Meet Cecily May: Your go-to expert for breaking cycles and building stronger family bonds. With a background in trauma recovery and emotional safety, Cecily gets the lifelong impact of parent-child dynamics. Adoptee and military-family raised, she knows life’s complexities and how to navigate them.
Utilizing the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS), Cecily May offers a safe space for clients to explore their inner worlds. With her extensive knowledge on the significant role the parent-child relationship plays in the overall development of our nervous systems, as well as her background in trauma recovery, Cecily gently guides clients in building a foundation of emotional safety within.
Cecily is passionate about supporting adults in their efforts to form long-lasting connections with the children in their lives (inner children included) and does so with compassion and non-judgement. She understands that much of how we as humans operate, react, and communicate is subconsciously influenced by our own childhood experiences. It often takes curious Self-discovery, patience, and loving acceptance before we are able to fully unlearn the old and replace with new relational skills and tools. She has witnessed firsthand while implementing the IFS model into sessions with others, as well as with her own inner work, how when we compassionately witness and hold space for our inner-child’s unique experiences, we move towards healing and growth; gaining the ability to hold onto an internal sense of clarity, connection and calm even when in the face of external chaos.
Cecily is an adoptee, with a deep understanding of the delicate wounds that are inevitable as a result of such an early-life experience. She was raised by an Air Force family, and struggled with the constant moving as a child, only to ironically marry back into the Air Force lifestyle in her twenties; she has lived all around the country and across the world and holds great compassion for the challenges, both emotionally and logistically, that arise for our country’s military families. Raised in a highly dysfunctional family, Cecily has dedicated the past fourteen years of her life to healing, growing, and cycle breaking. She is a proud mama to a magnificent daughter, Clemmie, who inspires her daily to accept accountability and embrace the challenges that come with parenthood; all with compassion and curiosity, of course! She has worked with children of all ages throughout the years in hopes of offering them an emotionally safe space to build self-confidence only to realize during Covid when the schools shut down that the most efficient way she could support kids, in the long-term, was by shifting her focus onto supporting the adults in their lives and offering them the tools needed to be that constant source of emotional safety needed for a secure development. As a runner, swimmer, lover all things the color blue and happiest in hot weather climates, Cecily feels most at peace when she’s at the beach or outdoors in the warmth of the Sun. She’s been proudly pup-obsessed since before it was cool to admit so. Dalton, a mischief-making and nap-loving Coton de Tulear, is her current furry love and makes the occasional sleepy appearance during sessions.
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Cecily is a healing nerd. With her training in IFS she is constantly reflecting on how we all develop and heal. If you have childhood trauma that you aren't sure what to do with, Cecily will be right there with information and tools and tips towards taking the steps necessary to heal.
- Eli Harwood