Move out of creative blocks and depletion and into a life where your creative desires are lived.
Life can look functional on the outside while something inside feels depleted, disconnected or unsure. Many people I work with have learned to ignore their creative desires or quietly believe their creative dreams aren't realistic- something for "someday" not now.
I help clients move through creative blocks, depletion, and disconnection toward a life where their creative desires actually get lived — by reconnecting with the body, intuition, and creative energy already inside them, so self-trust returns, creative choices feel available again, and life starts to feel genuinely theirs.
Unlike traditional coaching solutions that focus solely on goal-setting, I offer a holistic approach that blends guided writing, somatic healing techniques, and community support, while also providing gentle guidance for defining intentions and accountability, creating a nurturing space for creative awakening and opening.
"Working with Kelly Jo changed the way I relate to myself and my creative practice. It taught me that I was a person worthy of love and that my creativity required a container that could be nourished and protected. Some of the best writing I've ever done came out of this work."
- Sky, Recent Coaching Client
The Creative Compass
Not Sure Where To Start?
After years of helping people reconnect with their creative life, I developed The Creative Compass™ to help people understand the patterns that shape their relationship with creativity and the conditions that allow it to flourish.
Creative energy thrives under specific conditions, and for most people, at least one is quietly asking for more support. This free reflection shows you exactly which one, and where to start.
A clear first step to strengthen your relationship to your creative life - immediately
Where you stand across all five conditions that support creativity and the one that needs the most attention right now.
3-5 minutes, completely free, with customized results delivered instantly
"Working With Kelly Jo was like a balm for the soul.
Kelly Jo creates a nourishing, grounded and soulful space where creativity is gently awakened and the lost parts of yourself are lovingly invited back home." -
Art T. Recent Coaching Client
When we stop trusting ourselves, life begins to feel constricted — and creativity is usually the first thing to go quiet. We stay in situations our nervous systems can no longer tolerate. We live by what feels safest or most approved, until it can feel like choice itself is gone — not because it isn't there, but because we've learned not to listen, and to just keep doing more.
Creativity is not something you can lose.
It's always there, always ready to open into deeper relationship.
I call myself a creativity midwife- I don't hand anyone their creative life. I help what's already there come through. In both 1:1 and group spaces, this looks like slowing down, listening to the body, letting the page tell the truth, protecting real time for what lights you up, and building a life — and a community — that can actually hold it. Through that support, creativity begins to move again — not as performance, but as clarity, courage, expression, and real change.
"Our creative dreams and longings come from a divine source.
As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity."
— Julia Cameron
Let’s get to know one another…
I'm a body-based creativity midwife, mentor, group facilitator, performance artist, spoken word poet, writer, and Body Temple Dance teacher, with over a decade of experience in theater, education, and embodied creative practice.
For eleven years I taught special education, after walking away from twelve years in acting and directing. By year nine, my body knew I couldn't stay — but I had no idea what else was possible. I was exhausted, resentful, increasingly disconnected, especially from my husband. I envied people who seemed to have more choice in their lives. That kind of life felt like it was for other people. Not me.
One night, during a near fight, my husband suggested I try The Artist's Way. I snapped, "I don't have time for that." He replied gently, "Maybe that's exactly why you should." That moment saved my life.
Opening that book led me into therapy, writing circles, performance art, and embodiment communities — spaces where I was finally witnessed and allowed to listen to myself again. Through that support, my inner knowing and sense of worth slowly came back online. I began to trust my body, reconnect with creativity as a source of truth, and believe that I actually had choice. It taught me something essential: I wasn't broken, and I wasn't meant to do this alone.
Today, my work bridges creativity, embodiment, spirit, and relational healing. Rooted in somatic education, spiritual exploration, relational witnessing, and trauma informed body-based practice, I help people reclaim the creative life force they learned to suppress in order to survive. A big part of that work is getting people back in touch with their intuition and inner knowing — because that's where creativity actually speaks from.
I believe creativity isn't a luxury or a performance — it's a vital force that reconnects us to ourselves, each other, and the lives we're meant to live. It doesn't thrive in shame or isolation. It needs relationship and witnessing. And when it's honored, it has the power to bring us back to lives that feel alive, aligned, and our own.
Work with me
Here’s How I Can Help
Private Mentoring
My approach is rooted in embodied creative practice, relational presence and spiritual inquiry and is especially supportive for those navigating transitions, creative blocks, shame or long standing patterns of self abandonment brought on by societal and family history and culture. For those ready to reconnect with their authentic selves and explore the depths of their creativity, my 1:1 coaching is designed to support your journey. Together, we’ll navigate the complexities of your personal story, helping you heal your relationship with purpose, artistic expression, and self-worth.
This work is not about talking about change, it's about practicing and embodying it. In 1:1 sessions we work experientially to reconnect you with your creative energy, body wisdom and capacity to choose yourself and to cultivate choice. Sessions are available in person within the Rockland County and Westchester Areas of NY as well as virtually via Zoom in every area.
Whole Group Offerings and Courses
I offer quarterly gatherings as well as courses where creativity becomes a doorway into sovereignty, truth telling and lived change. When people are witnessed in community there is expansion, loosening, blocks alchemize because they are seen, clarity emerges and creative expression begins to move again-often in surprising and deeply healing ways. Healing not just for the individual but for the collective.
Participants have returned to writing after years of silence, established sustanable creative rhythms, reclaimed music and performance, spoken up in relationships and workplaces and taken concretes steps toward sharing their gifts in the world. This isn't about forcing output- it's about creating the conditions where expression naturally reawakens because it is no longer alone.
Client Testimonials
Here's What My Clients Are Saying
Tina C.
Novelist / Writer
Kristina H.
Writer / Educator
Kendra V.
Curriculum Designer
"A typical business coach wasn't what I was looking for. I was drawn to Kelly Jo because of her talent, inner strength, empathy and spiritual approach. I immediately felt seen and understood by her. Working with Kelly Jo helped me be softer with myself, and this, in turn, helped me open up my creative blocks when it came to starting a business aligned with my true talents. With her guidance and support I was able to create, successfully market and facilitate my first writing and healing workshop. I highly recommend working with Kelly Jo on your creative projects or creative business. She comes from not only a compassionate place but also one of experience as someone who has taken risks and leaned into her own spiritual transformation.
Rebecca W.
Reiki Healer/ Writer
Kelly Jo is an empathetic, warm, and smart creative coach. She was able to help me identify the blocks that were holding me back as a creative writer, offering concrete – even fun – ideas for moving forward. I’m now on a regular writing schedule that works for me, and also carve out time every day for inspiration. As a result of working with Kelly Jo, I’ve developed a new structure for my memoir, have rediscovered by comedy-writing voice, and sold my first funny piece to a publication.
Ellyn H.
Writer
Ready for a deeper relationship with your creative gifts?
We all benefit from support when they're working against years of patterns that have kept their creative gifts quiet. If that's where you are, I'd love to talk — take the free Creative Compass- a 5 minute reflection to help you see exactly where to start and we can set up a free Compass Conversation to go more in depth about what your results revealed.