SOMATIC creative COACHING
for writers, scholars, artists, and the open-hearted — Together, let’s clarify and take action towards your desires and goals, welcome greater authenticity, learn how to move with rather than against blocks that inevitably arise, and expand capacity for experiencing aliveness and success. I support folks who are ready to take the next step towards change in their lives, and recognize that internal and external transformations go hand in hand. My clients and I believe that our bodies and minds hold the wisdom, resources and information we need to thrive. Through somatic coaching, I offer gentle but impactful, client-centered support in embracing and navigating change and expansion.
How can somatic coaching support you?
ACTION ORIENTED: Clients come to coaching because they are ready for a change in their lives, their creative practices, their careers, or their relationships to self and/or others. Mind-body coaching focuses both on inner awareness and outward manifestation of change. We’ll create and follow clear action plans.
LIGHT WORK: Together, we’ll clarify your purpose and goal(s), and then use a range of coaching strategies to move towards them. We’ll welcome and process the feelings and experiences that transformation inevitably brings.
SHADOW WORK: Blocks and resistance give us powerful insights to work with rather than against. The somatic practices I guide you through help you access and follow your innate wisdom and transform your conditioned responses, supporting all parts of you as align your actions to your values. This process is about integration and developing your own inner resources as you begin to move differently in the outer world.
I use a range of tools to support you, informed by my unique blend of experiences including:
certified mind-body coach,
certified yoga teacher, with 20+ years of meditation and yoga practice,
20+ year of facilitating, editing, and trauma-informed teaching, including working with adolescents with diverse needs, with survivors of sexual violence & with war veterans,
a decade of instructional coaching in a NYC public school, with an emphasis on adult learning and culturally responsive pedagogy,
my own life-long creative practice,
and nearly a lifetime of reading tarot through an archetypal lens, a tool I sometimes incorporate when working with clients on purpose and creative identity
details & rates:
Typically, sessions are held on Zoom for one hour every 2-3 weeks. Limited in-person (Brooklyn) sessions available. A coaching cycle generally lasts about a year, though frequency and duration varies, according to your goals and needs - see below for the most common possibilities.
The sliding scale rate for each session is $130-190*.
*pressured resources - $130 / balanced resources - $160 / abundant resources - $190
**I provide occasional discounted rates for people serious about creative transformation despite experiencing financial hardship, especially those impacted by racism, transphobia, and/or other forms of discrimination. Please be in touch.
While this work can go quite deep, coaching is not a substitute for mental-health counseling when dealing with immediate crisis or mental-illness or when actively processing trauma.
Once you complete the form above, I will be in touch soon!
COACHING CYCLE OPTIONS
Ongoing executive functioning & somatic support for creatives: Weekly sessions for creative adolescents and adults (students, teachers, artists, creative business owners) who need support co-creating organizational systems, prioritizing tasks, planning and taking action, and self-resourcing to manage stress & anxiety
MOST POPULAR >>>> Creative Project Coaching Cycle: 15 sessions over one year to support the development of a major creative project or creative career pivot. Visioning, action-planning, somatic practices (2x/month first 3 months, then monthly thereafter)
Creative Coaching Mini-Cycle: 6 sessions over 3 months to clarify creative purpose and goals, develop plans and take action, and develop somatic resources for working with and through blocks, moving towards greater authenticity and productive flow
Single Somatic Resourcing Session: guided practice with somatic resourcing to help you prepare for an anticipated event (launch, opening, speed pitch) that is causing stress and anticipation, or to practice grounding, centering and orienting so you can relieve stress, anxiety, and burnout
Open-Ended Creative Support: for those who prefer a totally open-ended path, in our first session we clarify your purpose and goals. Then you sign up for sessions on an as-needed basis for as long as you need support.
Testimonials
“I've worked with Emily as a writing and somatic coach. She is one of the best people I have ever worked with. She is thoughtful, kind, deeply creatively resourced, encouraging, patient, and strong in analysis and feedback. She's incredibly present, a keen listener, and asks beautiful, open questions that truly get at the heart of the matter. I cannot recommend her enough; if you are considering working with Emily, do not hesitate -- you will be touched by her practiced magic and reignited in yours!”
-writer
“Emily is one of the wisest and most intuitive people I know. She seamlessly blends traditions and ideas, engaging in a practice that is research-based, meditative, and spiritual. With a deft touch, she guided me through a tremendously difficult time in my life and career. Using physical movement as a metaphor and the body as a conduit, seeds were planted that germinated into some excellent opportunities for me. It might sound strange, but it had never occurred to me that work could be a positive force in my life. Emily helped me realize this and reclaim agency in my career. After we worked together to identify what exactly it was that I was looking for, I could focus my energy on making it a reality.”
— writer
“I hit something like a crisis in my early fifties. I started craving a stronger sense of purpose, but to achieve that stronger sense of purpose I needed to address some larger questions about my identity as a writer and as a person. I felt stuck without knowing I felt stuck. In our sessions, Emily used movement and visualization techniques to help me understand some of the secrets my body has been trying to tell me about myself. She centered my body and my words in our sessions, probing both with unusual patience and precision to help me recognize much larger truths about who I am and the work I’m trying to do. When we closed, I had uncovered something real and important that I could bring with me to my work, connecting my work to who I am in this world. I felt I could approach daunting but revealing professional tasks with a renewed rigor and honesty. More than anything, I felt ready and excited to move with intention into this next phase of my life as an artist.”
— writer/ theater artist
"For most of my time as a poet, my practice has been mired in incomplete projects and concepts -- flurries of sparks that couldn't produce a flame. Working with Emily to create personal goals, and experiencing her methodology for unravelling the creative knots that often get stuck in the psyche, have not only been fruitful for my writing but have been more therapeutic than I could have ever anticipated. Emily has helped me develop the tools and the confidence to actually maintain a daily practice. She is remarkably thoughtful and insightful -- a wonderful person to help coach you through your creative journey."
— poet
“My sessions with Emily were wonderful! She is extremely insightful, calm and takes the time to really understand where you are coming from, where you are and where you would like to be. I really appreciate that she doesn’t tell me what to do but she helps me to discover it by asking the right questions. I always finish our time together with a sense of peace and a smile on my face, she’s very funny btw!”
— actor/ filmmaker