Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Attachment Theory

I incorporate attachment work into every session and it is a grounding theory of my style and approach to providing therapy. Therapy is most effective when a therapeutic relationship forms between the therapist and the client. Attachment theory guides me in how I build that relationship with my clients.

Emotionally Focused

EFT is used with families, couples and individuals. Sometimes when we're stressed, tired, spread too thin, or triggered we can struggle to connect emotionally with our partners or ourselves. I use both S. Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy and L. Greenberg's Emotion Focused Therapy to help make sense of negative cycles of interaction, connect to underlying emotion, balance identity with relationship, and become skillful in both self regulation and co-regulation.

Couples Counseling

I'm passionate about helping couples navigate the complexity of relationships. I help couples learn to communicate skillfully (especially about emotional needs), negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors that are more aligned with personal values.

PTSD

I specialize in helping people understand the ways trauma, especially complex trauma and intergenerational trauma, impacts their lives, their relationships, and their emotional and behavioral symptoms or experiences. Using somatic therapy, mindfulness, awareness of systemic oppression, neuroscience, and psychoeducation, I facilitate an integration of traumatic life experiences so you can regain safety, personal power, agency, joy, liberation, healthy connection, and self trust.

Relationship / Marriage Issues

I specialize in couple and relationship therapy for people living with trauma. Relationships can wound but they can also be tremendous healing agents. I will help you learn how to relate to your own or your partner’s trauma and how it shows up in the relationship in new ways that foster connection, intimacy, security, and mastery. We will work together to communicate skillfully, negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors together.

Women's Issues

I am passionate about offering women a safe space in therapy where a sense of solidarity and communion and can be felt. I often support women who have been victims of domestic and sexual violence in the past toward post traumatic growth. I also often work with cis men in individual therapy, so if you are a man and would like to work with me, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Self-Esteem

Improving self esteem and recovering from perfectionism tend to be themes for the clients I work with. I studied research on adaptive vs maladaptive perfectionism for an assignment in graduate school.

Historical Trauma

The past matters. The present is influenced by and in part, created by, the past. Systems of oppression, including the United States government, have historically and currently harmed and traumatized groups of people in ways that impact the mental health of families across generations. Therapy, whether it's individual or relationship, is a great place to care for and tend to those generational and historical hurts.