kalie is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a registered yoga teacher (RYT) and a certified clinical trauma professional (CCTP). she graduated from the University of New England in 2021 with her Master of Social Work concentrating in clinical social work + trauma-informed care. kalie has worked in the fields of mental health, education and social justice for over a decade on both the east and west coasts.

there likely is not a population kalie hasn’t worked with. her clinical philosophy is simple; we don’t know what we don’t know. kalie immersed herself in the practice of listening to and learning from others beginning in undergrad in Vermont. she worked with unhoused pregnant and parenting youth, assisted in opening of new habitat for humanity affiliates and lobbied on Capitol Hill for programs related to national service year funding and youth mentoring.

after undergrad kalie worked with at-promise, underserved youth in the inner-city San Francisco Bay Area as an Americorps volunteer with City Year. while supporting high school english classes, kalie and her team attempted to combat the drop-out rates of underfunded high schools in gang impacted communities. she spent a year building relationships with teenagers and sitting in the necessary discomfort of cultural humility and her white privilege. she regards this as one of the most significantly joyful and educational experiences of her life.

upon returning to the east coast, kalie dabbled in medical social work and continued child and family work, however quickly learned the impacts of exhaustion and burnout. after a healing sabbatical kalie returned to graduate school to complete her masters with a new perspective and dream; be a human first, and a social worker second. it was here where she learned her passion for trauma research, modalities to treat trauma and stressor related disorders, and creating trauma-informed systems and organizations.

since graduating with her masters, kalie has worked with various survivor populations; substance use clinics, maximum security prisons, and most recently, outpatient therapy in a private practice setting for survivors who identify as womxn, trans + nonbinary.

kalie believes that rapport building is her greatest strength with her clients. while she is trained in and pulls from many different modalities such as MI, ACT, CBT/TF-CBT and compassion based practices and mindfulness, she focuses heavily on the relationship she has with each of her clients; it has been empirically validated that the client-therapist relationship is a higher indicator of client success and post-traumatic growth than which modality used in session. she has also received training in TC-TSY  (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga) - an evidence-based clinical treatment for complex trauma and PTSD. with her clients permission, she integrates breath work, mindfulness practices and gentle movement into sessions as a trauma-informed yoga instructor.

as a trauma therapist, trauma-informed agency trainer, trauma-informed supervisor and trauma-informed yoga teacher + trainer, kalie makes an active effort to seek out trainings, researchers and resources that revolutionize and embody trauma-informed care principles and treatment modalities.