SOMATIC COACHNG
A space to bring what’s honest for you, and be supported in finding your way forward
S O M A T I C C O A C H I N G
'Somatic' Means 'of the body' - The heart of this offering is the body acting as your compass for how you navigate life.
'Coaching' means a process of listening, encouragement and support, helping you turn what you’re recognising into choices and actions you can bring into your life.
Working together
This work isn’t about accepting that something is wrong with you. It’s about recognising when your body is asking for something different, and learning to listen to what that might be.
Whether it’s a sense that something just isn’t right, anxiety, fear, relationship conflicts, not feeling safe and secure in your body, or a felt sense of unexpressed creativity, we start with what’s here.
Together, we explore where you are in life, what may be holding you back, and what’s happening for you now. Through somatic listening, we support an easing into what is felt in the body, allowing the mind more flexibility in how it responds. From here, we explore what action and integration can look like in your everyday life.
You are the intelligence that knows what you need. To feel better in yourself is never as far away as it may seem - sometimes what matters is simply having the support and encouragement to take the next step.
The roots of this work
The framework of this offering is influenced by Compassionate Inquiry, a methodology taught by Gabor Maté, which explores the challenges, feelings and beliefs we carry, and the experiences that may have shaped them, often beginning in childhood. This inquiry can cultivate greater awareness of why and how we feel what we feel, supporting greater flexibility and openness in how we respond to our experiences. Where useful, exploring earlier experiences can help to solidify this understanding, but the work is not centred around repeatedly revisiting the past. The invitations to return to the body, and the view of our nature as a whole, are shaped by Radical Ecology and Intimate Being, developed by Godfrey Devereux and Olivia Crooks. At the heart of this work is a direct and deeply embodied way of living: sensation is the source, and the invitation is to feel as deeply as possible what is being felt, allowing for a deeper intimacy with your own intelligence. It is an inquiry into returning, again and again, to an intimacy with what is happening for you. This is explored through somatic listening and somatic communication - allowing the body to be experienced rather than managed or controlled. Through feeling, the mind can naturally become more grounded in the body, creating a greater sense of safety and greater flexibility in meeting life’s challenges. A significant part of my movement towards these practices has also come from what happened to my own body and my experience of living through long-term illness. You can read more about this in the About Me section. Another thread of my work is influenced by Zach Bush, particularly his understanding of the multitude of internal relationships that exist within us. This invites us to become more aware of these relationships and explore how they may be reflected in the way we live, relate and respond to everyday life.
When what used to work no longer feels right
Perhaps something in your work or personal life has started to feel different. What once felt natural no longer does. Maybe everything feels like it requires more effort, or there is a quiet, or loud knowing, that something needs support but you don’t know what. The body is often the first to let us know when something is no longer working. What once felt right can begin to feel constricting, draining or unclear. Not because something has gone wrong, but because life is asking something different of you. Rather than continuing to rely on what worked before, this work and relationship can become an opportunity to listen to what is changing within you, and allow your way of thinking, creating and living to grow with it.
How this works:
Consultation
We begin with a consultation to get an overview of your work and life - your experience within it, what is and isn’t working, and any challenges that may be holding you back. It’s a chance to understand what has brought you here, where you are now, and what you’re experiencing. Throughout, we’ll also listen to what your body is communicating, honouring what it may need as we consider what support looks like moving forward.
Follow ups
In the sessions that follow, we become more curious about what may be inhibiting your expression, creativity, or ability to feel more comfortable in yourself and your relationships. By honouring what your body is asking for, we explore different ways of meeting what is happening and identify actionable steps to support change in your work and personal life.
Somatic listening
There will always be a somatic listening session offered as part of our work together. It is a direct practice designed to quieten the mind and bring your attention to what you are feeling in your body - recognising sensations, feeling them, and sharing whats there.
By becoming more available to what you feel, the mind can begin to respond to life and its challenges with greater flexibility.
Willingness
The more you invest in this work, the more you can receive from it. This isn’t about how much you pay or how much you do. It’s about how willing you are to become more deeply involved with what is shaping the ways you feel challenged or held back in life - meeting what is happening for you and growing with it.
LOCATION: TRALLONG, WALES, UK
The majority of my work is practiced online via Zoom. I find it works well, I am also open to travel for in-person sessions. I do visit London and Oxford for work appointments occasionally.
COACHING
in person and online
Coaching Packages
Support designed to meet you where you are, with different levels of commitment.
01 - Taster
£295.00
no monthly commitment
INCLUDES:
- 1 x 75 minute consultation
- 1 x 60 minute follow-up
- 1 x 30 minute somatic listening session
- Suggestive inquiries/actionable tasks
introduction into this work - one off payment.
All calls are via phone or Zoom, however in person is an option if preferred.
02 - Foundation
£396.00 per month
3 month commitment
Each month includes:
- 1 × 60-minute review session
- 2 × 60-minute follow-up sessions
- 2 × 30-minute somatic listening sessions
- Suggestive inquiries/actionable task
free initial consult & 10% off each month.
All calls are via phone or Zoom, however in person is an option if preferred | included 10% all top up sessions
IF COST IS A BARRIER
If you feel ready to engage with this work but the cost is currently a barrier, please get in touch.
Where possible, I can offer some flexibility around the cost for those who are genuinely committed to the process.
Limited avaiability.
CONTINUE WITHOUT A COMMITMENT
If you’d like to continue after the Taster but don’t want to commit to a monthly package, you can continue with individual sessions as and when you need them.
review or follow up sessions - £110 per hour
somatic listening sessions - £55 session
There is no ongoing commitment. You simply book and pay for the sessions you choose.
If you are interested but have questions and want to clarify if this is for you, inquire to book in a free 15 minute phone call here