Kelsey Ruffing Counseling

02/17/2026

Kelsey Ruffing Counseling is proud to introduce the David Delight Pro as part of our integrative, mind-body approach to healing. Whether you are navigating TBI recovery, chronic pain, autoimmune or life-threatening chronic illness, sleep disruption, trauma, or stress-related conditions, this evidence-informed modality may be a powerful addition to your care.

We believe healing happens when the brain and nervous system feel safe, supported, and regulated. Light therapy is one more way we are expanding innovative, compassionate services for our clients.

Spots will be limited as we launch this offering. If you are interested in incorporating light therapy into your treatment plan, join the waitlist today and be among the first to experience this restorative technology.

To learn more or secure your place, contact Kelsey Ruffing Counseling and request to be added to the David Delight Pro waitlist.

Kelsey@kelseyruffingcounseling.com
312.620.0714
https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/lighttherapy

02/08/2026

Today, Lindsey Vonn reminded the world how thin the line is between courage and heartbreak. Racing at the Olympic level after an ACL tear requires extraordinary mental strength. Stepping into the start gate means choosing belief over fear, purpose over doubt, and self-trust over outside noise.

A crash doesn’t erase resilience.

Injury in sport is never just physical. It challenges who an athlete believes they are. It can threaten routine, community, confidence, and the future they imagined. In seconds, years of preparation can turn into grief, uncertainty, and the question: What now?

But here’s what we also saw today:
✨ bravery
✨ commitment
✨ love of team
✨ the refusal to quit on a dream

Resilience is not only finishing the race.
Sometimes resilience is daring to start.

For every injured athlete watching: your worth is bigger than your performance. Healing includes your mind, your identity, and the parts of you that exist beyond the sport.

02/08/2026

Our virtual Chronic Pain Support Group starts March 7 and meets 2x per month on Saturdays. Space is limited.

Together we’ll focus on:
✨ emotional support
✨ nervous system regulation
✨ practical coping tools
✨ reconnecting with identity beyond pain

Living with chronic pain can take more than a physical toll — it can shape how you think, move, and connect with yourself and others. Many people find themselves caught in a cycle of pain, tension, and exhaustion that traditional treatments alone don’t always address.

02/08/2026

At Kelsey Ruffing Counseling, we often remind clients that pain is both physical and relational. Humans regulate stress, fear, and meaning in connection with others. When pain disrupts connection, suffering tends to grow. When safe connection is restored, people frequently experience increased resilience, improved coping, and a renewed sense of identity beyond the illness.

Living with chronic pain can be profoundly isolating. Many people wake each day already exhausted, having fought through a difficult night of sleep, bracing for decisions about medication, movement, work, and how to explain yet again why they “don’t look sick.” Friends may drift away. Family m...

01/29/2026

Chronic pain doesn’t just live in the body—it lives in the nervous system. Sound therapy works by using specific frequencies and vibrations to gently guide the brain out of stress and into regulation. When the nervous system calms, pain signals can soften too.

From singing bowls and tuning forks to low-frequency sound waves, sound therapy can help:
• Reduce muscle tension
• Calm an overactive nervous system
• Support relaxation and sleep
• Create space between you and your pain

This isn’t about “thinking pain away.” It’s about giving your body a sensory experience of safety so it can do what it’s designed to do—heal, regulate, and rest. 🎶

Sometimes the most powerful medicine is simply being deeply listened to… by sound.

At Kelsey Ruffing Counseling , sound therapy is integrated within a broader, evidence-based and nervous-system-informed approach to chronic pain care. Clients are supported in understanding how pain lives not only in the body, but within the brain and nervous system, and how regulation—not force.....

01/05/2026

✨ Healing the Inner Child Isn’t About Living in the Past ✨
It’s about freeing yourself from it.

When childhood trauma occurs, parts of us can become emotionally “stuck” at the age the pain began. Not because we’re weak—but because our nervous system adapted to survive. Those younger parts often still hold beliefs about worth, safety, and love that quietly shape our adult lives.

Inner child healing helps bring awareness to those patterns so they no longer run the show. It allows us to meet old wounds with compassion instead of criticism—and to update beliefs that were formed in moments when we had very little power or choice.

