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12/19/2025

If you ever find yourself doing all the “right” things in a relationship but still feeling disconnected, it’s not a failure of effort. It’s often a sign that coping strategies that work professionally don’t always translate emotionally.

Awareness is the first step toward changing that pattern.

If this resonates and you want support understanding how these patterns show up in your relationships, send us a message or book a free 20-minute consultation to see if we’re the right fit. Link in bio.


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12/11/2025

If this feels familiar and you want support shifting out of constant control mode, send us a message or book a free 20-minute consultation to see if we’re the right fit. Link in bio.

12/06/2025

Shutting down in conflict isn’t avoidance.

It’s protection.

Your nervous system is doing its best to prevent a threat even if the “threat” is just a hard conversation.

For many people, conflict meant danger growing up.

So the body still responds like danger is present.

If you go quiet, freeze, or mentally check out… that’s a survival response, not a personality flaw. And with support, you can learn to stay regulated enough to stay present.

11/26/2025

The holidays can be beautiful and emotionally exhausting.
Especially if you’ve spent years being the responsible one, the fixer, or the person who keeps everyone else comfortable.

If you feel old roles or old dynamics creeping in this week, take a pause.
You’re allowed to set boundaries.
You’re allowed to protect your energy.
You don’t have to carry everything you used to.

Wishing you a grounded, gentle Thanksgiving week.

11/24/2025

𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

So many high-achieving women tell me the same thing:

“I love my family… so why do I feel anxious instead of excited?”

Or, “Why does going home feel harder than running a team meeting?”

The truth?

Holiday stress isn’t just about the cooking, the travel, or the social calendar.

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.

✔️ The pressure to be agreeable

✔️ The pressure to make sure everyone else is okay

✔️ The pressure to look like you’re thriving (even if you’re exhausted)

✔️ The pressure to have a picture-perfect update about your career, your relationship, your life

When you’re used to being the responsible one… the one who holds everything together… holidays don’t always feel like rest.

They can feel like performance.

They can stir old wounds.

They can activate the parts of you that still believe you have to earn love by being “on.”

If you feel that heaviness this week, it doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful.

It means you’re human.

And it might be a sign your nervous system is asking for something gentler, slower, more honest.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

To hold boundaries without guilt.

To navigate family dynamics with clarity instead of dread.

To actually enjoy the break you’ve earned.

If this resonates and you want support this season, send us a message. We’re here to help you feel grounded, connected, and calm.

11/21/2025

Overthinking is often dismissed as a personality quirk, but for many NYC professionals, it is actually a sign of an overloaded nervous system.

When your day never gives you a moment to feel truly safe or grounded, your mind stays in constant problem-solving mode.
Not because you are overreacting, but because your body has not had a chance to exhale.

Therapy offers a space where your system can slow down enough to understand what is happening underneath the overthinking, instead of fighting it alone.

If you want to explore whether therapy with The Keely Group feels like a good fit, we offer a free 20-minute consultation.

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11/12/2025

Many women learn early that being “too much” comes with consequences.
Too opinionated at work.
Too ambitious in relationships.
Too emotional anywhere in between.

So you start to edit yourself.
You make your tone softer in meetings.
You minimize needs in relationships.
You learn that being easy to be around feels safer than being fully seen.

But over time, that shrinking catches up with you.
You start to feel invisible in rooms you worked hard to earn a place in.
You start to disconnect from the parts of you that once felt alive.

You’re not too much.
You’ve just been practicing safety in a world that often rewards silence.

Therapy can help you relearn what it feels like to take up space again —
without apology, and without losing yourself in the process.

11/07/2025

We can’t always control what happens.

But we can choose how we meet it.

That choice changes everything.

If this speaks to you, share it forward. Someone else might need this reminder too.

10/31/2025

Therapy isn’t about labels or diagnoses. It’s about understanding yourself.

It’s a space to pause, reflect, and grow in ways that everyday life in New York rarely allows.

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, take this as your sign. 💬

Share this or tag someone who might need the reminder.

10/24/2025

We often think the key to resolving conflict is talking it out right away.

But when emotions run high, clarity disappears.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is pause.

Conflict isn’t the enemy, disconnection is. 💛

10/17/2025

Every turn brings new insight, new strength, new perspective. You’re never just ‘going backwards’, you’re deepening.

What’s one lesson that keeps showing up for you lately?

10/10/2025

At The Keely Group, we believe how you start your morning matters.

Simple rituals like coffee, journaling, or a quiet moment of reflection help our therapists ground themselves and be fully present with the clients they support each day.

✨ What morning ritual helps you feel centered before work?

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Virtual Therapy for the NYC or Expat Life

You’re so busy navigating work commitments, friends, yoga, the subway that you can’t imagine fitting in one more appointment that you have to get to each week, but you’re just not as happy as you want to be. You made a big move across the ocean, perhaps for an exciting promotion of your own or for your partner’s work trajectory, but now that you’re settled in you are really worried about whether you can stick it out here in this foreign place and it’s hard to find the support you need in your new locale. I can help. Through a secure internet-based platform, I offer personalized psychotherapy for driven, busy people in the NYC area and those struggling to find their place abroad. My sessions go where you go, with only a smartphone or computer and internet connection needed to get the support you need. I can help you to make time for yourself, to give yourself the lifelong gift of a deeper self-understanding, to strategically make changes in your reality towards a more fulfilling experience, and to love the life you live, no matter your geographic location. Contact me today for a free 20-minute consultation to learn more about how Online Therapy NYC might help you.