I'm Kelly VanMoen, MS, LPC, CAADC, and Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, licensed in Michigan and South Carolina. I'm the founder and licensed counselor at The Unfiltered Couch Counseling.
I have over a decade of experience working with adolescents and adults, and one thing I’ve learned is that many clients are ready for something deeper than traditional talk therapy. I work with substance use, trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and a range of other challenges. And honestly, for many of us, talking for 50 minutes once a week isn’t enough to reach the deeper layers of healing for a dysregulated, overrun nervous system.
While I am trained in Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Counseling, DBT, and CBT, I understand that coping mechanisms and breathing exercises are a band-aid to a fried nervous system that is screaming for regulation. That's why I go deeper than surface level band-aids and talk therapy. I work to get into the body and nervous system where the stressors and trauma memories continue to live rent free and help you kick them out for good.
I work with high functioning adults and adolescents who have been feeling stuck in talk therapy and are ready to see faster results and resolve their trauma.
If you’re tired of holding it all together on the outside while freaking out on the inside, you’re in the right place.
I specialize in somatic therapy intensives, including Brainspotting, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). These powerhouse neuro-experiential approaches help us access deeper parts of the brain where trauma, patterns, and emotional imprints live, the places that insight and conversation alone can’t reach.
My style is laid-back, direct, raw, and unfiltered. I believe therapy works best when you can show up as your authentic self and do the real work without the pressure to perform or pretend you have it all together.
Because real healing isn’t always pretty. It’s raw, gritty, uncomfortable, and rarely Instagram-worthy, but it is profoundly powerful. There’s absolutely nothing you can’t bring to the couch.
If you’re ready to get real, stop talking in circles and unf*ck your nervous system, let's get started.