Kelsie Hernandez is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. Kelsie holds an MA from Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology (2007), with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy. Her subsequent training and the first 8 years of Kelsie’s clinical experience took place in the inner cities of Los Angeles, California, where she conducted specialized assessment and treatment of children suffering from severe emotional and behavioural challenges resulting from early trauma.

After moving to Toronto in 2014, Kelsie served for several years as the Family and Systems Specialist on an interdisciplinary assessment team, which provided comprehensive relationship-based family assessment to some of Ontario’s most vulnerable and troubled children and their families. Helping clients navigate the intergenerational impacts of trauma or other attachment disruptions forms the basis of Kelsie’s current private practice.

Kelsie works with clients of all ages, conducting sessions mostly with individuals, according to the individual or family’s specific needs. Her clinical approach is grounded in a relational framework and integrates different models of psychotherapy, including somatic, family systems, attachment, psychodynamic, narrative, and cognitive orientations. 

At the heart of her work as a therapist is Kelsie’s belief that nurturing the unique relationships one has both with themselves as well as with those closest to them is fundamental to an individual’s capacity to move through and beyond the consequences of trauma. Kelsie's work is grounded in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a modality that harnesses one’s innate healing capacities to experientially heal trauma and suffering. She is currently a Level III trained AEDP therapist. Her commitment to personal and professional development serves to broaden and enrich Kelsie’s capacity to assist her growing client base.