About the therapist
Kellie Grady
Practice Owner & Clinical Therapist
LPC, LCMHC, NCC
About the approach
Person Centered - Humanistic
As a counselor, I believe attuning to others, believing their lived experience, and creating a space with them is fundamental to insight, empowerment, and sustainable change.
Eclectic & Evidence Based
As a counselor trained in many modalities, I approach therapy with the understanding that one modality may not work for everyone or everything, and that sometimes the most effective approach is one that’s meeting the individual in what they need as their needs change.
Education and History
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 anxiety, trauma, and OCD, life adjustments, relationship challenges, and identity.
In the fall of 2023, I moved back to NC, maintained my work with Michigan clients virtually, and decided to start my own private practice in North Carolina, Therapy Imbued. Since this transition and life adjustment began I have maintained work with many individuals in both Michigan and North Carolina, obtained full licensure in both states, continued my education, training and experience working with complex relational trauma and OCD, and continue to practice fully remote through telehealth.
Training and approach
My training in EMDR and ERP, alongside continued education and practice implementing these modalities has been immensely valuable and informs much of my approach working with individuals. Through the years I have maintained adherence to evidence based modalities and approaches, and I have learned that my best approach is one where I am able to meet the unique needs of the individual with me in session. My therapeutic approach is relational in nature, and I hold trauma responsiveness at the forefront of my work. In addition to EMDR and ERP, I often integrate approaches of Internal Family Systems, Narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment, Somatic approaches, Neurodivergent and identity affirming and informed care, and Psychodynamic theory.
It’s my goal is to truly hear, understand, and work with clients in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling to them. Feedback on how I am approaching, working with, and offering invitations for practice of skills learned and explored in sessions is always welcome and deeply valued.
It is an absolute privilege to meet with individuals who choose to work with me as their therapist, and I firmly believe that we as humans heal in relationships. The longer I practice, the more I find therapy isn’t just for when we need it, but also for when we desire access to it as a touchstone. Spaces built through the therapeutic process, within the therapeutic relationship, can serve as witnesses to the creation and memory of a detailed map, mutually understood and respected as personal evolution. To be trusted in your lived experience, valued as it is your birth right to be, known as you allow yourself to be, and remembered comprehensively is, in my experience, one of the most therapeutic offerings we can access and extend to others. I maintain dual licensure and welcome former, current, and prospective clients indefinitely.
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.
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.