She's been in your kid's corner for 25 years
And she might just end up in yours too.
Your kid will talk to me
Not because I have a fancy title. Not because I have a clipboard and a framework.
Because I actually listen. Because I take them seriously. Because I've spent 25 years sitting across from kids who were bursting with things they didn't know how to say — and helping them say them.
I'm Kelly Garashay. Certified Life Coach. Youth mentor. And the person your middle schooler will actually open up to.
I built Mind Matters Class because I watched too many kids hit high school without a single tool for handling what was coming. No language for their feelings. No framework for their decisions. No one in their corner other than their parent.
That's not okay. Not when the window is open right now to build something better.
I've been doing this work for 25 years. I know what it looks like when a kid gets the tools during this time. And I know what it costs when they don't.
Your kid deserves someone fighting for them right now.
That's why I show up every single week.
I watched women I loved lose themselves
I almost did, too
I grew up watching women around me slowly disappear into their roles — wife, mother, volunteer, the one who holds everything together. Not dramatically. Quietly. A little more autopilot here. A little more people-pleasing there.
And then one day they were unrecognizable. To their husbands. To their kids. To themselves.
I felt the pull of it in my own life.
I had friendships that made me feel small. I said yes to things I didn't want. I made decisions based on everyone else's expectations — and somewhere in all of that, I stopped asking what I actually wanted.
There was a voice inside getting louder every time I ignored it.
Don't you feel this? We are stuck in quicksand and you're not asking for help.
That voice wasn't being dramatic. It was just accurate.
So I did the work. Before the crisis. God and trusted supporters helped me as I got clear on who I was, what I valued, and what God actually made me to do. I learned to tell the difference between my own voice, God's voice, and the voice that was lying to me.
The result is that my marriage is whole and my family is whole. None of it is perfect — but whole.
That's not luck and it doesn't happen on its own. That's God's grace and it's the work. And it's exactly what I help you do.
Why work with me?
Transform Your Life with Kelly Garashay Coaching
Certified Life Coach 187 hours of coach training and years of experience — because not everyone who calls themselves a coach is actually one. I take this work seriously and you'll see why once we get started.
25 years working with kids and families I've sat across from kids in every kind of stuck — emotional shutdown, identity confusion, friendship drama, anxiety, screen addiction, numbing out, and substance abuse. I know what how to discern what's going on with your student, and if they're ready to change, there's nothing that can stop them with my support.
Coaching women since 2021 I've walked women through marriage struggles, identity crises, career decisions, parenting battles, and the quiet resentment that nobody talks about. I know what gets in the way and how to clear it.
Faith-grounded I'm a Christian coach. That means when we do this work together — whether it's with your kid or with you — we're not building on self-help theory. We're rooting it in who God made you to be. That's a completely different foundation.
I've lived it I didn't learn this from a book. I learned it from watching women lose themselves and deciding that wasn't going to be my story. I did the identity work before the crisis hit. As an empty nester with 2 grown children thriving as homeowners, spouses, employees, and parents, I have raised kids of my own and launched them from the nest with success. And even though they were a huge part of my identity as a mom, I've done the work to find purpose and growth in the second half of life in their absence..
Ready to see what it's like?
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It's free. It's thirty minutes. Real coaching on the exact topics that are quietly making or breaking your family right now.
Come with your camera off. Come in your car. Come while you're eating lunch.
Just come.
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In less than 3 minutes, find out which steps you're missing and need to get right to the heart of what's going on. Clarity in minutes.
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