersive DBT settings providing individual DBT, DBT skills group, and DBT family programs, in all levels of care and acuity. I currently provide DBT individually to instill a skillful lifestyle and assist clients in building a life worth living.

Struggling with chronic emotion dysregulation and distress can feel isolating and demoralizing. With DBT I help clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder or Borderline traits build skills to soothe emotional distress, regulate and focus the mind, and build a true life worth living. I have extensive training in DBT and its applications, and have offered DBT in all levels of care and settings.

I have built an expertise in working with trauma with over 16 years of clinical training and experience treating trauma across the lifespan. Trauma fundamentally shapes how we perceive the world, how we function within it, and how we take our next steps. In all cases, trauma engages our instinctual survival brain to save our lives, and following trauma we may need time and help to recover, repair, and rebuild. I am intensively trained in EMDR, Trauma Focused CBT, Prolonged Exposure.