Meet Our Team

We anticipate adding team members in 2019 so reach out if you believe in getting clients to find their goodlife!

Dr. Kelsey M. Latimer

Founder, Psychologist

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Kelsey M. Latimer, PhD, CEDS-S,  is a first-generation college student, graduating from the University of Rhode Island and receiving the university’s annual president award/excellence award in both disciplines.  Dr. Latimer’s passion for research and the health/wellness of children and young adults led her to furthering her education, earning her doctorate and masters of science degrees from the University of North Texas, with emphases in child/adolescent development and neuropsychology. Throughout her doctoral training, Dr. Latimer became extremely passionate in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders, women's issues, trauma treatment and anxiety management. She pursued specialized clinical training with preceptorships in disordered eating and administration/training during her APA-accredited predoctoral-internship at esteemed UT Austin. She was the lead psychologist for Children's Medical Center, Center for Pediatric Eating Disorders in Texas, an Assistant professor of Psychiatry at UTSW Medical School, and currently acts as the National Assistant Director of Operations for Center for Discovery - a national behavioral health and eating disorder treatment company and a supervisor/adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University for incoming counselors in training. She has also worked at several outpatient mental health and counseling centers and is therefore comfortable is helping people across the lifespan.

Dr. Latimer is skilled in a variety of techniques and skills, including EMDR, DBT, CBT, person-centered, and interpersonal process work.  Regardless of techniques and tools used, she always utilizes a strengths-based approach, seeing a person first as a person and second someone dealing with a problem! This approach to life and counseling inspired her to open an international coach training program n 2016, accredited through the prestigious International Coach Federation (ICF), and to now founding Hello Goodlife where she can continue to help individuals access the strengths already within them to attain their goodlife!

Dr. Latimer has presented regionally/nationally/ internationally with over 50 invited presentations on topics such as body image, dieting downfalls, eating disorder evidence-based treatment, college student functioning and working with the millennial generation.  She has been featured in dozens of media outlets, is a co-author of the children's book series "POOFAS," and currently authoring a book on eating disorder treatment scheduled for 2019 publishing.

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​​Mr. Ryan Kern
​Managing Director

Mr. Kern graduated from the University of North Texas Cum Laude with a BA in Economics and minor studies in Philosophy and Religion. His passion to finding unique solutions to problems led him to presenting at the 2011 APA conference while discussing an interdisciplinary cross section of Economics, Social contract theory and Psychological concepts and their use in understanding cooperative and competitive behavior in college populations.

In graduate school, he led presentations and gave recommendations to an international cooperative that utilized sustainable concepts and economics in the development of Costa Rico’s Eco-tourism sector. 

​Outside of Academia, Mr. Kern has a long history of leadership in the private sector working in a strategic  capacity for Target, Best Buy stores and small start ups such as Nature, Leisure Times. He was known for systematically driving associate engagement for these companies that contributed to both business and community well being. Specifically he worked first hand with TX Parks and Wildlife and the Army Core of Engineers concerning the development of a local hospitality and retail businesses. 

Despite years in the business sector, Mr. Kern's true passion in life is helping others and that is why he has committed himself to developing the Hello Goodlife brand with Dr. Latimer. He is also involved in the charitable PCK Family Foundation.