By learning the language of our body and nervous system we can expand our capacity to cultivate safety, face discomfort, make meaningful choices, nurture more authentic relationships, and orient to pleasure.
Coaching Services
Attuned guidance for tender self-inquiry
You’re struggling to stay present and grounded during conflict
Your life, behavior and choices feel out of alignment with your values
You are frustrated by your automatic responses or internalized patterns that are impacting your life
You’re feeling disconnected from your purpose, your community, or your loved ones
You’re feeling burned out and overwhelmed
Does this sound familiar?
Deeper capacity for discomfort and emotional resilience, so you can stay present even in conflict and difficult moments
Embodied alignment with your values and dismantling of internalized systems of oppression
Greater access to agency and choice in how you respond to and engage with life
Clarity about what is important to you, and your role in your community
Cultivating self-responsiveness can help you build a more sustainable life
WHAT IF it could BE DIFFERENT?
Once you decide to take a step towards growth and more authentic, embodied living, we’ll share a brief questionnaire to get clear on your priorities and a consent form with more information.
You will then receive a link to book appointments through our flexible scheduling portal, and get started on your journey. We will offer a brief orientation so you’ll know what to expect from our time together, but remember that this space is yours. Our practice will center consent, and we will move at the pace of your nervous system.
Schedule a free 15-20 minute initial consultation to make sure the vibes are just right.
Ready to see if coaching is right for you?
Bianca Torres-Gragg
Therapist, Semillas Counseling & Consulting
Sitting with and being guided by Diana in a somatic session is potent. Their tracking, witnessing, and reflections were offered with a softness that allowed me to deepen into my experience more and more, minute by minute. I walked away feeling and knowing that what transpired in that time was different than anything I’ve experienced before.
"As a therapist, parent and community organizer, I cannot recommend sessions with Diana enough."
Group Participant
D invites you to learn and practice skills for self-regulation, attuning to your body, and expressing your needs in a way that centers consent and safety. I can't speak highly enough of them as a facilitator and this group.
"This group was transformative."
Paulina Mendez, LCSWA, LCASA
Therapist, Alegria Counseling
Working with Diana for somatic coaching has been deeply healing. Tracking sensations in my body with a non-judgmental guide has been powerful and surprisingly informative; there’s so much happening beneath the surface that I hadn’t been aware of.
"Their grounded presence created a rare space to pause and truly notice."
Group participant
Being in an all-trans affinity space also made a HUGE difference in knowing that there was going to be a baseline understanding and connection with the other folks there.
"The focus on consent and the consistent reminders to listen to our bodies… made it feel like a safer place to explore and engage, and also to just observe."
workshop participant
Las actividades que Diana nos ofreció estuvieron muy bien pensadas, divertidas y significativas. Además, las pláticas fueron súper inspiradoras, al igual que las técnicas que fueron compartidas.
"They helped me notice things we usually overlook and reminded me how important it is to be present."
workshop participant
Al igual que Diana, también soy una persona neurodivergente. Conocer y compartir con profesionales, otros líderes y comunidad que se encuentran en esa misma ‘categoría’ ayuda mucho. Los ejercicios me encantaron.
"I loved the playfulness."
Cata Noreña
Coaching Client
As someone who struggles to find therapy that works I find in Diana a space that feels safe, welcoming, supported, and warm. A place I always want to come back to when I’m doubting myself. I have a hard time opening up to therapists but Diana always gets me to feel comfortable, to go deep and to really self reflect.
"I love that I can find my own answers through their active, free of judgment, and very supportive listening."
Acknowledgement of the impacts of systemic oppression instead of pathologizing experience
Politicized perspective
Witnessing and reflection to support tender self-inquiry
Compassionate tracking
Enthusiastic consent as foundational to healing relationships to the self and others
Deep consent
Because we can’t heal from and dismantle internalized systems of oppression without an approach that centers individual and collective liberation.
politicized approach
How we integrate our
Traditional therapy often emphasizes exploring past experiences, thoughts, and emotions, as well as themes from our childhood and current symptoms of mental health issues. The primary goal of traditional therapy is to provide insight, understanding, and develop skills for managing mental health challenges. Due to its comprehensive, clinical treatment goals, traditional therapy requires regular, consistent work over a longer time span.
Somatic coaching is not clinical and focuses on present-moment awareness rather than delving deeply into the past. Somatic coaching centers the connection between the body and mind, and emphasizes the deep impact of nervous system states on our mental, emotional, and physiological experience, as well as how we engage others, ourselves, and the world. Because this approach focuses on education, skill-building, and practice, it is suitable for short-term, focused work. Somatic coaching can be a supportive complement to traditional talk therapy, but it is NOT a replacement for psychotherapy. Somatic coaching is not meant to diagnose or treat mental health disorders, or to offer crisis intervention.
What is the difference between somatic coaching and therapy?
For even more expansive containers, check out my intensives!
*All sessions must be used within 1 year of first booking date
$1,680
$1,600
50-minute sessions
$1,050
$975
50-minute sessions
6-session Packages
$835
$815
80-minute sessions
$525
$500
50-minute sessions
3-session Packages
Longer sessions offer a more specious container. Also suitable for clients who want to invite a support person to their practice.
$280
80 minute sessions
The minimum amount of time I recommend for coaching support.
$175
50 minute sessions
THE INVESTMENT
YOUR TIME IS NOW
In order to make my services as accessible as possible, I offer a limited number of sliding scale spots for clients who can’t afford my full fee. The sliding scale fee starts at $50 per session.
My sliding scale spots are currently full–reach out if you'd like to get on the waitlist!
Sliding Scale Availability
Folks needing treatment for mental health conditions, acute crises, or deep trauma healing, who are not currently working with a licensed therapist. Somatic coaching is not meant to diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you live in North Carolina check out my psychotherapy practice website to learn more about working with me as your primary therapist, or if you’re interested in adjunct somatic therapy to supplement the work you’re already doing with another therapist.
Absolutely not! We can work with folks just getting started on their journey with somatics, or with people who want to deepen an existing practice.
By learning the language of our body and our nervous system, we also learn to attune to our needs. Cultivating self-responsiveness enables us to tend to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs, and build lives that are as sustainable as they are authentic.
Lasting change requires repeated behavior. Somatic tracking and inquiry offers us the opportunity to become aware of our default conditioning, of deeply ingrained patterns of behavior that no longer serve us. Somatic practice entails a repeated and intentional choosing of new ways of being, responding to, and engaging with our experience.
Our lives are embedded within and shaped by systems of oppression. Somatic practice offers us the opportunity to become aware of the ways that we have (inevitably) internalized these systems and their logic, practice different ways of being and responding, and intentionally nurture new worlds through the ways that we show up for life.
We will get a chance to meet virtually, or at my office near downtown Asheville, so you can ask any questions you might have.
Reach out for a free 15-20 minute initial consultation!
Want to learn more?
