Helping Humanity Hold Onto Hope Until Healing Happens.
A comprehensive blueprint for taking control of your trauma and mental well-being, with specialized support for communities of faith — bridging spiritual wellness and clinical mental health care to create self-healing communities.
Kick Start Your Life™ with Dr. Keely! is a comprehensive blueprint for taking control of your trauma and mental well-being, with specialized support for communities of faith — bridging spiritual wellness and clinical mental health care to create self-healing communities.
If you want to make an impact, don't stop doing what God wants you to do...when you persevere in what God called you to do, you make an impact for generations.— Dr. Keely Petty
Dr. Keely Petty is a highly recognized certified educational expert, facilitator, and trainer of trainers specializing in trauma and mental health, particularly focusing on congregations and faith leaders. Her career is dedicated to dismantling the stigma and shame associated with mental illness, especially within communities of color, by providing trustworthy and culturally responsive training and resources.
She is the founder and CEO of Kick Start Your Life™ with Dr. Keely!, a global wellness coaching, training, and consulting mission service. Her core work creates a bridge between spiritual wellness and clinical mental health care, offering specialized training to church leadership and congregants to empower them to become self-healing communities.
She has trained leaders in over 123 churches and ministries, reaching hundreds of Christian leaders across the U.S. and globally, including South Africa, Maui, and Puerto Rico. As the Texas Training Coordinator for the WestCare Foundation's Trauma-Informed Ministry Model, she provides free, certified training in mental health, psychological first aid, and crisis prevention trauma verbal de-escalation, housed at the Ella Austin Community Center.
She is host of Matters of the Mind Quarterly Master Lab, a bi-monthly virtual community conversation that has reached over 250,000 individuals. She serves as a City of San Antonio Commissioner and Chair, and on the boards of the Center for Health Care Services Foundation and NAMI.
Honors include accolades from the San Antonio Business Journal, the San Antonio Women's Chamber of Commerce, and an honor from Governor Greg Abbott. She shares her life with her husband, Lead Pastor Lee Petty, at Bethel International Christian Fellowship. She holds a Doctorate in Christian Counseling and over 20 professional certifications.
A foundation of certified expertise spanning mental health, coaching, and faith-informed care.
Recognition for a career devoted to faith, community, and mental wellness.
A transformative approach to mental health and healing through faith, bridging biblical wisdom and modern psychological understanding, offering hope and practical tools for your journey.
Training and consulting that equips people and congregations to become self-healing communities.
Understanding common mental health conditions, recognizing signs and symptoms of distress, reducing stigma, providing initial support and resources.
Practical financial skills like budgeting, debt management, and saving, combined with stress reduction, emotion regulation, and coping strategies for money-related anxiety and depression.
Equips church leaders, congregants, chaplains, emergency responders, mental health professionals, and community volunteers to offer compassionate, stabilizing care that respects a person's beliefs, culture, and values without imposing any specific religious framework.
The physiological and psychological impacts of perimenopause and menopause — anxiety, depression, mood swings, brain fog, insomnia — and how they affect work life and well-being.
Equips churches to become healing hubs for mental health and wellness through ongoing training, tools, and resources. To date, hundreds of local churches have been trained — “the most trusted place for people seeking healing and mental well-being.”
A global community conversation on trauma and mental well-being — a trusted, safe, supportive virtual environment where faith and wellness meet.
Connect with Dr. Keely today and take the first step toward kick starting your mental well-being.
