Somatic needs-based coaching invites you to come back into relationship with yourself — your needs, your body, and your inner wisdom. By bringing kind attention to how your nervous system has learned to cope, we uncover what’s been shaping your beliefs, choices, and patterns beneath the surface. This creates the conditions for change that doesn’t require self-force, but grows naturally from self-trust.

I help women access their innate wisdom, giving them the skills and confidence to finally be able to face and befriend their inner critics and limiting beliefs. I guide their process of healing and inner sovereignty to transform unhelpful patterns that have kept them stuck. Transforming limiting self-beliefs into embodied confidence, resilience and deep self-respect. By working gently with the nervous system, cycles of pain, shame and self-sabotage can be compassionately tended to. Stagnated energy and blocked emotions can be released. And a deeper understanding emerges of how past emotional, physiological and spiritual wounding have been holding you back. Drawing from neuroscience, mind-body healing research and somatic psychology, I weave empowering questioning, IFS-based parts work, gentle guided movements, breathwork and body awareness practices to restore and enhance self-believe and balance. By understanding and releasing fragmented and stuck parts of yourself, we can restore a sense of wholeness and safety, reconnecting you to your aliveness, strength and sense of freedom. From this grounded place, healing, joy and transformation become embodied and lasting.

Soma literally means body. Somatic therapeutic techniques help you notice the subtle signals of your body—tension, emotion, energy, contraction, openness—that reveal what you’re truly feeling and needing. By learning to pay attention to and read these signals, we can unburden past traumas that are living in the memories of your muscles and tissues and create change not just through insight, but through lived, embodied shifts.

Needs-based coaching is rooted in non-violent communication research. It uses a series of frameworks, methods and empowering questioning to help you uncover the deeper human needs underneath your emotions, patterns, and choices. Instead of focusing on “fixing behaviours,” we explore what your heart and nervous system are longing for—and how to meet those needs with clarity and compassion. I help you uncover pragmatic ways to apply those changes in real life in ways that feel sustainable and aligned with who you really are.

IFS informed somatic parts work gently recognises that we all have different inner parts that hold emotions, needs, and protective patterns, often expressed through the body. Rather than trying to change or silence these parts, we slow down and listen to how they show up as sensations, feelings, or impulses. Each part is met with warmth and respect, understanding that it developed to support you in some way. This compassionate, body-based approach helps create safety, clarity, and a more trusting relationship with yourself.

Breathwork is used in a quiet, supportive way to help you settle, soften, and come back into relationship with yourself. We might explore simple practices such as slowing the exhale, noticing where the breath meets tension, or allowing the breath to move naturally as emotions or needs come into awareness. Rather than aiming for release or intensity, the breath becomes a companion — helping your nervous system feel safe enough to listen, respond, and gradually open to change in a way that feels grounded, respectful, and true to you.

I weave m()indfulness,() n()eeds-based coaching,() I()FS-informed somatic parts work ()and s()omatic awareness ()together because meaningful change happens when we are able to listen on more than one level. Mindfulness helps us notice what is present with non-judgemental compassion, needs-based coaching brings clarity to what is asking for care or attention, parts work ensures all aspects of you feel seen, heard and valued, and somatic awareness grounds the process in the body, where so much of our lived experience is held. Together, they create a gentle, holistic way of working that honours you in all your uniqueness — allowing insight, choice, and transformation to emerge with gentleness, compassion and self-empowerment. Together, my coaching methods help you create change that doesn’t fade when the session ends. ()

This is for women who feel stuckness, longing or dissonance in their life. This might manifest as a subtle deep longing for change or a sudden wake-up call. It is usually led by a persistent inner voice which feels it is time for change: time to reclaim your voice; time to start listening to and meeting your own needs; time to honour your sovereignty. Sometimes a big life event brings this realisation into focus, but it may also show up in the body as tension and pain; in leadership and work as dissatisfaction or feeling unaligned; or in the emotional realm in how you’re relating to pleasure, rest, and power.

