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creative coaching

1-1 Somatic Coaching for writers,
artists and the open-hearted

Together, let’s clarify and take action towards your desires and goals, welcome greater authenticity, learn how to move with rather than against blocks, and expand capacity for experiencing aliveness and success. I support writers and artists who are ready to take the next step with their creative work and/or change in their lives, and recognize that internal and external transformations go hand in hand. My clients and I believe that our bodies and minds hold the wisdom, resources and information we need to thrive. Through somatic coaching, I offer gentle but impactful, client-centered support in embracing and navigating change and expansion.

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how we’ll reinvigorate and refine your creative practice

Light Work

Much of what's needed is already known to you, already "in the light" of your conscious mind. Together, we’ll clarify your purpose and goal(s), and then use a range of coaching strategies to explore desires and options and envision a path forward. We’ll welcome and process the feelings and experiences that transformation inevitably brings.

Shadow Work

There are also internal forces running us that we’re only vaguely, if at all, aware of. Blocks and resistance give us powerful insights to work with. Somatic practices can help you access and follow your innate wisdom, especially those parts that are currently "in the shadow" of your unconscious mind. Shadow work can help you find new options beyond your usual, conditioned responses, supporting all parts of you as continue to align your actions to your values. This process is about integration and developing your own inner resources as you begin to move differently in the outer world.

Action Planning

While our work will increase your inner awareness, our goal is for an outward manifestation of change. For many clients, this means deepening creative processes, or completing a challenging creative project. There is plenty of space in our sessions to co-create, follow, and refine clear action plans, getting you the creative results you desire.

coaching cycle options

  • A series of 6+ coaching sessions spread out over 3-18 months to support the development of a creative practice, project or career pivot. Clarify purpose and goals, develop plans, take action, and cultivate somatic resources for working with and through blocks, moving towards greater authenticity and productive flow. We’ll start with weekly or biweekly sessions, and move towards meeting every 3-4 weeks as you gain momentum, until completion of the coaching cycle, when you’ve met your intended goal.

  • Weekly or biweekly sessions across 3-12 months for creative adults (artists, writers, scholars, creative business owners) who need support co-creating authentic organizational systems, prioritizing and completing tasks, planning and taking meaningful action, and self-resourcing to manage stress & anxiety.

  • Regularly scheduled sessions (every 2 or 3 weeks) across a school year to holistically support teens with goal setting, executive functioning (study and organizational skills), somatic resourcing for stress reduction, identity development, academic support, and more. Sessions will help your child stay grounded, focused, hopeful, confident, successful, and most importantly, true to their authentic selves. After twenty years in the NYC DOE, I love continuing to work with young people in this supportive way.

let’s talk

  • Sessions are held on Zoom for one hour.

    The rate for each session is $150.

    Clients can optionally purchase a bundle of 6 sessions, to be used within 18 weeks, for $750.

    I provide occasional discounted rates for people serious about creative transformation who are experiencing financial hardship, especially those impacted by racism, transphobia, and/or other forms of discrimination. Please be in touch.

    While this work can go quite deep, coaching is not a substitute for mental-health counseling when dealing with crisis, mental-illness or actively processing trauma.

    *Reschedules must be made 48 hours in advance.

  • I help clients unlock creative blocks and find new potential, moving people towards greater authenticity and aliveness, even in the face of the same old challenges. I use a range of tools to support you, informed by my unique blend of experiences including:

    • certified mind-body coach,

    • certified yoga teacher, with 20+ years of meditation and yoga practice,

    • 20+ year of facilitating, editing, and trauma-informed teaching, including working with adolescents with diverse needs, with survivors of sexual violence & with war veterans,

    • a decade of instructional coaching in a NYC public school, with an emphasis on adult learning and culturally responsive pedagogy,

    • my own life-long creative practice as a poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist,

    • and nearly a lifetime of reading tarot through an archetypal lens, a tool I sometimes incorporate when working with clients on purpose and creative identity

  • The soma is the living body, in its wholeness. Somatic training has offered me tools to help clients both explore the wisdom and messaging already existing in your body, and facilitate embodied practices to transform old patterns that have been limiting in some capacity. Too often, we’re caught in the swirl of the mind, which though fascinating, is also a trickster at times. Dropping in also to the wisdom of the heart and body allows for a more balanced, more intuitive, more integrated approach to coaching.

