Empowered Presence

1:1 Coaching & Counseling

for women who want to get present, heal trauma, and live a more authentic and empowered life!

Would you rather continue to repeat painful and unsatisfying patterns of codependence, emotional addiction and dysfunctional relationships, or lean in the wisdom of your body and mind, heal the trauma that keeps you stuck, and live a life that feels aligned and empowered?

The more regulated your nervous system is and the more present you can be for the full range of your emotional experience without checking out, the better able you will be to make empowered choices, set healthy boundaries, cultivate healthy and loving relationships, connect with your creativity and aliveness, and decide for yourself what is right and true for you!

reclaim your power by laying down the shield!

It might seem like you have everything under control and that you are in charge of your life, but as long as you are still people pleasing, care taking others, trying to get everything perfect, don’t know who you are or what you want, or abandoning yourself so you don’t upset others, your life is not your own!

Growing up in dysfunctional environments in which you weren’t seen, valued, cared for, or did not have your needs met, it can be easy to think, “If I just try harder, am a “good girl,” do better, get it right, don’t get in the way, don’t make them mad (or whatever you had to do to survive) I will finally get my needs met.” Over time these behaviors become our shield of self protection, but it was never your job to not have needs, take care of everyone else, manage and control everything or be a “good girl.”

healing begins, and we reclaim our power, when we lay down the shield of self protection -  when we begin to say "NO", stop over functioning, make sovereign choices, let others be responsible for their actions, and stop people pleasing and striving for unattainable perfection.

Be seen and supported every step of the way…

One of the most important parts of your healing and growth is learning that you not longer have to go it alone. Receiving support is powerful medicine - letting go of the pattern of going it alone is essential to embodying your power. Growth becomes possible when you no longer have to do so much of the heavy lifting, and you can lean into the support of someone who totally has your back. By giving yourself a place to rest, in the present and unwavering support of another, your growth is grounded in stability, you develop resilience and inner awareness, and learn to relate with emotional intelligence, self trust and wisdom!

Heal old patterns, reclaim your power, build healthy and loving relationships, live an authentic life of your own choosing!

Can you imagine showing up for life fully present? With healthy boundaries and a sense of what is true for you? A sense of being fully embodied and in your power? A healthy sense of achievement and purpose? All without having to enable, be perfect, over function, or be “in control”?

For women who want to get free of codependence and dysfunctional relationships, let go of perfectionism, people pleasing, over achieving, and any other unhealthy patterns and behaviors you learned to survive, this is about cultivating a sense of empowerment that comes from within.

Healthy EMPOWERMENT is about power from within!

breaking the cycle of codependence and Dysfunction is incredibly courageous, and is…

the pathway to empowerment!

Nichole has helped me work through the ingrained oppressions from my experience living as a woman, and my experiences of trauma…Nichole seems to always be in tune with where certain pains or conflicts come from internally…while offering perspective and gentle motivation to broaden my acceptance of my emotional experience.                                           
-Amanda, Psychotherapist, New Orleans

This is for growth oriented women who are ready to do the deeper work of healing, unhooking from old patterns and opening up to a sense of easeful empowerment.

Every aspect of this is tailored to YOU - your needs, your nervous system, your history, your goals and your visions for life!

  • Learn to take care of yourself instead of everyone else
  • Develop healthy coping strategies that are based in self awareness/self care
  • Learn what you actually feel, think, want, desire
  • grow your capacity to be present with difficult situations and emotions
  • Cultivate a sense of self compassion and forgiveness
  • Begin to feel confident, competent and empowered in life!
  • Learn to make choices that feel authentic
  • Cultivate an enriching mindfulness practice
  • Cultivate a well regulated nervous system that can handle a wide range of healthy activation 
  • Begin the work of healing trauma and unhooking from old patterns 
  • Let go of Over Functioning & Constant striving to be “good enough”
  • Begin to let go of perfectionism/people pleasing/over functioning, & make choices that are authentic to you
  • Learn to set healthy and empowered boundaries

Empowered Presence

Customized 1:1 Coaching & Counseling

High Touch, Customized Attention, Specific…To you!

  • Weekly 50 minute video sessions. Sorry, no phone calls. We need to be face to face.

  • Mindfulness and Somatic Nervous System regulation practices to support present moment awareness, healthy nervous system response, and overall wellbeing and healthy regulation.

  • Occasional email support between sessions is available. You send me messages for support, feedback, celebrate wins, ask questions or explore ideas. I aim to respond within 48 hours.

$175/ 50 minute Session

 FAQs

  • I open to new clients every three months, and I work with no more than 12 clients at a time (as opposed to many therapists who have huge caseloads) so I can maintain a healthy work life balance, and show up to sessions fully present and well regulated. We will begin by having a free exploration call to see what working together would be like, and if it feels like a good mutual fit. If it feels like a full YES for us both, I’ll send you the new client intake forms including the coaching agreement, payment agreement, and intake questionnaire.

  • I am very privileged to have a high client retention rate. I have worked with clients for as short as 6 months and as long as 8 years. The average span of client relationships is 2-4 years, and is dependent on what we are working on, the growth and healing the client is experiencing, and their individual needs. In this work I prioritize working with clients who are committed to deeper work and aren’t in a rush to get healed. We are not here to fix or change things. This is about slower, but more comprehensive and sustainable healing and transformation.

  • You have probably seen lots of “high ticket” coaches and counselors offering radical and seemingly overnight transformations, but after years working with people in this capacity, I have seen one thing prove to be true over and over again: High ticket does not equate high value. And the quicker the “fix” the less likely it is to yield actual healing and transformation.

    The work I do with clients takes more of a slow, steady and sustainable approach, allowing time and space for the the nervous system to align with ease and for new patterns to develop at a pace the client can actually integrate them. If someone is stressed out about affording counseling then we are already getting off on the wrong foot.

    My base rate is $175 per session, which is slightly lower than the standard rate in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am 100% committed to making my services accessible to people of who are often excluded (commonly marginalized people) from healing and growth work, so I offer a few sliding scale spots for women whose lives have been impacted by social and economic injustice, medical impairment, or other systemic/economic issues.

    For those who are privileged with abundant financial resources, I offer the opportunity to donate to a fund that helps make sessions available to those who have less available financial resources.

  • We will begin with an exploration call to see if it is a good mutual fit, and if both of us feel like full YES, we will select a start date and I will send you all the intake forms.

How we work 

Through the integrated disciplines of Mindfulness, SOmatic COunseling and coaching, you will forge a new relationship with the present moment, cultivate a well regulated and flexible nervous system, and learn to make authentic and empowered choices in your life.

Somatic Counseling

Drawing from the therapeutic modality of Somatic Experiencing (SE), a somatic approach to counseling and coaching can support the cultivation of embodied awareness, while simultaneously helping the clients resolve toxic stress patterns in the nervous system resulting from trauma.

Mindfulness

Through mindfulness, embodiment practices and meditation you will cultivate a new relationship with the present moment, learn to fully occupy the ground you stand on, and show up more fully for life. Mindfulness and getting present serve as the foundation for healing and transformation.

Your power is in being present!

Coaching is how we bring it all together.

By weaving SE and Mindfulness into coaching sessions clients find they are able to take action and create strategies for healing and growth that are grounded in present moment awareness, internal stability, and emotional intelligence.

Coaching

 Are you ready?

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