You deserve thriving relationships and community.
How are you going to get there?
Embrace Connections offers 1-1 support to overcome personal challenges and blockages, and learn to connect better with others.
What are Connection Coaching and Somatic Touch Therapy?
This is hands-on, solutions-focused work helps you understand yourself and improve the way you connect and relate with others. It includes somatic, embodiment, touch and movement-based practices and coaching techniques.
These are two names for a modality that combines embodied somatic work, therapeutic touch and coaching techniques to support people with their personal and relational challenges. On this page, I will use the term Connection Coaching for simplicity.
How does it work?
Movement and touch highlight important qualities in ourselves and how we relate using the felt sense. You can feel what works and what doesn’t work. This is a very powerful tools for non-physical, relational aspects of our lives as well. Lessons from these practices apply directly to our lives and our relationships.
Connection Coaching uses physical practices, somatic methods and coaching techniques to improve human connection.
Connection Coaching practices are drawn from Dance, Contact Improv, AcroYoga, partner acrobatics, natural movement, yoga, meditation, nervous system regulation, embodiment, somatics, tantra, Wheel of Consent, Authentic Relating, Circling, Non Violent Communication and more.
Sessions are founded on consent. The mix of activities and where we go with them is uniquely tailored to your needs and boundaries.
An example session
We open with grounding embodiment exercises to drop in to our bodies, the space, the dynamic, and the session. For example, guided solo movement, simple breathwork, a hug.
We begin by reviewing our goals. What problems does the client want to work on? And agreeing on a selection of a selection of activities, depending on their needs. For example:
- Led and followed movement to investigate expectations and communication
- Games with clear parameters to delve into specific patterns and stories like boundaries and expressing needs
- Trust-based activities to understand physiological responses build a sense of safety
- Dance or play-based activity to provoke and unpack underlying attachment or identy issues
We then work methodically through the activities, reviewing and reflecting as we go, and extracting lessons to take back to the real world.
We set specific “homework” tasks based on these lessons, to be reviewed next session.
We close with an embodiment meditation to integrate the experience in the body.
Practicalities
The first step is a free 30 minute intro call to talk though the specifics for your circumstances.
The first coaching session includes assessment, goal setting, and some initial experiments to establish suitable ways of working.
In the second session, we will agree on a full strategy and begin working on specific challenges and barriers. The second and all subsequent sessions include relational activities, somatic assessment, task setting (“homework”) and review.
Pricing
- Pay as you go: £100 for each 1.5 hour session
- Single sessions are possible
- 4 x sessions. £360 (£90 per session)
- 6 x sessions. £510 (£85 per session)
Some concession spaces are available. Please contact me if price is a barrier.
Testimonials
Who I work with
All different kinds of people seek Connection Coaching and Somatic Touch Therapy for many reasons. Everybody has their own unique mix of needs, challenges, comfort with touch, etc. I welcome your uniqueness!
Here are some examples of past Embrace Connections clients:
Individuals who struggle to form or maintain relationships
- who want to understand and overcome their blockages
- who want to develop emotional intelligence and learn social skillswho want to feel easeful when socialising
People recovering from of trauma, abuse or difficult experiences
- who want to examine their relationship with touch and relating in a safe environment
- who want to rewrite their stories around touch and men
- who want to overcome unhelpful physiological responses
People on a personal growth journey
- who want to understand their embodied self, their patterns and stories
- who want to improve their emotional intelligence
Couples (individually or together)
- who want to improve their communication and empathy
- who want to enhance their trust and intimacy
- Queer, genderqueer, nonmonogamous, kinky people are all welcome!
People undergoing life transitions
- who are moving city, experiencing a breakup, changing jobs, etc.
- who want support in navigating new relationships, social groups, dynamics, priorities, etc.
Neurospicy individuals
- who want to learn about and practice social dynamics
- who want to learn, practice and enjoy the physical and social dynamics of touch and intimacy
Queer folk, genderqueer folk, people with alternative relationship styles
- who want to feel more comfortable in their relationships and social dynamics
People who have caused harm to others
- who want to be safer and avoid future harm
- who want to understand and overcome their harmful patterns
- who need support to rehabilitate
If you resonate with any of these groups, send me a message and see if Connections Coaching/Somatic Touch Therapy is right for you. If you have other needs that aren’t represented on this list, get in touch! I would love to see if I can support you.
I am delighted to work with all people without prejudice. This includes people of any ethnicity, cultural background, class, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, relationship structure, body type, physical ability, neurodiversity etc.
I am sex-positive, a queer ally, poly-informed, and kink-informed.
Code of Conduct
In order to ensure safety and comfort during a coaching session, we must agree to the following:
- All clients must be 18 years or older.
- Alcohol or other intoxicants must not be consumed before the session.
- Embrace coaching sessions are not sexual. All touching, both given and received, will be professional and non-sexual.
- Both parties will practice consent and respect personal boundaries at all times.
- Both parties will remain clothed, and will keep their hands outside the clothes at all times.
- Cleanliness and adequate hygiene is required by both parties. This specifically includes showering, teeth brushing, wearing clean clothes and no strong scents worn.
- Both parties will communicate if they feel emotionally or physically uncomfortable or concerned at any time during the session.
- The client can end the session at any time.
- Embrace coaching is not a substitute for proper medical consultation for physical, mental and psychological illnesses and may not be suitable for everyone.
- Embrace coaching is not advised for people suffering from major psychiatric disorders.
- Client Data is stored in compliance with GDPR and ICO requirements.
- No specific information regarding the client will ever be shared with another party unless the client gives written permission to use personal information. This includes information shared during a meeting, session, over email, text, phone conversation, etc.
- Photographs and videos will not be taken during the session unless explicitly agreed in writing.
- Any pictures or video recordings, and their intended purpose, must be discussed and agreed upon in writing before a session begins. They may not be used for purposes outside of the written agreement.
- Payment for each session is required prior to the start of a session using BACS, PayPal or cash.
- There is a 24 hour cancellation policy. An appointment canceled within 24 hours will be non-refundable.
- Should the client behave inappropriately, unprofessionally or unsafely, the session can be terminated immediately with no warning or refund given.
- We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
- We will not be held responsible for any property loss that may occur, or for any injuries that may result from a session.