🌿 Necole Kalucki — Community Outreach & Vibes Coordinator

(a.k.a. the reason Inner Peace Rising doesn’t spontaneously combust)

Necole has spent 20+ years in healthcare sales and marketing, building relationships, fixing problems, and politely nodding through meetings that should’ve been emails. She holds a Master’s in Psychology and has worked in psychiatric hospitals and counseling centers for over 10+ years as well, — which explains why she’s so good at community relations and networking. Jack of all trades here.

Born and raised in Ohio, (who moves TO NEW JERSEY?!) Necole grew up outdoors, loves skiing, hiking, animals, and anything that gets her out of the house and away from Craig’s speeches about ramps, skateboarding philosophies, or why movement is the new therapy. She’s a mother to a beautiful daughter, an animal lover, and a firm believer in giving back to the community.

As Craig’s wife, Necole also holds an unofficial role as:

📝 Chief Reality Checker

🔥 Crisis Prevention Unit (Craig Division)

📣 Director of “Maybe Don’t Post That Yet”

🕊️ Emotional Support Human for Inner Peace Rising

Her actual job?
Getting Inner Peace connected to the community, building partnerships, making sure families know what we offer, and keeping the ship pointed north while Craig gets distracted by laser tag ideas and DIY ramp modifications.

Necole is the calm in the chaos, the strategy behind the scenes, and the reason our outreach actually happens. Inner Peace Rising runs on movement, creativity, and heart — and Necole is the one who quietly keeps all three aligned.

🎨 Tricia — MA in Educational Theatre/ Creative Expression Therapist (NYU-Trained)

For the kids who don’t fit the mold — and the parents who know it.

Tricia is an NYU-trained Creative Arts Therapist with 30+ years of combined clinical and performance experience. She founded Creative Expressions Therapy Group, created an evidence-based arts curriculum now used in NJ schools, group homes and hospitals, and has spent 15+ years helping at-risk, sensitive, anxious, explosive, highly creative, or misunderstood kids regulate emotions, build confidence, and express what they can’t put into words.

Her work has been featured in The Asbury Park Press, The Home News Tribune, and The Courier News for its real, measurable emotional impact on youth.

Before the clinical world, she lived on stage —
🎤 singing the National Anthem at Giants Stadium
🎬 appearing on Sex and the City & As The World Turns
🎥 performing in national commercials (Verizon, A&E, Good Housekeeping)
— and she brings that same presence, energy, and emotional intelligence into every session. Tricia is currently one of the lead singers in the popular AfterParty Band, that plays all over New Jersey, as well as tours as a singer for comedian Joe Conklin & The City Rhythm Orchestra Shows. She also performs in interactive theatre shows across the Tri-state area.

Tricia and Craig met working the same job years ago — two over-creative brains stuck in a system that didn’t know what to do with them. Now they finally get to collaborate the right way:
✨ blending movement, art, drama, music, and emotional growth at Inner Peace Rising.

Parents choose Tricia because she speaks the language of the kids who don’t connect with traditional therapy. Her sessions are safe, expressive, structured, and actually fun — the kind that help kids feel seen, tell their stories, and grow into themselves without pressure.

🛹 Craig — Founder, Inner Peace Rising, LSW

Building the thing he wishes existed when he was a kid.

Craig has been skating for 30+ years 🛹, surfing the South Jersey coastline 🌊, snowboarding whenever the weather cooperates ❄️, and somehow turning all that motion, chaos, and creative energy into a career as a Licensed Social Worker (NJ) 🎓. He’ll tell you he got a “late start” in academia, but really, he just finally found his lane — helping kids through movement, creativity, and genuine human connection.

Before founding Inner Peace Rising 🔥, Craig spent years working with youth who don’t fit the sit-still, talk-for-an-hour model. He currently works as a therapist in a group home 🧠, where his ability to relate to kids, redirect wild energy, and communicate on their level is exactly why they open up to him when they can’t with anyone else.

He takes what he calls “healthy risks,” which is a polite way of saying he built Inner Peace Rising from scratch because no system out there matched the way his brain — or the kids’ brains — actually work. He relates to the kids who need to move to think, the kids who’ve been labeled “too much,” the kids who feel deeply and don’t fit the mold.

Craig grew up in South Jersey 🏄‍♂️, fell in love with the ocean long before he ever loved school, and now keeps his world grounded with his wife Necole 💛 and their daughter — the two people fueling this entire mission. They’re the reason this space feels like a community, not a clinic.

He genuinely loves what he does — both the mentoring and the therapy — and watching kids progress at Inner Peace Rising gives him the kind of goosebumps adults pretend they don’t get. The things parents tell him after a few sessions? That’s why he keeps going, keeps building, keeps dreaming bigger.

Craig hopes more families find this space — because Inner Peace Rising isn’t just a program. It’s a movement, a creative refuge, a place where kids can be themselves while becoming who they’re meant to be.