Somatic coaching · Online worldwide
Somatic Coaching for the Wound and the Wildness
Your body has been carrying what happened to you. It is also holding what you were never allowed to become.
Somatic coaching works with both. We regulate the nervous system so the wound can finally be witnessed, and so the wildness in you can safely come home.
Online worldwide · In person on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
The body, not just the mind
What is somatic coaching?
Somatic coaching is guided work with the body, not just the mind. “Soma” means the living body, the one that remembers, braces, shuts down, and longs.
Most of us have tried to think our way out of old patterns. Insight helps, but the body often keeps reacting anyway. Somatic coaching works where those patterns actually live: in breath, posture, sensation, and the nervous system.
Together we learn to notice what your body is doing, to settle it, and to build capacity for more feeling, more truth, and more aliveness. Over time, regulation becomes the ground that self-trust grows from.
Two territories
Healing for the wound. Reclaiming for the wildness.
My somatic coaching moves between two territories. Most people arrive needing one, and discover they need both.
What happened to you
The Wound
The Wound is what happened to you. The losses, the betrayals, the years of holding it together. It doesn’t need fixing. It needs witnessing, in a body that feels safe enough to let it be seen. This is where trauma-informed somatic coaching begins: slowly, at your pace, with your nervous system leading.
What you put away to survive
The Wildness
The Wildness is what you had to put away to survive. Your anger, your desire, your voice, your knowing. It hasn’t gone anywhere. As your body learns it is safe, that power starts wanting to return, and we make room for it.
The relationship between us is part of the medicine. You are not doing this alone.
Sessions
How we work together
Sessions blend body awareness with clear, practical frameworks. Depending on what you need, our work may include:
Nervous system regulation
learning your own signals of stress, shutdown, and safety, and practices to come back to center
Somatic awareness
tracking sensation, breath, and impulse so your body becomes a source of information, not just alarm
Psychological flexibility
tools drawn from ACT-based frameworks to hold hard feelings without being run by them
Values and direction
turning what you reclaim into choices that fit the life you actually want
Nature-based sessions
for clients in Costa Rica, working outdoors where the body often settles faster
Getting started
We start with a free 20-minute consultation to see if we’re a fit. From there, sessions are held by video, and we build the right container together rather than from a menu. Packages range from $100–$1,000 per month, depending on the depth and frequency of support you are looking for.
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Who this is for
Somatic coaching may be a good fit if you:
- ◆Understand your story but still feel stuck in the same reactions
- ◆Live in a body that’s always braced, anxious, numb, or exhausted
- ◆Have done years of inner work and want something that reaches deeper than talking
- ◆Keep overriding your own knowing, and want to learn to trust yourself again
- ◆Sense there’s more power, truth, or aliveness in you waiting to come back
You don’t need to be in crisis, and you don’t need a diagnosis. You need to be ready to listen to your body, and to let it lead.
Wherever you are
Online somatic coaching, wherever you are
Most clients work with me online, by video, from anywhere in the world. Somatic coaching online works better than many people expect. Your body is right there with you, in your own space, which often makes new practices easier to carry into daily life.
If you’re in or visiting Costa Rica, I also offer in-person, nature-based sessions on the Pacific coast.
Meet Alexis
Your somatic coach
I’m Alexis Lyon, a transformational guide and somatic healing coach. I bring 22 years of clinical experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California. That clinical depth shapes how I hold space: trauma-informed, paced, and grounded in how nervous systems actually heal.
Somatic coaching is a coaching service, distinct from therapy: it doesn’t diagnose or treat, and it isn’t a substitute for clinical care. In this work, my focus is somatic regulation, self-trust, psychological flexibility, and post-traumatic growth: not just recovering from what happened, but becoming more of who you are because of it.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is somatic coaching?
Somatic coaching is body-based coaching. It uses awareness of sensation, breath, and the nervous system to help you change patterns that insight alone hasn’t shifted.
Is somatic coaching the same as therapy?
No. Coaching is not therapy and does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. My clinical background informs how I work, but our relationship is a coaching relationship. If you’re looking for therapy, I’m glad to help you think about where to find it.
Can somatic coaching work online?
Yes. Online somatic coaching happens by video, with you in your own space. Many clients find it easier to practice in the place they actually live.
What does trauma-informed somatic coaching mean?
It means we go at your nervous system’s pace. You stay in charge of what we explore, and we build safety and capacity before going deeper.
What happens in a somatic coaching session?
We begin by checking in with your body, not just your week. Then we slow down and track what is happening in your breath, posture, and sensation while we talk about what matters to you. Some sessions include simple regulation practices you can take home. Others stay with one feeling until it has been fully witnessed. You set the pace, and nothing is forced.
How is somatic coaching different from somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy is clinical treatment from a licensed clinician. It can diagnose and treat trauma and other mental health conditions. Somatic coaching is not treatment. It uses the same body-based awareness to build regulation, self-trust, and forward movement for people who are ready for growth work. My clinical background informs how carefully I hold the work, but what we do together is coaching.
How do I get started?
Book a free 20-minute consultation. We’ll talk about what you’re hoping for and whether we’re a good fit.
The 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.
Your body already knows the way back.
Let’s find out if we’re a fit. The consultation is free, 20 minutes, and online.
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