Meet the Therapist

Kally is a Licensed Therapist providing virtual therapy to clients located all across Florida. She specializes in helping young adult women heal from traumatic and stressful experiences, specifically those involving attachment wounds and relational trauma. She has been working in the mental health field since 2015 and has worked in a variety of settings including substance abuse detox, residential treatment for co-occurring mental health & substance use disorders, and community mental health outpatient. Her interest in specializing in anxiety and trauma disorders was sparked by her time spent working with Department of Corrections clients at a long-term residential treatment program and developing close relationships with her clients who were court-mandated for treatment. She quickly realized how deeply and intensely trauma affects identity development, social relationships and attachment style, ability to manage emotions and communicate effectively, involvement in high-risk behavior, physical health and access to medical care, chronic anxiety and depression levels, financial instability as well as development of substance use disorders as a deep-rooted coping response to poverty, abuse and neglect, sexual assault and violence, racism and discrimination, grief and loss, loneliness, unstable and dysfunctional family dynamics, lack of exposure to consistently supportive and meaningful relationships, untreated mental health issues, emotional overwhelm and limited support and access to resources. She continued to develop her interest in understanding and treating complex trauma during her time working in an outpatient facility, which provided her with further experience in helping clients who had severe trauma histories and a wide variety of complex symptoms and clinical needs.

She has received training in the Trauma Resiliency Model, Somatic Therapy, Psychodynamic therapy, Parts-work therapies, and DBT. Her approach to therapy is heavily influenced by the teachings and research of trauma experts Peter Levine, Richard Schwartz, and Janina Fisher who focus on bottom-up approaches to treating trauma (addressing the physiological and sensory experiences of the body rather than simply focusing on the cognitive aspects of trauma) as well as working from the core belief of relational therapy: that human beings are deeply shaped by their relationships and that our relational experiences significantly influence our mental, emotional, and psychological well-being. She has earned her Master’s degree and Specialist’s degree from the University of Florida in Counselor Education, with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling. She attended the University of Central Florida for her Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

In her personal life, Kally enjoys living life as a crazy cat lady with her 4 furry children. She is an avid reader and enjoys books focusing on a variety of mental health and wellness topics including complex trauma, women’s mental health, anxiety, the relationship between physical health and psychological trauma, psychopharmacology, and personality disorders. Personality disorders and their etiology such as ASPD, BPD, NPD as well as psychopathy are of strong interest and focus for Kally in her reading as it relates to the treatment of complex trauma symptoms within clients who have endured mistreatment and abuse by those suffering from untreated personality disorders.

Additionally, you can find her binge-watching The Office (again and again…), attending music festivals as a veteran raver, practicing yoga, spending time in nature, weight-lifting, practicing flow arts, and watching true crime series and mystery/thriller movies. She is passionate about supporting women through recognizing and acknowledging the trauma and adverse experiences that systemic, societal, and political oppressive actions have on the safety of women’s rights, body autonomy, and mental health.