Kelsey Bates

LMHC

I am passionate about women's mental health and chronic illness due to my own experience navigating complex chronic health issues. I understand what it is like to navigate daily pain, to endure years of medical treatments, invasive procedures and work through grief and loss. I am a proud advocate for women with chronic illness and disabilities and feel my personal experience makes the therapeutic journey that much more impactful. I want to walk along side you in your grief, provide realistic coping skills and tools to manage chronic illness and help you find joy in life even in the midst of loss.

I value an integrative therapeutic approach, rooted in supportive psychodynamic therapy as well as trauma informed Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I want you to feel safe and supported while also gaining real life tools, worksheets and techniques to manage anxiety, pain and trauma.

You are an intelligent, high achieving woman who is dealing with the grief of a diagnosis, anxiety and chronic illness while juggling it all: a career, family, a partner, friends, dating and your health. You are a strong woman feeling overwhelmed navigating anxiety, grief, loss, or women's health issues such as chronic illness, infertility, birth trauma, sexual trauma or pregnancy loss. You are trying to start a family and feel like your life plans are derailed. You are dealing with the aftermath of sexual trauma. You are trying to find a new identity after birth trauma. You want to figure out a way to not just survive with women's health issues but to thrive-you need support, tools and a place grieve. If this sounds like you, Women's CBT is the place for you.