COACHING

I'm glad you asked! As we get started, there are a few steps:

1. Schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation call.
   It's important to me to know if my coaching approach is a right fit for you. In our call, I will share with you my approach, what to expect, and any questions you may have. We will decide if the fit is there to proceed. If it is a fit, you will receive an invitation to join my coaching program.
2. Complete your program enrolment
   I work with a very limited number of clients at a given time. This is because I want to ensure I am able to provide the level of support and focus to support you through your journey in the program. To secure your spot, complete your payment and enrolment through the link I will share with you.
3. Complete your Enrolment Form
   This will help me understand your unique circumstances and familiarize myself with your situation, desires, and goals, so we can focus our time in our sessions on the things that matter most to you.
   

I am a certified life coach and somatics practitioner.

Regular life coaching (without somatic mind-body work) lives only in the mind and I refer to it as cognitive coaching.

This coaching practice, in itself, is already a powerful practice that holds space for the blossoming thoughts you may require and explore in your sessions. Sessions are focused on the mind and can be transformative. What is the future you want to create, talk through, and explore? What are the underlying feelings that come for you, as well as the values, desires, and limiting beliefs that may be lying beneath those thoughts. 

That said, that is only the surface of what we can see.

There is a great deal more power and potency when we are able to integrate what is held and lies within our bodies as well. Often without our awareness.

I enhance my coaching sessions with the integration of somatic practices. I use these practices to support you in bringing an awareness of your body and what is held within your body into our explorations. 

The reason this is powerful is because we experience much in our lives through our body - although many of us do not realize it.

The body holds deep insight and memory, and is often the first stop to your instinct and niggly feeling you have in reaction to situations and circumstances.

Only, most of us have been trained to ignore those feelings and to think on "shoulds" and obligation, duty, social norms. 

When you tap into the body and become aware of what is coming up within your body, you gain access to a vast reservoir of information about how you truly feel, what aligns, and what you long for. 

Both coaching practices are powerful and effective. I integrate both in my practice. 

Trauma-informed care is an approach within human services where we recognize that the people we interact with likely have lived experiences that have resulted in trauma for them.

This means a heightened level of sensitivity, care, and taking an approach of "do no harm", including a prevention-based approach in potential harm that could be done otherwise. 

Trauma-informed care is similar to the hospital practice of washing your hands. Washing hands in hospitals is a standard practice to ensure pathogens are not spread. Trauma-informed care is a practice to ensure we take precautions not to activate trauma. 

Not all coaches are trauma-informed and not all types of coaching require being trauma-informed. 

However, being trauma-informed is important to me for two major reasons. 

1. First is due to the kind of coaching I do. I integrate somatic practices in my coaching and support people through major life changes, which often involve grief, loss, and old blockages.
2. As a mind-body practitioner, I am mindful that with many of the body's memories and insights we can tap into, sometimes, big feelings and insights can come up. The nature of somatic work is awareness, opening, release, and integration. And to support this process fully, being trauma-informed is essential.

While it is important to understand and recognize that the scope of my work will not involve unpacking past experiences with you, it has remained important to me to be trauma-informed and to approach our work with sensitivity and care to maintain your feelings of safety. 

My coaching program: The Embodied Resilience Program, is supported with weekly somatic practice circles. Circles involve a 20-30 minute somatic practice together,  where we do the somatic exercises together. 

Many enjoy the collective support and energy boost they experience in the group practice.

The group practice is also designed to help in anchoring the somatic exercises and integrating them into day-to-day life for the best results from the program.

All coaching packages start in accordance with the cohort you have signed up for. 

For 1:1 coaching, there is flexibility in the start date, but the month we start is fixed. As you start, you and the other clients I accept will start within days or weeks of each other.

For group coaching, the start date is set.

My somatic practice follows a curriculum and natural arc. As a result, you will find that you are building on the knowledge and skills you learn in previous session.

As a result, it is essential you are in attendance in all sessions, especially the first 4.

My books open for the next cohort once the current cohort is full.

Booking according to cohort supports you in two ways.

1. As we build our community, you will find that you can share our experiences and the things you are working through, following a similar cadence and arc as others in your cohort
2. When we are in session, I am able to dedicate my focus and time on your cohort. 

My somatic coaching curriculum is an 8-week program, and all group coaching programs have a 4-6 week arc. 

All programs adhere to packages because somatic coaching has a compounding effect. You will require time to build awareness and to learn the techniques we will work on before we can start on accessing and understanding your conditioned tendencies and limiting beliefs.

While many of my clients share break-throughs in their initial and subsequent sessions, this is not an expectation. Sometimes, it can take some time to work through what is required to access a limiting belief that is holding us back.

What I have found in working with my clients is that what you put into my program is what you will get out of it. 

Somatics requires practice, an openness to learning, and integration into your daily life. 

If you stay open, commit to the process, follow my guidance, and put in the work, you will find transformation.

Yes, absolutely! You will receive a $75 credit for any of my online courses, session packages, or resources for each friend you refer to me who becomes a client.