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ENTER AS YOU ARE
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I help you come out of hiding and into connection with yourself, your body and what you care about most. I support you in building your capacity to cultivate, experience and hold new depths and all dimensions of intimacy, authentic connection, aliveness, supportive safety, freedom and success- in your relationship with yourself, your partner, family, friends, career, and all you love in your life.
CERTIFIED
& EMBODIED
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​Specialised trainings in trauma-informed, somatic and cognitive modalities, deep formal study, ethical standards, three years of counselling experience & supervison with the charity 'Mind', continued professional development, along with my own embodied integration and embodiment practices - shape the foundations of how I work. What I offer is rooted and alive in me.
HEART &
EXPERIENCE
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I bring lived experience, heart, and depth to this work. Work which for me is rooted in genuine care and passion.
I'm here to walk alongside yourself, your body and what matters most.
It matters deeply to me that you feel safe, seen, supported, and met with presence.
REAL SHIFTS
ROOTED DEEP
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True transformation isn't surface level, or only in the mind, it's a whole soma thing. It's about insights that come from your body and your mind, actual integration, and embodied change you can feel and register in your body. Discover the embodied transformations that can be made in your life.
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CONSULTANT, COACH
& EMBODIMENT PRACTITIONER
Hello, I am Essena!
I work is at the intersection of somatic and cognitive modalities, and relationality. My work spans interconnected areas including: emotional experience, psychological and physical wellbeing, identity, personal and professional relationships, intimacy, aliveness, purpose, and leadership.​​
I support my clients in identifying, navigating and transforming how they experience, feel, think, relate, and show up with themselves, and across their personal and professional lives — allowing for greater connection, alignment, capacity, possibility, growth and fulfilment.
I WALK THIS PATH TOO!
I consult, I coach — but I am a human being first.
As a fellow human being, I am not immune to the human condition, or from the range of challenges and struggles that move through a life.
My own experiences — in my body, my health, my relationships, and my life — are not the only reasons I am passionate about and enjoy the work I do, but they are significant part of what shaped my commitment to it.
I’m still walking this path myself. I do the work, keep my skills sharp and expanding, engage in my own personal practices. Continuing to meet what arises, to grow, to recalibrate, to evolve.
We are all in ongoing relationship with life — learning, building, relating, and responding to everything and everyone in our lives, until the very end.
It’s a wild, often turbulent ride. But a deeply worthy one to become more conscious, more connected, more capable, and more alive.
MY JOURNEY
My path hasn’t been one healing, one breakthrough, one return, or one transformation. It’s been many.​
Like a phoenix I've met myself over and over again, in many forms - in chronic illness, anxiety, shame, fear, numbness, disconnection, heartbreak, traumatic events, grief... and in rebirth!....
Through each experience, even when everything felt lost, I kept fighting for my aliveness. I kept coming back: to my body, my longings and desires, my true self, my wholeness. Not all at once. But in pieces.
With each return I became more rooted in my dignity, More anchored in my embodied truth, safety and self-trust. It's been a journey of rising and emerging again and again, in to more of myself, into greater capacity, expanded aliveness, peace, pleasure and freedom.
FUN FACTS
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I speak fluent 'body'... sometimes more than words.
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​I take sanctuary in the wild places - ocean waves, soft sand beneath me, forests, mountains, lakes, waterfalls - where my body awakens, my nervous system softens, and my spirit feels vast and free like a mermaid dancing between land and sea.
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I collect moments of aliveness the way other people collect souvenirs.
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My love affair with music is deep and real, I am given life and moved by so many genres and instruments, although guitar and drums light up my body & soul in a way that is magical, always have always will.
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I'm a major self-talker and out loud processor - if it's not dance and movement, it's talking and singing.
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I treat green tea-making like a sacred ritual.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
ANXIETY
& STRESS
Understand your relationship to stress, and the state of your nervous system.
Reduce and manage different types of anxiety, stress, and nervous system dysregulation.
Complete incomplete stress response cycles.
JOY &
PURPOSE
Discover or strengthen your connection with what you care about the most, your dreams and purpose.
Connect with different forms of aliveness within and around you.
Learn how to engage with aliveness grounded in supportive safety, instead of engaging with it in ways driven by fears.
SENSUALITY & SEXUALITY
Connect to your body and your sexual energy.
Heal from sexual rejection, sexual wounds.
Build confidence in feeling, embodying and expressing your sensuality and sexuality with yourself, with your partner, and allowing it to power your day to day activities.
RELATIONSHIP WITH
SELF
Discover your being, needs, desires, boundaries, longings, passions.
Cultivate inner safety, self-acceptance, self-trust, self-love and self- confidence.
Meet and integrate your whole self, and transform how you relate with all the different parts of you.
Reconnect to your self-worth.
Learn how to work with internal conflict.
Heal and process core wounds.
Break free from the repetitive patterns, conditioned tendencies and core maladaptive beliefs, fears, thoughts and behaviours.​​​​​​​
RELATIONSHIP WITH
PARTNER
Relational healing and growth.
Transforming intimate relationship dynamics, and breaking repetitive patterns.
Addressing core relational wounds and fears.
Building capacity in relationship.
Clearing blocks.
Cultivating safety.
Authentic connection.
Holistic intimacy (emotional mental physical).
Commitment.
Communication skills.
Generative conflict / conflict resolution.
Grief and loss.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILY
& FRIENDS
Relational healing in adult family relationships.
Communication skills.
Generative conflict / conflict resolution.
Authenticity.
Emotional intimacy.
Grief after death of a loved one, or other types of loss, and unrepaired ruptures.
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How it works
THE 4 EASY STEPS
1.
We start with connection and discovery in a complimentary 60-minute call, just you and me. This is an open, curious, no-pressure space to tune in to the things you care about and long for, ​any challenges you are experiencing, and how coaching and working with me can help you personally. It's also a beautiful opportunity to get a feel for my energy and approach, and see if we are a good fit.
2.
EMBODIED MAPPING
If feel a resonance and wish to work with me, the next step is sending you my price list for my 3 / 6 / 9 /12 month containers. From there you simply select the coaching container you want to commit to, and we set up payment. Then we will move through the on-boarding process, in preparation for our first session.
3.
WEEKLY 1:1 COACHING
You meet with me weekly for 1-hour ​sessions. Through consistent exploration, compassionate supportive strategies, embodied expression and practices, transformation takes root in your body, and naturally unfolds in your life and relationships.
Together we co-create a ​flexible, living road map, aligned with you, your values, desires and goals. One that also honours your unique rhythms, includes your body and nervous-system, and builds your capacities.
4.
ONGOING SUPPORT
You'll have the option for check-ins and email support, offering you continued support, guidance, reflections, tools and resources. To help you integrate ad move through things that arise, in and outside of our sessions - in situations, relationships, moments and challenges.
