Transform Your Life with Integrative Coaching: Mind, Body, and Spirit
My coaching services are holistic and designed to empower you with practical tools, deep insights, and effective strategies that honor your unique needs. Whether you're navigating trauma or anxiety, feeling stuck creatively or professionally, or seeking more clarity and balance in your life, this integrative coaching approach provides the support and tools to move you forward — mind, body, and spirit.
My coaching sessions are drawn from a variety of traditions and techniques such as:
Nervous System Tools & Polyvagal Theory
Understanding how your nervous system responds to stress can be a key factor in finding emotional regulation and cultivating healthy relationships. By utilizing tools based on Polyvagal Theory, we’ll explore how your body's fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses can impact your thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Together, we work on practical tools that can help you regulate your nervous system and build resiliency during times of stress, shifting you from a place of simply surviving to thriving.
Breathing, Mindfulness, and Meditation Techniques
Breathing exercises and mindfulness practices are powerful tools to help you ground yourself, calm and focus your mind, and release tension from your body. Whether it’s through breathwork, mindfulness meditation, body scans, grounding exercises, Yoga Nidra, or other guided meditations, we’ll explore the techniques that work best for you to reduce stress, gain emotional awareness, and create moments of ease throughout your day.
Gentle & Trauma-Informed Yoga
Life’s challenges, particularly trauma, anxiety, and depression can leave us feeling wound up, tense, or disconnected from our bodies. Trauma-informed yoga is a gentle and client-centered approach that gently guides you to release physical tension and emotional blocks. This kind of yoga is not about demonstrating strength or twisting yourself into fancy shapes, but about integrating mindful movement, harnessing the power of the breath, and cultivating body awareness, so that you you can release stress, find inner calm, and ground yourself in the present moment.
Somatic Techniques & Body-Based Practices
As famed trauma therapist Bessel van der Kolk’s book “The Body Keeps the Score” suggests, our body holds often holds on to memories, emotions, traumas, and long-held patterns of behavior. Somatic techniques are designed to help you understand, monitor, and regulate what’s happening in your body. When we create a deep connection with our body, we are better able to regulate our emotional and mental states.
Life Skills Coaching, Values Clarification, & Visualization
You’ll gain practical tools for navigating everyday life with more clarity and confidence. Life skills coaching is designed to give you actionable strategies for managing your time, staying organized and motivated, setting and achieving your goals, and maintaining a healthy work/life balance. Together, we also use values clarification and visualization techniques to help you clearly define your goals and deep intentions so that you can life a more authentic and fulfilled life.
Working Through Creative Blocks
I often work with actors, artists, musicians, performers, entrepreneurs, and entertainment industry professionals. Our creative flow and output is often blocked by stress, overwhelm, self-doubt, “imposter syndrome” or fear. Whether you're an artist, entrepreneur, or anyone feeling creatively “stuck,” we work to identify those blocks by using a combination of mindfulness, somatic practices, perspective taking exercises, and mindset shifts.
Understanding Attachment Style & Communication Skills
The way we relate to others is shaped by our attachment style—the unconscious way we form emotional bonds. In coaching, we explore your attachment style, how it might affect your relationships and connections with others. We’ll also work on communication strategies, such as active listening, boundary setting-techniques, and assertive communication so you can express your needs clearly, listen deeply, and cultivate deeper, more fulfilling relationships.
Conquering Procrastination & Improving Executive Functioning
Procrastination often stems from fear or anxiety, feelings of overwhelm, or a lack of clarity about what we are trying to accomplish. We’ll explore the root cause of what has you feeling stuck and focus on strengthening your executive functioning skills—like time management, focus, and decision-making.
What You Can Expect
All coaching sessions are personalized for the unique needs of each individual. I aim to cultivate a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive space for our sessions, and I hope to leave you empowered new insights and practical tools that you can begin to integrate into your daily life right away. Over time, you’ll notice shifts in your mindset, behavior, and emotional responses. With consistent coaching, you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and develop the skills to create lasting, positive change.
Are You Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you feel ready to start or have more questions — please click here to schedule a consultation.
Let’s work together to transform your life—mind, body, and spirit.
FAQs:
What’s the Difference Between Coaching and Therapy?
While coaching can be an incredibly powerful tool for personal growth and transformation, it is important to recognize that coaching is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment.
Coaching is a present-moment focused, action-oriented approach that is designed to help individuals achieve specific personal or professional goals. It emphasizes building new skills, enhancing self-awareness and insight, and creating specific and actionable strategies to overcome obstacles.
Coaching is not appropriate for acute or crisis situations, obtaining medical advice, medication management, or diagnosing and/or treatment mental health conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and eating disorders.
Mental health treatment is a therapeutic process designed to address mental health disorders, emotional struggles, and psychological trauma. It involves working with a licensed therapist, counselor, social worker, or psychiatrist to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health concerns in a safe and confidential manner. Licensed mental health clinicians often use a variety of evidence-based techniques such as EMDR, CBT, DBT, and exposure therapy to treat and manage various mental heath conditions.
Coaching and therapy can often work well as adjunctive or complementary practices. While therapy can help us heal old wounds and traumas and address psychological issues, coaching can help us take an active approach to what kind of life we would like to create in our future — and give us the practical skills to execute that vision.
If you feel that coaching is not appropriate for your needs and are interested in mental health support, please visit my psychotherapy website at: www.laurenmaher.com or click here for a list of helpful resources.
What are your fees?
I charge $250 for 50-minute individual sessions, and $375 for 90-minute individual sessions.
If desired, please inquire about longer sessions or intensives.
Where do you conduct sessions?
I offer both in-person and online sessions. My office is located in the Los Feliz/Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Online sessions take place via Zoom.
How many sessions will I need to do?
The amount of sessions may vary and depends on what your individualized plan will be. Please feel free to set up a free consultation so that we can discuss your specific needs.