About Me

My name is Kelsay, and I wear many hats, most of them bowler hats! I’m a professional writer, artist and expressive arts practitioner working along the edges of the mythic self, trauma resolution and compassionate change. If you’re holding back in your creativity and in your life, I offer cutting edge transformative programs and courses to help you reestablish creative flow, experience more joy in life, and feel settled in your whole system.

With dual M.F.A degrees in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from Saint Mary’s College of California and certification as a Tamalpa Institute Life/Art Process® Practitioner and Teacher, 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 as a Coach, Expressive Arts Practitioner and the Founder of Dialogical Persona Healing Arts. The mission of my work is the transformation, embodiment and expression of who you are at the deepest levels, so you can have the experience of integration, resolution and wholeness of any fragments or pieces inside of you. We create brave sanctuaries for your living, vibrant and multifaceted self to blossom into its fullest expressions, so you have more personal power, authenticity and connection in the world.