Kel-Anne Brandt is a powerhouse of transformation—both as a performer and as a mentor. With more than 30 years in the music industry, her radio hits have touched audiences across Australia, the UK, and the USA. But her journey extends far beyond the stage. After experiencing coercive control and emotional hardship, Kel-Anne embarked on a journey of inner healing. She now blends her experience with professional training in NLP, wellness, and mindset coaching to help others rise above trauma and reclaim control. Using powerful tools like the six intellectual faculties, gratitude practices, and cellular wellness strategies, she guides others to transform from the inside out. With authenticity, empathy, and purpose, Kel-Anne is helping people find their voice, restore their energy, and create lasting change.

Have you ever felt like you’ve lost control of your own story?

This episode of Healing Through Love is for anyone who has struggled with trauma, control, or the overwhelming weight of trying to hold it all together. In this inspiring conversation, Sharlene Lynch speaks with Kel-Anne Brandt, a woman whose story bridges music, adversity, and transformation. 

Once known for her hit songs across the UK, USA, and Australia, Kel-Anne faced a much different challenge behind the scenes—escaping the grip of coercive control and rebuilding her life from the inside out. What she discovered along the way was life-changing: healing begins with the mind, the body, and a deep connection to purpose. 

Listeners will walk away with:

💜 Insights on the power of gratitude to shift your mental state
💜 A practical understanding of the six intellectual faculties we all possess
💜 Tools to support healing at the cellular level for sustainable well-being

 Whether you’re in the thick of emotional pain or simply seeking a new way to reclaim your energy and voice, this episode offers both inspiration and action.

Kel-Anne’s message is clear: you are not broken—you are becoming.
And healing? It starts now. 

✅ Three Key Takeaways:

1. Gratitude and mindset are foundational to healing and empowerment.
2. Everyone has access to the six intellectual faculties—learn how to activate them.
3. Cellular health is critical to restoring long-term wellness and emotional resilience.

Kel-Anne’s Background and Credentials

• Kel-Anne is a seasoned speaker and recording artist with over 30 years of experience across Australia, the UK and the USA.
• She is a trained wellness and mindset coach passionate about helping others transform from the inside out.
• She draws from her own journey of overcoming challenges and professional training to blend mindset mastery, emotional resilience and cellular wellness.
• She uses proven tools like NLP, six intellect factors and gratitude practice to help others shift their mindset and unlock potential.
• Her heart-led approach empowers others to reclaim inner strength, embrace holistic healing and live with purpose, vitality and confidence.

Early Life and First Marriage

• Kel-Anne came from a home where her parents divorced when she was a baby and lived with multiple generations of women.
• Her mother remarried when she was about five and things started going downhill at home when she was about sixteen.
• She met her first husband when she was sixteen, he was older at twenty-one, and she had left school and was working.
• Despite her mother letting them get engaged, the marriage resulted in domestic violence and abuse.
• The husband was a drinker and she learned not to argue with him when he was drinking to avoid physical violence.

Domestic Violence Experience

• The abuse included both physical and mental components, with the husband telling her she was useless and criticizing everything she did.
• He would punch her in places where people wouldn’t see the bruises and threatened that no one would know about the abuse.
• Her confidence and self-esteem were severely damaged as she believed what he was saying about her.
• The violence escalated when their daughter was a baby during a party incident where he dragged her along the floor by her hair.
• This time the bruises were visible all over her body, causing her to hide in the house for several days because she felt it was her fault.

Seeking Help and Continued Abuse

• A neighbor discovered the bruises and took her to a doctor who wanted to prescribe Valium and suggested pressing charges.
• She was too scared to report the abuse because he had threatened to hurt the children, including holding her son over an embankment.
• The abuse continued for seventeen years with periods of separation and reconciliation, including house separations where he wouldn’t leave.
• He would continue to intimidate her by rising up as if he was going to hit her even when the physical abuse decreased.
• The emotional abuse and fear remained constant throughout the relationship.

Mental Health Crisis and Therapy

• Kel-Anne experienced her first panic attack while at a friend’s house, initially thinking she was having a heart attack or stroke.
• She was sent for treatment and began working with a therapist who used hypnotherapy and worked on building her self-esteem.
• The therapist suggested she get up on stage and sing, knowing her mother was a singer and that she had musical ability.
• Despite shaking tremendously during her first performance, this led to a nearly forty-year recording and singing career.
• Singing became both a healing tool for herself and a way to help audiences, with people reporting they felt healing from her performances.

Decision to Leave and Rock Bottom Experience

• The final decision to leave came when she realized staying for the children’s sake was actually harming them.
• A therapist working with her son indicated that the man’s temper was negatively affecting the children.
• After leaving the marriage, she experienced a period where the teenage children weren’t living with her due to school and other commitments.
• She hit rock bottom and called her mother expressing she couldn’t cope and felt drawn to walk out onto the balcony.
• Her mother arranged for emergency help and within fifteen minutes a counselor arrived at her door to provide support.

