Be Counseling - Kelsey Schad, LPC-S

12/01/2025

Take what you need while remembering that you are enough, you deserve to be free in your being, and that the table was a better place because you were at it 🫶🏻

💚 There is nothing shameful or unhealthy about participating in joyful gatherings around meals. 

💚 Restriction isn’t a solution for chaos.

💚 My body represents the memories, experiences, and quality time spent with my favorite people. 

💚 I will give myself permission to continue nourishing and fueling my body. 

💚 My body has an innate understanding of what it needs and I choose to trust my body. 

💚 To punish my body means there is something wrong with it. Let me remind myself that there is nothing wrong with my body. 

💚 Meals are an opportunity for connection and comfort, which I deserve to take part in. 

💚 The true spirit of the holiday will remain unaffected by an insignificant reading on a scale.

💚 A desire for balance and a desire for indulgence can both exist. 

💚 Move in a way that shows your body kindness and compassion rather than hate and cruelty.

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11/19/2025

One whole year of Be Counseling 🎉🎉🎉

I started Be Counseling with a vision of creating a cozy, warm space for people to exist authentically and to feel safe in their expression without needing to change or ‘fix.’ I am SO deeply grateful for each client who has trusted me with their story and who has chosen Be Counseling as a place to fall apart, heal, learn, and be curious. 

This year has been quite the journey! With starting a private practice I’ve had to learn how to bet on myself and navigate the difficult times with less judgement and more grace. This year has reminded me that it’s okay to be new at things while encouraging me to put myself out there. I’ve come face to face with the feelings of self-doubt, empowerment, fatigue, excitement, insecurity, and pride. I’m sure I’ll continue to encounter so much more because ✨life ✨

I can’t say enough for my family, boyfriend and friends who have been the hype squad when needed and the drawing board when stuck. Thank you for answering my panicked calls, reading through drafts and celebrating wins. 

One year has led to a new network of colleagues and friends, earning a certification as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), incorporating Walk & Talk Therapy and becoming an LPC-S so that I can supervise prelicensed therapists and a ton of new plants (peep the celebratory newest edition!)

Here’s to year 2 - I can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store. 

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.

11/06/2025

Happy to help 🤗🤗🤗

Nothing and I mean NOTHING is inappropriate to discuss in therapy! I want to hear it all … the messy, the raw, the joy, the ugly, the vulnerable. I’m lucky to sit alongside you with your deepest most intimate thoughts and feelings.

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.

11/01/2025

Had such a wonderful time chatting with Sarah who is the host of Rough Edges with Sarah I. Fox about perfectionism and relationships 🫶🏻

https://www.youtube.com/live/ASX3v_yoLKMdee md

Welcome to another Rough Edges live chat with special guest Kelsey Schad. Meet Kelsey! Kelsey Schad is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Supervisor (LPC-S) ...

10/31/2025

Halloween AND a new Be Counseling blog - What a treat !!

While some eagerly anticipate the seasonal changes, others might echo Winifred Sanderson’s famous line, “Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”

Here are some ways to treat your spooky feelings 🎃

That time of year is upon us again. The days grow shorter, the leaves transform, and the next three months are filled with decorations and family gatherings. While some eagerly anticipate these seasonal changes, others might echo Winifred Sanderson’s famous line, "Oh, look. Another glorious mo

10/31/2025

Halloween AND a new Be Counseling blog - What a treat !!

While some eagerly anticipate the seasonal changes, others might echo Winifred Sanderson’s famous line, “Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”

Here are some ways to treat your spooky feelings (more information in the blog):

🎃Take yourself on a ‘Color Walk.’ This involves selecting a color before a walk and focusing on that color throughout. For example, if you choose orange for a Halloween-themed walk, you’d look for orange items like pumpkins, flowers, or decorations.

🎃Connect with your tribe. Our connections foster a validating environment, reminding us we’re not alone. Enjoy fall with Halloween movies, pumpkin carving, candy corn crafts, or campfire marshmallows with loved ones.

🎃Journal. When we journal we create space and permission to befriend our inner world. A prompt to try: We all possess a “shadow self”—the hidden aspect of our being that houses the truths we’d rather not acknowledge, even to ourselves. This exercise invites you to compose a letter to this shadow self, recognizing its existence and the influence it wields in your life, and the needs it has.

🎃 Ground yourself in the season. Grounding uses our senses to bring us to the present, helping us detach from intense emotions, dissociation, or trauma-induced thoughts. For example, hold a warm drink like a pumpkin spice latte or chai apple cider, noting its feel, warmth, and taste.

🎃 Create your own ‘boo’ basket. A sweet gesture where a basket of festive goodies is assembled and delivered creating a feeling of being loved, appreciated and considered. Give yourself permission to curate an amazing, fall inspired care package of all your favorite things!

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.

10/22/2025

Want first access to the new ADHD parenting course I've been working on?
Do you need regular parenting tips from a mom and therapist who knows just how hard it is to parent a kid with ADHD? Join the list for real-world parenting tips and some humor along the way.

https://kristytheparentcoach.com/welcome

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10/16/2025

Cue Steve Urkle’s “did I do that.” 😶

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.

10/10/2025

I CANNOT wait to meet you at Dunkin’ for Domestic Violence Awareness event happening on Wednesday, October 15th from 11 AM to 1 PM at

📍Lonestar Community College - Montgomery: 3200 College Park Dr., Conroe, TX in Building A

Show up in purple in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜 as you peruse the various community mental health resources available!

Whatever your need - Be Counseling is ready to be your support! Stop by our table and say hi, grab some information, fidgets, candy or stickers. Better yet! Drop your information for a chance to win a self-care basket 🫶🏻

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.

09/29/2025

Healing means we are distancing ourselves from the parts and pieces that have protected our pain. Healing means we are overcoming an identity that we built around our survival and our suffering.

Of course that’s uncomfortable.

As a licensed professional counselor I notice clients in their healing journey mention:
“I just don’t feel like myself.”
“I don’t know that I would have ever made this type of decision before.”
“I’ve never really thought this way.”

Healing means we are learning to balance the perfectionist, people pleasing, critic, overworking, bully parts that have been operating in overdrive.

But, on the other side of that discomfort is a grounded, healed version of you that gets to know peace and safety.

I can’t wait to meet them and I’m so honored to be along the journey with you.

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I’m a trauma-informed therapist in Magnolia, Texas helping individuals understand how we learn to love and how we integrate ourselves into various relationships by exploring childhood unmet needs, lack of praise, emotional neglect, and high achievement expectations.