about kelsey
hey, I'm Kelsey
and lowkey? I'm the best of both worlds.
I'm a reiki master, sound healer, somatic bodyworker, and the person who will also build your website, edit your videos, and debug your Kajabi course at 9pm if that's what it takes.
I do both. on purpose. and yes, they're connected.
let me explain.
perolike... first: a disclaimer
I am not the crystals-strapped-to-forehead, speaking-in-lofty-riddles, ayahuasca-every-weekend kind of spiritual. I swear. I eat pizza. I've spent embarrassing amounts of time playing Puzzle Pirates and The Sims. I think working should be fun. I think healing should be fun. I think life (even the hard, painful, messy parts of it) should be approached with some joy.
we are all spiritual beings having a human experience. and the most important part? is the human part.
the spiritual part of you is eternal. infinite. it's not going anywhere.
but this? this life, this body, this specific version of you eating pizza on a Tuesday and crying at a random song and laughing until something comes out of your nose? this is a blip. a sacred, immersive, once in an infinite lifetime kind of blip.
so yeah, I take the spiritual work seriously. and I also think you should enjoy your beer.
chapter one
how i got here
when I was 16 I tore my ACL. ended up in physical therapy after surgery and remember thinking... this is it. helping people recover, get strong, get back to themselves. I want to do this.
so I worked hard, got into the PT program at Springfield College, made it all the way to anatomy and physiology. and promptly almost passed out when they made us wiggle our patellas. turns out seeing things out of place and moving limbs in unnatural directions makes me want to leave my body entirely.
so. not PT.
I switched to my minor, communication disorders (which is honestly hilarious in retrospect because my entire life has been about unblocking my throat chakra, but I didn't know that yet).
dropped out one semester before finishing. tried the speech pathology internship and knew immediately it wasn't right. what I actually wanted was to understand cognitive psychology: the psychology of human development, the way people are wired. and I couldn't get there without three more years of school I didn't want to do. 6 years for undergrad? no thanks.
so I took a left turn. and then another one.
what I didn't realize was that I'd been building the other half of my work my whole life without knowing it.
I was coding my MySpace page before most people knew what coding was. making icons for AIM chats. video editing in high school like it was nothing.
eventually landing in corporate where one of my many hats was helping debug websites and building training programs from scratch. full curriculum, lessons, materials, recordings, the whole thing.
the tech part of me was always there. I just spent a few years trying to leave it behind because it felt like the "old" version of me.
turns out it was always meant to be part of this.
chapter two
the remembrance
from about 16 to 22 I was deep in it. clinically diagnosed depression, anxiety, dissociation, dissociative amnesia. on antidepressants for years. losing most of my memories from that whole stretch of time. just... not really here, even when I was here.
at 21 I lost my best friend in a motorcycle accident.
her death didn't cause the suffering... that was already well underway. but it cracked something open. started an unraveling that would eventually lead me somewhere completely different.
by 24 I was in the middle of a full spiritual awakening. and when I had my first reiki session it wasn't a discovery.
it was a remembrance.
like — oh. OHHHH. what is this?? and why does it feel like coming home?
within three months I was attuned to reiki 1. reiki 2 and 3 followed within the year. I became a reiki master two years ago. and I've been intuitively working, learning, and observing ever since. using reiki as the tool it was always meant to be. my own lived experience of finding my way back to myself has been the foundation for helping others do the same.
I'm not guiding people through anything I haven't walked myself.
chapter three
the two things
recently, I stopped trying to choose between the two versions of myself.
the one who sits with people on the floor and channels things she can barely remember saying after. and the one who can build you a website, set up your course platform, and make your content actually look like you.
they were always the same person. they were always going to end up in the same place.
what connects them is the thing that's connected everything since I was 16 in that PT office: helping people get back to themselves.
whether that's through energy work or through finally getting the backend of their business out of their head and into the world. same work. different tools.
the real stuff
I'm based in western Massachusetts and yes I will travel.
my husband says I'm silly, goofy, and funny. in that order, in those proportions. he's not wrong.
the odds of us becoming actual friends if we work together are genuinely high. I care deeply, I show up fully, and I tend to overdeliver because I can't help it. I'm passionate about helping people fulfill their potential and I take that seriously even when (especially when) we're also laughing.
I have 6 Scorpio placements and a Gemini rising which basically means I will go extremely deep with you AND keep things interesting. you're welcome.
if something about this is resonating (even just a flicker) I'd love to hear from you.