Therapy for adults who think deeply, feel intensely,
and are tired of navigating OCD or Trauma on their own.
About my approach to therapy
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Acceptance and Commitment approach for anxiety and relational rumination - OCD & Anxiety treatment
EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for PTSD, Complex Trauma, Relational Trauma, Single Event Trauma, & Childhood Trauma
Narrative therapy, IFS, CBT, Humanistic, Relational, Existential, approaches.
I approach working with individuals through a trauma responsive, relationally informed approach, with person centered counseling at the forefront of sessions. Core concepts of embodying a nonjudgemental, authentic, and genuine person to hold space in sessions is a way of being I strive for with individuals I am meeting with, and are integral to my approach with each modality.
Using my experience, training, and specializations, I take this person centered approach so that we may utilize your insights to help meet your unique goals in a way that feels authentic to you, while using the therapeutic relationship to build on skills and awareness of your personal experience.
I work with individuals hoping to explore and approach additional areas of life and mental health through
Exploring and understanding identity
Practicing and adapting communication skills
Developing and adapting functional coping kills
Adjustments and adaptive skill building
Relational goals and growth
Healing from codependency and enmeshment
Stages of life and transitional periods
I would love to hear more about what your hopes and goals for therapy.
Please reach out and let’s talk more about how we can create a space and approach that best supports you.
About the therapist
Kellie Grady
LPC, LCMHC, 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.
It is an honor to meet with individuals who choose to work with me as their therapist, and I firmly believe that we heal in relationships. The longer I am in practice, the more I find therapy isn’t just for when we need it, but also for when we want it too, because we all deserve a space experienced as safe to explore, process, and learn about ourselves.
Outside of sessions I love to be outdoors, explore Charlotte, crochet, knit, and work with fibers. I love spending time with the people in my life, play with my dog Dougall, learn about topics I’m currently interested in, which vary widely, and explore all that life has to offer and connect with.
Background and History
After receiving my M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lenoir-Rhyne University in 2020 and becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor, I gained unique experience providing services to individuals experiencing hyperarousal dysfunction related symptoms (anxiety, PTSD, OCD) in private practice and immersed myself in continued education and training.
Throughout my practice I have learned the most effective approach is one that is personalized to meet the needs of each individual client. To honor the unique and genuine concerns each client presents, for EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), ACT informed ERP for OCD (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy informed Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), Neurodivergence, Gender Affirming Care, Body Image and approaches to working with disordered eating, and other therapeutic approaches including Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Somatic and Attachment Therapy and Relational Therapy.
It is my goal to provide clients with an environment where they may fully be their authentic self, no matter how life has been recently.
In my clinical experience, I have found when people are given the opportunity to be heard, understood, and appreciated, healing often follows.
Life presents us with challenges of all types, and it is my privilege to build the therapeutic relationship with clients and help individuals develop awareness and skills that feel authentic to them, to move through all that we face in life, so that the experience of life itself is something we can enjoy.
I provide services to adults in Charlotte, North Carolina seeking telehealth therapy for trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD, body image concerns, LGBTQIA+ concerns, life transitions, career exploration, relationship concerns, grief and loss, and identity exploration.