About Hope Ignited

Chelsea Haverly, LCSW-C (pronouns she/her) is the Creative Director of Hope Ignited and the Co-Founder of Anchored Hope Therapy, LLC. She is a clinical social worker and a certified Victim Assistant Specialist, III through the State of Maryland. Chelsea majored in Psychology at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York and received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Chelsea has a Masters Certificate from Cornell University, Johnson School of Business Management, in the Psychology of Business. Chelsea has worked in an array of business environments and manages a thriving psychotherapy private practice in Annapolis, Maryland. Chelsea specializes in Trauma-informed organizational change management, creating safe & secure work environments, and managing complex change at the personal, professional and interpersonal levels to mitigate burnout.

Chelsea’s clinical focus is in treating adult and child survivors of sexual abuse, assault, sex trafficking, and polyvictimization. Prior to private practice, Chelsea worked in Baltimore City at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute doing community based mental health care and advocacy. Chelsea utilizes a brain-based approach to her work with complex trauma for youth and adults with chronic health and mental issues. She also has specialized training in treating and managing high risk behaviors with youth and families. Chelsea is a member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, Victims Service Subcommittee, and is a certified trainer through this committee. She consults with therapists and businesses across the country in the provision of therapeutic services for survivors of sex trafficking, complex trauma, and exposures to violence using trauma-informed and trauma responsive programming and services.

Both clinically and within business management, Chelsea works to identify how people can work better and more effectively to ultimately take care of themselves and function optimally at the individual level, at work, and interpersonally. Chelsea utilizes her training as a social worker to identify the many factors that impact our decision making, productivity, and self-care strategies.  She is passionate in coaching others on how to shore up personal and professional boundaries to sustainably practice and mitigate burnout.