Kindred:
Trauma-informed. Neuro-affirming. Somatically rooted.

A sanctuary offering specialized support for sensitive souls, for the seeking, for neurocomplex humans & the practitioners who walk beside them

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

Again and again, I hear this:

“I thought I was broken.”

You are not broken.

What was broken was the care you received, the systems around you, and the inability of others to hold your difference with the tenderness it deserved.

Many of us learned to quiet parts of ourselves just to belong and feel safe.
But your sensitivity, your brilliance, your way of being — none of it was ever the problem.

This is not a space where you are viewed through a lens of pathology or performance.
This is a space for remembering the wholeness that’s always been yours —
rooted in nervous system care, compassion, and deep relational attunement.

Together, we move at the pace your system can safely hold,
gently reconnecting with your inner knowing, your aliveness, and the truth of who you’ve always been.

welcome to Kindred

THIS IS A space where people ARE NOT problemS to figure out or fix

Every client I sit with feels like kindred to me.

My intention is always to co-create a space where you can root into the knowing that you are not alone — that we’re navigating something together, with depth and connection.

This is a space that honors the distinct paths of those who experience the world with intensity — whether you're a late-diagnosed (or self-diagnosed, or undiagnosed) autistic or ADHD individual, a highly sensitive person, someone living with complex PTSD, or a deep feeler and soul seeker.

My services are crafted to support both your unique challenges and your brilliant strengths.

They are all neuro-affirming, inclusive, and deeply trauma-attuned.

-Adult Autism, ADHD & Giftedness Assessments for Highly Masked Individuals
-1:1 private practice
-Group Programs
-Self Paced Courses

For Individuals & For Professionals

The foundation of all of my offerings is a skillful weave of somatic psychology, embodied nervous system co-regulation support, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, trauma-informed mindfulness, and many other threads. This work is non-pathologizing - welcoming everyone as they are in their wholeness. It’s gentle yet powerful - clients are often surprised by the depth of their results without having to push or work so hard.

I am dedicated to creating a supportive space that acknowledges and celebrates your unique and layered experience, helping you to connect with your inner strengths and navigate your world with confidence and deep inner ease.

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Offerings for Individuals

Neurodiversity - Affirming Autism & ADHD assessments & Giftedness Profiling

Tailored, comprehensive clinical assessments that honor the complexities of identifying autism, ADHD and/ or giftedness later in life, especially for those who experience high-masking.

Welcoming Presence:

Nervous System Support for Meeting Your Whole Heart.

This heartfelt 7-Day recorded experience offers a new way to welcome ourselves into the present moment.

7 Days of Deepening Into Practice Together

WHETHER YOU’RE IN A PROCESS OF HEALING TRAUMA, SOOTHING OVERWHELM OR DEEPENING YOUR COMMITMENT TO EMBODYING SELF-COMPASSION,

THIS COURSE HELPS YOU OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF HEALING THAT ARE ALREADY INNATE IN YOU.

Expect to learn new concepts around nervous system support and healing, to be guided in 15-25 minute daily practices, meditate, breathe, move, laugh, love it, hate it, and everywhere in between.

Take what you love and leave the rest.

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1:1 Client Story

Dara

(United States)

Shelby has a great gift for creating a generous, co-creative therapeutic relationship as well as fabulous somatic skill sets that really supported my nervous system. Journeys of trauma healing and collective myths of trauma recovery are playing out all around us. I see her work and presence as providing a rare, crucial sanctuary and a lighthouse for us to navigate that journey together. I am so grateful for my time with her and will definitely work with her again."

“Her steadiness, compassion, and fierce presence provided a deep balm to my soul and my most tender wounded parts. She shared her wisdom, and provided accurate reflection when I needed it the most. Her embodied awareness of trauma healing provided a map, a vital orienting when I was feeling truly lost and overwhelmed and could not find that anywhere else.

"I’ve been working with Shelby 1:1 through one of the most intense unravelings of my life thus far. She’s helped me find resurrection."

Offerings for Professionals

Group Program

Body of Work is now open for enrollment.
A 9-month program for therapists ready to deepen their practice through somatic expansion, relational insight, and community.
Explore what’s happening beneath the surface — in yourself, your clients, and the space between you.
Root into your craft and build self-trust that’s steady, embodied, and fiercely compassionate.
Next group begins September, 2025 and is open for enrolment now.

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Self Paced Course

Trauma comes in many forms and affects us all in different ways.
Creating Safer Space is a self paced online course that will teach you simple, effective, trauma-informed tools you can use immediately to level up your space holding skills for the people you support.
Learn how to support your nervous system and feel settled, centered, and confident so that others can lean fully into your care.

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Client Story

“I remember being with her in retreat in Mexico and being captivated by her and her presence. Every chance I've had to be with her and learn from her since then, I've taken. She is a deep well of knowledge and embodied experience around the nervous system and trauma.

I've been in multiple rounds of her Embodied Coaching Experience (Body of Work Program) that offers something deeply needed in the coaching and therapy fields... ongoing, embodied, trauma-aware, self-sourced "supervision"/ consultation for people holding space for others. And, now I work with her as my personal coach and mentor.

"I've worked with Shelby in just about every capacity possible over the last four years. First I was taught and guided by her as a senior teacher & trauma specialist in my intensive coaching certification.”

Her course, Creating Safer Space, is nervous system + trauma awareness for coaches, counselors, facilitators, body workers, teachers... and its information and experience I wish I had in my earlier years of teaching and coaching. It's information I wish school teachers had. It's definitely information I wish medical professionals had.

It has given me tools to stay more settled in my own system and confident to meet whatever may arise in my client sessions. And tools to be sure my clients are able to fully receive what I have to offer. Not to mention the differences nervous system + trauma awareness has made in my mothering and marriage."

Intimacy and Empowerment Coach
(Los Angeles, California)

Kendra Cover

Hi

I’m Shelby

I am a neurocomplex licensed somatic psychotherapist, twice-certified coach, and trauma specialist with over fifteen years of experience supporting people with complex & developmental trauma in a holistic and non-pathologizing way.

ABOUT SHELBY