Kelsey Ruffing Counseling

10/30/2025

How Brainspotting Heals Trauma and the Nervous System

Trauma doesn’t just live in your memories — it lives in your body.
When past experiences remain “stuck,” your nervous system can stay on high alert, leading to anxiety, chronic tension, or emotional numbness.

Brainspotting helps release what’s held deep beneath the surface — integrating mind and body to calm the central nervous system and support true healing.

Through focused eye positioning and body awareness, Brainspotting accesses the subcortical brain regions where trauma is stored, allowing the body to process and reset from the inside out.

✨ Where you look affects how you feel — and how you heal.

Read the full blog: https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/brainspotting-process-trauma-reconnect-the-mind-and-body-and-heal-the-central-nervous-system

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🧠 Kelsey Ruffing Counseling
Integrative Mind-Body Therapy | Trauma Healing | Nervous System Regulation
🌐 www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com

10/29/2025

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Workplace bullying and mobbing are forms of psychological harassment and psychological abuse that violate an employee’s inherent basic human right to dignity: severe or pervasive infliction of hostile and unethical words and/or actions, intentional or unintentional, direct or indirect, or omission...

10/28/2025

ACL tears don’t just affect the knee—they impact mental health, too. Over half of young adults report anxiety or depression 9–36 months after ACL reconstruction; fear of re-injury (kinesiophobia) is common and can delay return to sport. Pre-existing or postoperative mental health diagnoses are tied to worse outcomes and even higher odds of a second ACL injury. Proactive mental health support belongs in every rehab plan.

Kelsey Ruffing, MA, MS, LCPC has her own personal experience with 3 ACL replacement surgeries. This allows for clients to feel heard, understood, and seen.  In a recovery process that can feel extremely lonely, Kelsey can help navigate the pass towards confidence, resilience, and identity beyond sport. She utilizes integrative psychotherapy techniques to address the disconnect between mind and body.

Key sources:
• SUPER-Knee study: >50% reported anxiety/depression 9–36 months post-ACLR. 
• Kinesiophobia is prevalent after ACLR and limits return to sport. 
• Diagnosed mental health disorders are associated with more post-op complications after ACL reconstruction. 
• Post-op depression/anxiety linked with higher rates of secondary ACL injury. ioaln m

10/28/2025

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308326/

Menopause is a biological process experienced by all people assigned female at birth. A significant number of women experience mental ill health related to the major brain gonadal hormone shifts that occur in their midlife. There is poor ...

10/27/2025

🌿 Find Freedom from Pain — Together 🌿
Living with chronic pain can feel isolating and exhausting. But you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Join Kelsey Ruffing, MA, MS, LCPC for a supportive 12-week small-group experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, ease tension, and explore new ways to find relief — physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Guided by the book Freedom from Pain by Maggie Phillips and Peter Levine, we’ll move week-by-week through practical tools for soothing the nervous system, reducing fear and reactivity, and reconnecting with the body’s natural ability to regulate and heal.

💫 What You’ll Experience:
• Weekly discussion & gentle mind-body practices
• Tools for nervous system regulation & self-soothing
• Space to connect with others who understand
• Guidance inspired by trauma-informed, somatic healing approaches

Link in bio under Groups💛

10/27/2025

✨ Ready to stop getting in your own way? ✨
Join our 12-week book group on The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest. Together, we’ll unpack self-sabotage, build self-trust, and climb the “mountains” that hold us back—with support every step of the way. 🌄
📅 Starts November 2025 📍 Virtual Group Meetings
➡️ Save your spot today!

Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You is a self-development guide centered on the idea that the biggest obstacles in our lives—the “mountains” we face—are not external challenges but patterns of self-sabotage. These behaviors often look like procrastination, fear, indecision, or destructive ...

10/26/2025

10/25/2025

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Through integrative mind-body approaches, we can begin to regulate the central nervous system, release stored trauma, and rebuild both strength and self. Healing isn’t only about the knee — it’s about reclaiming who you are beyond the game.

https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/when-the-game-ends-too-soon-healing-the-emotional-trauma-of-female-acl-tears-and-sport-retirement

10/25/2025

🏔️ When the Game Ends Too Soon

An ACL tear can end more than a season — it can shake your sense of self.
When identity is rooted in performance, injury can trigger deep grief, anxiety, and disconnection from the body.

Through nervous system healing and integrative counseling, we can begin to calm the body, release emotional pain, and rediscover who we are beyond the game.

💚 Read the full blog: https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/when-the-game-ends-too-soon-healing-the-emotional-trauma-of-female-acl-tears-and-sport-retirement

An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is one of the most common—and feared—injuries in female athletes. Studies show that women are up to eight times more likely than men to suffer an ACL tear due to biomechanical, hormonal, and structural differences (Arendt & Dick, 1995). Yet beyond t

10/24/2025

Your gut isn’t just digesting food—it’s digesting emotions, too. Unprocessed stress, grief, and trauma can become stored in the body and often show up as stomach pain, bloating, or IBS.
✨ Learn how repressed emotions impact your digestive health and what healing the mind-body connection can do for your gut.
🧠💛 Read the full blog: “When Emotions Get Trapped: How Repressed Feelings Can Lead to Stomach Problems.”

Most of us have heard the phrase “trust your gut.” But what happens when our gut is constantly in distress—tight, cramping, bloated, or unpredictable? The truth is, the connection between our emotions and our digestive system runs far deeper than we might think.

10/23/2025

10/21/2025

🌿 Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Tries to Forget 🌿

Did you know that unprocessed emotions can live in the body — showing up as chronic pain, tension, fatigue, or anxiety?
At Kelsey Ruffing Counseling, we explore how emotional healing and nervous system regulation can transform not just your mental health, but your physical wellbeing too.

Our latest blog post dives into:
✨ How emotions are stored in the body
✨ The link between emotional trauma and chronic pain
✨ Why healing the central nervous system is key to recovery
✨ Practical ways to calm your body and release stored emotion

💫 When you heal the nervous system, you heal the whole person.

🕊️ Read the full post here ➡️ https://www.kelseyruffingcounseling.com/blog/chronicpainandtrauma

Prolonged emotional stress can lead to systemic issues: low-grade inflammation, muscle tightness, digestive issues, fatigue, auto-immune reactivity — in other words, physical illness rooted in emotional distress.