Kellie Grady
LPC, LCMHCA, NCC
Practice Owner & Clinical Therapist
Hello, I’m Kellie, and I’m so glad you’re here!
I Graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne University with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Before graduate school, I attended Appalachian State University where I received my Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations with a minor in psychology.
Since my time in university has ended (for now), I have worked with a group practice in Michigan and where I met with many adult individuals navigating life in college, relationship challenges, identity exploration, anxiety, trauma, and OCD.
After moving back to NC, in 2023, I decided to start my own private practice, Therapy imbued, and have transition to fully virtual sessions. I still meet with my clients and residents of Michigan and maintain licensure there as well as in NC.
My training in EMDR and ERP, alongside continued education and practice implementing these modalities has been incredibly helpful while working with adult individuals navigating relationships, identity, trauma, anxiety, OCD, and life adjustments.
My therapeutic approach is relational in nature, and I hold trauma responsiveness at the forefront of all my work.
It’s my goal is to truly hear, understand, and work with clients in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling to them. In my experience, an approach that allows me to be in a client’s reality with them, and understand their perspective is one that is most effective in helping clients achieve their goals, and feel how they hope to in life.
Parts of my eclectic approach through different therapeutic interventions, theories, and modalities include Internal Family Systems, Narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment, Somatic approaches, Neurodivergent and identity affirming and informed care, and Psychodynamic. Continuing to learn about and build upon my knowledge is a characteristic that has existed with me as a human long before any counseling took place.
I can honestly say that I truly love my career as a therapist, and that my work with individuals has been an absolute dream come true.
It is an honor to meet with and work with so many incredible people, and I firmly believe that we heal in relationships. The longer I am in practice, the more I find that therapy isn’t just for when we need it, but also for when we want it too, because we all deserve a space to explore, process, and feel free in to explore ourselves and our lives.
Outside of sessions I love to be outdoors, create art with fiber through crocheting, knitting, macrame, embroidery, sewing and really anything with fibers. I love to spend time with people close to me, play with my dog MacDougall, learn about topics I’m currently interested in, which vary widely, and explore all that the Charlotte area has to offer and connect with.
Imbue - verb: inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).
To fill something or someone with a particular feeling, quality, or idea.
I’ve felt the concept of Therapy Imbued for years, but couldn’t quite put a name to it. It’s been an absolute privilege to meet with so many wonderful clients over the years, and learn from other therapists in the practice setting. With these experiences, my informed approach has led me to find that therapy only goes as far as we allow it to. When we make space to take therapy outside of the therapy space, we allow our lives to open up to becoming therapeutic too.
If you’ve been in a therapeutic space, with a therapist who is a great fit, you know the quality this can bring to your life. In the space, you’re able to nonjudgementally and curiously explore parts of life, feelings, and experiences in a way that bring about new ideas, juxtaposed concepts, and sometimes even an entirely new conceptualization of existing in life.
No matter what the space brings, it’s always dependent on you, and what you want to inspire or fill your life with, which for a lot of people, is the best part.
Therapy Imbued was inspired by, and is continually inspired by the practice of taking all that I am as a therapist with me, because I as the human am the best tool for relational therapeutic intervention and healing, and my training informs so much of my life as a human outside of the therapy room. Therapy Imbued is a flow of practice in being, doing, observing, interacting, questioning, learning, regressing, evolving, and existing; a daily implementation of integrating, adapting, learning, and growing.
Felt time, memorized experiences, experiential learning and the relationships that inform our identity aren’t just themes identified in sessions that bring about insights, skills, and approaches, they’re spaces we exist in constantly where we learn and discover ourselves. My goal is to create spaces in which each individual, group member, or person I encounter is able to find qualities, feelings, or ideas that resonate with their most authentic feeling life.
Whether you’re hoping to find applicable approaches to boundary setting in relationships, or ways to show compassion towards yourself, the space I intentionally commit to creating and adapting, is one where we find a way towards what you determine is a better quality of life and authentic way of living.
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