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Coaching is new approach to solving life’s challenges. Coaches ask questions and assist clients in breaking down challenges and issues into practical, achievable steps. Coaching helps one identify and understand obstacles that get in the way of achieving their goals. Coaching provides clients with customized tools and teaches them new skills that support them in making changes now and in the future. A client achieves more, in a shorter period of time, through effective coaching because the coach gives a client personalized guidance, tools and support that works for them.

Whereas the main goal of counseling is often to help the client heal and achieve a healthy level of functioning. It primarily focuses on helping clients dealing with issues that originated in the past that affect the present. Therapy also addresses medical conditions and issues related to abuse, addiction or trauma.

While Coaching may address issues in the past when necessary, Coaching is more focused on a "what to do about it now" approach.

If you have questions regarding whether Coaching or Therapy is best for you, I am happy to discuss your current challenges and goals. I can help you determine what type of support will best serve your needs.

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I have personally experienced how life changing and supportive Somatic work is for being able to create long term changes in my own life. When my depression or anxiety took hold, it didn’t matter how strong my desire to change was or whether I knew what I needed to do to change, I wasn’t able muster the perseverance and consistent effort it takes to make long term behavioral and habit changes. Before I incorporated Somatic work, I would try to make changes, but after a short time I would begin to make excuses or let obstacles and challenges keep me from continuing. Then I felt like I was failing and I would give up.

Things changed when I began working with a Somatic Therapist. I was able to understand how my intense emotions and uncomfortable bodily sensations were keeping me stuck. I was able to see how intense emotions like fear, helplessness and being overwhelmed hijacked my ability to think clearly. I learned how my bodily sensations flooded me, which led me to seek comfort in unhealthy and even destructive ways to relieve the distress I was experiencing.

My Somatic Therapist helped me establish personalized techniques and tools to calm my body when I was experiencing intense emotions and uncomfortable bodily sensations. When I no longer was being overwhelmed or hijacked by my intense emotions and bodily sensations, I became more clear-minded. I gained the capacity to access choice and a greater ability to take action. Things that once felt stressful and overwhelming began to be more manageable and doable. I decided to earn my certification in Somatic Regulation and Embodiment to help my clients experience these benefits for themselves.

Somatic Embodiment & Regulation is using mind-body techniques and tools to help regulate and reshape the nervous system. Simply stated Somatic Regulation is calming the body when intense emotions or bodily sensations arise. This is vital since many of us experience constant stressors and/or trauma, which cause our nervous system to become stuck in fight/flight/freeze modes. This can cause a constant state of tension and constriction in our body. When this happens, we experience physical sensations & symptoms like: quickening heartbeat, headache, nausea & stomach pain, muscle pain, shortness of breath, shakiness, or antsy limbs and many others. These bodily sensations and intense emotions can contribute to anxiety, overthinking, emotional flooding, and being overwhelmed. Somatic Embodiment & Regulation uses techniques and tools to help calm and/or release uncomfortable bodily sensations and intense emotions. When this happens the body shifts from a state of dysregulation into a state of regulation where one is capable of thinking clearly and moves into a higher-functioning mode that empowers one to take action.

Somatic Therapies start with the belief that the mind and body are intimately connected. Thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations are all interconnected and influence one another. Due to this belief these therapies focus on developing awareness of the body and its physical sensations. Somatic therapy helps you get in touch with and address physical sensations and symptoms you may or may not have noticed but are contributing to your stress and/or feeling overwhelmed. One of the main goals of these therapies is to find techniques & tools to resource and calm the client’s nervous system and/or release pent-up tension held in the client’s body.

The most common forms of Somatic Therapy are: Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Neurosomatic Therapy.