Creating safe, respectful, and empowering spaces where women and young girls can heal, rebuild their confidence, and rediscover hope.
Purple Light Touch Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting women and young girls healing from trauma, abuse, domestic violence, illness, and life-altering challenges.
We provide a safe, respectful, and empowering space where healing, dignity, and hope can be restored.
Our work is grounded in compassion, education, and trauma-informed care. We believe that every woman and girl deserves to be seen, heard, and supported, without judgment and without pressure to heal on anyone else's timeline.
Through our programs and services, we focus on emotional support, wellness education, empowerment classes, and community outreach. Each initiative is designed to help individuals rebuild confidence, develop healthy coping tools, and move forward with strength and self-worth.
Purple Light Touch Foundation is committed to walking alongside those we serve. We don't just offer help, we build relationships, foster trust, and create pathways toward lasting transformation.
Purple Light Touch Foundation was born from lived experience, compassion, and a deep understanding of what it means to survive and rebuild.
Our story is rooted in the belief that healing begins when people are seen, heard, and supported without judgment.
Founded by Valerie Kelso, a survivor, advocate, and healer, the foundation emerged from personal encounters with trauma, loss, displacement, and resilience.
Through her own journey, Valerie recognized that many women and young girls are navigating pain silently, without access to safe spaces, resources, or consistent support.
What began as a simple act of compassion has grown into a mission-driven nonprofit dedicated to helping women and young girls heal from trauma, abuse, domestic violence, illness, and life-altering challenges.
We provide trauma-informed programs, education, wellness support, and empowerment opportunities designed to restore dignity, confidence, and hope.
Our work is grounded in presence, care, and action. Every life we touch represents strength, courage, and the possibility of transformation.
At Purple Light Touch Foundation, compassion is more than a feeling, it's a commitment. And every story matters.
Our work is centered on helping women and young girls heal from difficult experiences, gain knowledge and support, rebuild confidence, and move forward with strength, dignity, and hope.
Our mission is to help women and young girls heal from trauma, abuse, domestic violence, illness, and life-altering challenges through compassionate support, education, wellness, and empowerment.
We envision a future where women and young girls have access to safe spaces, meaningful support, knowledge, resources, and opportunities that allow them to move forward with dignity, confidence, and hope.
Everything we do is guided by compassion, dignity, trust, safety, hope, and the belief that every person deserves an opportunity to rebuild.
We meet people with empathy, patience, kindness, and understanding.
We respect the worth, voice, choices, and experiences of every person we serve.
We work to create spaces where people can feel protected, respected, and heard.
We build relationships through honesty, consistency, respect, and accountability.
We believe difficult seasons do not define the future and that brighter possibilities can emerge.
We equip women and young girls with knowledge, confidence, tools, and opportunities to move forward.
Through our programs and services, we focus on emotional support, wellness education, empowerment classes, and community outreach. Each initiative is designed to help individuals rebuild confidence, develop healthy coping tools, and move forward with strength and self-worth.
Compassionate support for women and young girls navigating trauma, difficult seasons, and life-changing experiences.
Practical knowledge that supports emotional wellbeing, healthy coping, healing, and personal growth.
Empowerment classes and opportunities that help individuals rebuild confidence, recognize their strengths, and move forward with greater self-worth.
Connecting with communities to extend awareness, compassion, resources, education, and practical support.
“Healing begins when hope is restored, voices are heard, and lives are transformed.
Valerie E. Kelso
Valerie's story does not end with the experiences that shaped her. It continues through faith, healing, restoration, and a calling to help others.
I was born and raised in England and became a mother at 16, to one daughter and later a grandmother to two beautiful granddaughters, roles that have shaped my heart, my resilience, and my purpose. But long before purpose became clear, my life was marked by deep trauma.
From the age of sixteen, I experienced domestic violence that would follow me for years. I also endured sexual abuse by someone I was meant to trust, a doctor, an experience that deeply affected both my body and my sense of safety. At eighteen, I suffered the devastating loss of my second child, a grief that nearly broke me.
Over time, the weight of trauma manifested physically, leaving my body in constant pain.
For twelve years, I lived on disability and prescription pain medication. Doctors told me I would eventually be confined to a wheelchair. My body felt like a prison, and my future felt limited.
Through faith, perseverance, and a growing understanding of how trauma lives in the body, my life began to change. I learned that healing is not only emotional or spiritual, it is physical as well.
God began to teach me how to care for my body, how to listen to it, and how to restore what trauma had stolen. Against all expectations, I became pain-free and drug-free. What once was broken became a testimony.
I never imagined that the very body I once struggled to live in would become the vessel through which I would teach others about healing and self-care.
But God has a way of turning pain into purpose.
After moving to the United States, my journey continued, including surviving a serious car accident that nearly took my life.
That moment reaffirmed what I already knew: healing the body and mind is not optional, it is essential. Life is fragile, and restoration must be intentional.
What was once a place of pain became a place of purpose.
Women who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, cancer, bullying, eating disorders, or other life-altering trauma often carry more than emotional pain.
Trauma lives in the body. When the body has been exposed to prolonged stress, fear, harm, or survival mode, it can lose its natural ability to regulate, rest, and repair.
Over time, this unresolved physical stress may contribute to chronic pain, fatigue, inflammation, nervous system imbalance, and other health challenges.
Many women are encouraged to “talk it out” mentally or spiritually, yet are never given the opportunity to address what their body has been holding.
This is why Purple Light Touch Foundation offers therapeutic and medical massage alongside mentoring, life skills, and business education.
Our services are not about replacing medical care or therapy. They are about supporting the body's natural healing capacity and restoring balance where chaos once lived.
This work is deeply personal to me because I know firsthand what it feels like to live in a body that has experienced trauma, and to have no one address what that trauma has done physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Like many women, I carried the effects of sexual assault, domestic violence, and life-altering experiences in my body without ever being shown how to process or release them in a healthy way.
There was conversation around survival, faith, and moving forward, but very little guidance on how to help the body heal from what it had endured.
That is why Purple Light Touch Foundation is so close to my heart.
I want women to understand that trauma does not only live in the mind, it lives in the body. And when trauma is never addressed, it can quietly shape how we move, how we feel, and how our bodies function over time.
Our mission is to help women understand the importance of healing fully, not just emotionally or spiritually, but physically as well.
Through trauma-informed massage, education, mentoring, and empowerment services, we help women begin a healing process that restores dignity, strength, and wholeness.
No woman should have to walk that journey alone.
I stand as living proof that with faith, support, and whole-person healing, what was meant to destroy you can become the very thing God uses to heal others.
— Valerie E. KelsoExplore Valerie E. Kelso's books and publications, created to inspire healing, resilience, purpose, transformation, and personal growth.
Healing is personal. It takes time, patience, safety, support, and trust. Our approach is built around walking alongside the people we serve rather than deciding how quickly they should heal.
We recognize the person behind the experience and treat every story with dignity.
We listen without judgment and create room for people to express themselves in their own way.
We provide compassionate guidance, education, resources, and meaningful connections.
We help people rediscover their strengths, rebuild confidence, and move forward.
Whether you need support, want to volunteer, partner with our work, or help create opportunities for women and young girls, there is a place for you in this mission.
