Alexis Lyon · Trauma-Informed Transformational Guidance & Healing
There is a part of you that needs healing. And a part of you that needs reclaiming.
I hold space for the wound that carries grief and the wildness that is waiting to come home.
I help people who want to learn how to trust and love themselves.
Through a healing relationship grounded in somatic depth, nervous system regulation, psychological flexibility, and unconditional presence — we create a rhythm of safety and trust together.
Backed by 22 years of trauma-informed clinical depth
You belong here
Something in you needs healing. And something in you is ready to be reclaimed.
There are two things alive in you right now — and they need different things. One is tender and carries grief. The other is charged and has been waiting a long time. Both are welcome here. You are welcome here — all of you, exactly as you arrive.
You carry a wound that has never been fully witnessed — and you are ready to move through it, not around it.
You sense a part of yourself that was put away long ago — wild, potent, fierce — and you want it back.
You are done waiting to be "healed enough" to pursue the life your soul is calling you toward.
You long for self-trust and self-love that does not collapse when things get hard.
You want your dreams held with the same care as your wounds.
You are ready for a guide who can hold both your tenderness and your fire.
A different kind of permission
You do not have to be finished to begin.
You may have been told — or told yourself — that you need to finish healing before you are allowed to start living. That the wound must close before the dream can open. I want to say this to you clearly: that is not true. You can be exactly where you are and take real steps toward the life you long for. Both. At the same time. Starting now.
Your symptoms do not disqualify your becoming. You are allowed to want more while you are still healing.
You can move toward what matters while the difficulty is still present. You do not have to wait for it to pass.
Your tenderness and your fire belong in the same room. You do not have to choose between them.
You do not have to abandon the wound to reclaim the wildness. Both of you are coming.
You do not need to arrive here already safe. We build safety together, inside the work, at your pace.
Your life can be messy and beautiful at the same time. It probably already is.
“You are worth the effort. You always were.”
The wound & the wildness
Two territories. Two kinds of homecoming. One You.
Some of what you carry needs healing. Some of what you carry needs reclaiming. Learning to tell the difference is itself a form of self-trust and self-love.
What needs healing
The Wound
The wound is what happened to you. It asks for witnessing, compassion, grief, and the kind of presence that says: I see you.
What needs reclaiming
The Wildness
The wildness is not what happened to you. It is the power, truth, and fierce knowing that learned it was not welcome — and wants to come home.
The healing relationship
The relationship is the medicine.
Most of what wounds us happens in relationship. So it follows that healing happens in relationship too — inside a living field of unconditional acceptance, steady presence, and real compassion.
The Philosophy Behind the Work
You are the heroine of this story
22 years of clinical depth — in service of your becoming.
I am so glad you are here.
You have probably been carrying this for a while. The sense that something in you is waiting. That you have done the work, read the books, made the progress — and still, something deeper is calling and you are not sure how to answer it.
I have spent 22 years sitting with people at exactly this threshold. Nearly two decades of that was with foster youth and families — people whose nervous systems had been shaped by profound rupture, who found their way back to themselves against real odds. They taught me what I now know for certain: the resilience and courage you need is already in you. It reveals itself when it is met with unconditional acceptance, kindness, curiosity, and respect.
That is what I am here to offer you. Not a technique applied to you. A relationship built with you — grounded in 22 years of trauma-informed clinical training and depth, and offered in service of one thing: your transformation.
I know what it is to feel overwhelmed and far from yourself. I also know the particular quality of arriving home. I work somatically because I have felt in my own body what it means to move from dysregulation to ground. I bring in the natural world because it has been my most reliable co-regulator. And I hold space for the spiritual and the mystical alongside the psychological, because I have found the deepest healing happens when all of you is welcome in the room.
You are the heroine of this story. I am simply the guide who has walked this territory before — and who is ready, right now, to walk it with you.
22 years clinical experience · Trauma-informed · Somatic & nature-based · California LMFT background
Currently based on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica · Serving clients globally via telehealth
Forest Body Activation
A guided doorway into the work.
A guided meditation to help you find your way home to your body — and the three practices I will leave you with to take into your daily life.
Work with me
The depth of 22 years of clinical training, offered in a container built for transformation.
Transformational Guidance
One-on-one work for the threshold you are standing in.
Sustained, integrative work that weaves together the somatic, the psychological, the spiritual, and the natural world — grounded in 22 years of trauma-informed clinical depth and offered in service of your transformation.
Every relationship is built to fit you. Depending on what you need, our work together may include:
- ◆Somatic depth work — slow, precise sessions with the body and nervous system, where insight becomes lived capacity rather than an idea
- ◆Nervous system regulation — building the felt experience of safety, from wherever you are starting
- ◆Psychological flexibility — learning to move toward what matters while difficulty is still present
- ◆Nature-based sessions — available in person on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where the natural world becomes co-regulator
- ◆The healing relationship itself — unconditional acceptance, presence, curiosity, and compassion, week after week
We find the right rhythm together in your free consultation.
The Becoming — Women's Group
An intimate group of 4–8 women gathering regularly to do real inner work in community. We work with the body, the nervous system, the stories we carry, the dreams we are reaching toward, and the wounds we are learning to alchemize into wisdom.
75–90 min · Secure telehealth · Min. 3-month commitment
$50/session · Approximately $100–150/month
Session availability
Sessions are available weekday mornings, Pacific time. Some evening availability may be possible — including for The Becoming women's group. Please inquire when you connect.
Investment
Transformational Guidance packages range from $100–$1,000 per month, depending on the depth and frequency of support you are looking for. Rather than a menu, we build the right container for you — together, in conversation.
The Becoming — Women’s Group: $50 per session, approximately $100–150 per month.
Every relationship begins with a free 20-minute consultation. If financial circumstances are a genuine barrier, please bring that into our first conversation — I would rather find a way than have you not reach out.
Schedule Your Free ConsultationThe services offered on this site are transformational coaching and guidance, not therapy or clinical mental health treatment, and do not constitute a therapeutic relationship. Alexis Lyon holds an LMFT license in California; that clinical background informs the depth of this work but does not define its scope. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact a licensed mental health professional or call 988.
“Alexis holds tenderness and fire with the same steady presence.”
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