HUMAN BEHAVIOUR CONSULTANT
Kellie Rhea
Kellie
Rhea
Nervous System Intelligence for Leaders
Something is not working, and you already know the strategy is not the problem.
The patterns underneath your leadership, the ones that keep showing up no matter what you try, live in your nervous system.
That is where this work begins.
ABOUT ─
Something is not working.
You already know that.
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from leading well on the outside while something underneath is quietly running a different programme. Most people have tried to think their way out of it. Read the books. Done the work. And still the same patterns return.
That is where this work begins.
Three decades of building and leading real businesses. Nearly two decades inside a high-control system and the rigorous, painstaking recovery that followed. What emerged from that is not a coaching framework. It is a finely tuned capacity to see what is actually driving behaviour, underneath the strategy, the performance, and the story we tell about ourselves.
Kellie Rhea is a Human Behaviour Consultant whose work sits at the intersection of trauma psychology, attachment theory, somatic psychology, nervous system regulation, behavioural dynamics, and coercive control recovery. Her consulting draws from these interdisciplinary frameworks to work with business owners, leaders, and individuals navigating stress, burnout, relational complexity, identity disruption, and nervous system dysregulation.
Kellie has undertaken extensive independent study in the work of Dr Janina Fisher, Dr Daniel Shaw, Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, and the cult recovery frameworks of Janja Lalich, Robert Jay Lifton, Margaret Singer, and Edgar Schein. Her broader studies include the work of Dr Iain McGilchrist on hemispheric processing and human perception, Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett on constructed emotion and predictive processing, and breathwork frameworks influenced by Leonard Orr and Dr Stanislav Grof.
Drawing from these interdisciplinary frameworks, this consulting supports clearer decision making, healthier relational systems, authentic leadership, and sustainable performance — for people who are done with surface-level answers.
What you get in a session is not a script. It is someone who can read what is happening in the room, name what others cannot quite reach, and meet you exactly where you are.
A NOTE ON ETHICS
This work is grounded in an ethical framework built from lived experience of what it looks like when that framework is absent. Transparency over persuasion. No manufactured urgency. No dependency. The goal of every engagement is your autonomy, your clarity, and your capacity to trust your own judgement again.
Diploma in Business and Marketing
Formal grounding in business operations, team dynamics, and organisational systems
Multiple Business Owner and Team Leader
Over three decades of lived experience founding, running, and leading teams across multiple businesses
Trauma-Informed Coaching Certification
The Centre for Healing. Currently completing TICC Level 1, Moving the Human Spirit, ICF-accredited
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM)
Ongoing professional study in trauma, neuroscience, and clinical behavioural medicine applications
Podcast Host, Public Speaker and Substack Writer
Host of Wild, Wise and Worthy. Guest on multiple podcasts. Writing on cult recovery, psychology, human behaviour, and leadership
18 Years Lived Experience in High-Control Systems
And the rigorous personal and professional recovery that followed. The foundation of everything I do.
HOW I WORK ─
Consulting. Coaching.
Whatever is actually needed.
Every session moves between modes depending on what you bring and what is
underneath it. No fixed script. No one-size method. Here is the framework that shapes the work.
01
Understand the Pattern
Before anything can shift, it has to be named. The conditioned responses, nervous system reactions, and identity beliefs that were built long before your business existed. Seeing the pattern clearly is the first act of change.
01
Understand the Pattern
Before anything can shift, it has to be named. The conditioned responses, nervous system reactions, and identity beliefs that were built long before your business existed. Seeing the pattern clearly is the first act of change.
02
Rebuild from the Body
Strategy without regulation is temporary. The real work happens at the level where fawning, freezing, flight, and fight responses live. When change is anchored in the body, it holds. When it stays in the head, it fades.
Strategy without regulation is temporary. The real work happens at the level where fawning, freezing, flight, and fight responses live. When change is anchored in the body, it holds. When it stays in the head, it fades.
03
Lead from the Inside Out
When you understand your own nervous system, you start to understand the nervous systems around you. Real leadership is not top-down. It is connective. It means staying true to yourself under pressure, understanding what the people in your organisation actually need, and influencing them ethically from a place of genuine presence rather than power. That is what this work makes possible.
SERVICES ─
Two ways to
work together
Most people start with the Intensive to get clear on what is actually happening. From there, many move into ongoing consulting where the real, lasting work takes place. Each engagement is shaped around you, not a programme.
ENTRY POINT / SINGLE SESSION
The Grounded Authority Intensive
Sometimes you just need someone to cut through the noise and name what is actually happening. This 90-minute session is not a discovery call. It is a real consultation. You leave with a clear map of your primary conditioned pattern and exactly where it is showing up in your leadership, your relationships, or your life.
90 minutes of deep-dive consultation
Pattern mapping and a clear framework for what is driving your behaviour
A defined next step, personalised to where you are
Via Zoom
$375
AUD / SINGLE SESSION
PRIMARY OFFER / ONGOING CONSULTING
Grounded Authority Consulting
For the people who know that one session is not enough. This is where the real work happens, consistently, over time, in whatever form actually serves you in the moment. Some sessions feel like consulting. Some feel like coaching. Some go somewhere else entirely. That fluidity is not an accident. It is the method.
Two sessions per month, 60 to 90 minutes each
Voice message support between sessions via Signal
Consulting, coaching and facilitation, fluid and not scripted
Payment plans available
$1,100
AUD / PER MONTH
3-MONTH MINIMUMㅤ
WHO I WORK WITH ─
Two entry points.
The same depth.
The presenting issue looks different depending on where you are coming from. But
underneath the leadership problems and underneath the recovery work, the mechanism is
often the same. Two entry points. The same depth of work.
PRIMARY / LEADERSHIP
Leaders and Business Owners
You have built something real and you are good at what you do. And yet something underneath is asking for more. More clarity. More connection. More alignment between who you are and how you lead. When we understand ourselves from the inside out, we create more sustainable, more humane systems around us. The people in your organisation feel that. They respond to it. This work is a solid investment not just in yourself, but in everyone your leadership touches. That makes it one of the most ethical business decisions you can make.
GROUNDED AUTHORITY INTENSIVE TO 1:1 CONSULTING
BY REFERRAL / RECOVERY
High-Control Recovery
For people in the process of leaving, or rebuilding after, a high-control group, coercive relationship, or manipulative system. You do not have to explain yourself here. This work is selective, offered at sliding scale where it serves the work, and fed through community, podcast, and referral rather than open marketing.
IF THIS IS YOU, REACH OUT DIRECTLY.
GET IN TOUCH ─
Ready to start?
Let's talk.
The best place to start is a single session where we cut straight to what is actually happening. No intake forms, no long onboarding. Just a real conversation that gets underneath the surface. From there, you decide what makes sense next.
FIRST STEP
The Grounded Authority Intensive
Ninety minutes to get clear on what is actually running the show in your leadership or life. You will leave with a named pattern, a framework for understanding it, and a concrete next step. Most people say it is the most useful single conversation they have had in years.
$375
AUD / 90 MINUTES
Via Zoom / Payment plans available for ongoing consulting
SUBSTACK
LINKENDIN
Kellie Rhea on LinkedIn
FIRST STEP
The Grounded Authority Intensive
Ninety minutes to get clear on what is actually running the show in your leadership or life. You will leave with a named pattern, a framework for understanding it, and a concrete next step. Most people say it is the most useful single conversation they have had in years.
$375
AUD / 90 MINUTES
Via Zoom / Payment plans available for ongoing consulting