Somatics Coaching

Somatic coaching is right for you if:

  • You’ve spent years in talk therapy but are still struggling

  • You make most decisions based on intellect, what you “should” do, or what others would think is respectable

  • You’re longing for life to be different but aren’t sure in what ways or how to get there

  • You’ve experience trauma or overwhelming experiences at any point in your life

  • You know what you want but are struggling with making changes

  • You find yourself getting intensely activated or shut down and you’re ready for things to be different

  • Your body often dictates how you feel emotionally and you want to work with your body rather than against it

  • You struggle with self-esteem, shame, worthiness, and relationships

  • People pleasing is so habitual you aren’t even aware of your own needs or desires

Imagine if…

  • You felt regulated, resourced, and ready to live a life that excites you and feels good?

  • You had the skills to process intense emotions and no longer got derailed by them?

  • You felt more grounded and centered in who you are, and what you want and need?

  • You’re no longer defined by your past and have created the life of your dreams?

  • You’re able to support yourself when the next societal crisis comes without dissociating or numbing?

  • You were connected to an inner generative wisdom, power, and energy that cannot be fucked with?

“I don’t know why I wasted so much time in therapy. Nothing compares to the transformation I’ve experienced with Jaclyn. - Devon

Somatic Therapies & Approaches

The word Somatics comes from the Greek root soma which means body, but specifically "the living organism in its wholeness." Somatics is a path, a methodology, a change theory, by which we can embody transformation.

In somatic work we prioritize your felt sense experience - what is happening in your body. We work with your body, rather than trying to fix or change it. We explore the wisdom within, even within trauma responses. We befriend your body, listen to, help meet its needs while going at a slow pace to not override your most scared parts.

In our somatic work I use a variety of somatic trauma resolution modalities to support you:

Alchemical Alignment

I call Alchemical Alignment ‘freeze whispering’ because its slow and steady approach is specifically designed for deep freeze, early timeline trauma (in womb and first two years of life), and ancestral trauma. We prioritize stability and expanding capacity for presence, small doable pieces of trauma processing, and slowly unwinding syndromal trauma patterns. This work is subtle but life changing for traumas that don’t seem to change.

Somatic Internal Family Systems / Somatic Parts Work

We all have inner worlds composed of different parts or sub-personalities. Some parts learn unhelpful or dysfunctional behaviors to try to shield us from pain and distress. Get to know your parts, their needs, & wants. Somatically meet their needs and resolve inner conflict. Learn to support your parts, help them come into the present moment, and experience less inner conflict between parts of you.

Mind Body Coaching

Get clear on what excites you and enlivens you, and be somatically supported in creating a life that feels good. Somatically meet, soften, and transform your roadblocks and unhelpful patterns. Through mindfulness and somatic practices, tune into your internal compass and unleash your full potential. Develop & leverage somatic awareness to guide you towards a life that is nourishing, regenerative, and fun.

Somatic Stress Release™ (SSR)

SSR facilitates processing current stress and past trauma through deepening bodily awareness, working with activated energy to release it, resourcing and restoring energy, cultivating resilience, and emotionally processing through the body. SSR is most similar to Somatic Experiencing and supports your body is metabolizing energy activated during acute stress or stuck from past trauma.

Process Oriented Unshaming Somatics

What if the trauma responses you want to get rid of are actually wise guides? In this work we unshame your body’s patterns by exploring the wisdom within and allowing that wisdom to unfold. For example, dissociation can be a way of leaving. What becomes possible when you can embody the part of you that knows how to leave. We explore the ways in which lack of loving witnessing contributed to trauma and help your body feel seen and validated. This work helps dissolve inner criticism and elevates self trust.

Evidence Based Somatic Practices

As a researcher I look to peer reviewed academic journals to understand what science shows us works to regulate our nervous systems, process trauma, calm down, and increase resilience. Practices including Emotional Freedom Technique aka EFT Tapping, various breathing practices, meditation practices, journal practices, and more.

How somatic coaching differs from therapy

Listen no judgement to therapists, but I managed to see five therapists who never brought up complex trauma even though I can now see I clearly had.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sounds like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest.

What working with me is like

We begin in the Intake Session by discussing and exploring your goals and desires for our work together. What are you hoping to accomplish, change, shed, learn, and step into? What are you dissatisfied with? What do you long for? This will orient our work together so I can best support you or we’re not a good fit.

Each session will include an arrival practice that helps you come into our container, shrug off at least part of the residue of your day, and help you drop into what we should focus on that day. Some sessions it’ll be clear. Others there may be nothing pressing and we’ll work towards your goals and desires we originally discussed.

From there we’ll do somatic practices to support you wherever you’re at. Maybe you’re activated and our goal is to help you move through that energy and process the underlying emotions. Maybe we’re filling up your cup energetically and somatically cultivating resilience. Maybe we’re expanding your sense of embodied possibility through EFT tapping. No two sessions are the same. Each one will meet you where your at through dialogue and somatic practices.

Somatic coaching with Jaclyn Shea

“Working with Jaclyn gets to the root of things in a way that therapy never did for me. It’s like taking a deep dive into yourself, exploring why your body does what it does, and figuring out what what you want. She’s like a body translator who’s helped me reframe my mindset, better understand my body, expand my toolkit, and empower me. I don’t feel like I’m being attacked by stress anymore or that it’s controlling my life. My autoimmune flare ups occur less and I can now prevent them when I notice they’re about to begin. I’m still amazed at the differences in my body.” - Hillary

Book an appointment

Start with a free Intro Somatics Session to explore what it’s like to work with me.

*I require a 4 session minimum once you decide to work with me following the intro session. This container gives us to time to develop our relationship and lets your nervous system orient to somatics work.

I offer my rates on a sliding scale based on The Green Bottle scale. I have a set number of open slots per price point. It is an honor system and I trust you to make the right decision for you and others. I also take into account geographical, cost of living, and regional income differences.

* Basic Needs include food, housing, health care, and transportation.
** Expendable Income might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month, etc.

Ask me about my comprehensive coaching packages that includes three sessions a month, voice and text messaging between sessions, full access to Body Language Lab, my somatic video practice library, and free access to any workshops I teach.

$75 per session

  • I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs

  • I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them

  • I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing

  • I am unemployed or underemployed

  • I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care

  • I have no access to savings

  • I have no or very limited expendable income

  • I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them

  • I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden

$100 per session

  • I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them

  • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

  • I am employed

  • I have access to health care

  • I might have access to financial savings

  • I have some expendable income

  • I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others

  • I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden

$125 per session

  • I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs

  • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

  • I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property

  • I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs

  • I have regular access to health care

  • I have access to financial savings

  • I have an expendable** income

  • I can always buy new items

  • I can afford an annual vacation or take time off