A place for moms to thrive.
Our Story
Nashville therapist, Kim Anderson, noticed that many of the moms she was working with were feeling lonely, overwhelmed, and defeated.
In this age of social media, it’s easy for moms to buy the lie that everyone else is doing it right and that they are missing the tools they need to pour into their families with confidence. We are seemingly more connected than ever before, yet more and more moms are feeling isolated and alone.
Kim decided it was time to create a community for moms. A place where they can go for healing, growth, and support. A place where they can access transformational tools they can use with their family. A place where they can form relationships with other moms through groups, classes, and retreats. We aren’t meant to do it alone.
Life is too short to stay stuck, and it’s time for all moms to thrive!
Our Mission
Elevate Moms exists to help you feel seen, known, understood, and equipped with strategies and tools to move from where you are to where you want to be. We want to meet you where you are, whether it's healing from grief, trauma, anxiety, or depression or wanting clarity about who you are and what you want outside of motherhood; we'll come alongside you and offer you the support and insight you need to thrive.
Let’s elevate your life.
Regardless of where you are in your story, we're here to help. Our goal is to help you elevate your life. To move you from where you are to where you long to be. We'll move at your pace, offer safe, confidential support, and cheer you on the whole way. We're here to help you shine!
Find the support that works for you.
Counseling
We can’t heal if we can’t feel. To have a thriving family, we must do our own work. Sometimes, we need help finding the wounds keeping us stuck or help naming our story. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, unresolved trauma, relationship challenges, parenting challenges, or another area of need, our highly skilled licensed counselors will help you lean into those hard places so you can thrive and live in joy and freedom. (*Available only for Tennessee residents.) | Get started
Coaching
Everyone can benefit from a coach in their life. Coaches help us clarify what we want, identify our unique personalities and strengths, and determine what’s getting in the way. Our Elevate Moms certified coaches are trained to help you reach your goals, increase your impact, and improve your results, one step at a time. We move you from where you are to living out God’s calling for your life. You might want to work with a coach individually or enjoy the synergy and community that comes from group coaching. | Get started
Mom Mentoring
You’ve done your healing work. You’re moving toward your goals. But you want to have someone a season or more ahead of you offer you support and guidance in motherhood. Unfortunately, many of us are not lucky enough to have a mother figure in our lives to turn to for parenting wisdom and guidance. Our Mom Mentors are moms who’ve gone before you, learned the hard lessons, and want to support you during your parenting journey. You might want to work with a Mom Mentor individually or enjoy the synergy and community that comes from a Mom Mentor small group. | Get started
Additional Resources
Regardless of where you are in your story, we're here to help. Our goal is to help you elevate your life. Explore our library of books, courses, favorite podcasts, and more to help you start your Elevate journey immediately. | Get started
Meet Our Founder
Kim is a licensed therapist, certified life coach, speaker, author, mother, wife, daughter, friend, and former military spouse who provides moms with tools to grow and thrive in their own lives so they can help those they love to grow and thrive as well.
She believes life is too short to stay stuck, and we all need a map and new tools to pull out our inner strength, brilliance, and joy.
Moms today are bombarded with lies about perfection, comparison, and their worth that can leave them feeling overwhelmed and defeated.
Kim uses her experience as a teacher, a therapist, and a coach to share transformational tools with her audience so that they can leave their time together with clear action steps toward confidence and joy.
Meet the Team
Our team at Elevate Moms is here to help you thrive. As moms themselves, they’ve been in your shoes. They’ve navigated the challenging ups and downs of motherhood and are excited to help you move from where you are to where you want to be.
THERAPISTS
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PSYCHOLOGIST & PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Keri Tarantino, Psy.D. was trained as a clinical psychologist at Rosemead School of Psychology in La Mirada, California. She approaches clinical work with an understanding of human behavior and emotion through the lens of theology and faith. She has a passion for helping others grow to be uniquely the way God created them. Keri began her career as a psychologist serving as an officer in the US Army. She completed her internship training at Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia and her residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. She deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009 with a Combat Stress Control Detachment from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, where she served as a clinical psychologist.
