Hi, I’m Kelly.
I’m the founder of Mind Soma Health and an Integrative Wellness & Executive Coach.
I’ve always been curious—about people, about why we do what we do, and about the many things that shape how we experience our lives.
Some of that curiosity has been directed inward. During a period when I was navigating my own health challenges, I found myself with more time—and more reason—to look closely at my own life. That period led to a great deal of self-inquiry and deepened questions I had been exploring for years about health, behavior, patterns, stress, meaning, and the relationship between mind and body.
I notice patterns and connections. I’m interested in what sits beneath the surface and how seemingly separate pieces may be influencing one another. Over the years, that curiosity—about myself, about others, and about the systems and environments we move through—has shaped the way I think, listen, and work.
I believe people are wonderfully complex. We are shaped by our experiences, relationships, responsibilities, environments, bodies and nervous systems, and by the ways we’ve learned to move through the world. When someone comes to me wanting something to be different, I don’t assume the first thing we see is the whole story.
That perspective has followed me throughout my life and across a career that, on paper, may look unusually varied.
To me, it makes perfect sense.
From systems and strategy to the whole person
Before focusing my work on Mind Soma Health, I spent more than two decades solving complex problems and helping people and organizations move forward.
My career began in technology and business analysis and grew to include management consulting, project and program leadership, sales and operations, transformation management, customer and Provider Experience, and senior leadership within a Fortune 6 organization.
I worked with executives and teams across large, highly complex organizations. I built and led teams, developed strategies and systems, analyzed enormous amounts of information, identified patterns and opportunities, influenced decisions, improved processes, and translated complicated problems into practical ways forward.
At Optum, I developed and presented insights to CEOs, COOs, and senior leaders. My work helped drive reporting tools and processes associated with $4.6 billion in sales, while additional analysis identified more than 500 large-employer opportunities representing over $10 billion in potential revenue.
Later, my work expanded to enterprise responsibility for Provider Experience and Net Promoter System governance. I developed strategies, systems, tools, and campaigns designed not only to measure experience, but to influence culture and turn insight into action. During that work, employee NPS certification increased 340% in less than a year, the Employee Engagement Index rose from 68% to 79%, and traffic to a redesigned Provider Hub increased 940% within six months.
The numbers mattered. But so did what they represented: better information, greater engagement, stronger experiences, and people and organizations moving forward.
It was challenging work. I was good at it. And I learned an enormous amount about people, leadership, systems, responsibility, decision-making, and transformation.
I still use those skills every day.
Another kind of complexity
While I was building my corporate career, I was also developing another body of knowledge.
My interest in psychology, philosophy, health, movement, meditation, behavior, stress, and the mind-body relationship became increasingly important as I navigated my own health challenges.
I know firsthand what it is like to live with pain and uncertainty, and how debilitating and isolating health challenges can be—even while continuing to meet the responsibilities of everyday life. Those experiences deepened my empathy for people navigating chronic pain, illness, stress, anxiety, and other challenges that may not be visible to the people around them.
They also fueled an intense curiosity about health and wellbeing and led me to explore, study, and train in a wide range of approaches to healing, restoring health, managing stress, relieving pain, and improving physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Many of the practices I offer today are practices that helped me along the way. I experienced for myself how meaningful the right support or practice can be—and became deeply interested in understanding why, how, and when different approaches can help.
Over time, what began as a deeply personal exploration grew into a passion for helping others experience greater health, wellbeing, and quality of life. I wanted to share what I had learned, continue learning, and bring together practices and perspectives that could make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
That exploration also taught me something that has become fundamental to the way I approach wellness: there is no cookie-cutter approach.
Our wellbeing is influenced by so much—our bodies and nervous systems, our thoughts and patterns, our experiences, relationships, environments, resources, responsibilities, and the realities of our lives. Understanding what will be most supportive means looking beyond any one piece and considering the person as a whole.
That understanding became part of the foundation for Mind Soma Health and continues to shape the way I work today.
Experience that runs deep
Today, my background includes extensive training and experience in yoga and meditation, Reiki, nervous system regulation, trauma-sensitive practices, auriculotherapy, sound, somatic and experiential practices, and integrative coaching.
As an E-RYT 200, RYT 500, and YACEP, I have taught more than 2,000 private and studio yoga classes, working with people across a wide range of ages, abilities, needs, and levels of experience. I am a Reiki Master with over two decades of experience in energy work and Reiki practice.
My professional foundation also includes PMP certification earned earlier in my corporate career and decades of subsequent experience in project, program, and transformation leadership. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems with minors in Psychology and Philosophy.
It may sound like an unusual combination.
It is also one of my greatest strengths.
