Meet Kelly.
Kelly Stewart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and trained emotional health coach. She leads Rise Collective.
She works with couples, with women, and with people who spend their lives caring for others and rarely get cared for themselves.
Why Kelly does this work.
Kelly knows what it's like to be the strong one. To lead, serve and keep going, and to find out that keeping going isn't the same as being okay.
Her own seasons of loss and rebuilding taught her that people can heal, marriages can recover, and growth can come out of the hardest places. That's the heart of Rise Collective: life after loss, and beauty after the hard night.
Kelly's faith has carried her through those seasons and shapes how she sees every person who walks in: worth caring for, and never beyond repair. She brings faith into sessions only when you want her to. Many of her clients carry church hurt, and they're welcome exactly as they are.
Kelly also knows the world of ministry from the inside. She understands what it asks of leaders, spouses and families, and what it can quietly cost.
Credentials first. Care always.
- Licensed Clinical Social WorkerLCSW, licensed in Tennessee
- Trained emotional health coachHelping people name feelings and build capacity
- Trauma-informed careGoing at a pace that feels safe for your body and mind
- Couples and family systemsUnderstanding how the people around you shape you
A quiet, well-lit room.
Unhurried
There's room to think, to cry or to sit quietly. Nobody is rushing you to the answer.
Honest
Kelly is warm and direct. She'll gently name what she sees, and help you say what's hard to say.
Practical
You'll leave with something to try, not just something to think about. Movement, not magic.
The moment after the hard night.
Our mark is a sun rising over water. It stands for growth, beauty from ashes and life after loss. "Collective" is our promise that you won't do this alone, and room for the practice to grow with the people it serves.