What is Somatic Coaching?
Somatics starts from a simple premise: the body has more influence over the mind than the mind does over the body.
In practice, that means working mindfully with sensation, breath, and movement, rather than just talking about what's going on. Over time, clients get more fluent in reading their own body's signals, and more able to actually use that awareness in the moment, not just understand it afterward.
It isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about noticing the shape of the patterns you're already in, and being curious about what's possible on the other side of them.
Why Somatic Coaching?
Most of us carry old patterns in our nervous system long after the situations that created them are gone. Tightened shoulders, held breath, the reflex to disappear, defend, or please - these often start as a really useful response to keep us safe or connected when we're young. We start practicing them so early and so often that they eventually become so foundational we don't realize they're responses. They become part of who we think we are.
Insight alone doesn't change what is deeply embodied - just because you 'know better' about how you'd like to behave in a situation doesn't mean that your system will show up differently when it's triggered.
And even changing our external circumstances rarely helps for long: our deeply ingrained patterns tend to recreate similar situations again, no matter how much has changed on the outside.
Somatic work goes at the pattern directly, gradually retraining neurobiological routines so that we undergo deep internal change. This is supported by somatic practices that help us express our authentic selves with both gentleness and power. As we show up differently in our life, our external circumstances can eventually align with our new way of being.
Rather than staying governed by old patterns, we can reauthor what lives in our nervous system.
Somatic Coaching is NOT:
Psychotherapy/psychiatry
Counseling (marital/relationship, addiction-focused, or other forms of traditional counseling)
Life coaching
Strategic planning
A substitute for medical advice
While we may touch on areas that are an adjunct to work you may be doing in any of the areas above, I will refer clients out to specialists as appropriate in areas I am not qualified to address.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.