Welcome! So nice to meet you.
I write to make sense of life, to connect my humanity to yours, 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, certified professional coach, Bowen family systems coach, and Relationship Enhancement™ educator. I have degrees in psychology, marriage and family counseling, and am pursuing a second seminary degree 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, The Roles We Play—my aim is to educate the church in healthy relating, systemic thinking, and meaningful living.
What is Self Studies?
My most recent creative project takes a more personal tone. Self Studies is where I write about my deepening understanding of my relationships with God, myself, and others. It consists slowly crafted essays reflecting on my faith, family, career, culture, and relationships en route to midlife.
I am a wife, daughter, aunt, sister, friend, and invisible mother who’s childless not by first choice. I’ve spent twenty years pursuing one vocational calling—and ten of those learning to live with long grief and ambiguous loss. I joke that I have more in common with empty nesters than with peers my own age as I look back on my life with nostalgia and wonder how I’ll spend the next iteration of my life.
At this point in my personal and professional journey, 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, relationships, and personal growth. If that’s you, I hope you’ll make yourself at home.
