MEET THE TEAM
Hana Leyland, BA OXON, LLM, CLC
My name is Hana Leyland (she/her/hers), a pansexual, trans-femme recovery wellness coach, interventionist and companion specializing in the LGBTQIA+ community. I am also the President and Founder of Rainbow Transformations!
I have been in continuous recovery from all mood altering substances since 2018 I got sober in Los Angeles where I benefitted from extreme LGBTQIA+ privilege - our recovery culture is so supportive!
I am a certified life coach through the Certified Life Coach Institute. I also hold a Bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Oxford, England and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford Brookes, England.
In the wellness space, I’ve worked with the Trevor Project as a crisis phone line operator for LGBTQIA+ youth, the Malone Collective, Blackburn Recovery, Haven House, All Points North, and Recovery & Wellness Services.
While I work with clients of all genders and orientations, I provide a unique skillset within the LGBTQIA+ space where my population-specific considerations and insights greatly impact the trajectory of an individual’s recovery. Gender and orientation affirming care should come from people who have been there.
My queer and gender identities, my transition, my double lives in the jaws of a gnarly addiction from which I only escaped by a rare moment of grace (a moment which has subsequently blossomed into an embodied spirituality)…all of these experiences have shone light onto every corner of my personal and professional worlds. I have found them to be invaluable in understanding, having compassion for and anticipating steps on the journey to recovery for LGBTQIA+ folx in a way that I think is unique.
I bring a variety of strengths-based, existential and spiritual approaches to my work, all aimed towards cultivating a sense of what each client’s individual hero’s journey might look like.
Dr. Kelsey Harper, PsyD
Dr. Kelsey Harper (she/her/hers) is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Washington and authorized to practice telehealth in 40 states. She received her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco where she studied family systems, lifespan development, relational interventions, and trauma recovery. Dr. Harper is intensively trained in multiple evidence based practices including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and built a breadth of clinical experience providing therapy at all levels of care in various treatment settings. She works extensively with the LGBTQIA+ community, running DBT and trauma recovery workshops. Dr. Harper runs our trans support groups and support groups for families of trans and gender diverse individuals.
Dr. Harper applies these interventions to help her clients repair trauma, recover and rebuild their lives worth living. Deeply committed to expanding access to mental healthcare and providing support and recovery services to survivors of sexual assault, Dr. Harper connects with this community through her podcast, Initiated Survivor, and offers recovery workshops and speakers panels to boost trauma education and resilience. When she is not providing therapy she can be found playing with her animals, baking cupcakes, and casting spells under the moon.
In Kelsey's own words: "Queer folx can feel really isolated and trying to manage overwhelming emotions can be tricky. When oppressive powers in our world amplify, anyone impacted can experience high stress, intense emotional pain and shut down. We can feel alone or broken, but you are NOT alone! Connect to our beautiful community to build skills to manage painful emotions and connect to personal values."
Kayy O’Connell, RN, BSN, NC-BC
Kayy (she/her/hers) is a recovery and wellness coach and Psychiatric nurse (RN/BSN) located in San Diego, California. She has been in continuous sobriety from mind altering substances since 2009.
Her sobriety took time. She went through numerous treatment programs until she landed somewhere that emphasized and dedicated resources to after-care. Her passion for creating solid continuity of care for those who struggle with addiction, eating disorders, and mental illness came from recognizing this gap in the treatment space.
She enrolled in nursing school and began to expand her recovery and wellness network to include yoga, breathwork, and shamanic mentorship. She blends 12 Step recovery, movement practices, somatic healing, and various Eastern philosophical studies with the most up-to-date clinical research. She also brings in a variety of other existential, personality-design modalities such as Human Design and the Enneagram. These, alongside her grounding in attachment modalities, both inform client engagements and can be used in an engaging way to help clients, once stabilized, to look at their personalities, their values and their interpersonal relating styles. She graduated at the top of her class, and currently hold my RN license working as a psychiatric nurse and coach.
Dr. Patrick Lockwood
Dr. Patrick Lockwood grew up in a small southern Missouri town, enculturated with classical southern and Midwestern values like honesty, integrity, and the “neighborly” way of relating to people. He completed his B.A. in psychology at the University of Missouri, then moved to L.A. to earn his Doctorate of Psychology at TCSPP.
Dr. Lockwood has worked for non-profits, treatment centers, and has been a part of a number of startups over the past ten years. His background in community interventions began before he even graduated from the University of Missouri where he successfully co-authored a grant creating a virtual intervention to help parents on campus become more connected and develop a support community while working at ParentLink, a division of the university’s College of Education.
Dr, Lockwood has trained with experts in the field of addiction treatment, and has worked at every level of the mental health and addiction treatment industry. Notably, he is currently an adjunct professor at California Lutheran University teaching psychology and psychotherapy courses. He also has a podcast on YouTube about topics related to mental health, wellness, psychology, and neuroscience called “The Psychology Checkup.” Finally, Dr. Lockwood is the author of “The Fear Problem,” a book integrating the neuroscience and evolutionary psychology of our fear process to explain why we get triggered by politics and other “hot topics.”