Member Profile

My name is Kelsay, and I stand for self-expression in all of its forms: embodied, spiritual, written and living. As an Expressive Arts Coach and Somatic Movement Educator, I am a force for compassionate change. I understand people’s desires and can guide them towards their soul’s purpose. If you’re holding back in your creativity and in your life, I offer individual and group coaching programs and online courses that use expressive arts and transformational processes to help you discover and reclaim your creative flow, experience more joy in life, and feel more settled in your whole system. My coaching uses a variety of modalities and approaches to meet each client where you’re at in your own life experience. Our work allows you to meet, move, dialogue, release and grow different parts of yourself for trauma healing and wholeness. The mission of my work is to hold space for the full expression of a living, vibrant and multifaceted self through the embodied arts.

With dual M.F.A degrees in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from Saint Mary’s College of California and certification in Tamalpa Institute’s Life/Art Process®, I’m now a Ph.D student in Transformative Inquiry at California Institute of Integral Studies. I have a decade’s worth of experience teaching, researching and collaborating in integrative somatic trauma therapy modalities, ways of understanding the self and what makes a meaningful life, and using the arts for transformative healing. I bring that breadth of experience and knowledge into all of my offerings for Dialogical Persona Healing Arts.

I see Dialogical Persona Healing Arts as an initiator—a site for creative change with my own personas, transformative process and healing as a model for my clients and students. From that initial site, many personas and layers come off, and I stand as a guardian: a protector and a bridge between what is and what is becoming—for myself, for my business and for my client’s own personas of transformation.