There is more to knowing than thinking.
Somatic coaching creates space to listen differently— to the mind, the body, and the quieter forms of knowing that can help you live with greater confidence, presence, and self-trust.
Grounded clarity begins with curiosity.
Most of us have learned to approach life from the neck up—analyzing, explaining, and trying to think our way into certainty.
Somatic coaching invites more of you into the conversation.
How Somatic Coaching Works
Most of us solve problems the way we were trained to: think about it, analyze it, decide. That works, until it doesn’t—until you’re stuck in the same loop no matter how many times you think it through.
Somatic coaching works differently. “Somatic” simply means “of the body”—so rather than working only with your thoughts, we also pay attention to your embodied experience: tension, breath, posture, or the physical sense of bracing or relaxing that may arise before you have words for what you’re feeling. Your body may register that something feels off—or that a choice matters—before you can fully explain why.
In sessions, we slow down enough to notice what is present. Not to bypass thinking, but to give you more information to work with. From there, the next step tends to become clearer—not because I tell you what it is, but because you’re finally hearing yourself.
What a session looks like
You don’t need to arrive with a clear question, goal, or plan. Some people do—a decision they’re wrestling with, a pattern they want to understand, a transition they’re in the middle of. Others show up with something harder to name: a low hum of unease, a sense of being off without knowing why, or simply feeling tired in a way that rest hasn’t fixed. Either is a fine place to start.
We begin wherever you actually are—not where you think you’re supposed to be. From there, we slow down and pay attention to what you’re saying and to what’s happening alongside it: your breath, your posture, or areas of tension you may not have noticed. Sometimes the most useful thing that happens in a session isn’t finding an answer. It’s finally feeling what’s actually there.
Over time, this way of paying attention can become something you carry with you—a way of checking in with yourself that you can return to on your own.
Why Coaching?
You don’t have to be in crisis to seek coaching. Sometimes you’re functioning well and still know that something needs attention—a decision, a transition, a recurring pattern, or the sense that the way you’ve been living or leading no longer fits.
People seek coaching for many of the same reasons athletes do: not because something is wrong, but because focused attention, skillful questions, and an outside perspective can help us see what we cannot see alone and develop what is already there. Coaching offers a collaborative space to slow down, hear yourself more clearly, and explore new possibilities.
It can help you clarify what matters, strengthen self-trust, and translate insight into choices and action. Coaching is useful not only when something isn’t working, but when you want to grow, lead more consciously, or participate more fully in shaping what comes next.
Coaching and therapy can also complement one another.
Hello, I’m Anne.
I'm a Somatic Practitioner and Mindfulness Teacher. I offer Somatic Coaching to people in the middle of something — a career shift, a leadership role that's testing them, a loss that's reordered everything, a life that no longer fits the way it used to.
I’ve completed training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction through The Center for Mindfulness at UMass Memorial Health. I am currently training at The Somatic School, an ICF Level 2-accredited body-oriented coaching program, and am also completing the Organic Intelligence® Coach Certification program. Alongside this formal study, I draw on my own meditation practice, which goes back many years.
Together, we notice what's actually here, listen for what matters, and take the next step from there.