For the sake of the life you long for
Somatic coaching is a whole-person approach to change. It pays attention to how your thoughts, emotions, history, and relationships are experienced in your body and expressed in everyday life.
It is for people who want to move beyond understanding why they respond as they do and begin practicing ways of living that feel more alive and reflect what matters to them.
Now accepting practice clients for 1:1 somatic coaching.
Whole-Person Approach to Change
Your body carries wisdom, resilience, and the history of how you have learned to meet the world. It also carries familiar protective responses that may arise automatically — especially when you feel pressured, uncertain, responsible or vulnerable.
The ways we learn to respond do not develop in isolation. Relationships, family, community, culture, institutions, history, and place all influence what the body learns and carries.
Somatic coaching helps you notice this whole field of experience, strengthen the resources already present, create room around patterns that may no longer serve you, and practice new ways of responding, relating, and acting.
The aim is not simply to understand yourself differently. It is to make new choices increasingly available in everyday life.
You may come to somatic coaching because…
you are curious about somatics and how paying attention to your body might support you in everyday life
you are carrying more than feels sustainable, with too little room to rest, receive support, or share responsibility
you go quiet, withdraw, disconnect, avoid, or make yourself smaller when pressure builds
you put others’ needs ahead of your own, over-accommodate, over-explain, seek approval, or lose touch with your needs, boundaries, and voice
you brace, push harder, become controlling, or stay on guard when stress or uncertainty arises
you want to respond differently and may understand why you react as you do, but when life gets stressful, you find yourself falling back on protective reactions that no longer feel right
you want support integrating insights and healing from psychotherapy, counseling, or other inner work into how you live, relate, work, lead, or care for others
you feel disconnected from pleasure, ease, creativity, or possibility
you want a supported place to explore how you want to live and practice responding and relating in ways that reflect what matters to you
These are some of the reasons people come to somatic coaching, not a checklist. You do not need a fully formed goal. We can begin with what you are noticing and what you hope might change.
Transformation is not about becoming someone else.
It’s about changing old, automatic patterns that may once have helped you but now get in the way of living the life you long for. Somatic coaching can help you notice what happens when pressure builds and practice responses that better reflect your values and the way you want to live.
Toward what you care about
At the heart of somatic coaching is your commitment to the life you want to create. Together, we ask not only, “What do you want to change?” but also:
Why change?
What might become possible in your life through this change?
Your values, longings, and commitments give the coaching its direction, grounding it in what matters to you and the life you want to move toward
What happens in a session?
Sessions are approximately one hour and are offered online via Zoom, with in-person options available by arrangement. We begin with what matters most to you right now and connect it to the larger purpose of your coaching.
Depending on what feels supportive, our time may include conversation, guided attention, centering, movement, and other somatic practices.
We close by noticing what you are learning and identifying any next steps or practices you want to take into everyday life.
You set the pace and remain in choice throughout the process. No previous experience with somatics is required.
Ways to work together…
1:1 Somatic Coaching
Personalized coaching to clarify what matters, understand the patterns shaping your responses, strengthen resilience, and practice new ways of being, relating, and acting.
Now accepting a limited number of free practice clients.
Circles & Events
Embodied Women Circles, Collective Rest Practice gatherings, and other facilitated experiences for rest, reflection, intentional connection, and shared learning.
About Disa
¡Hola!
Disa Almeida, BSW, MSW
Somatic Coach — qualifying
I am a somatic coach in the qualifying phase of certification, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Social Work and a background in community practice, crisis response, program work, women’s group facilitation, entrepreneurship, and family life.
For years, I could explain my coping patterns in the context of a childhood marked by adversity and a family history shaped by migration, violence, trauma, addiction, mental illness, and poverty. I committed myself to understanding those patterns and creating different possibilities for my life. I pursued higher education, engaged in therapy, cultivated supportive relationships, gained access to practical resources, and developed a great deal of insight. All of these mattered, and all of them helped.
Even so, I often found myself living in a body that felt tight, anxious, tired, braced, overextended, and in pain—sometimes numb, persistently watchful, and small. I could lose connection with my voice and sense of choice, even when life was going well.
Somatic work helped me recognize the ways my body had learned—and inherited—to respond to stress, lack of safety, shame, and insecurity. These responses shaped my anxious mood, vigilant view of the world, the actions I took and those I felt unable to take, my sense of being enough, and my ability to trust myself and others.
Through somatic coaching and practice, I began to meet these responses with curiosity rather than judgment. I learned to soften without collapsing, strengthen my boundaries without closing myself off, lean more fully into the people who cared about me, ask for help, say no with greater clarity, rest more fully, and say yes to my longings, dreams, and wants.
Somatic work does not remove difficulty from my life or keep me in a constant state of calm. It gives me a way to return—to come back to myself with more honesty, compassion, and choice. It's a way to keep practicing the life I want to live.
My coaching approach is grounded in respect, consent, and curiosity. I understand patterned responses not as personal failings, but as ways we learned to protect our safety, belonging, and dignity.
I offer a space where you can listen more closely to what your body is communicating, strengthen the wisdom and resilience already present within you, and practice new ways of living and relating. Toward the life you long for.
Scope & Care
Somatic coaching can work alongside psychotherapy, counseling, and other forms of care by building on inner work you have already done. It offers a focused space to integrate the insights and healing that emerge from that work into everyday life. Through supported practice, new ways of relating, responding, and acting can become more familiar and available when stress arises.
Somatic coaching does not include mental health diagnosis, treatment, or crisis support. If another form of care would better meet your needs, we will discuss this together, and I may recommend consulting an appropriately qualified professional.
Care in coaching includes working within my scope, respecting who you are, and recognizing the contexts that shape your life. I welcome people across identities, cultures, relationships, bodies, abilities, and ways of living, and approach the differences between us with respect, curiosity, and humility.
Ready to Begin?
Book a free 20-minute connection call to explore what you are looking for, answer your questions, and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
hello@transformationwithdisa.com
Online via Zoom
In-person options by arrangement