Thanks for your interest in my coaching work! Due to overwhelming demand, as well as the growth of my teaching and facilitation practices, my availability for 1:1 work has become extremely limited, and I keep a waitlist. Very interested parties may inquire within, but please be aware that space is not guaranteed.
Somatic Coaching, sometimes also called embodiment coaching, is about connecting to the soma – the “living body in its wholeness” (that beautiful definition comes from my dear teacher and colleague, the trailblazing Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse). Our ancestors knew how to do this instinctively – through ritual, martial arts, dance, erotic play, and spiritual practice, skills now largely destroyed by the processes of imperialism and colonization. In coaching, I walk alongside you as a guide, facilitator, occasional teacher, and co-conspirator. I am not your doctor, guru, or friend in the casual sense. Within a loving container of ethical values, confidentiality, consent, and clear boundaries, I bring a wide array of skills and practices for you to choose from on your journey into the place where body, mind, and spirit meet.
Somatic coaching is not about “changing your thoughts” or pursuing change solely through conversation (although we can certainly talk about many things!). It is about engaging deeply with the body-mind in a trauma informed way in order to pursue personal discovery, growth, and healing. Although coaching can have therapeutic effects, please be aware that within the container of this work, I do not assess, diagnose, or treat mental health disorders; nor do I provide primary crisis care. Common goals for somatic coaching include:
Expanding capacity for self-care and emotional wellness
Developing confidence, decision-making and assertiveness
Making professional strides and career shifts
Solving problems and managing conflicts
Strengthening relationship skills
Releasing emotional barriers and painful stories
Reclaiming sensuality and erotic pleasure
Restoring connection to spirituality and greater meaning
Embodiment work with me can be a powerful complement to therapy treatment that has been completed or in some cases, therapy that is currently ongoing. However, as I practice it, somatic coaching falls outside the scope of psychotherapeutic practice because of the wide range of modalities I bring in. These include, but are not limited to:
Conflict & Leadership coaching
Psychoeducation on the neuroscience of trauma and conflict
Transformational Embodiment Coaching (note: training in progress)
Movement For Trauma (as developed by my colleague and teacher, Jane Clapp)
Somatic Movement and Restorative Yoga
Yoga Nidra
Meditation, trauma-informed mindfulness & guided visualization
Somatic breathwork for trauma and emotional release in the traditional pranayama style, as well as the Numa Somatics style
Functional breathwork in the Buteyko style (note: training in progress)
Somatic Sex Education & Intimacy Education
Wheel of Consent Work
Expressive arts facilitation
Energy work & ritual
My clients tend to be people in leadership positions, front line workers, creatives, and spiritual seekers looking for powerful techniques to transform their personal and professional lives. Individuals on a healing journey who have already completed some foundational stabilization with a health professional can also benefit from this work.
Thanks for your interest in my coaching work! Due to overwhelming demand, as well as the growth of my teaching and facilitation practices, my availability for 1:1 work has become extremely limited, and I keep a waitlist. Very interested parties may inquire within, but please be aware that space is not guaranteed.