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Experience
Emotional Alchemy
Transform your emotions into power.
Learn to understand, honor, and direct your emotional flow through powerful 1:1 spiritual and somatic coaching.
In my early days of spiritual study, I learned that emotions are energy in motion. It seemed simple – let the energy move to avoid emotional stuckness.
But what I didn’t learn until many years later – years marked by therapy, shadow work, spiritual exploration, and professional training as a healer – is that few of us have been given the tools on how to effectively move emotions through our bodies without causing harm to those around us.
This is why, when big things happen, so many people act out of panic, anger, fear, and grief.
And they think that because they can’t control their emotions, they are doing something wrong.
If you’re having trouble managing life’s ups and downs, you’re not doing something wrong – you’re just working with an extremely limited toolkit.
With Emotional Alchemy, you can experience better relationships, more fulfilling sex, more expansive life choices, a greater tolerance for wise risk, and the ability to align your values and desires to action.
“I am a changed person because of Sonja and so are my relationships”
Who Is Emotional Alchemy For?
My clients span all ages, genders, and lifestyles, but they have a few things in common. You might be in good company if you have:
- Been told you feel too much or overthink
- Struggled to express yourself effectively in conflict, either shutting down or exploding
- Felt numb or overwhelmed and have had difficulty naming what you’re feeling
- Wrestled with perfectionism and negative thinking patterns
- Been overly critical of yourself and others in your life
- Experienced ongoing, chronic health issues (IBS, colitis, migraines, chronic pain, infertility) for which doctors can’t find a clear physical reason
- Desire better, more fulfilling relationships with friends and lovers
If you’re ready to learn how to navigate the world of emotions and find out how to make sense of your sensitivity, sign up for Emotional Alchemy Coaching.
I Feel You
Most people who get engulfed by their emotional responses think they are alone in this problem. They mask their heightened states behind a grimaced, “I’m fine,” or succumb to the belief that they are powerless against their sensitivity.
Turns out, few of us had good role models for emotional regulation. Our role models taught us to distrust our feelings, shift our states through drugs or alcohol, or stuff emotions away until we were numb to the world.
Now we know better. At least we know we shouldn’t do these things, but most people are just figuring out on their own how to manage their responses to life’s swings, often to the detriment of relationships and health.
But we can break the cycle. We must. For ourselves, for our ancestors, and for our descendents.
Emotional Alchemy offers personalized, ongoing coaching to help you express and navigate what you’re feeling without gaslighting yourself or denying your inner power. By meeting you with tools to transform your overwhelm into understanding, uncovering your hidden values and desires that trigger big responses, you can learn to turn your sensitivity into a superpower.
Welcome to Emotional Alchemy. Weekly or biweekly sessions of what I call “not therapy.”
Align Your Emotions
Emotional Alchemy | Sapphire
Six Month Minimum Commitment- Discounts on courses
- 1:1 sessions ONCE WEEKLY
Emotional Alchemy | Gold
Six Month Minimum Commitment- Discounts on courses
- 1:1 sessions TWICE MONTHLY
Not Therapy for Better Mental Health
It’s not therapy because, well, I’m not a therapist by trade. I’ve been a healer, guide, and coach for the past two decades, and my clients have leaned on me to work through their most sensitive times of life.
People come to me for many reasons, but the greatest themes that draw people to this work include:
- Navigating divorce or the transformation of a relationship
- Improving body image and falling in love with who you see in the mirror
- Healing from or coping with chronic illness or pain
- Exploring the portal of grief or loss
- Releasing negative relational patterns (such as attracting narcissists or avoidant partners, perfectionism, or chronic dissatisfaction with relationships)
- Integrating and exploring psychedelic journeys
This is not quick-fix work. People work with me for multiple years because I offer something that most therapists can’t/won’t do – help them navigate their lives using the combined tools of deep spiritual wisdom, somatic coaching, and trauma healing that is centered in finding pleasure in the body.
My clients feel greater resilience, a renewed relationship with their bodies, and the skills to face even the most challenging times without completely falling apart.
“Sonja’s gifts never cease to amaze me. Her intuition and insight is spot on. Sonja has helped me find peace, clarity and healing during the most difficult times of my life.”
My Approach
Though emotional sensitivity isn’t often described as a gift, I see it as such (in fact, I see it as a superpower). But like all gifts, emotional sensitivity requires some training to learn how to work with it well.
My role is to not only serve as a neutral witness to your emotional experiences, but guide you to reshape how the past lives in your mind and body through tools and practices that tap into the stuck emotions and reframe disempowering narratives. As we work through the stories that have governed your life, you will find the tools to make yourself the main character in them, and find the power that has always been yours to claim.
After two decades of working as a healer, I know that consistency is the most important factor for those clients to actually transform their lives. For this reason, in 2020, I began to only accept clients who could commit to regular sessions with me for at least six months. But most of my clients stick with me for years – the benefits of having a regular, confidential space to express their unedited emotional selves is invaluable in a world that seeks to suppress what it cannot control.
Tell Me More
Emotional Alchemy coaching combines 20 years of my professional and personal study of the relationship between emotions, spiritual growth, shadow work, and healing.
I’m always studying something, but my main areas of focus in the past couple decades have been the nervous system, sexuality and the erotic, narrative healing, somatic (mind/body) healing, intuitive healing, ancestral healing, the role of pleasure in healing, Jungian psychology, emotional processing, mythology, trauma recovery, the mystical studies of yoga, herbalism, Ayurveda, and Taoism.
I weave these seemingly disparate concepts into my client work in a seamless, fluid manner. Our sessions are responsive to what’s coming up in your life at the moment. You’ll have a space to talk through your experiences – past and present – and I’ll guide you to apply tools of spiritual and somatic wisdom from my toolbox.
A typical session will include learning to apply spiritual principles (such as the five kleshas from yoga), roleplay, embodiment games, somatic expression, visualization, breath control, journaling, and more.
Want a Taste Test Instead?
If you're not ready to commit to a monthly schedule, I completely understand. that's why I offer a four pack of sessions! It allows you to try out Inner Narrative Alchemy without committing long term.
The four-pack is $600, and sessions can be booked within six months of purchase. You can still schedule a free intro call too, to see if you'd be a good fit!
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