Nervous-System-Informed Coaching for Real Change
Somatic and IFS-informed coaching for people who want structure, momentum, and embodied change — without the clinical frame of therapy.
Coaching vs. Therapy: What's the Difference?
Both can be part of a healing journey, but they serve different purposes. Here's how coaching with The Healing Spot compares to therapy.
Coaching
- Future- and goal-focused: building skills, habits, and capacity
- Structured, collaborative, and action-oriented
- Draws on somatic awareness and parts-work language without diagnosing or treating mental illness
- Well-suited to life transitions, performance, relationships, and personal growth
- Not a substitute for mental health treatment and does not address crisis or acute clinical symptoms
- Private-pay, session-based; not billed to insurance
Therapy
- Clinical care aimed at diagnosing, treating, and healing mental health conditions
- Can address trauma history, nervous system dysregulation, and clinical symptoms directly
- Provided within a licensed clinical relationship with confidentiality protections
- Appropriate for depression, anxiety, PTSD/CPTSD, and other diagnosable conditions
- Uses modalities like EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and IFS in a treatment context
- Private-pay only; community pricing and Loveland vouchers available
How Somatic Experiencing & IFS Shape This Work
Coaching sessions draw on the same body-based, parts-aware lens Shae uses clinically — adapted for a coaching container, not a treatment one.
Working With the Body, Not Just the To-Do List
Instead of only setting goals mentally, sessions build awareness of what's happening in your body as you move toward change — noticing activation, tension, or shutdown so you can work with your nervous system instead of against it as you build new patterns.
Understanding Your Inner "Parts"
Using language adapted from Internal Family Systems, coaching helps you recognize the different inner voices at play — the part that procrastinates, the part that pushes, the part that wants to rest — so decisions come from clarity instead of internal conflict.
Who Coaching Is For
Coaching tends to work well for people who are already functioning but want more.
Life Transitions
Career changes, relationship shifts, relocation, or new chapters that call for grounded decision-making.
Pattern & Habit Change
Breaking cycles of overwork, people-pleasing, or self-abandonment with body-based accountability.
Ongoing Personal Growth
Clients who've done therapeutic work and now want a structured space to keep building.
Coaching That Sees All of You
Your identities aren't set aside to make coaching more comfortable for anyone else — they're part of the context this work is built around.
Neurodivergent-Affirming
Coaching is adapted to how your brain actually works — not the neurotypical productivity model. Executive function support, sensory awareness, and pacing are built in rather than treated as accommodations to request.
Kink, Polyamory & BDSM-Affirming
Consensual kink, polyamorous, and BDSM relationship structures are treated as valid ways of relating, not as symptoms to explore. Shae is currently enrolled in a kink-conscious Therapeutic BDSM training program.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming
Coaching is grounded in genuine affirmation of your gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation — without needing to explain or justify who you are before getting into the work itself.
Decolonizing Frameworks
The coaching model draws on decolonizing approaches that question individualistic, Western productivity norms and make room for collective, cultural, and ancestral ways of defining growth and success.
Coaching Pricing
The same community-minded pricing model used across The Healing Spot applies to coaching. Choose the tier that fits your circumstances — no means-testing, no questions asked.
Coaching is private-pay only and is not billed to insurance. Loveland Therapy Fund vouchers are reserved for therapy services; if cost is a barrier to therapy specifically, visit our Loveland voucher page for details. Community pricing tiers above are self-selected — pick whichever supports you right now.
What to Expect
Free Consultation
A brief 15–20 minute call to talk through what you're working on and whether coaching is the right fit.
Choose Your Rate
Select the community pricing tier that works for your budget — no documentation required.
Begin Sessions
Ongoing virtual sessions combining goal-setting with somatic and parts-based awareness.
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