Relationships After Mormonism
Leaving the church affects every relationship in your life.
Maybe you're...
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Divorcing and trying to break out of old patterns
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Dating again and lost without the Mormon template
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Exploring your sexuality and feeling shame
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Renegotiating monogamy, family roles, or boundaries
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Losing or changing your friendships and wondering where you belong
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Dealing with believing family members and it's all on you to keep the peace
Or maybe leaving Mormonism made you realize you've spent your life seeking approval, feeling guilty, not feeling safe, and trying to be what everyone else wants while struggling to really prioritize or even know what you actually want.
I offer guided sessions for people recovering from the limiting relational patterns they learned in Mormon culture.
Together, we will discover where you are operating from fear and control in relationships that you really want to be about love and freedom.
Together, we slow down what's happening in a relationship and get curious about your experience:
What are you feeling?
What are you telling yourself?
How are you treating yourself?
What belongs to you — and what belongs to them?
What changes when you stop trying to find the “right” answer and begin developing a relationship with your own knowing?
What opens when you stop seeking their approval and start becoming your own authority?
What becomes possible when you move into a deep intention to care for yourself first?
This isn't life coaching or advice. I will not tell you whether to stay married, get divorced, open your relationship, set a boundary or forgive someone.
It's creating enough curiosity and space for you to hear yourself. It's dedicated time and structured support guiding you towards creating a more kind, respectful environment within yourself.
Instead of working so hard to figure it all out, you will learn how to let your innate knowing emerge from the wisdom of your body, and how to let that be your compass.
Most importantly, you will begin to live and think for yourself instead of following everyone else's agenda for you.
In 4-6 sessions, you can expect to feel a shift within yourself that feels like fresh air. You will begin to feel less reactive to others, even if they don't change. But most importantly, you will begin to feel safe within yourself as you learn to become your own authority.
These sessions may help if you're:
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Dating after divorce or a faith transition
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Exploring consensual non-monogamy or renegotiating your marriage
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Separating or divorcing and trying to break free of old relationship patterns
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Ready to stop putting everyone else before yourself
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Trying to figure out what you want after years of being told what to want
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Navigating relationships with believing family members
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Learning to tolerate someone else's disappointment without abandoning yourself
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Navigating a mixed-faith marriage after leaving Mormonism
60-minute private Zoom sessions.
You don't need to have anything figured out before coming.
Bring a relationship, decision, conflict, recurring pattern or something you simply want to understand more deeply.
Disclaimer: Guided sessions are primarily educational and experiential. These sessions are not (and yet may be supplemental to) psychotherapy, couples therapy, legal advice, divorce mediation or crisis care.
I'm Kelli Christine Case
I left the church in 2014, with a lifetime of Mormon conditioning, a mission and a temple marriage under my belt. But leaving the church was only the beginning of my journey. I've found lasting freedom by learning to get the damaging effects of Mormonism out of me.
Deconstructing the church's explicit truth claims will set you free from the religion. But lasting freedom from controlling people and patterns is found in deconstructing the implicit false beliefs Mormonism instilled in your unconscious about what it means to love and be loved.
My approach is informed by my 4-year training as an internationally-certified teacher of Inner Relationship Focusing, as well as my extensive study, practice, mentorship, and facilitation of Inner Bonding, Nonviolent Communication, Existential Kink, and Community Grief Tending Ritual.
Become Your Own Authority
Shift your relational patterns through private sessions.
Schedule a free chat to determine if it's a good fit.
What people are saying
"In my practice as a clinical psychologist I rarely encounter such a bright, intuitive, deeply empathic and effective guide as Kelli. Her exceptional skill using the Focusing technique in my own therapy opened vistas and doors that have long been closed to me. I recommend Kelli without reservation."
Mark D
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, WASHINGTON
"I had a session with Kelli as I was interested in mindfulness and how to improve my own thinking. She helped me work through some deeply-seated beliefs and emotional attachments that I had previously been un-equipt to process on my own.
I was impressed with her level of professionalism and the incredible service she provided! I highly recommend her if you're looking for someone to help you work through mental or emotional blocks that are holding you back! She has an honest intent to serve and be helpful!"
Daniel L
Navigating Relationship transition, UTAH
"With this work, I'm able to nurse myself through critical inner dialog and have compassion for the parts of myself that want to protect me from feeling the shame of criticism from the outside."
Monica M
Navigating partnership ending, CAlifornia
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