Well-Life Services

Kelley Downie

Home Base: Eau Claire, WI

Willing to travel up to 60 Minutes 

Service Arrays: Individual Skills Development, Wellness Management and Recovery

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Kelley’s desired approach to life is kindness.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Health Services with a minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Maine in Farmington.  Kelley is a 200 hour trained Yoga Instructor.  She has a 30 hour certificate in Polyvagal Theory Applied Yoga through Dr. Arielle Schwartz and Embody Labs.  Kelley also has a 15 hour Kid's Yoga certificate and can modify breath work, mindfulness, and yoga poses for kids and teens.

 

Kelley enjoys working with people who want to connect with their emotions through art.  She helps people achieve this by using the book Draw Your Feelings by Rukmini Poddar to create a personal art journal through Poddar’s guided activities.  The first part of Poddar’s book explores emotions as visual art, forms, metaphors, and data.  The second half of the book explores our relationships to our parts, others, and our values. The last part of the book addresses accepting all our emotions.  Kelley has taken several online classes with Rukmini and finds her work deeply meaningful.  With her clients Kelley believes these activities, alongside an empathetic witness, can be very helpful and healing for people.  In this way art can bring self awareness to see and process emotions in a new way.  Kelley also has a growing interest in connecting nature to art as a way to increase presence.  

 

In her own life Kelley uses somatic regulating resources such as controlled breathing, tapping, and the voo sound, as well as yoga and nature to feel more grounded in herself.  All these modalities are ways she helps others to also feel more present in their body, connected to the world, build internal safety, and live into their own health. 

 

Kelley sees the strength in a person's heart, character, and personality and will take time to speak affirming truth to those qualities.  She believes words can be healing when they are true, spoken genuinely, and felt meaningfully.  Kelley has an ability to see a bigger picture and offer options for creative problem solving.  She is patient, thoughtful, understanding, kind, consistent, and dependable, which she believes are foundational for building trust.  It is her desire for young people to have the opportunity to grow in self awareness early in life.  She wants adults to know it’s never too late to pursue the life they want, it’s always a good time to come home to yourself.  Kelley is committed to her own healing and draws from the personal experience of her own healing journey. She sees herself as walking alongside others and is motivated by having found a more full and whole life through overcoming her own personal challenges including dyslexia, trauma, emotional neglect, and abuse.

 

Kelley enjoys the quiet early morning.  Mr. Rogers is her role model.  Her hobbies are cooking, hiking, biking, swimming, paddling, cross country skiing, hammocking, and playing games with her family.  She also enjoys birding with her husband, watching the seasons change, listening to the sounds of rain, and feeling the sun on her face.