Somatic Coaching for Women Ready to Turn Insight Into Embodied Change

You have done the inner work. You read the books, attended the workshops, and committed yourself to years of therapy. Along the way, you’ve had incredible insights into how your childhood has shaped you into the woman you are now.

But insight alone is not enough to become the woman you want to be. Despite everything you’ve learned, you may still find yourself repeating old patterns of overwork, perfectionism, care-taking, and people-pleasing. Your nervous system swings between numbness and overstimulation. And when you imagine changing your life, fear, self-doubt and imposter syndrome arises.

You might say things like “I should be happy, but …” or “I don’t know what I want” or “I want more joy and authenticity in my life, but I don’t know how to get it.” 

My work can help. I am a somatic and transformational coach, and I work with women navigating a threshold moment—trauma recovery, midlife transitions, career shifts, migrations, or other life changes that leave the old world behind before the new one has taken shape. 

The old strategies that once made you successful no longer offer the life you want to live. I help you reclaim yourself and build a life for the woman you are becoming. 

My work integrates somatic awareness, narrative psychology, and Jungian-informed depth practices. This work supports you to:

• Recognize the old strategies that once protected you, and notice when they no longer fit.
• Build enough nervous system capacity to feel discomfort and still remain connected to yourself.
• Reclaim desire, voice, joy, anger, grief, and aliveness as sources of information rather than problems to manage.
• Take action from a place of alignment rather than urgency, perfectionism, guilt, or self-abandonment.
• Engage the body, story, symbol, and lived experience as pathways for personal and collective transformation.

This is coaching, and not psychotherapy. I do not diagnose or provide clinical treatment. Some clients work with me while also seeing a therapist, and others come after years of talk therapy because they are seeking a body-based and action-oriented approach. 

I hold advanced degrees in Human Development and Jungian Psychology, and I’m currently completing a PhD in Human Development with a focus on coaching.

I draw from advanced training in Somatic EMDR, NARM, Decolonizing Attachment Theory, psychodrama, and other trauma-informed approaches. I use these frameworks in a coaching context to support present-moment awareness, nervous system capacity, self-trust, embodied choice, and aligned action.

As a Haitian American woman in midlife—and in my second career—I bring a unique blend of lived experience, academic depth, and global perspective to this work.

Earlier in my career, I earned a JD and spent over 20 years as an international trade lawyer and law professor. I have lived and traveled around the world, and I bring this perspective to my practice, which is rooted in cross-cultural insight and a deep respect for human complexity.

My standard coaching fee is $175 per session. I offer a free 30-minute inquiry call to see if working together would be a good fit. 

You can find more information on somatic coaching here https://drive.google.com/file/d/11YStfy14UST9b1nZ5J8nnBLXKo70IQs3/view

My website is https://somaticpathcoaching.com/

Disclaimer: Marjorie Florestal, JD, MA, PhD candidate is a coach and not a therapist. She does not provide diagnosis or clinical treatment. Clients often work with her while also working with a therapist or after years of talk therapy. They come seeking a body-based and action oriented approach to building nervous system capacity, self-trust, and embodied choice in their lives.