Welcome! So nice to meet you.
I write to make sense of life, to connect us in our humanity, and to contemplate the potentialities of what God is doing in the spaces within and between us.
Hi, I’m Kensi.
I work in private practice as a licensed marriage & family therapist, self-development coach, and relationship educator. My degrees are in psychology and marriage and family counseling. I’ve studied at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, and am currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in spiritual formation and relational neuroscience.
I’ve served as an adjunct university professor, graduate guest lecturer, and local workshop and retreat leader. With every position or project I take on, from teaching on the Brave Marriage Podcast to writing my first book, my aim is to educate and encourage the church in healthy relating, systemic thinking, and meaningful living.
What is Self Studies?
Self Studies consists of slowly crafted essays reflecting on my faith, career, culture, and relationships en route to midlife.
I am a wife, aunt, sister, friend, business owner, daughter, invisible mother, and childless not by first choice. I know what it’s like to commit to your calling, to live your passion and purpose, to be seen as an expert, to burn out. To encounter benevolent sexism and church hurt, and to live with long grief and ambiguous loss. To dream, to release desires, to trust, to learn to live with what is. I joke that I have more in common with empty nesters than with peers my own age as I look back on the first half of life and wonder how its formed me for life’s next iteration.
At this stage in my life, I need to write—and I need privacy on the internet. For that reason, Self Studies is intentionally contained to a sincere community of paid and gifted subscribers. If you’d like to join, here’s how:
Option 1: Pay nothing and receive new free posts, accessible for one week.
Option 2: Pay $5 a month or $50 a year to receive (at least) one post per month, accessible anytime. In your welcome email, you’ll also receive a link to read my memoir, along with other goodies for use yourself or by whoever comes to mind.
I love nerding out with kind, hospitable others who spend their time thinking, talking, and relating deeply around faith, family systems, relational dynamics, and personal growth.
If that’s you, I hope you’ll make yourself at home.
