FAQs

The Enneagram is a powerful tool that provides a map of human behavior to help you get to the root of your wounds and to heart of your gifts.

Our ego is a beautiful protective device that developed when we were young to help us get our needs met. In many cases, these strategies prevent us from connecting to our heart and as a result keep us separate from ourselves and others. And many of us haven’t been taught how to get our needs met outside of the strategies so we keep repeating the same painful patterns at work, at home and with our friends and family.

The Enneagram illuminates the wounds, helps us start to choose new methods and new tools. Simultaneously, it provides me insight in how to coach you more effectively with awareness of where you may need more support or a different approach to take action.

Somatic work is powerful and transformative. The body is a living library of everything that has happened to us. Emotions are energy in motion. When emotions don’t have anywhere to go (maybe we suppress crying, maybe we grip our muscles due to fear, maybe we swallow our anger), they get trapped in the body.

Somatic work gives our inner world a voice. And that inner voice is profoundly wise. All the answers lie within us.

Somatic based coaching allows us to safely and slowly go within, to listen and to uncover our truths and gifts.

At times this can feel different or strange if we have spent many years disconnected from our bodies. We will only go as deep as you are ready to go and we create more capacity for the sensations of the body.

Indigenous and ancient cultures work with the energetic realm to shift and clear blockages if and when it is appropriate to do so. I have been studying with shamans and shamanic allies for several years learning energy work and the teachings of the plants. This is powerful work that couples with somatic work very well to move out stuck energy that no longer serves you. I also have studied Reiki which I may weave into our sessions. Your consent is always requested when doing this work.

I recommend committing to once per week sessions for at least three months of somatic-based coaching with the energy work woven in. The work generates profound self-discovery and insights which require time to integrate. Integration is the most critical ingredient to meaningful change, and it can often be easier with a coach to hold space and to provide accountability.

I recommend committing to once per week sessions for at least three months of somatic-based coaching with the energy work woven in. The work generates profound self-discovery and insights which require time to integrate. Integration is the most critical ingredient to meaningful change, and it can often be easier with a coach to hold space and to provide accountability.

If and when it makes sense, plant medicine can support this journey and help clear the path; however, it is not the right path for everyone and something to remain curious about.

There are many typing assessment quizzes that one can find and take; however, I recommend that we schedule a typing session so we can explore what your type may be. Through my training with the Deep Coaching Institute, I have learned techniques to identify type and will help you do so. The tests can be supportive but sometimes our desired outputs can alter the accuracy of our inputs.