Recovery Tools and Healing Modalities

• She learned various tools from multiple therapists including the first therapist and the emergency counselor who helped during her crisis.
• She was prescribed Serapax and Valium but later chose to get off these medications by going to a treatment center in Newcastle.
• The treatment center provided her with helpful tapes, and later another person gave her Louise Hay tapes which introduced her to mirror work and self-love practices.
• She studied with notable mentors including Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor with whom she had weekly calls, and Sandy Forster in Australia.
• Her interest in helping others in similar situations grew from her own experiences and the tools she had learned.

Career Transition and Near-Death Experience

• In 1997, Kel-Anne faced a near-death experience when doctors found a tumor in her thyroid that they thought was malignant.
• She was told she probably would never sing again, though the tumor turned out to be benign after surgery.
• This experience led her to decide to pursue singing full-time rather than having a day job and singing part-time.
• She became a full-time recording artist following this pivotal health scare.
• The experience reinforced her commitment to her musical career and healing work.

COVID-19 Impact and Coaching Development

• During COVID-19 in 2020, all her shows were stopped due to lockdowns so she began doing concerts on Facebook for her fans.
• She developed burnt vocal cords from overuse during this period and had to remain quiet, forcing her to go within and be still.
• This period of forced stillness allowed her to finally pursue her interest in becoming a mindset and life coach.
• She completed additional studies online with the Coaching Institute, learning metadynamics, NLP, and positive psychology.
• She launched her mindset coaching practice later in 2020, combining all her previous learning with life experience.

Integrated Wellness and Mindset Approach

• Her continued health journey led her to discover natural cellular activation and incorporate wellness with mindset coaching.
• She developed an integrated approach that combines decades of learning from various mentors and modalities.
• Her coaching practice now blends mindset mastery, emotional resilience, and cellular wellness.
• She uses proven tools including NLP, six intellect factors, and gratitude practice in her work with clients.
• Her approach is described as heart-led and focuses on empowering others to reclaim inner strength and live with purpose.

Final Words of Wisdom

• Kel-Anne emphasized the importance of trusting your intuition and listening to yourself.
• She stressed that people should go within to find answers rather than looking externally.
• Her core message is that the power to heal and transform comes from within each person.
• She believes that individuals have the capacity to overcome challenges by accessing their inner wisdom.
• Her advice aligns with the podcast’s philosophy that people already have what they need inside themselves.

Next Steps

• The podcast host encouraged survivors of family and domestic violence to reach out to Healing Through Love for free pamper day experiences.
• Practitioners and survivors interested in contributing to the healing work were invited to connect with the organization.
• Resources and contact information would be provided in show notes and descriptions for those wanting to learn more about Kel-Anne’s work.
• The integrated approach of combining mindset and wellness tools was presented as a proven process for helping people transition from where they are to where they want to be.

• Kel-Anne Brandt, a seasoned speaker and recording artist with over 30 years of experience, is also a trained wellness and mindset coach who helps others transform through mindset mastery, emotional resilience, and cellular wellness.
• Kel-Anne shared her personal journey of domestic violence, describing how she married at 16 and endured 17 years of physical and emotional abuse from her alcoholic husband who threatened her and their children.
• The abuse included both physical violence where her husband would “punch in places people aren’t going to see the bruises” and severe emotional abuse that destroyed her self-esteem and confidence.
• A turning point came when Kel-Anne experienced a severe beating that left visible bruises, leading a neighbor to take her to a doctor who recommended pressing charges, though fear for her children’s safety prevented her from doing so.
• Kel-Anne began experiencing panic attacks due to the trauma, which led her to therapy where her therapist suggested she try singing on stage as part of her healing process.
• Despite initially shaking “like an earthquake” when performing, singing became both therapeutic for Kel-Anne and healing for her audiences, launching a 30-40 year recording career.
• The decision to leave her abusive marriage came gradually through therapy, hypnotherapy focused on self-esteem, and ultimately realizing that staying “because of the kids” was actually harming them.
• After separating from her husband, Kel-Anne hit rock bottom when her teenage children weren’t living with her, leading to suicidal thoughts and emergency intervention that provided her with additional therapeutic tools.
• Kel-Anne’s healing journey included getting off prescribed Serapax and Valium, discovering Louise Hay’s self-love practices, and facing a health crisis with a thyroid tumor that prompted her to pursue singing full-time.
• During COVID-19 in 2020, Kel-Anne developed burnt vocal cords which forced her to be still and go within, using this time to further her studies in coaching with The Coaching Institute where she learned NLP and positive psychology.
• Kel-Anne launched her mindset coaching practice later in 2020, eventually incorporating wellness and natural cellular activation to create a comprehensive approach that combines decades of learning and personal experience.
• The Healing Through Love organization offers free “pamper days” (described as “day spa on steroids”) for survivors of family and domestic violence, and welcomes both survivors and practitioners to connect with them.
• Kel-Anne’s final words of wisdom emphasized trusting one’s intuition: “The power is within. It’s not out there. It’s in here.”