Kelly grew up on the East Coast in Delaware and attended college near Pittsburgh, where she first discovered her passion for helping others. A month spent in rural Guatemala conducting research on child nutrition sparked her interest in public health and ultimately led her to San Antonio for a year-long volunteer program. Though she arrived knowing no one—and having never visited Texas—she quickly fell in love with the community and decided to make it home.
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Kelly’s journey eventually led her to the field of therapy, where she now helps others navigate their own paths of growth and healing. Self-discovery has remained a guiding theme throughout her life, shaped by her love of travel, the outdoors, and her own meaningful experiences in therapy.
Kelly’s favorite quote beautifully captures her reason for pursuing a career in mental health:
“Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.”
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- Nikita Gill
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