Kendra McCallie has been a licensed mental health therapist for well over a decade and practicing yoga for eight years. She is a certified EMDR therapist with extensive training in treating complex trauma issues. She earned her masters degree in Social Work in the late 1990’s and has worked in various clinical settings which have led her on the journey to private practice. She has studied yoga under Susi Gillespie Amendola and was fortunate to complete her yoga teacher certification at OYBC. It was her time as a Clinical Supervisor at a busy non-profit mental health clinic where she treated patient’s struggling with severe mental illness that yoga became her lifeline. She recognized how vitally important yoga was to her overall health, ability to treat patients and be a strong support for her staff and of course, her family.

Kendra credits a yoga workshop at OYBC she attended a few years back with opening her eyes to the idea of integrating the healing power of yoga into a mental health setting. The workshop, which taught healing for anxiety and depression through yoga, was like finding the missing piece.

“I began to understand that the psychotherapy work I was doing with patients was only one aspect of vibrant health. Both mind and body must be aligned when you want true healing.”

This journey has led her to the integrative therapy she currently practices in the Mind Body Center at OYBC where she uses what she calls ‘the trilogy of treatment’: psychotherapy, EMDR and yoga. Through all of these she has been witness to the astounding changes in her patients’ lives when they open up to the practice of yoga, psychotherapy and loving support.