Mind-body Healing, rooting in the nervous system
I’m so happy you’re here
I’m Dr. Kelly Vincent, a licensed clinical psychologist in Encinitas, CA, specializing in anxiety, trauma, and nervous system healing for women. I offer therapy, lead a holistic therapist collective, and mentor therapists building private practices.
What I Do
I help women embody their authentic self, heal holistically, and thrive.
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I see clients.
Therapy for women navigating anxiety, high-functioning anxiety, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, imposter syndrome, burnout, motherhood, and life transitions, in person in Encinitas and online throughout California.
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I guide therapists.
Through 1:1 private practice mentorship and my therapist collective at Nourished Wellness Group, I help newly licensed and experienced therapists find their professional footing and build the private practice, and the career, they actually want. It’s the support after licensure that most of us are expected to figure out alone.
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I give therapists a place to work.
Movement Therapy Spaces is a co-working space for therapists and holistic providers in Encinitas – rentable by the half or full day, with the option to add a collective membership and become part of a team.
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I teach beyond the therapy room.
A published journal, a book (Dear Anxious Woman) coming in March 2027 with translation rights already sold internationally, a digital studio, an Imposter Syndrome audio course with Audible, and partnerships with companies building real tools for real nervous systems.
How I got here
I didn't start in psychology. I began my career in digital marketing. I was really good at it. But, I was also anxious, depleted, and disconnected from myself in a way I didn't yet have language for.
Leaving that digital marketing world, working for Sephora, Visa, and eBay, wasn't a clean or confident decision. It was a slow realization that I wanted to spend my life on something that actually touched people. So I went back to school, earned my doctorate, and spent the years after it training in the modalities that had helped me most – EMDR, somatic therapy, parts work, yoga, nervous system regulation.
Then I did the thing I now tell other therapists is possible: I opened a private practice, cofounded Movement Therapy Spaces – a co-working space for therapists in Encinitas – and built the group practice I wished existed, instead of the one I'd been trained to expect.
And a few years in, I did something harder. Nourished Wellness Group was successful by every external measure, but I was running on empty. So, in 2026, I restructured it into a therapist collective, because my mental health and my family needed to come first. I'd been teaching nervous system regulation while overriding my own. That's what a softening of high-functioning anxiety actually looks like: not a collapse, a recalibration. It's the same shift I sit with clients through every week.
How I actually work
My work sits where evidence-based psychology meets the body.
When we're struggling, it's rarely just a thought problem. The nervous system has learned to brace, to scan, to shut down. And, no amount of insight alone will talk it out of that.
So, I work from in a model that treats the whole system, rather than a set of symptoms, from both directions at once. Top-down, through the mind. Bottom-up, through the body. A session might be traditional talk therapy, EMDR, parts work, breathwork and gentle movement, or walking side by side on a trail instead of sitting across from each other in a room.
We go where your system is ready to go – not faster.Top-down
Working with the mind
Psychodynamic Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
CBT & DBT
Narrative Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy
EMDR
Bottom-up
Working with the body
Nervous System Education & Regulation
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Internal Family Systems
Breathwork & Guided Visualization
Yoga & Gentle Movement
Walk & Talk Therapy
Training and Credentials
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Licensed Clinical Psychologist, State of California — PSY30672
Psy.D., Clinical Psychology — California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco
M.A., Clinical Psychology — California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco
B.A., Business Marketing — San Diego State University
Pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training — APA-accredited Psychological Services Center, San Francisco; CSU San Marcos Student Health and Counseling; Bay Area Psychotherapy Training Institute
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Integrated Somatic Parts Work, Levels 1–3 — The Embody Lab (2026)
Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate — The Embody Lab (2024)
EMDR Comprehensive Basic Training — EMDRIA-approved, led by Dr. Christine Sells (2022)
Maternal Mental Health Certificate — Postpartum Support International / 2020 Moms (2019)
Registered Yoga Teacher, RYT-200 — Gentle and Restorative, The Soul of Yoga (2019)
Brainspotting, Phase I — led by Lisa Larson, LMFT (2018)
Transcending Sexual Trauma Through Yoga — led by Zabie Yamasaki, M.Ed., RYT (2017)
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American Psychological Association
San Diego Psychological Association
Here's how I can support you...
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For Clients
Individual Therapy for Your Own Healing
If you’re carrying anxiety, trauma, or the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, I’d be honored to help. We work with your whole self – mind, body, and nervous system – at a pace you can actually hold.
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For Therapists
For the practices you want the the community you need.
You didn’t get into this work to figure out marketing and business-building alone. A step-by-step path to more visibility and referrals, real professional community and consultation, a home base to work from, or hands-on support from an actual human.
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For You
For whenever you just need something for yourself.
Not everyone who lands here is ready for therapy or building a practice – sometimes you just want a place to breathe for ten minutes. The Studio is my home for that: downloadable resources, videos, and Easeful Era, a guided masterclass series for high-functioning anxiety.
