Healed Parents

Healthy Children

Healed Parents • Healthy Children •

Trauma can disrupt our lives.

Healing is possible.

Coaching, massage and grief education for healing parents and healthy children.

Through somatic body re-education, the Grief Recovery Method, Self-Leadership and Parenting Through Trauma work, and children-focused grief education, I assist healing people everywhere with the skills necessary to leave fear behind and live in the now, with joy and self-authority. When we learn to embrace life with joy once again (or for the first time), we open ourselves up to a realm of limitless possibilities.

With patience, wisdom and grace, I teach you to embrace your exiled parts, re-learn your body’s innate wisdom and clear old, negative core beliefs with honest, healing core beliefs that will guide you to new heights in your life—a life where guilt and shame is not a constant companion, where most days are joy-filled, and where fear is a useful tool for motivation, not a mountain you cannot move past.

For hurting children, I offer multiple tools for helping them work through grief to be happier and more grounded as they incorporate loss reality into their life story. For pediatric clients with grief or trauma, I offer trauma-focused, extremely patient body-work sessions to help re-learn their body’s ability to be safe with touch.

Below you will find more in-depth information on each component of my work.

Coaching The Grief Recovery Method®

The Grief Recovery Method is a research-based educational format designed to assist grievers in completing relationships that have ended or changed. Grief Recovery Method teaches participants to transform their painful memories into fond or neutral ones, relieving the participant of the endless cycle of grief. The Grief Recovery Method brings intense healing to new and old grief naturally encountered in life.

This course enables you to reclaim your life by processing old, stuck grief. The program has been refined and utilized worldwide, offering a tried and true method for successful grief recovery.

Through my workshops, I give wise witness to your grief, helping you find closure regarding the pain and unfinished communications that occurred due to the pain of death, divorce, loss of business/job, loss of a child or any one of the more than 40 types of losses. Grief comes with the loss of tangible relationships such as a pet, and also with intangible relationships, such as a loss of trust, faith or belief in our own innate worth.

Self Leadership Coaching

Re-establish yourself as the authority on what is best for you.

Many traumas in life strip us of our power, instilling core beliefs that we are not worthy, good enough or capable. And it’s not just direct trauma that causes this: our society diminishes power from young childhood, our church doctrines limit a definitions of self-love, and systemic issues within our legal structures create many disparities that are routinely ignored or minimized.

If you suffer from constant negative thoughts, if you wrestle with a whirring brain that won’t let you rest, if you find yourself self-sabotaging but cannot get to the root of the issue, you’re' perfect for this 8 or 12-session coaching program.

The 8 week course is condensed and moves at a faster pace, with 4 weeks of meeting 2 x’s per week. The 12 week course allows for a more spacious exploration; both utilize the same materials that will assist you with getting right through the negative thoughts and self-sabotage down to the core-beliefs. We heal the core wounds and replace the outdated core belief with new, fresh, honest information.

I’ve done the work, and gained wisdom, clarity, and joy. After these sessions, you’ll once again be able to hear your calm, clear inner-voice, and name and heal the damaging behaviors and paradigms within and around you—in short, I will teach you how to set yourself free to be the precious person you are.

If you’re ready to let go of apologizing for being yourself, I can help.

Parenting through Trauma Coaching and Classes

Healing Trauma for Generational Gain

Let’s face it: Parenting is difficult—perhaps the most difficult job we will ever have. And when your nervous system is still healing from trauma, parenting can feel like a war between your needs, your children’s needs and the unhealed, inner-child needs that are still seeking validation and healing.

That’s where the Parenting Through Trauma coaching sessions and classes come to your aid. Parenting was never supposed to be a solo activity, and through the coaching and classes you’ll gain access to other parents who are doing the healing work you are doing. Supporting one another as you face some of your most damaging core-beliefs, all while refining your parenting to be the best, healthiest model for your children, parents in this class find it immensely comforting to hear other parents’ real-life struggles as they work though trauma while parenting their children.

Trauma comes in many forms and at many stages of life. This class is open to all; participants might have experienced:

  • Childhood trauma including physical abuse, neglect, sexual assault or psychological/emotional abuse

  • Infidelity in partnership, including pornographic addiction

  • Addiction within family, partner or self

  • Domestic abuse

  • Natural disasters

  • Financial or change-of-life disasters

  • Loss of loved ones, including loss of child

  • and many other types of loss and trauma

Coaching sessions are offered both 1:1 or in group format, each lasting 8 weeks in length. With the purchase of a coaching package you will receive access to the Parenting through Trauma weekly zoom class, where a blend of national speakers and lay-healers will give short, 15-minute talks on a key skill or topic, after which the class opens up for discussion and breakout groups to synthesize the information, share resources and learn new skills. You will also have year-long access to the wealth of online resources on our website, with new content for children and adults, like book reviews and recommendations, being added weekly.

Parents Healing Children Grief Training Class

Real Tools for Helping Grieving Children

When our children experience a loss and are grieving, we often don’t know the best ways to support them. We are intimately involved in our children’s well-being, and we will be experiencing heart-ache along with them. Through this difficult season, it is essential to provide real, effective guidance to children to minimize the long-term damage of traumatic events, and prepare them to more readily integrate this loss or grief-event into their narrative with as little negativity as possible.

The Parents Healing Children class is a fundamental step in providing children with the safety net they need when their world has been turned upside down. This class is intended for parents and caregivers of children experiencing loss.

Remember: grief has no bounds. Losing a pet can be as traumatic for people young and old as losing a close relative or loved one.

The class runs 4 sessions, typically via zoom, and last about an hour and a half each. They are phenomenal in supporting parents/caregivers who are providing for grieving children. We will cover the components of grief, the EECL framework (emotional energy checklist) and the key factors that need to be in place for children to recover from grief—all things that you can provide with the right tools and information.


Client Experiences and Testimonials

  • I've never worked with anyone like Chelsea. She makes me feel wonderful every time I get a massaage. It's like she knows what my body needs before I even tell her where I hurt!

    Roxanne

  • She's extraordinary. Maybe one of a kind, but definitely extraordinary.

    C.F.

  • Chelsea puts into words what my heart keeps wanting to communicate, and she puts it into words that resonate perfectly.

    RoseMary