1:1 Nervous system regulation coaching

integrative | holistic | trauma-informed

Somatic Interventions for Nervous System Healing

Somatic interventions are body-based therapeutic practices that help individuals regulate their nervous system, manage stress responses, and reconnect with a sense of safety and calm. These approaches are especially supportive for those navigating the effects of chronic stress or trauma.

Using a “bottom-up” approach, somatic work begins with the body—focusing on sensation, movement, and present-moment experience—rather than starting with thoughts or storytelling. This helps address the physiological roots of anxiety, overwhelm, or shutdown, allowing for deeper healing and integration.

Through this work, you can build resilience and expand your capacity to stay present with challenging emotions and sensations. Over time, this fosters a greater sense of stability, empowerment, and ease in daily life.

Common somatic practices may include:

• Grounding exercises to reconnect with your body and environment in the present moment

• Breathwork and pranayama to regulate the nervous system and shift internal states

• Somatic breathwork to release stored tension and support emotional processing

• Reiki to encourage energetic balance and relaxation

By strengthening the connection between mind and body, somatic interventions create meaningful, sustainable change. This work supports you not just in feeling better, but in living with more presence, resilience, and embodied awareness.

joanna’s approach

What informs my work

My work is trauma-informed and weaves together numerous perspectives, including having roots in:

• Attachment science

• Somatic & body based practices

• Energy healing

• Feminist theory, including dismantling oppressive systems

• Mindfulness
  

  We are all unique, complex human beings with a diversity of experiences that inform how we move in the world. With that in mind, our sessions will look different for each person and from day to day. We will use a variety of tools, interventions and methodologies that may include:

  • Mindfulness techniques, including compassion practices & guided visualization

  • Yoga, including functional anatomical alignment, mobility, and myofascial release

  • Internal family systems (IFS)

  • Reiki

  • Coaching & core values exploration

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

  • Somatic breathwork and pranayama

  • Auricular acupuncture [in person only]

  • Sound healing [in person only]

how is coaching different than therapy?

Psychotherapy often supports those dealing with challenge, trauma, pain or loss. Psychotherapy is licensed and regulated mental health service provided by mental health professionals who have completed graduate training programs in counseling psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, and/or clinical psychology. Due to professional licensing requirements, therapists can only provide individual, relationship and group therapy services to clients located in the state(s) in which they are licensed.

*If you are interested in psychotherapy with Joanna and are an Arizona resident, stay tuned.

Nervous System Regulation Coaching is a holistic service that works to help you identify and clarify your goals, recognize obstacles and problematic behaviors that stand in the way of stepping into a meaningful life. These offerings are not regulated by a governing agency; as such, there are no formal education or training requirements, policies, or ethical/legal guidelines. In the latter, there is also no diagnostic assessment.

Joanna Smith is a licensed LAC and will soon provide psychotherapy services to those residing in the state of Arizona. She is credentialed as an experienced yoga teacher, reiki level II, and certified auricular acupuncturist with over a decade of experience in offering these services to people who live anywhere in the world.

sliding scale cost of coaching services

Standard Rate - $150

This is the full rate of my services which covers my cost to operate business and is comparable to the average fees of colleagues, with similar experience and credentials. This rate sustains my livelihood and takes into consideration the educational and training investments that enable me to offer a high standard of care.

Redistribution: $150-$200

Those who are able to pay a higher rate without experiencing hardship ensure that those who have fewer resources are able to pay a reduced rate. 

Sustain: $125-$150

This is below market rate for those with limited financial resources. I am hopeful that you will be able to access support without financial strain.

Solidarity: $100-$125

For those who are doing movement building work and/or work to build a solidarity economy. For those who in historically marginalized communities who have experienced systemic disadvantage or oppression, and /or economical hardship.