Upon completion of four years of active-duty service in the military, Dr. Tarantino served as the post-doctoral residency program director at Madigan Army Medical Center, where she developed a passion for teaching. Keri has provided psychological assessment services to children and adults across the lifespan following her time with the military. After relocating to the Nashville, Tennessee area in 2018, she has been on staff with the Learning Lab and Highlands Professional Group, where she has provided assessment services to children and adults. Keri also taught Emotional Intelligence classes to middle school and high school students at Ironwood Academy during the 2022-2023 school year.
Keri remains connected with the military where she offers consultation and assessment services. Keri is married to her husband, Gus, of 21 years and they have two children, Olivia (13) and Anthony (10). She enjoys being on their family farm in Burns, Tennessee, hiking, kayaking, gardening and running with their spoiled dogs, Nash and Ginger.
COACHES
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FAMILY & ENNEAGRAM COACH
Kellie Purdy is a certified life coach in Nashville. With a Bachelor's degree in psychology from The University of the South at Sewanee and a Master's in Education degree from Vanderbilt University, Kellie began her teaching career in a public middle school classroom where she learned a lot about students and parents and helped both work together to reach their goals. During this season, Kellie also coached soccer and basketball, providing many more experiences guiding different personality types and abilities to find their strengths and chart a path to individual progress.
As a young mother, the Lord led Kellie to shift from the classroom to Children's Ministry director at her local church, where she led students, parents, and volunteers in the service and spiritual development of preschool through fifth graders.
Recently, Kellie has worked administratively and operationally in several startup companies. This work, combined with her previous educational experiences and her passion for helping, led Kellie to pursue her life coach certification. Kellie has also spent the last 15 summers mentoring college and teenage girls at a summer camp.
She loves the beauty of story, even the hard parts, and the freedom that comes from understanding and working through your own epic journey.
Personally, Kellie has been married for 24 years. She and her husband have three children: two daughters in college, at Samford and Auburn, and a son in high school. She also has two dogs who compete for her time and affection.
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LIFE TRANSITION COACH
Melanie Lemon has been teaching elementary education for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Middle Tennessee State University, as well as a Master of Education degree from Middle Tennessee State University, with an emphasis in administration and supervision. Melanie loves helping students and families thrive in and out of the classroom.
As a coach, Melanie walks alongside her clients, helping them determine their dreams and goals, and executes a plan to get there. She's an expert in life transitions, overcoming obstacles, parenting challenges, and navigating educational needs.
Melanie works with moms to help them move from where they are to where they want to be in a caring, nonjudgmental way. Moms often use Melanie to be heard during a challenging season and rely on her knowledge to help shift their mindset for what is best for their child and what is best for the family.
Melanie also works with teens who need clarity about the next steps in their lives. Taking an objective view, she helps teens feel seen, heard, and understood, while giving them a place to process their thoughts, feelings, and goals. Melanie's approach helps provide her clients with the confidence needed to take action toward their next steps.
Melanie has been an active member of her church for 18 years and a community volunteer and leader for a local non-profit group. She loves coaching teens, helping parents navigate the challenges of the educational system, and empowering others to reach their full potential. Melanie also helps moms figure out their passions and purpose outside of motherhood.
When not teaching, Melanie loves cheering on her two college kids and enjoying the outdoors. She loves to spend time with family and friends as often as possible. When she's not teaching, Melanie enjoys volunteering, walking, hiking, and cooking.
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MOM MENTOR
From an early age, Stacy has had a zest for living life to the fullest. She carries that same zest into motherhood by celebrating life’s moments, big or small. From the first birthday party to high school graduation and every milestone in between, Stacy’s favorite role as a mom is cheerleader.
Born with congenital dislocated hips, doctors weren’t sure she’d live a life of everyday mobility. From learning to walk in a body cast at 18 months old to cheering at the collegiate level, that same tenacity that the Lord formed in her then is what carries her through motherhood even now.
Having experienced the pain of infertility and the beauty of adoption, Stacy has a heart for moms walking through life’s unpredictabilities.
Through seasons of working outside the home while balancing the busy schedules of her husband and three kids, she has learned the freedom that is found in letting go of the things that are outside of her control.
Stacy grew up in the home of a church planter where her Mom and Dad modeled the roles of caring for, encouraging, and mentoring people. This shaped her and inspired her to do the same. When asked why she enjoys mentoring moms, Stacy answered, “I love helping a mom discover a new sense of clarity and hope, as she is reminded that SHE IS ENOUGH, even in the chaos, confusion, and uncertainty. As a mom embraces her unique strengths, confidence can be found to make it through to the other side of her pain.”
