What is Integrative Somatic Coaching?
Somatic Coaching is a form of coaching that includes your felt sense. Felt sense is the lived, in-the-body truth of what's happening right now. In Somatic coaching, we pay attention to the language your body and nervous system speak, and connect it to the mind. The body and nervous system speak in sensation, impulse, tension, tightness, shutdown, urgency, collapse, the pull to please, and the urge to hide/disappear.
Instead of pushing past those signals, we slow down and meet them with attunement and understanding. We follow the natural wisdom already present in you, and this process allows you to develop attunement and a sense of self. The goal is for your system to update, not just understand what's happening in cognitive terms. This approach aims to support embodied, sustainable change over time.
In addition to paying attention to the body, we use conversation to bridge the mind and body so you can make meaning from your lived experiences.
How We Work
Sessions are collaborative and structured. Depending on what you’re dealing with, we may focus on:
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Nervous system mapping: how your stress response shows up (and why)
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Body-based regulation tools: grounding, breath, tracking, downshifting
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Pattern interrupts: what to do when you’re spiraling, shutting down, or snapping
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Boundaries & capacity: saying no without guilt, recovering without crashing
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Relationship skills: conflict repair, clear communication, staying present under pressure
Integrative coaching is not mental health treatment and is not a substitute for psychotherapy. If someone is experiencing a crisis, suicidal thoughts, or needs urgent support, refer to local emergency services and appropriate licensed care.
Somatic Coaching Can Help When You’ve…
Experienced
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Persistent worry, overthinking, or feeling on edge (racing mind, tension, can’t fully relax)
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Low mood, heaviness, or loss of spark (flatness, disconnection, “not feeling like myself”)
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Stress load & burnout (high responsibility, running on fumes, trouble recovering)
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Major transitions & expat adjustment (relocation, culture shock, uncertainty, identity shifts)
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Relationship strain (conflict loops, shutdown, miscommunication, disconnection)
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After-effects of tough experiences (reactivity, numbness, sleep issues, feeling guarded)
What Somatic Coaching Is
I work in a somatic, nervous-system-informed way, which means we won't just talk about what's going on; we'll build practical skills you can use when you begin to notice your patterns are pushing you off balance. These can look like: regulation skills, boundaries, communication, and recovery.
This is a good fit if you're looking for:
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A skills-based approach to stress and overload
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Nervous system tools you can use in
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A space that’s focused, supportive, and action-oriented
Integrative somatic coaching blends conversation with body-based awareness and nervous system skills. It’s useful for a wide range of stress patterns, not just “big traumas.”
Whether you’re navigating persistent worry, low mood, burnout, relationship conflict, people-pleasing, perfectionism, grief, or just a sense that something feels “off,” the same question usually shows up underneath it:
What does your nervous system do when life gets hard?
This work is for people who want grounded, practical, nervous-system-informed coaching with a clear structure, so the shifts show up in real life, not just as insight.
We pay attention to the body’s early signals and notice the first cue that a familiar pattern is coming online. Maybe it's a;
A tightening.
A floaty numbness.
A rush of heat.
A sudden need to explain.
The urge to go quiet and get small.
A desire to retreat
And then we practice doing something different than “power through” those experiences. We stay with them and get curious. Sometimes that looks like orienting to the present, finding support and resources, and working in small pieces, so your system can touch what’s hard without getting flooded, and then return.
Over time, the nervous system can learn:
“I can be here. I can feel this. And I can come back.”
How Somatic Coaching Works Here
Virtual Session
(English-speaking adults 18+)
1:1 Coaching
Couples Coaching
Format: Online (Zoom/Google Meet)
A sliding scale price is available based on income
* These session prices are available for individuals living in Guatemala for at least 50% of the year
Individual Coaching Sessions
Coaching | Virtual
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length: 50 minutes
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location: Virtual
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Professional fee: $55 USD/400Q per session
Couples Coaching Sessions
Coaching | Virtual
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length: 50 minutes
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location: Virtual
Professional fee: $75USD/ 550Q per session
What You'll Invest For Services
What Sessions Feel Like
This is not performative healing, and you don't need the perfect words.
A session might look like you telling a story and noticing your throat tighten. Or realizing you've been holding your breath. It could be catching the moment you start smiling while you're describing something painful. Instead of analyzing it away, we may pause and get curious (gently). We listen to what your body is saying, and we make a small shift. We pause, track, and practice returning to regulation in small, tolerable steps. The goal isn't to become "calm forever." In fact, that's neither healthy nor possible. The goal is to have more choices in how you respond and show up in the world, and in how you navigate your patterns and lived experiences.
In-person sessions are available in the greater Charleston area, including Charleston (downtown & West Ashley), Mount Pleasant, James Island, Johns Island, Daniel Island, and North Charleston. Prefer remote? I offer telehealth statewide across South Carolina.
Common Questions
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Is it confidential?
Yes. Sessions are confidential with the standard legal exceptions (imminent risk, abuse reporting, court orders, etc.).
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How is this different from breathwork or yoga?
Breath and movement can be one tool, but somatic therapy is a form of psychotherapy. The core is the relationship, the pacing, the tracking, and the nervous system learning something new through clinical interventions that connect the brain and body to develop and make use of insights.
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Is somatic therapy legit or just body awareness?
Somatic practices are a legitimate type of experience that includes your felt sense. Felt sense is the lived, in-the-body truth of what's happening right now. In Somatic coaching, we pay attention to the language your body and nervous system speak, and connect it to the mind.
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What if I don’t feel much in my body?
This is more common than you might think. Feeling "numb” and “blank” are experiences, too. Over time, we work to build attunement and felt sense slowly, without forcing.
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Can we do virtual sessions in Guatemala
Yes. These coaching sessions are available through secure virutal platforms.
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Is Touch Involved?
No, unlike other somatic therapies such as massage, somatic coaching does not include physical touch from the coach. The goal is to build a connection between the client's brain and body, and to strengthen their capacity to understand, interpret, and trust bodily signals.