Absolutely. You don’t need any background or experience. Your body already knows what it needs. I simply guide you—step by step—into deeper awareness, clarity, and groundedness at a pace that feels safe.

I chose the name Her Compassion Coach because compassion is at the heart of everything I offer — especially compassion towards yourself. So many women have learned to push, judge, or override their own needs in order to cope or survive, and this work is an invitation to relate to yourself differently. The word “Her” reflects a deep honouring of the feminine experience, identity, and wisdom — meeting women exactly where they are, without fixing or force. My intention is to support you in cultivating a kinder, safer inner relationship, where healing and change can arise naturally through understanding, gentleness, and self-trust. Through compassion rather than pressure, suffering and challenge can soften into self-knowledge, resilience, and a deeper sense of inner freedom.

No. Somatic needs-based coaching is not the same as therapy and does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. It is a coaching-based, body-informed approach that focuses on present-moment bodily awareness, needs, longings, regulation, and integration. It can complement therapy, but it has a different scope and intention.

Every session I do with a client is as unique as the woman I’m working with, but you can always expect to experience a spacious, calming, and judgement-free environment where you feel held and safe. A lot of my focus will be on creating a safe and nourishing experience because transformation can only happen when our body feels safe. How this manifests is dependant on what feels most comfortable for my individual client. We will explore what’s happening in your life, what you’re feeling in your body, and what your deeper needs and longings are. Participating in movement or breath practices will always be your choice – I will be regularly checking in with you to make sure you feel comfortable and at ease. As safety grows, wounded and protective parts no longer need to hold everything alone, allowing stored trauma to gently release. Through compassion rather than pressure, suffering and challenge can soften into self-knowledge, resilience, and a deeper sense of inner freedom. May aim is that you’ll leave each session with clarity and groundedness, not just in your mind, but in your body. We’ll end with a focus for how you might integrate our work into real life so that your process in sessions also supports lasting real-life change.

Because nature reminds us of what we often forget: that we are living beings, connected by our similarities with other living beings. We are part of nature. Nature reminds us we belong. And in nature, our nervous system can soften. Our breath can slow. Our body can remember its rhythms. The woods, the sky, the earth, the water — they offer the safety and spaciousness we need to access deeper truth. Nature mirrors the inner landscape of healing: cycles, seasons, growth, stillness, release, renewal. When we reconnect with the natural world, we reconnect with the most grounded parts of ourselves. Transformation becomes less about striving and more about allowing. Less about forcing change and more about creating the inner conditions where change can naturally unfold. This is why so much of somatic work echoes the wisdom of the earth: our bodies, like nature, know how to come back into balance when given the right environment.

Yes. This way of working is especially supportive for neuro-divergent women because it takes as you are in this moment, not requiring you to be anything other than you. Somatic work takes you out of your head and doesn’t ask you to think or process in a particular way. I work in close collaboration with the body’s natural ability to self-regulate, supporting the parasympathetic nervous system. Essentially this means that without the need for lots of talking, analysing or “fixing”, we can help you to feel more present, more calm and more connected to yourself. By helping you develop more awareness of your body’s stress responses, it becomes possible to self-regulate, developing self-trust in ways that honour how your nervous system uniquely works. For women with ADHD or autism, IFS-informed Parts Work can be particularly helpful in re-building trust and compassion for those parts of themselves which they find frustrating or harder to accept. The approach I use creates safety in the body so we can quieten the noise, enabling you to come into a place of clarity and calm. We work at your pace, adjusting and adapting to what helps you feel comfortable and aligned with all your wonderful uniqueness.

This depends on what you are bringing. Simpler, more surface issues obviously don’t require as many sessions. Doing deeper work requires longer - the majority of clients find that a minimum of six sessions is needed to make lasting change. Others enjoy this work as an ongoing support, and some might continue with occasional check-ins over a number of years. I recommend committing to six sessions at the outset, with a review at this point to decide on the way ahead.