This passion for serving moms also grew out of Stacy’s own journey as other women spoke into her life, at the most vulnerable, heart-breaking moments, offering their wisdom, discernment, and guidance, which encouraged her to keep pressing on.
Stacy Coleman and her husband, Ken, have been married for 26 years. Together, they are blessed to parent three uniquely wonderful teens and an enthusiastic goldendoodle.
Fun facts about Stacy: she has never met a stranger, is a former college cheerleader, and earned her private pilot’s license when she was 20 years old.
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FINANCIAL & ORGANIZATION COACH
Sarah DeLaBarre is a gifted coach when it comes to organizing spaces and finances. Her goal is to help clients understand personal finance, eliminate fear, and bring their financial goals into focus. For organizing clients, she aims to inspire them and help them understand how efficient and customized systems can simplify their daily lives. No more wasted time searching for missing items as you’re trying to run out the door.
With 23 years of experience in corporate finance and consulting, she has helped several small businesses succeed and prepare for downtimes. Sarah has also provided personalized coaching to individuals seeking to improve their finances and eliminated the fear of finances through education and planning. As a former military wife of over 20 years and as a military kid, Sarah's love of organizing was built into her DNA. Her family's frequent moves honed her skills at packing, organizing, and unpacking as quickly as possible to settle into a new home and life.
Sarah believes in the power of organized spaces for a calmer mind, allowing you to live life to the fullest and reduce unnecessary stress. A calmer mind also comes from having an attainable plan for personal finances. Her financial focus shifted from businesses to individuals when her husband retired from the military, prompting them to prioritize budgeting and financial planning. She brings practical life experience to teach her kids and clients about money management and encourages them to be proactive in reaching their financial goals.
Organizing for others was encouraged by the many military friends she helped unpack, organize, and simplify their daily life routines to manage deployed life as a single parent. Sarah has been able to use these skills to assist clients to live more harmoniously by minimizing visual clutter, organizing, and establishing solid financial foundations. By doing so, she empowers her clients to focus on what truly brings them happiness and ultimately creates more joyful lives.
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FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE CERTIFIED HEALTH COACH
Amy is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, through the Institute for Functional Medicine, IFM.
For the past four years, she has coached individuals facing various medical and nutritional challenges. Amy takes a science-based approach to understanding root causes of disease to develop a more targeted plan for symptom control and elimination. In addition to developing overall nutritional strategies for clients,
Amy has developed a specialty working with individuals who are suffering from life–altering autoimmune diseases as well as gut imbalances. Amy focuses on understanding each individual’s situation and goals. Using her extensive knowledge and resources, she creates a personalized plan for each client to help them improve their health through dietary and lifestyle changes.
Amy received a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and worked for
international corporations for almost ten years. After starting a family with her husband,
Amy took a step back from her professional career to focus full-time on raising her three children. She connected with other moms in classrooms and Bible studies, and realized how difficult and rare it was for them to focus on self-care. She took an interest in organic food and supplements, researching ways to make a healthy lifestyle more accessible for busy moms like herself.
Realizing this was her life’s purpose, Amy pursued more targeted education and training through IFM, gaining a more in-depth knowledge on disorders and how nutrition and lifestyle play a critical role in overall wellness. Amy takes an individualized approach with each client personally helping them to discover how emotional, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors interact to impact and affect physical health. Through nutrition, exercise, and stress management, Amy has empowered people of all ages, backgrounds and medical conditions to make difficult, but necessary, changes. Amy believes everyone is worthy of love and wellness. With a posture of gratitude and a positive approach she believes that every individual’s journey to wellness can be transformational and that living their best life is worth the time and effort.
MOM MENTORS
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MOM MENTOR
Molly Truesdale is a mom to six wonderful girls, wife to Ryan, and a lover of exercise. She also welcomes any excuse to drink coffee or juice green things. Molly became passionate about mentoring moms when she realized how overwhelmed she was in her household. Molly realized that she was holding herself to an impossible standard. It became clear to her that her struggles weren't about her circumstances but about her mindset. Through coaching and a willingness to engage her story, she uncovered the lies she was believing. She could reframe her mindset and see that there was more to life. It was full of depth and possibilities. Molly became passionate about helping others uncover their own lies and see their amazing potential.
