Quieting the Storm: Empowering Young Women
Mondays 6:30 - 8:00PM | 12 Week Group Starting February 6, 2023
Led by Kelly Caul, MSW, LCSW | she/her
Founder of Empowered Therapy and Empowered Spaces
You are not alone! Amazing things happen when a group of women gather together in community.
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment groups for adolescent girls (a space that welcomes all teens that identify or are identified as female). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic self as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world.
Young women find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
We all need connection.
There is a healing power in connections.
Group therapy offers a safe and rewarding way to connect with and learn from others who are dealing with similar issues.
As a group member, each young woman is a valuable resource to the other members as she shares her experiences (as much or as little as she chooses!) – both the successes and struggles.
It can be easier for teens to work through challenges with the help of peers in similar situations. This environment provides the opportunity to practice new skills while building trusting and healthy relationships.
Build self-compassion, self-esteem, confidence, and self-awareness
Develop healthy coping tools to deal with stress, anxiety and depression
Discuss ways to survive the pressures and expectations of being a teenage woman
Learn about healthy relationships and find your voice in relationships
Discover, recognize, and develop strengths as a woman
These groups offer young women:
Community - A safe and supportive space to connect with other young women
Connection - Building trusting and positive relationships with other girls
A path to Self-acceptance - reconnecting with and honoring her most authentic Self
Voice - Encouragement to voice her truth and share her story, building self-awareness and acceptance for both her strengths and struggles
Support - As she builds skills and the self-awareness to identify, articulate, and befriend her feelings
Validation - A judgment-free zone and the knowing (and believing!) that she is not alone!
Skills to Cope - Developing new strategies to cope with the pressures and expectations from today's world - releasing perfectionism and embracing healthy striving
Strategies - to reconnect with her Inner Wise Woman during the moments of harsh self-criticism and self-judgment
Tools - to work towards better self-care – including self-compassion, mindfulness, shame resilience, boundary setting, communication skills, transitioning to a growth mindset, and gratitude practices
Free 30 minute consultation available for any family interested in exploring whether this group is the right fit. Reach out to Kelly Caul at kkcaul@yahoo.com or 314.952.3199 for more information.
Meet Kelly
Founding Director of Empowered Spaces, Founder of Empowered Therapy, LLC, Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Group Facilitator, Community Builder
Kelly (she/her) is a clinical social worker, somatic psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, community builder, group facilitator, space holder for transformational growth and healing, and forever a student.
Through her private practice, Empowered Therapy, she offers both individual and group therapy while specializing in working with women, female adolescents, gender diverse individuals, and parents. Her holistic, collaborative, and non-pathologizing approach focuses on embodiment, empowerment, compassion, and building attuned connections.
As a white cis-hetero woman, she is also deeply committed to holding brave space for the cultivation of compassionate, accountable, anti-oppressive and equitable communities .
Since January 2009, she has been offering therapeutic empowerment groups for girls in middle school, Girls with Strength, and girls in high school, Quieting the Storm.
In addition, she facilitates workshops and trainings for the community on an array of topics that center personal and collective healing and transformation from a trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and anti-oppressive lens.
It is her dedication to personal and collective healing that sparked the beginnings of Empowered Spaces. She opened Empowered Spaces in April 2018 with the primary mission to hold space for deepening connections, co-creating community rooted in care and belonging, and transformational healing.
Education & Training
As a trauma-sensitive clinician, I have been trained in several different approaches for healing that are rooted in mindfulness, self-compassion and acceptance, attachment theory, neurobiology and a deep understanding of the nervous system:
Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis (2006), and received my LCSW from the state of Missouri in 2008
Internal Family Systems – IFS (Level 1)
Working with Racism, Sexism, Homophobia and Other Forms of Unconscious Bias: An Internal Family Systems Approach with Percy Ballard, MD & Kate Lingren, LICSW
The Practice of Collective Care with Michelle C. Johnson and RW Alves
Off the Mat, Into the World Yoga, Purpose, & Action Leadership Intensive with Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, and Suzanne Sterling
Remembering, Responsibility, Reverence, & Reconciliation: An Anti-Racism Training for People Who Hold Space for Healing with Michelle C Johnson, Vivette Jeffries-Logan, & Kerri Kelly
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga(20HR training)
Specialization in Trauma-Informed Yoga with Zabie Yamasaki, Transcending Sexual Trauma Through Yoga
Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems: A comprehensive certificate training course with Frank G. Anderson, MD
Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk's Intensive Trauma Treatment Course
Accessing and Living from the Self, - Meditation, Mindfulness, & IFS Psychotherapy with Richard Schwartz and Loch Kelly
The Living Brave Semester with Dr. Brene Brown
Certificate in Mean Girls: Strategies and Resources in Identifying and Helping Relationally Aggressive Girls and Empowering Their Victims
Trained in Nonviolent Crisis Intervention through the Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc.