SOMATIC
EMOTIONAL HEALTH COACHING

An integrative, attuned, and sustainable approach to healing

What is somatic

emotional health coaching?

The word “somatic” comes from the Greek root, soma, meaning “body.”

Somatic coaching is an approach that brings the body to the table—where we understand and welcome the body as a source of infinite wisdom and information to be attuned to, worked with, and held.

We also understand the body to be a vital channel through which whole system healing happens.

My coaching is spiritually grounded, trauma-informed, and invites you gently back into yourself—allowing your system to take the time it needs to release, repair, trust, and grow.

In order to transform deep seated wounds, emotions, and behaviors, we need to show our nervous systems that it is safe to change.

  • We are all born with an innate technology that is designed to keep us alive, protected, and connected. Without any conscious effort, our bodies constantly scan for what feels safe and what feels threatening—and then respond accordingly. Sometimes this body technology (also known as the nervous system) functions exactly as it should; other times it reacts from its memory banks, pulling the past into the present and triggering a misaligned response. This is where we get stuck in recurring patterns in our lives—experiencing chronic or relational anxiety, compounded grief, shut down or freeze states, defensiveness or angry outbursts, people-pleasing, inability to slow down and rest, difficulty creating healthy boundaries, inability to speak our needs, and more.

    Every one of these struggles is our body’s divine intelligence doing what it thinks it needs to do to keep us safe.

    Somatic coaching takes all of this into account. We are such intricate beings, made of matter as much as we are of mind. Our enteric nervous system, housed in our gut, sends nine times more data up to our brain than the other way around. What does this mean? That we cannot merely talk our way into healing. In order to transform deep seated wounds, emotions, and behaviors, we need to show our nervous systems that it is safe to change. We must integrate new patterns into the fabric of our being, through first listening to the stories our bodies have to tell us and then somatically rewriting the script.

MY APPROACH

Through my integrated approach to somatic coaching, we will welcome and work with your physical body, emotional body, mind, and spirit.

I draw upon varied modalities, including:

  • Nervous system education

  • Gentle movement practices

  • Breathwork

  • Embodied sensory awareness

  • Cognitive & intuitive inquiry

  • Parts work

  • Attachment theory and repair

  • Astrology

My approach also includes personalized psychoeducation, helping you understand the physiological imprints of your past experiences, why your system may be responding to your present in the ways that it is, and tools to work with your nervous system to create lasting change.

My coaching is trauma-informed. Fundamentally, we can only move as fast as the slowest parts of ourselves. A trauma-informed approach understands this, and takes the entirety of your lived experience into account. Bodies holding trauma require extra patience, attunement, and care in establishing safety, trust, and nervous system capacity—all of which are foundational to my practice.

Areas to Address

in Somatic Coaching

Boundaries

Relationship patterns & dynamics

Feelings of being “too much”

Grief, heartache, and loss

Navigating the world as a highly sensitive person

Transitions or major life changes

Self-abandonment

Perfectionism

Anxiety, overwhelm, or stress

Anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment

In my care, you will be invited to share and process big emotions, attune to and learn to work with your nervous system states for everyday resilience, break longstanding patterns, deepen connection with your inner knowing, develop healthy relational skills, and find grace for yourself and the unfolding of your life.

Therapy helps you process the past, while coaching helps you create your future.

What’s my vibe?

More than any other adjective, I have been told my energy is grounding. Warm and highly attuned, my coaching is compassionate, curious, direct, and equal parts serious and playful.

My goal is to invite you into a space in which you feel securely held. I welcome your vulnerability, messiness, joy, grief, frustration, anger, power—whatever is present, at any moment, always.

As a practitioner, I am ultimately here to listen and to guide you. To enter the subterranean with you: the depths of your body, your psyche, and your beautiful, tender heart. I am here to witness you; to shepherd you through witnessing and staying with yourself. I am here to help you rewrite the tapes of your nervous system. To learn to believe that the future can be different than the past—and then to live it into being.

What will somatic coaching do for you?

Through this work, we awaken the intelligence that already lives within us. We listen to our wounds so they no longer need to cling with such a forceful grip. We create space in our bodies for our intuition to emerge. We learn to implement boundaries and take aligned actions. We foster self-trust. We tend to our shadows lovingly so that all of our parts know they are welcome here. We build up our nervous system capacity and inner worth so that we can step into our creativity, our power, and our purpose in this world.

We repair our relationship with ourselves.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

  • I offer 50 minute somatic coaching sessions in person in Asheville, NC and online via video call. Sessions occur weekly or bi-weekly, depending on your needs and preference. The body opens to and integrates change slowly; somatic work is most effective as a steadfast, gentle, and consistent investment over time.

  • Fees are $135 per session. Reduced fee sessions are offered to those with limited financial capacity; please reach out if you have this need and feel called to work with me!

  • Somatic coaching is supportive for all humans. I specialize in working with women and highly sensitive people.

  • Somatic coaching is a great compliment to therapy! The approaches used are often quite different and can be very supportive engaged with in tandem. It is also not a requirement to be in therapy to participate in and receive benefit from somatic coaching.

When deciding to invest in yourself via transformational work with a coach or a healer, it is vital to partner with someone who is an energetically resonant match for you.

I am happy to offer a free 20 minute consultation call for us to connect and discern if working together feels like a good fit!

TESTIMONIALS

“Meredith is a wise, deep soul with a lot of love to give. As a highly sensitive being making my way in a fast paced world, I found my time with Meredith to be a beautiful space for rest and remembering. My goal in working with Meredith was to gain more resilience in my nervous system and my time with her definitely assisted with that. She used her knowledge of astrology and sensitive nervous systems to gift me a myriad of tools that I am excited to continue working with. If you are looking for a place that feels safe and gentle to the soul while still creating meaningful change, Meredith is your coach!"

—Chelsey M., Charlotte, NC

“Meredith has a rare gift for deep listening and holding space with warmth, clarity, and intuition. Her presence is grounding, and her insights are both precise and compassionate. She creates an environment where you feel truly seen and understood, making space for reflection, healing, and growth.”

—Lauren L., New York City, NY

“Meredith, you have changed my life so much for the better and everything you have taught me has improved my self confidence/self image."

—Violet O., 15 years-old

“Thank you Ms. Meredith for bringing/giving me a judgment free space in which I can be completely myself.”

—Caroní H., 14 years-old