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 grad school I attended Appalachian State University where I received my Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations with a minor in psychology. Since graduating from LR 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. Since moving back to NC, in 2023, I have started my own private practice, Therapy imbued, and transition to fully virtual sessions, meeting through telehealth with North Carolina and Michigan residents. I am trained in EMDR and ERP and have found the two modalities and ongoing training/education/consultation to be 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. 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 and enjoy working with clients and find it to be an honor to meet with and work with so many incredible people. I firmly believe that we heal in relationships and that therapy isn’t just for when we need it, but 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.
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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