Healing doesn’t mean blaming the past.
It means recognizing what was missing—and learning how to provide it now.

Through trauma-informed approaches like Brainspotting, CBT, and somatic therapies, healing becomes not just something we understand, but something we feel—in the body, the nervous system, and the way we relate to ourselves.

You don’t have to stay the age of the wound.
You’re allowed to grow beyond what you survived. 🤍

—
Kelsey Ruffing, MA, MS, LCPC
📍 Trauma-informed counseling | Inner child healing | Nervous system support

https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/healingtheinnerchild

Healing the inner child as an adult is not about reliving the past or assigning blame. It is about reclaiming parts of yourself that adapted in order to survive—and gently teaching them that safety, choice, and worth exist now.

01/02/2026

What if this year didn’t begin with pressure, but with compassion?

Self-compassion isn’t giving up—it’s creating the conditions where growth can actually happen. When we feel safe in our bodies and minds, change becomes possible.

This year, let care come first. 🤍

https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/newyear

01/01/2026

The new year doesn’t have to begin with pressure or perfection.

This is your reminder that healing happens gently, at your own pace.

Here’s to a year rooted in compassion, regulation, and care 🤍

11/27/2025

Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools we have for supporting our mental health. On Thanksgiving, taking a moment to acknowledge the people, moments, and small joys that carry us through can help calm the nervous system, soften stress, and create a sense of groundedness. Even in seasons of difficulty, practicing gratitude helps us reconnect with what is steady, meaningful, and healing. Today is a reminder that honoring the good—no matter how small—nurtures emotional resilience and supports overall well-being.

11/25/2025

✨ When Caregiving Becomes Your Identity ✨

So many women reach mid-life feeling exhausted, resentful, and disconnected from who they once were. Years—or decades—of caregiving, emotional labor, and holding a family together can slowly erode your sense of self, especially when emotional support isn’t reciprocated.

If you’re feeling anger, depression, or a deep loss of identity… you are not alone, and you are not “too much.”
You are awakening.

Mid-life can be a powerful turning point—an invitation to reclaim your needs, your voice, and your sense of self beyond caregiving.

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Caregiving is valuable, but it should not cost you your identity, health, or emotional well-being. Women deserve relationships where emotional support is shared.

11/24/2025

📣 New Blog Post: Brainspotting for Post-Concussive Syndrome

Healing after a concussion isn’t just physical—your brain, emotions, and nervous system are deeply affected too. Many people experience lingering symptoms like headaches, brain fog, mood changes, anxiety, or sensory overload long after the initial injury.

✨ Brainspotting offers a powerful way to support recovery.
This mind-body therapy helps calm the nervous system, release trauma from the injury, and restore cognitive and emotional balance. For many, it becomes the breakthrough when healing feels stuck.

If you or someone you love is living with post-concussive symptoms, there is hope—and healing is possible.

🧠 Read the full blog to learn how Brainspotting supports recovery from the inside out.
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Post-concussive syndrome can feel isolating and discouraging, but healing is possible. Brainspotting offers an innovative, neuroscience-aligned therapy that supports the brain, body, and emotional system simultaneously.

11/17/2025

🌿Adjusting to a New Medical Diagnosis🌿

Receiving a new medical diagnosis can change everything — your routines, your plans, and even the way you see yourself. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed, scared, or unsure of what comes next.

Therapy offers a grounded space to process those emotions, rebuild your sense of identity, and strengthen the mind-body connection through the healing process.

🌱 Therapy can help you:

Navigate fear, grief, and uncertainty

Communicate your needs to loved ones

Prevent or reduce anxiety and depression

Adapt to lifestyle and health changes

Reconnect with purpose, identity & self-worth

A diagnosis may change part of your story, but it does not define who you are. With the right support, healing and hope are possible.

✨ You don’t have to navigate this alone.

📌 Read the full blog here:

Receiving a new medical diagnosis—whether chronic, life-altering, or unexpected—can feel like the ground has shifted beneath you. It is a moment when the mind, body, and identity are forced to reorganize in ways you may not have anticipated.