Kelly Nelson is a healing arts entrepreneur and licensed psychotherapist living in Marrakech, Morocco.

Kelly is originally from South Louisiana, USA. Steeped in her Cajun roots for over two decades and in a large family whose first language was French, she understood from an early age that connection and communication extended far beyond her grandparents’ mother tongues and could also be found in their cultural traditions. From the foods they consumed to the rhythms to which they moved, Kelly found that her cultural traditions told a story of collective belonging.

Kelly’s dynamic cultural heritage primed her for work and world experiences born and bred by curiosity, a curiosity fueled by what it means to belong, namely, to one’s self. This quest for self-belonging motivated her to first study abroad in France and to inevitably live abroad in Morocco, completing her graduate studies in counseling psychology at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and working as a licensed psychotherapist in the US in the time between. Having worked as an existential psychotherapist for over a decade now, Kelly remains committed to helping individuals and couples discover their unique sense of cultural and relational belonging by unlearning their self-sabotaging stories and embracing their self-mobilizing truth through curiosity and compassion.