Story-Work Coaching
“An unnamed story will name you.” — Lora Kelley
If you are ready to explore why you feel exhausted, stuck, or lonely, I want to journey with you across the landscape of your story.
Story-work coaching is a place to gently tend to the stories that shape us. Through a narrative-focused approach, we tend to the stories you carry within and how those narratives shape your beliefs, relationships, and ability to flourish. Together we can gently enter your story, identify the places of internal oppression and resistance, cultivate practices that offer deep renewal, and reignite your sense of meaning and alignment with God and your truest self.
I offer support around these issues:
– Spiritual Wilderness + Loneliness
– Ministry + Motherhood Burnout
– Relational Rupture in Faith or Family
– Vocational Discernment
Maybe you are asking yourself, “Why don’t I feel safe inside my faith?”
“I’ve been trying so hard to be good, when do I finally feel loved?”
“When can I rest?”
“Why am I the way that I am?”
My life has taken me through many soul landscapes: spiritual wilderness, vocational burnout, creative rebirth, relational rupture & restoration, spacious Divine friendship, and a reclamation of my own voice.
Our deepest formation and healing happen within the context of safe, attuned relationship. I would love to help you navigate the terrain of your story and offer you a Welcome that heals.
With me as your story coach…
you will begin to:
+ recover the wisdom planted in you by God
+ be engaged with dignity, respect, and gentleness
+ learn what cultivates safety for you in relationships
+ explore the questions, heartbreak, and grief that you’ve had to carry alone
+ gain clarity around your own story and how your ways of relating to yourself, God, and others have developed
+ locate the agreements you’ve made with yourself that might be holding you back
+ take accessible, compassionate steps toward healing and rest
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It’s important to note that I have certain approaches to narrative-focused coaching (mine being: trauma-informed, contemplative, embodied, hospitable) but these are not the same things as agendas. Your voice, story, and needs are a priority within our shared space. My approach toward our times together are fashioned gently and collaboratively with you. There will also be moments in which I invite feedback from you to make sure our time together feels safe and spacious. I am committed to you finding that place, even if it means offering you a referral that better suits your needs.
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Your story and soul are the most holy ground. As I have moved toward learning how to best honor others through listening, I hungered for training that would equip me to create safe, sacred space. This led me to complete a series of trainings and courses that help me approach your soul with the dignity it deserves.
I am currently completing my MA in Spiritual Formation and Direction through Richmont Graduate University. I have a two-year training certificate in Spiritual Direction through Richmont and have been sitting with clients since 2021. I am also a student in the Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation, which is a two-year immersion program incorporating training, practices, community, and praxis work around spiritual formation. I also have a certificate in Level 1 and Level 2 Narrative-Focused Trauma Care through The Allender Center which is housed within the Seattle School for Psychology and Theology. Because of this, I consider myself a trauma-informed, narrative focused coach and which means I approach stories with an attention and sensitivity to trauma and spiritual abuse. I am also actively in supervision, which is where I meet regularly with an older, more experienced spiritual director to discuss things in my own story and formation that might prevent me from listening to you well.
Disclaimer: While a Narrative Focused approach to engaging personal stories of childhood harm and trauma may feel therapeutic at times, I am not a licensed therapist. During this process, if you find yourself in need of additional support, I will be glad to help you find a therapist or health care provider in your state.
Coaching Investment:
All story-work coaching packages require a 3 month commitment to meet twice a month in order to steward the momentum/tenderness of the work. Appointments are 50-60 minutes in length.
3 Month Package is $900 and includes 6 individual appointments and access to Kaysie via email or Voxer in between meetings.
After the initial 3 months, additional appointments are available for $150 a session.
Payment plans available.
“The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is.”
— Parker Palmer
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