1:1 COACHING
Individual coaching sessions for women beginning to see their relationship clearly — and needing support to trust what they see.
Without being told what to decide. Without pressure. Without having to be ready to leave. Just support.

WHAT CHANGES
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Stop carrying a confusion that has no name. When what you've been experiencing is accurately described, something in your nervous system settles — and you stop wondering if you're the one who's lost their mind.
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Rebuild your relationship with what you actually see, feel, and know — so that the clarity you already have begins to feel like something you can stand on.
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Learn somatic practices you can use anywhere — before a difficult conversation, in the middle of the night when your mind won't stop, in a parking lot before a hard interaction. Tools that are entirely yours.
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Not what hurts the least. Not what you think you should want.
What you actually want — and what exists for you, regardless of what you decide.
IS THIS FOR YOU
INVESTMENT
No package required. No commitment beyond the session you book. Come once, or work through the arc — entirely at your own pace.
One 60-minute session. No commitment required. Come when you need support and return when you're ready.
SAVES $50
Three sessions to move through the foundational arc — being heard, naming what's happening, and building your nervous system toolkit.
SAVES $75
Six sessions. The complete arc from being heard through clarity, assessment, and a genuine roadmap forward — at your pace.

THE TURNING POINT
For a long time, I believed the problem was how I was communicating.
I tried harder. I chose my words more carefully. I found the right moment, the calm tone, the approach that couldn't possibly be misread. And somehow I still ended up apologizing — not him, me — for raising something that mattered to me.
I went to couples counseling and came out more confused and more blamed than when I walked in. I spent years believing I was the one making things difficult. That if I could just explain it clearly enough, he would finally understand.
What I didn't know — what nobody had told me — was that the problem was never my communication. It was that I was operating as though the relationship was a two-way conversation, when it was something else entirely.
The moment I understood what coercive control actually was — the quiet, relentless, everyday version — everything I had been living finally had a name.
That naming didn't immediately change my circumstances. But it changed something fundamental: I stopped being confused. And I stopped believing I was the problem.
That is what I offer in these sessions. The kind of accurate, informed, fully present support that helps you find your own clarity — in your mind and in your body — so that whatever you decide, you decide it knowing what you actually know.
THE SESSION ARC
Your story, received fully. No agenda, no fixing, no rushing to solutions. Just the experience — possibly for the first time in a long time — of being genuinely witnessed.
You leave feeling seen.
Accurate language for what you've been experiencing. An honest look at what you've already tried — and what the pattern of responses to those attempts reveals.
You leave with language. And a question worth sitting with.
Why your body has been doing what it's been doing — named accurately and without pathology. Three somatic practices you can use anywhere, anytime, that belong entirely to you.
You leave with tools that are yours, whatever happens next.
A clear-eyed look at your actual situation across physical, emotional, financial, and practical dimensions. Boundaries introduced not as communication strategy, but as diagnostic information.
You leave seeing your situation more clearly than before.
What do you actually want — Not what hurts least, but what you genuinely want for your life? All options explored with equal care and no implied hierarchy.
You leave more connected to your own knowing.
Two genuine pathways — with equal care given to each. Whether you are moving toward leaving or building a more sustainable life within the relationship, you leave with a real map and real resources.
You leave knowing your next step. Resourced for whichever direction is yours.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS WORK
In most relationships, that is true. Two people who are genuinely trying — who both want to understand and be understood — can work through almost anything with the right tools.
But coercive control is not an effort problem. It is a power and control dynamic. And the reason every approach you've tried hasn't worked is not because you haven't found the tools or tried hard enough. It's because the goal was never mutual understanding.
The goal — their goal, whether consciously chosen or not — is to remain in control. And every time you try harder, explain more clearly, or accommodate more graciously, you are operating as though you're in a different kind of relationship than the one you're actually in.
That is exactly what these sessions are designed to do.
WHAT SHIFTS
She had been told this so many times — by him, in couples counseling, by the way every conversation ended with her apologizing — that she had genuinely stopped trusting her own perception. She came to our first session not to leave her relationship. Just to understand herself better.
In that first session, we named what had been happening. And something in her body shifted in a way that three years of trying harder never had.
She described it as: "For the first time in years, I don't feel crazy!"
READY
No pressure. No commitment beyond this session. Just support, when you're ready for it.

YOUR COACH
Let's be honest — I used to think I was the problem!
I spent years in a relationship trying to find the right words. The right moment. The right tone. I read the books, tried the frameworks, sat across from therapists who sent me home with communication tools I genuinely believed would finally make the difference.
And I sat in couples counseling sessions where the dynamic I had been living — the dismissal, the rewriting of reality, the way I always ended up the problem — was nowhere to be found. He was charming and innocent and soaked up all of the validation our counselor offered him! I walked out more confused, and more convinced that I was the one making things difficult..
The turning point wasn't a better communication strategy. It was the first time someone named what was actually happening — accurately, without minimizing, without telling me what to do. That naming gave me back something I hadn't realized I'd lost: my own perception.
I earned a Master's degree in Counseling, coaching certificates, and somatic training because I wanted to offer that to other women. The kind of deeply informed, present, body-based support that helps you find your own clarity — and trust it.
I work at the intersection of somatic healing and coercive control because both matter — and because the nervous system that has been living in chronic stress and hypervigilance needs more than insight. It needs direct, embodied experience of something different. That is what these sessions are built to provide.
FROM CLIENTS
—Sarah, Mom of 2
— Jara, Married for 15 years
— Macy, Now In Process of Divorcing
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