Hi, I’m Kellie Grady, LPC, LCMHCA, NCC
I created Therapy Imbued because I’ve found the most effective approach is one that travels through our lives long after the sessions end.
I became a therapist, and continue to love my role as a relational therapist, because I believe we all deserve a space to connect. We deserve spaces where we can curiously meet ourselves in life, and discover what we really need most, and also what we would like to leave behind.
In my clinical experience, I have had the absolute privilege of working with clients toward each of their unique and authentic goals. Through my clinical perspective, I’ve found therapy can be helpful when I curate my approach to include all interventions, skills, psychoed, and theories in my counseling toolbox for clients in sessions. As a relational therapist, I’ve found the most effective approach to be one that not only incorporates my training, specializations, and experience, but one that incorporates the nuanced life outside of sessions. I’ve found if we can find a way to imbue the hours outside of session with the therapeutic work that takes place in our one hour session, integrated, sustainable, authentic change takes place.
Imbued by definition is to inspire or permeate something, with a feeling or quality.
It my #1 goal to truly hear what quality clients hope to fill their life with. It is never my role to assume, judge, or give advice, but instead listen, understand, and connect. Many people reach out for therapy because they find certain qualities of their life are missing, whether that is the confident and assured internal voice they once heard loudly, or dulled spontaneity due to intrusive questions and demands making them feel honestly, really scared.
I intentionally chose the verb imbue because change requires insight and action. Therapy Imbued means engaging in the courageous act of stepping towards insight and self-awareness, humorously trying out self-compassionate self-talk, boldly learning and integrating psychoeducation you can apply to yourself, your relationships, and your history. It means clients always have the say in how they hope to inspire their own live, because they have always been, and always will be the experts on themselves.
Even if we don’t know what that “feeling or quality” we want to add to our lives with is quite yet, the process of curiosity and the quality of empathy built through the therapeutic relationship, can lead us to discovering it.
Imbue - verb: inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).
To fill something or someone with a particular feeling, quality, or idea.
Therapy Imbued has been something I’ve felt for years, but couldn’t quite put a name to. I have had the privilege of meeting with so many wonderful humans over the years, from clients to other therapists and even my own therapist.
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 is a practice; a daily implementation of integrating, adapting, learning, and growing through opportunity. Imbuing life with all the insights, skills, and approaches learned and discovered in the therapeutic relationship and space that therapy attunes itself to. my goal is that this practice will serve as a space in which each individual is able to find qualities, feelings, or ideas they feel could benefit their lives to feel whole, confident, and empowered.
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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