Molly longs to empower moms to give themselves grace and freedom in motherhood. She loves to walk alongside them and help them see how God has uniquely created them. By exploring this, women can let go of the impossible standards they have set for themselves and be free to run their own race.
Wired with a heart to listen and guide, Molly loves to hear about real life. She loves to share, encourage, or listen and "sit in the muck" with women. Women don't need one more person telling them what they "should" do. They need the freedom and space to engage their hearts and share their story. In this safe space, they can hear their deepest desires and longings for a sense of purpose, acceptance, and unconditional love.
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MOM MENTOR
Vonda Vincent is a Bible study teacher, mentor, and mother of three. Before becoming a full-time mom, she worked in the worship music industry and helped her husband in local church ministry. She homeschooled her children for several years and became a substitute teacher upon their return to public school. In 2020, her desire to connect with people and to use her relocating experiences led her to get her real estate license.
During her 34 (and counting) years married to her husband, Kent, they have walked through infertility, adoption, five relocations, and the grief of losing parents. Those experiences have given her compassion and understanding for women facing the same challenges. She loves coming alongside them and helping them navigate their own journeys.
Vonda’s greatest joy is unearthing our unique calling, not only as moms but as women. Our children learn so much about their own giftings as they see us use ours for the good of others and the glory of God. As an Elevate Moms Mom Mentor, Vonda supports women where they are, pulls out their inner strengths, and fosters community with other moms who are parenting in the same season as each other.
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MOM MENTOR
Jennifer Scoggins is a passionate advocate for mothers navigating the life-changing journey of raising children.
From as early as she can remember, Jen wanted to be a mom. When she was blessed with two incredible daughters; she found it was neither easy nor automatic. Instead, she found herself on a rollercoaster, with moments of feeling like a superhero…and moments of feeling like a total train wreck.
When she found herself at the end of her rope – frustrated, ashamed and confused - Jen sought out both professional counseling and coaching where she learned tools that created massive shifts in both herself and her family.
One of Jen’s passions is the profound impact of guided, partnering prayer, and how it can be used in parenting. Firmly believing in its transformative power, she loves to guide women in asking important questions and praying for their children. Knowing the power found in connecting with a community of like-minded women, she’s convinced mothers should not be doing this alone.
Her desire to mentor stems from recognizing the challenges mothers face—loneliness, confusion, and a learning curve that’s never-ending, with no manual!
She loves working individually with moms or in a group format which offers community and connectedness that so many moms are missing.
Jennifer and her husband, Chance, have been married for 18 years, and their incredible daughters, Jalen and Emmy, are now teenagers.
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Therapist
Lauren is a Kentucky native and graduated from Murray State University with a M.A. in Clinical Psychology. While working in a child and adolescent residential therapy setting, she became licensed as a LPC-MHSP and soon also became a Certified Psychological Assistant.
Before entering private practice, Lauren was a consulting therapist for an organization that equipped men transitioning from prison to community homes. She was also a school-based mental health therapist for several years before being approved as a clinical supervisor for pre-licensed counselors. In addition, Lauren served in Haiti, providing trauma training to school staff.
After welcoming two baby boys with her husband, Lauren began her own private practice where she focused on helping others with anxiety, depression, trauma, and adjustment to motherhood. Lauren is trained in EMDR, trauma-focused CBT, and mindfulness-based techniques and has experience using somatic-based interventions.
She also specializes in areas such as grief, sleep disorders, stress, chronic pain, health anxiety, and spirituality. Lauren’s approach is genuine and warm, focusing on the whole person. She loves integrating faith when the client is comfortable. She believes good therapy balances developing a trusting, authentic relationship and gaining practical, realistic skills. Lauren has 18 years of experience and counts it an honor that she has the opportunity to walk with others through their battles.
Lauren and her husband, Cain, have been married for 18 years. She’s a homeschool mom to her two middle school boys. They live in Franklin with their boxer lab mix (Blue) and barn cat (Sissy). She loves gardening, the outdoors, and traveling.
Let’s Connect.
At Elevate Moms, we help you find balance in your life, set boundaries where it’s necessary, and give you tools to move from where you are to where you want to be.
Motherhood can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to steal joy from your family. Your kids need you to prioritize your self-care, learn healthy boundaries, and strengthen your parenting toolbox, so you can meet their needs in a safe and effective way.