Meet Kelli Pavlovec, Somatic Therapist in Huntsville, AL.
Ready to stop feeling guilty, overwhelmed, and drained all the time?
You’re tired of the weight of other people’s expectations.
You need more time for yourself, without magically adding more hours to the day.
Hi, I'm Kelli
I’m a somatic therapist with a heart for people who think they’re doing the “right” thing by giving to the point of overwhelm. I work with people who grew up feeling unseen and unimportant, with no one to soothe their hurting places.
As a child, you learned to care for others before caring for yourself. Because that was survival. You had to make the adults better in your life so that you could be okay. Today, that looks like tending to other people’s emotions, giving more than you can, and saying “yes” to anyone who demands it.
But figuring out how to say “no” without feeling crushing guilt is proving to be much harder than it looks. You feel like you’ll never strike a balance between being true to your values and having room to be yourself, with your own needs.
You’re ready to live your own life without catering to overbearing controllers, but you have no idea of what that looks like. I want for you to know that I’m here to walk this path with you.
As you show me around the hurting places of your past and present, we’ll build a recovery plan that gets you to solid ground and helps you:
Learn how to find friends who will help you, not drain you
Pay attention to what your pain is telling you
Find out why you have triggers, and learn how to prepare for them and soothe through them
Connect pieces that didn’t seem to connect before
Explore your own mind-body connection so you can begin to self-calm when you’re in distress
Get in-session exercises to take home for regulation, and healing.
I know how hard this work can be because I’ve done it myself. I would never ask you to do anything that I haven’t done.
You’ll never be in this work alone. I’m here to sit with you through the hard parts and celebrate the wins with you as well.
I work with clients who are looking for a haven from all the platitudes.
You’ve seen the social media posts and self help articles but you need something catered to you.
You’ve done traditional talk therapy but need something that incorporates the entirety of your body, mind, and heart, and your lived experience.
Maybe you have friends and family members who just cheerlead or give you advice (or even criticism!).
I work with clients who are looking for a haven from all the platitudes. Therapy with me is rooted from a place of compassion, because I’ve walked my own pain journey (and I’ve heard the unhelpful advice!).
And I offer more than just compassion.
And I offer more than just compassion. I started out volunteering in support group work, and went back to school because I knew something more was needed. Empathy, compassion, check. I had those! But I knew there was something deeper, more rooted, more fundamental that I needed to learn. So I added on the science that explains how we get to these stuck places and how to get unstuck.
I believe that the way we show up in our relationships teaches people how to treat us. My work centers around this idea. I focused my Master’s Degree on boundaries. My graduate program was founded by Dr. John Townsend, co-author of the book Boundaries. I bring boundaries work into my clinical practice for clients who are struggling with guilt saying “no.”
Clients who choose me love doing the deep work that gets us places. They are ready to move beyond the 1-2-3 step solutions and start caring for themselves like no one else has. That’s the difference in me and other approaches. We get to the root for deep-seated healing that lasts.
When we work together, I listen deeply and offer insights when I feel it’s appropriate, but my main goal is to help you connect the dots between what we talk about session to session so that you can start to see the patterns in your life.
Specializing in . . .
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Grief
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Trauma
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Abuse
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Somatic Therapy
Credentials
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Kelli Pavlovec, somatic therapist in Huntsville AL, received her Master’s Degree from Townsend Institute, Concordia University, Irvine
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Working toward certification in Somatic Therapy
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Member of ALCA & ACA
Freedom from overwhelm is possible. Let’s get there together.
The office
Welcome to the office. Follow the pathway on the righthand side of the building and enter the door there. The office features a deep comfy couch, ample greenery, and natural dappled light.