    Through somatics, I partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your personal, creative and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and strength, and supports you taking action towards what you care about most. This is a process of life moving toward life. Through embodied transformation, our actions better align with our vision and values, even under the same old pressures. In sessions, we will certainly talk, but we'll also scan the body for sensations to explore, practice centering and grounding, experiment with gestures, metaphors or movement, write and draw, and more. These explorations are grounded in the goals that you, the client, set, and as such, coaching also provides structures of accountability. In sum, this is a transformational, life-affirming emergent process.

hear what others love

  • “I've worked with Emily as a writing and somatic coach. She is one of the best people I have ever worked with. She is thoughtful, kind, deeply creatively resourced, encouraging, patient, and strong in analysis and feedback. She's incredibly present, a keen listener, and asks beautiful, open questions that truly get at the heart of the matter. I cannot recommend her enough; if you are considering working with Emily, do not hesitate -- you will be touched by her practiced magic and reignited in yours!”

    — fiction-writer

  • “My sessions with Emily were wonderful! She is extremely insightful, calm and takes the time to really understand where you are coming from, where you are and where you would like to be. I really appreciate that she doesn’t tell me what to do but she helps me to discover it by asking the right questions. I always finish our time together with a sense of peace and a smile on my face, she’s very funny btw!”

    — film maker

  • “Emily is one of the wisest and most intuitive people I know. She seamlessly blends traditions and ideas, engaging in a practice that is research-based, meditative, and spiritual. With a deft touch, she guided me through a tremendously difficult time in my life and career. Using physical movement as a metaphor and the body as a conduit, seeds were planted that germinated into some excellent opportunities for me. It might sound strange, but it had never occurred to me that work could be a positive force in my life. Emily helped me realize this and reclaim agency in my career. After we worked together to identify what exactly it was that I was looking for, I could focus my energy on making it a reality.”

    — poet/copy-writer

  • “Coaching time with emily has transformed how I approach and work through projects and tasks that cause me anxiety. I struggle on various levels including sitting down to confront a task, allowing overwhelm to disrupt my ability to stay grounded and confident, and follow-through and completion. emily supported me in pausing and remembering that I'm in a body, as well as helping me find some softness and generosity with myself when activated and stressed. In addition to creating a space to be reflective and empowered, emily's coaching is practical: we take the path of least resistance. Our work together has provided me with simple tools I can implement to help me take care of myself during encounters that cause me to spin out, and to actually get them done.”

    —poet/educator

  • “Emily is simply amazing! Her coaching has been a game-changer for me. I was struggling with creative blocks and felt disconnected from my writing, but working with her has been transformative. Through her deep understanding of the creative process and her somatic approach, I’ve broken through those barriers and reconnected with my voice. I now feel more confident, focused, and inspired in my writing journey thanks to her guidance.”

    —memoirist/entrepreneur

  • “I hit something like a crisis in my early fifties. I started craving a stronger sense of purpose in my work, but I also felt stuck. In our sessions, Emily used movement and visualization techniques to help me recognize much larger truths about who I am and the work I’m trying to do. When we closed, I felt I could approach daunting but revealing professional tasks with a renewed rigor and honesty. More than anything, I felt ready and excited to move with intention into this next phase of my life as an artist.”

    —playwright/professor

  • “The thing that sets Emily apart from other coaches I have worked with is her deep integrity--to the process of coaching, to creativity, to her investment in her clients' growth and change. She is authentically ‘with’ her clients and deeply invested in helping them to experience their truths without judgment. My sessions with her have been so fulfilling and have shifted patterns that needed shifting. I highly recommend her.”

    —poet/professor

  • “I felt immediately comfortable with Emily. We were able to identify some repetitive and harmful thinking I was caught up in, and replace with more self-compassionate patterns.”

    —archivist