Empowered Life Counseling, PLLC

01/27/2026

Kaylee works with teens, young adults, and adults, offering a supportive and straightforward therapeutic approach that helps clients navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence.

Her style is honest yet compassionate—clients can expect transparency and encouragement as they work together toward meaningful change. She believes that therapy doesn’t always have to feel heavy; sometimes the most impactful progress happens in moments of shared laughter and connection.

She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and plans to pursue training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) to deepen her trauma-informed approach.

Her commitment is to offer clients a rich toolkit for healing and emotional growth—always within a space that feels safe, inclusive, and empowering.

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01/27/2026

There are seasons inside us that don’t always match the weather around us. Some parts feel like winter—tired, overwhelmed, shut down, or bracing for the next cold wind. And in IFS, we don’t shame those parts or try to force them into the sun. We sit with them. We listen. We offer warmth instead of urgency.

And then something beautiful happens.
When the winter parts feel seen, another presence begins to emerge—quiet, steady, unmistakably Self.

That’s the “invincible summer” Camus was pointing toward.
Not a mood.
Not a performance of positivity.
But the inner warmth that’s always been there, waiting for space to breathe.

In the midst of your own winter—whatever form it takes—there is a Self within you that is calm, curious, compassionate, and deeply alive.
It doesn’t erase the cold.

It simply reminds you that you are more than the season you’re in.

Your invincible summer is not something you earn. It’s something you return to.

01/26/2026

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01/23/2026

Happy !

Being loving is always better than being nice. Being loving is telling someone the truth because you care about them. Usually, being nice is about avoidance and trying not to rock the boat. Nice is an approval seeking behavior. I am not saying that we should not be caring and kind, WE SHOULD. Just check to make sure your potential niceness is not avoiding having difficult, loving conversations with your people. I always ask myself, “Is THIS the MOST LOVING thing to do right now?” Having the courage to tell someone the a true, loving thing is the best thing for the people you care about.

STOP PEOPLE PLEASING.

LOVE PEOPLE INSTEAD.

- Ferg

01/19/2026

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Today is a reminder that our lives are intertwined.
That harm doesn’t stay contained.
That silence is never neutral.

When one person’s dignity is dismissed, all of us feel the fracture.
When one community is targeted, the whole fabric weakens.
And when we choose courage — to speak up, to repair, to stand with — we strengthen the world we share.

Justice isn’t a distant ideal.
It’s daily choices.
It’s how we treat people.
It’s the systems we build and the ones we refuse to uphold.

May we honor Dr. King not only with reflection, but with action — the kind that protects, uplifts, and insists on the full humanity of every person.

01/17/2026

Happy !

This holiday season our office started a new tradition: a Christmas door decoratingon contest. It was a fierce competition, but I prevailed as the victor! Call me the inaugural ELC Christmas Door Decorating Champion!

COMPLETE WITH FIRST PLACE TROPHY!

We know how to make work fun. Best job EVER!

-Ferg

01/10/2026

Happy !

This is something I encourage my clients to ask people who are saying hurtful things to them. It’s good to invite people to feel the emotional weight behind what they’re saying to you, especially if it’s passive aggressive or a cutting remark. Watch how they respond. That will inform the type of boundaries you should put up in the relationship moving forward.

Conflict can be healthy and can promote understanding and emotional awareness.

-Ferg

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01/03/2026

Happy 1st (on a Saturday)of 2026!

Here is your friendly reminder to express gratitude to those who touched your life this last year…especially those who blessed you over your holiday break. It's an important habit to cultivate if you are wanting to create a life you love. Honoring moments of blessings helps those blessings sink into our hearts even more.

Have the BEST year yet!

-Ferg

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01/01/2026

Ten resolutions for a softer, braver, more Self‑led year — each one an invitation to honor your humanity, not your hustle.

🌿 This year, I choose to…

• Practice micro‑rest — tiny pauses that remind my nervous system it’s safe to exhale.
• Commit to one courageous conversation a month, even when my parts would rather avoid.
• Choose one thing each day with my future Self in mind, trusting she’ll thank me later.
• Build a ritual of connection that nourishes the relationships that nourish me.
• Practice gentle accountability, replacing self‑critique with curiosity and compassion.
• Protect my joy with the same fierceness I protect everyone else’s well‑being.
• Learn one new emotional skill, expanding my capacity to meet life with clarity.
• Give myself permission to be a person, not a role, honoring all my parts.
• Release one pattern that no longer serves me, with gratitude for how it once tried to help.
• Create a soft landing at the end of each day — a ritual of return, rest, and reconnection.

These aren’t resolutions to perfect.

They’re practices to live into — slowly, gently, bravely.


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12/25/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 🎄
Enjoy the gift giving. Sing some songs. Maybe have a sip or two of egg nog. (Or maybe wassail if that is your style.)
From all of us at Empowered Life Counseling, may your Christmas be filled with hope, peace, joy, and love while you create memories with those you cherish.

12/23/2025

Happy on a MONDAY!

This season should be about joy, not chaos.
Protect your peace by understanding the relationships in your life—and setting boundaries that matter.
Read our latest blog “The 3 Relationship Buckets,” to help you do just that!
👉 Full blog in bio!

Merry Christmas!

- Ferg

12/20/2025

In just under two years, I’ve walked through IFS Level 1 and three Level 2 trainings — not as a checklist, but as a pilgrimage inward.

IFS has become less of a modality and more of a language my whole system understands.

A way of listening.
A way of softening.
A way of honoring every part that rises — protector, exile, healer, leader.

This work has reshaped me.
It’s widened my capacity to sit with others.
It’s deepened my compassion for the parts within myself.
And it’s taught me that transformation doesn’t come from force, but from presence.

I’m grateful for the teachers, the parts that carried me here, and the ones I’m still getting to know.

Here’s to continuing the journey — with curiosity, with courage, and with Self leading the way.
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