Your lore
is safe
with me.
Aimee Callicutt-Keesler (they/she) completed her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Concentration in Pedagogy & The Mind from East Carolina University in 2015. They subsequently completed their Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health & Substance Abuse Counseling from East Carolina University in 2019 while working in university administration. Aimee has about 6 years of experience in a variety of counseling settings including: SAIOP, hospice/bereavement, clinical outpatient, inpatient psychiatric, Medication-Assisted Treatment, residential treatment, and federal probation outpatient programs. Aimee is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor [LCMHC #15533], Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist [LCAS #26141], and National Certified Counselor [NCC #1371888].
Aimee is a therapist for the seekers, skeptics, and those quietly (or loudly) questioning everything they’ve been taught about who they’re supposed to be. Aimee serves adult and college-aged individuals 18 and up navigating queerness, neurodivergence, substance abuse, shadow work, religious and intergenerational trauma, identity reconstruction, and existential unrest. Aimee works from a person-centered, queer-affirming, anti-pathology, liberatory wellness lens, where systems of colonization are not dismissed or ignored as major factors in your holistic health. Aimee brings lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled person to their work—not as an aside, but as a foundation. Aimee dedicates herself to healing the deep grief of disconnection—from self, from community, from culture, and from truth.
Aimee is an eclectic therapist who draws from evidenced-based practices and tools in Person-Centered philosophy, Existential & Narrative therapies, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Somatic Therapy, Reality Therapy, Jungian Tarot interpretation, Harm Reduction Integration, and Cognitive Behavioral techniques. Aimee helps clients move through the liminal spaces in life and find acceptance in the grey areas. She works at the intersection of paradox—where logic meets emotional mystery, where the personal becomes mystical, and where healing doesn’t come from resolution, but from learning to hold contradiction with compassion.
Aimee is a big fan of thought experiments and collects them like seashells– sharp, strange, and full of stories. Consider the Ship of Theseus: if every plank of a ship is replaced, piece by piece, is it still the same vessel? In therapy, we ask similar questions…What remains constant as we grow, adapt, unravel, and reconstruct? What parts of the self are essence, and what parts are narrative, inherited, or imposed? Aimee hopes to work with you to explore the mirrors and metaphors that shape your identity, meaning-making, and mindset. The self you arrive with is not always the self you leave with, and that is its own kind of freedom.
Below are a few quotes that embody my therapy practice:
“The Highest Order prevails even in the disintegration. The totality is present even in the broken pieces. More clearly present, perhaps, than in a completely coherent work.”
– Aldous Huxley,
The Doors of Perception
Like a geometer wholly dedicated
to squaring the circle, but who cannot find,
think as he may, the principle indicated-
so did I study the supernal face.
I yearned to know just how our image merges
into that circle, and how it there finds place;
but mine were not the wings for such a flight.
Yet, as I wished, the truth I wished for came
cleaving my mind in a great flash of light.
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy,
but already I could feel my being turned-
instinct and intellect balanced equally
as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars-
by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”
– Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy – Paradiso
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”
– Terence McKenna
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, that is where the battle should be fought.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Schedule your first session,
and join me in the disintegration.
Join me in putting together the broken pieces.
Join me in touching the alchemical gold.
Join me in the shamanic dance in the waterfall.
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