It’s scary and chaotic, but it isn’t something to fix and definitely not something to move through as quickly as possible.
Often what you need is a space to be fully present with what’s here and be open to what unfolds.
Book an exploratory callYou may have been trying to figure it out by thinking, reading, listening to podcasts, or learning frameworks. But there are things in our lives that the body can hold that the mind cannot.
In our sessions we drop into our bodies and our Spirit, into our sensations and emotions. We go inward to notice and be with all the parts of us and the tensions we hold. We stay with what shows up, just as it is, until we can love and accept what’s here.
One conversation will tell you more than anything I could write here. Bring what’s going on in your life, and I can share with you how this space can help you.
If it feels like a fit, I’ll walk you through the ways we can work together, including pricing. I believe this work should be accessible, so I work on a sliding scale.
Book an exploratory callThe frame underneath this work is informed primarily by Aletheia, a developmental method built on unfoldment rather than self-improvement, created by Steve March, whom I’ve trained under for three years.
The training is trauma informed and works through the depth of parts, somatics, and non-dual meditation.
Along with this training, I bring into this work my own experiences and work I’ve done. And my own spiritual practice that follows the Christian contemplative tradition.
But none of this shows up as theory or lessons in a session. They inform how I hold the space, but the core of my practice is to hold space to be with what you bring and to be with what unfolds.
“Somatic” comes from soma, the Greek word for the living body. Most of the ways we work on our lives run through the mind and intellect: talking, analyzing, explaining, looking for one more framework or mental model. That works for some things, but there are times in our lives when our body has answers to what the mind cannot hold, like the grief that lives in the chest, the anxiety that tightens before you know why, the knowing that hasn’t found words yet.
Somatic coaching works there. The sessions are mostly interior, meaning you can keep your eyes closed for most of it. Instead of talking about your life from the outside, we work with what’s actually here in the session: sensations, emotions, the parts of you that hold them. We stay with what shows up, without rushing to fix or change it, and we see how it shifts, or listen to what it has to say. We go at your pace. We don’t have to go deeper than what you are comfortable with.
The work is trauma-informed and built on unfoldment rather than self-improvement. A lot of coaches and clients come into these sessions wanting to optimize or fix something about themselves. This isn’t nervous-system optimization or bio-hacking. There’s nothing that needs to be fixed, because you have everything you need right now. Our work is to unblock what’s keeping you from accessing and living out from your inherent genius and worth.
Here’s an analogy I use: if you want to train for a marathon but your leg is broken, you need to see a doctor and get that healed before you start running. Therapy and trauma work help you get to baseline, healing what makes it hard to ground and steady yourself. Coaching starts there and has a broader field: work, love, friendship, faith, whatever’s growing out of your life right now. This work is trauma-informed, but it isn’t trauma work.
It’s more practical than it sounds. The body is the most present part of us: the mind can wander to the past or the future, but the body is always here, now, holding what thinking can’t reach. When we are in the body, we are with what we are experiencing right now. That’s probably the most practical thing we can do for ourselves.
Everything. I’ve worked with founders, AI researchers, restaurant owners, content creators, photographers, writers, and sessions have held work, love, friendship, grief, and faith. I think of somatic work as the soil in which our lives blossom and grow. Whatever is coming up in your life is welcome. We work to feed it the nutrients and love it needs to unfold.
The best way I can answer this is thinking back to when I lost 40 pounds in my early twenties. There was a deep desire in me to get healthy and fit, things I wasn’t taught or shown. And once I learned, I started eating better, learning how to lift weights, and once it was incorporated into my life, I realized one day my clothes didn’t fit me anymore.
This kind of inner work that focuses on the “soil” of who we are is sometimes unnoticeable. But the work is happening deep inside us, and the change isn’t as much a result as it is a transformation. How we relate to others, ourselves, and the world fundamentally shifts. And that shift isn’t something that goes away, because it’s embodied within us.
As for a timeframe, that’s why I suggest working together for three to six months, which I think is a minimum amount of time. I have clients I’ve worked with for years, not because they are still the same person, but because we are constantly unfolding and changing and the support is always helpful.
No. It’s like riding a bike. The first few sessions may feel awkward since it may not be something you’ve done before, but I’ve always found our bodies intuitively know how to unfold and speak to us. We just forgot how to listen. And if you sit down and feel nothing at all, that’s fine too. We feel the nothing. There’s always something there.
If you’ve never ridden a bike before, and this all sounds strange and foreign, that’s a beautiful place to start. I believe there’s something fundamentally natural about this work. As babies and children we were deeply somatic. Before we could talk or read a book we moved through the world completely embodied, and it’s something we can always come back to.
I talk a lot about God, and I have a spiritual practice, but I promise I’m not making you go back to church. We can talk about it as much or as little as you want. If God is part of your life, this work doesn’t set that aside. I believe being grounded in yourself, and living from that grounded place, is how God meets us and works through our lives. One of my favorite chapters in the Bible is Romans 8, and there’s a part that says the Spirit prays for us with groanings too deep for words. I see somatic coaching as being with the groans, and being with a peace that passes understanding. If faith isn’t part of your life, or if you have a complicated relationship with it, nothing here requires it.
Sessions are fifty minutes, online. Many clients start weekly for the first month if this work is new, then settle into weekly or bi-weekly depending on the season. Pricing is a sliding scale we talk through in the first conversation: you choose what’s best for you.