Kelly Donahue, PhD

Kelly Donahue, PhD is a health psychologist, mind-body researcher, and change coach. She has over a decade of experience in mind-body health as a practitioner, researcher, author, consultant, and speaker. Her work has been featured in Health Psychology, TheraNest, Integrative Medicine, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, and more.

She’s used the knowledge from her training and practice to recover from the ill-effects of people-pleasing, striving, and the need to achieve. She loves helping others do the same.

Kelly is passionate about empowering others to practice essential self-care strategies that nourish the body and mind. Her training in behavioral medicine and clinical psychology provided her with the framework to help clients create real, lasting change; however, she soon realized that psychology’s focus on the past and fitting people into a diagnosis box didn’t feel right. She didn’t want to focus on disease and helping people to just get by; she wanted to help people grow and thrive! The missing puzzle pieces were 1) a connection to the body and 2) optimizing the present for a better future.

Kelly has lived the power of the mind-body connection and learned the necessity of self-care. Her individual clients include entrepreneurs, executives, working moms, physicians and other health care providers, and empty-nesters ready to overcome overwhelm and regain their health and purpose in life. Her mission is to share that knowledge and translate the insight to action (often the missing step) to help over-stressed women and men thrive and reach their personal, professional, and health goals.

Her book, Everyday Self-Care: Your Proven Holistic Guide to Feeling Better, was released earlier this year. The book began as a simple handout to help her clients develop foundational self-care tools and practices. The handout quickly grew to a book as she realized the need to reach people beyond those who were able to sit on her couch or on the other side of her computer’s video camera.

She currently resides in Maryland and loves walking in nature, chasing after her son, and laughing every day.