Second Nature Blue Ridge Welcomes New Therapist!

Kelly Wedell EdS, LPC

New Adolescent Females Group Therapist at Second Nature Blue Ridge

Kelly is a licensed professional counselor experienced in working with adolescents, adults and families in various mental health settings focusing primarily on trauma and substance abuse. She received her MS in community counseling from Western Carolina University and her EdS in mental health counseling education from The University of Montana where she spent several years as a primary therapist at Chrysalis, an all girls therapeutic boarding school.

While in private practice for the past several years she has stayed connected with the therapeutic wilderness community by conducting the parent education day for a wilderness therapy program and co-created Touchstone, a post-graduate family wilderness weekend to reconnect students and their family with the magic of the woods. Kelly enjoys working with teens and their families who are navigating the destructive coping often associated with trauma, substance abuse and core developmental wounding.

Kelly has specialized training in EMDR, a trauma-based therapy, Hakomi, a body-focused mindfulness approach, addiction and recovery treatment and family systems. Outside of work she enjoys mountain biking, yoga, camping, rafting and being converted from a snowboarder to a skier by her husband and daughter.