Kelly Rhyne (they/she) identifies as an AuDHD, Queer, Biromantic, Educator, Creative, Kink/Poly/Sex Work affirming, Mental Health Therapist, Christian-Influenced Mystic, Intuitive Tarot/Oracle Reader, Educator, and Minister who earned their Master of Social Work from the School for Social Work at Smith College and their Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University and completed clinical chaplaincy training with Emory Midtown Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Additionally, Kelly spent many years working in disability justice and education with the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia and as a youth and campus minister in the Atlanta area. Prior to their time in Atlanta, Kelly worked full time as a performance artist and earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theater from Columbia College Chicago.

Equipped with their expertise in the arts and years of clinical and spiritual training experiences, Kelly loves to partner with clients and their families around the intersections of trauma, religion, spirituality, dissociation, depression, and anxiety providing a ""safe enough"" space for exploration, questioning, healing, and transformation. Kelly has worked in a variety of diverse settings including Positive Impact Health Centers and the Trauma Recovery Program at the Atlanta VA, and has vast experience in LGBTQIA+, disability, and neurodiversity community issues, childhood abuse and sexual trauma, personality disorders, depression, anxiety, military trauma and moral injury, religious/spiritual trauma and related issues, grief/death, psychosis, experiences of exclusion and marginalization, and alcohol and substance misuse disorders. Kelly is trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT, Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) as well as Psychodynamic, Existential, and Humanist theories.

In their free time, Kelly enjoys spending time with their family, caring for their two dogs, teaching music lessons, and performing with the T-Tones and Atlanta Freedom Bands.

Kelly is being supervised by Anne Rice, LPC.

• Trans, GNC, & Non-Binary Affirming Therapy
• Trauma
• HIV Counseling
• Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Sexuality
• Coming Out
• Children/Adolescents
• Kink/Poly
• Families
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Autism
• Religious Trauma