Kyle Filley, Trainee

Kyle Filley is a Community Health Worker / Trainee at the Child Therapy Institute: providing therapy services at Washington Elementary School & the CTI outpatient office in El Cerrito for children & their families. He identifies as a non-binary Queer man of NW-European ancestry. He works within an integrating & expression-informed therapeutic model. His array of somatic studies include: Formative Psychology, Relational therapy, & Equine / nervous system related attunements.

Kyle emphasizes strength-based & culturally-conscious work within the therapeutic practice. He graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Graduate Somatics Program in the Spring of 2024. In his last year of study, he worked at Ocean View Elementary (Albany, CA) with 10 weekly kid clients in tandem with their families, during their academic year. Kyle is grateful to have begun work with the Child Therapy Institute as of August 2024.

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