About Us

I'm White, queer, and trans-masculine gender queer, and based in Philly. Before I began pursuing a career in counseling or coaching, I practiced as a photographer, and still do today. Regardless of which hat I'm wearing, I tend to work in the spaces between shadow and light, and seek creative ways to redirect and shift focus.

According to my clients, I show up as a creative, thoughtful, grounded and compassionate sounding board and guide. It is vitally important to me to bring integrity, playfulness, spaciousness, insight, and earnest curiosity into every session.  

As both a client and a therapist, I've seen the immense transformative power of therapy. Yet I also see some of its limitations. As a coach, I have more flexibility to curate my approach around the client, rather than pathologizing habits or lifestyles which have aided in their survival.

I welcome your weirdness.

 I am a white, non-binary, queer, neurodivergent, billingual (Spanish/English) and multicultural clinical social worker, trauma sensitive movement and breath facilitator, professional trainer, choreographer and community organizer. 

I’m deeply committed to neuroscientifically-grounded and mycelially-guided embodiment practices that support our collective disengagement from white-body-supremacy, which fosters opportunity for anti-oppressive and trauma sensitive connection with every breath, movement, choice, thought and word.

 Multiply neurodivergent (ADHDer and autistic), student at heart and a geek, more than 16 years of experience as an academic, educator, mentor, and curriculum developer at both university and school level. Latinx and nonbinary, Puertorican, fully bilingual (English/Spanish). I use my lived experience as an educator, neurodivergent person, queer, and parent of neurodivergent kids to help build a neuroinclusive society, this is why I became a Neuroinclusive Coach. Formally trained at ADDCA (ADDCA Basic Coaching Trainee). 

 Hi! I’m KJ Kelsch (they/them), and I’m a movement performance coach, NASM-certified Personal Trainer, and a certified Mobility Restoration Specialist through Z-Health.  I’ve dedicated my life to helping people achieve a greater degree of freedom in their daily movement. I love helping people discover ways to incorporate quality, intentional, joyful movement in their lives in the ways that work for them. Your movement program will be customized for YOUR body, movement performance goals, and what you need to move through the world in a fluid and pain-free way. I'm committed to making fitness spaces and programs safer and more accessible for trans/non-binary, queer, and neurodiverse people. 

I am a white, queer, trans masculine (they/them) therapist with fluency in poly, kinky, and gender minority experiences. I enjoy working with clients around setting boundaries, living into the direction of your longings, existential questions, and developing richer interpersonal relationships. I am patient but not passive and appreciate meeting with clients who are motivated toward learning and change.

I experience some neurodivergence myself and welcome yours as a thread (or a whole swath) of our explorations together toward your greater self-acceptance and life satisfaction. 

510-467-0647 - please leave a voicemail with a phone number to return your call

Fee: $200/session - not in network with providers but provide superbills

Shelly Lyons, M.S., is an ADHDer specializing in Coaching Neurodivergent Adults, Employers, and Family Members in the areas of Executive Functioning, Career, and Holistic Well-being. Shelly also provides Neurodiversity and Strategic HR Consulting services to businesses ready to 1) grasp the benefits of hiring and supporting Neurodiverse Talent and 2) embrace organizational transformation.

Lyons Consulting Group LLC, including Shelly Lyons Coaching, was founded to disrupt the status quo by creating meaningful change through Coaching for Neurodivergent individuals and launching Neuro-inclusive organizations toward their full potential.

Our mission is to create a more Neurodiversity-affirming world through individual and organizational transformation.

 Shelly@ShellyLyonsCoaching.com 

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