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WELCOME
TO YOUR JOURNEY HOME TO
YOUR EMBODIED WHOLE SELF
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I help you heal, come out of hiding, and feel empowered to cultivate and experience new depths and all dimensions of intimacy, authentic connection, aliveness, freedom, and heart-centered living - with yourself, your partner, 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, counselling experience, supervision, 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 healing isn't surface level, or only in the mind, it's a whole soma thing. It's about more than just insights, it's about integration and embodied change you can feel in your being, in your body. Discover the embodied transformations that can be made in your life.
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SOMATIC COACH
& EMBODIMENT GUIDE
Hello, I am Essena!
I help people come home to their bodies and themselves, to connect to, feel, and express their wholeness and aliveness, their true self energy, their needs, values and desires. Supporting them in transforming their relationship with: the different parts of themselves, their inner and outer experiences, and their whole lives including the people and things they care most about. The heart of my work involves working with the body's wisdom to cultivate embodied safety, trust, agency, and actions - from which true freedom, joy and healing is possible.
YOU WERE BORN WORTHY!
I've walked my own journey of overcoming, healing, and emerging. As a fellow human being, I still walk this path of continual embodied emergence, and embracing new depths of being. Now it is my honour to walk along side you on your journey, to guide and support your embodied transformation, help you expand your capacities, connect to the things you long for in different areas of your life, and take back the reigns from fear, anxiety, shame and doubt.
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 energy and my wholeness. Not all at once. But in pieces, lovingly reclaimed.
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, whispering forests, quiet mountains, and still lakes - 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
Get back in touch with what lights you up, what you care about the most, your dreams and purpose.
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 essence, needs, boundaries, longings, and purpose.
Cultivate inner safety, self-acceptance, self-trust, self-love and self- confidence.
Reclaim 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.
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.
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How it works
THE 4 EASY STEPS
1.
DISCOVERY CALL
We start with connection, in the form of a free 30-minute discovery call. This is an open, curious, no-pressure space to explore the things you care about and long for, ​the challenges you are experiencing, and how somatic 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 you feel a resonance and wish to work with me, the next step is selecting the coaching session package or coaching journey program you want to commit to that meets you where you are at, and will best support you with where you want to go. 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 powerful 1-hour somatic coaching ​sessions. Through consistent exploration, compassionate support, embodied expression and healing practices, transformation takes root in your body, and naturally unfolds in your life and relationships.
Together we co-create a ​flexible, living roadmap, led by your inner wisdom, and honouring your unique rhythms. One that supports your nervous system, needs, deepest longings and goals.
4.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Your healing and embodied transformation doesn't stop at the session, it's an ongoing process.
You'll have the option for check-ins and email support, offering you continued support, guidance, reflections, tools and resources to help you integrate your somatic work into your real life - situations, relationships, moments and challenges.