My corporate experience taught me how to work with complexity, recognize patterns, ask better questions, challenge assumptions, develop practical solutions, and move from insight to action.
My years of study, practice, and lived experience in wellness broadened that perspective. They taught me to consider what may not be immediately visible—the body and nervous system, lived experience, internal patterns, personal resources, relationships, environment, and the many other factors that can influence how we think, feel, respond, and move through our lives.
Today, I bring both perspectives to the work.
We start with the person
There is no single formula I apply to everyone who walks through my door.
You may arrive knowing exactly what you want to work on. You may simply know that something doesn’t feel right. You may be navigating a demanding career, a transition, stress, a relationship, your health and wellbeing, a decision, or a pattern you can see but haven’t been able to shift.
Or you may simply be looking for an experienced teacher or practitioner to support you through private yoga, meditation, Reiki, or another restorative practice.
We begin with you.
I look at the whole person—not just the presenting need—and consider the connections among mindset, patterns, lived experience, behavior, nervous system, circumstances, needs, resources, and what matters most to you.
Sometimes our work is strategic and conversational. Sometimes a practical tool or framework helps make something complicated easier to see. Sometimes we need to get out of our heads entirely and work experientially with the body and nervous system. And sometimes what you came for is exactly what you need: an excellent yoga practice, meditation session, or restorative experience tailored to you.
We don’t start with the service. We start with the person.
The tool follows the person—not the other way around.
What it’s like to work with me
This part matters to me.
I want people to be able to walk into my office—or meet me online—and feel that they don’t have to perform for me.
You can be accomplished and overwhelmed. Confident and uncertain. Grateful and frustrated. Strong and tired. You can know exactly what you want to work on or have absolutely no idea where to begin.
You get to be you.
I want the people I work with to feel safe, supported, heard, accepted, cared for, and validated without judgment. Not because I believe every session needs to be comfortable or easy, but because I know how meaningful it can be to have a space where you can let your guard down, feel understood, and begin to explore what’s happening without having to defend or explain every part of yourself.
My job is to meet you there with curiosity, respect, experience, and attention.
I will listen. I will notice. I will ask questions. I may see a connection you haven’t considered or gently challenge something that doesn’t quite add up. We may laugh. We may sit with something difficult. And when it is useful, I will bring what I have learned across decades of professional experience, study, and practice to help us find a way forward that makes sense for you.
And sometimes, the most meaningful thing I can offer is an opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and experience a little peace, rest, or relief.
Few things bring me greater satisfaction than hearing that a client finally enjoyed a restful night’s sleep, experienced relief from chronic pain or anxiety, or felt deeply peaceful after a Reiki session. Equally meaningful are the moments when someone begins to recognize and shift a longstanding pattern, navigates a difficult decision with greater confidence, feels empowered to make choices that honor their needs, or begins to feel like themselves again.
Sometimes the transformation is profound. Sometimes it’s a small but meaningful shift that opens the door to something much larger.
I love those moments. They remind me why I began sharing these practices with others and why I continue to invest so much in learning, developing, and refining the work I do.
I care deeply about the people I work with, and I also care about helping them make meaningful progress.
Care and progress are not competing priorities.
I bring the strategist, the pattern recognizer, the coach, the teacher, the practitioner, and the lifelong student into the room.
But before any of those roles, I meet you as one human being meeting another—with compassion, curiosity, humility, and respect.
I would love the opportunity to be part of your wellness team and support you in moving toward greater health, wellbeing, and whatever meaningful transformation looks like for you.
A little more about me
When I’m not working, there’s a good chance I’m outside with one—or all three—of my rescue dogs.
I spent years volunteering with local rescues and fostering dogs, particularly those who were fearful, had been passed from home to home, or whose fear was sometimes misunderstood as aggression. Two of those fosters never left. I jokingly call them my “foster fails,” although they may be two of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
My pups are my world, and spending time with them in nature is one of the ways I recharge. I’m grateful for the beautiful trails we have here in Connecticut and will happily choose time outside over almost anything.
I also love working with my hands, creating things, and tackling DIY projects. Over the years, I’ve installed hardwood and tile floors, refinished my deck, replaced the front end of my first car, and developed my own line of organic, raw skincare products. I also enjoy making herbal tinctures for my personal use. I’m curious, determined, and usually convinced that if I don’t know how to do something, I can figure it out.
Sometimes to a fault.
I even make homemade food for my three dogs. Although I’m fairly certain they consider that less of a hobby and more of a contractual obligation.
I’m something of an introverted extrovert. I love people, but I also value quiet. Time in nature with my dogs and belly laughs with close family and friends feed my soul.
And I have a tendency to want to become certified in nearly everything that makes me curious.
I’m working on that.