Licensed Counselor & Story Facilitator

Sara Kelly is a Mental Health Counselor Associate providing psychotherapy. Her formation predominantly draws upon the Allender Center, Theology of the Body Institute and the JPII Healing Institute. She is the founder of Helena House Therapy. Named after St. Faustina, Helena House seeks to be a therapeutic space that becomes a home where compassion is a lived reality. Foundational to Helena House therapy is a belief that no one is ever too broken or has done something that makes them unforgivable or unworthy of love.

Apart from being a therapist, she is a wife, a mamma to five (one currently in the womb & four with Jesus) and currently lives in the pacific northeast. Sara loves gardening, baking sourdough, backpacking and meeting up with friends at a local brewery.

After encountering Christ during her time in college at University of California, Berkeley, Sara served as missionary with FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) across three college campuses. In her work both with students and in her daily walk with the Lord in the sacraments, scripture and adoration of the Eucharist, Sara discerned to become a therapist. Sara received her Masters in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology with a concentration in Trauma & Abuse through The Allender Center.

Why Story work: 

At its heart, Catholic story work is seeing our stories through the story of Jesus Christ and His church knowing there is no part of our story that the Lord does not or cannot enter into. By sharing painful stories with others in a caring and present gaze, we are able to learn about parts of ourselves that are living less than the Lord originally intended (due to sin, wounds against us, protective defenses etc) and alongside the sacraments the church offers seek healing and restoration. Ultimately, Catholic story work strives to encounter your story so you can have abundant life (John 10:10).

You may reach her at: helenahousetherapy@gmail.com

“Anyone who wants to heal man must see him in his wholeness and know that his ultimate healing can only be God’s love” Pope Benedict XVI