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Somatic IFS
Parts Work Coaching
A gentle, body-based journey into healing, inner safety, and Self-leadership
Do you often feel like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?
Perhaps you absorb other people's emotions, struggle to slow down, or find yourself caught in cycles of stress, overwhelm, anxiety, or self-doubt.
Maybe there is a deeper feeling underneath it all...
A sense that something is missing.
A longing to feel more alive.
More connected.
More at peace.
More whole within yourself.
If so, know that you are not alone.
So many of us spend years trying to think our way out of our struggles, pushing through, trying harder, or believing we somehow need to fix ourselves.
But what if healing isn't about becoming someone else?
What if it is about gently reconnecting with the parts of yourself that have been waiting to be seen, heard, and understood?
Somatic IFS Deep Dive is an invitation to slow down, turn inward, and begin building a different relationship with your inner world.
By combining Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS), nervous system regulation, guided inner journeys, and intuitive exploration, we create a safe space where healing can unfold organically—at a pace your system is ready for.
This work is not about fixing you.
It is about helping you reconnect with the wisdom, peace, and aliveness that already lives within you.
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
– Rumi
Does any of this sound like you?
✓ You tend to absorb other people's emotions, moods, and energy, leaving you feeling drained, overwhelmed, and weighed down by what isn't even yours.
✓ You crave rest and nourishment, yet somehow find yourself pushing through and doing more, even when your body is asking you to slow down.
✓ You often put everyone else's needs before your own, finding it difficult to say no or set healthy boundaries without feeling guilty.
✓ Your mind is constantly on high alert, caught in loops of overthinking, worrying, planning, or trying to stay one step ahead.
✓ One part of you wants to move forward, while another part holds you back, keeping you stuck and in conflict with yourself.
✓ You find yourself hitting the same walls in close relationships, even when a part of you desperately wants something different.
✓ You long to feel deeply loved and accepted for who you are, yet old wounds make it difficult to fully receive that love or trust that you are truly worthy of it
✓ You have a sense that somewhere beneath the stress, responsibilities, and survival patterns, there is a joyful, playful, creative part of you waiting to be rediscovered.
✓ More than anything, you long to feel a sense of inner peace, wholeness, and finally come home to yourself.
If several of these resonate with you, I want you to know that there is nothing wrong with you.
You are not broken, and these patterns are not a sign that you have somehow failed.
In fact, the patterns that are causing you pain today were often the ways your inner system learned to protect you through difficult experiences, unmet needs, emotional pain, or moments when you didn't feel safe, seen, or loved.
These patterns are created by parts of you that have been doing their very best to help you survive, even if their strategies no longer serve you in the same way.
These parts don't need to be judged, pushed away, or forced to change.
They simply long to be heard and understood.
When you meet them with curiosity, compassion, and presence, they can begin to soften, trust, and release the burdens they've been carrying for so long.
This is where true transformation takes place.
'And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom'
~Anais Nin
My Approach
At the heart of this work is the understanding that every part of you has a reason for being there.
The anxious part.
The people-pleasing part.
The inner critic.
The part that shuts down, withdraws, overworks, procrastinates, or struggles to trust.
They have all served a purpose in your inner system.
And once they feel safe enough to let go of their coping strategies, they have unlimited gifts to offer you.
My work is centered around guiding you back to the wholeness that has always lived within you.
In Internal Family Systems, we call this Self.
Self is the wise, calm center at the core of your being.
The deep presence within you that can meet even your most tender parts with understanding rather than judgment, and who remembers who you are beneath the stories, wounds, and protective strategies your parts are carrying.
My role is not to become your healer.
It is to help you create the conditions where Self can gently begin to lead your inner system.
Because when Self-leadership is restored, deep healing becomes possible—not through force, but through relationship, safety, and trust.
What makes this work unique?
While Internal Family Systems (IFS) forms the foundation of my work, my approach is deeply somatic, intuitive, and experiential.
Rather than staying in the thinking mind, analyzing and understanding our patterns and pats, we invite the wisdom of the body into the healing process.
Together we listen for the sensations, emotions, images, symbols, and inner experiences that naturally arise when parts of you feel safe enough to be seen.
Together, we gently explore these inner landscapes so healing can unfold naturally, at a pace your nervous system can safely integrate.
Our sessions may include:
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Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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Nervous system regulation and embodiment practices
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Guided inner explorations into your inner landscape
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Working with symbols, archetypes, dreams, and imagery
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Connecting with spirit guides and ancestors
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Cultivating greater access to Self-energy
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Personalized integration practices between sessions
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Custom guided meditations and recordings to support your healing journey
Each session is unique and no client journey is the same.
Your system is unique and already knows the next step in your healing.
Work With Me
75-Minute Somatic IFS Session
A one-time session for those who would like support around a specific challenge, gain clarity on a particular situation, or experience this work before committing to a longer journey.
Many clients find a single session valuable for insight, guidance, and reconnecting with their inner world.
For deeper healing and lasting transformation, I generally recommend working together over a series of sessions, as meaningful change often unfolds through consistency, relationship, and integration over time.
5 Session Package — Get To Know Your Inner System
A beautiful place to begin if you are new to this work or want focused support around a specific challenge, pattern, life transition, or area of healing.
Together, we begin getting to know your inner system — the different parts of you, the roles they carry, and the ways they may influence your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and choices.
Through our sessions, you’ll begin to recognise the patterns within your system with greater curiosity and compassion, while developing a deeper understanding of what your parts are trying to protect, communicate, or help you with.
This package offers a supportive foundation for building a more connected and compassionate relationship with your inner world.
10 Session Package — Deepen Your Connection With Your Parts
For those who are ready to explore more deeply.
This container gives us the time and space to move beyond simply understanding your parts and into building a deeper, more trusting relationship with them.
Together, we gently explore the deeper patterns and protective strategies within your system, strengthen your connection with Self, and create more space for nervous system regulation, healing, and integration.
With more time to return to the work and allow it to unfold, we can begin to create meaningful shifts that ripple into the way you relate to yourself, your relationships, and your life.
20 Session Package — Embody Self-leadership
For those seeking a sustained, spacious journey of deep inner work, healing, and integration.
With 20 sessions, we have the time and space to work with multiple layers of your inner system, building a deeper relationship with your parts while strengthening your connection to Self.
Over time, the work moves beyond insight and individual sessions and begins to become something you embody in the way you live — meeting your parts with compassion, listening to your inner wisdom, and making choices from a place of greater Self-leadership.
This longer journey can support the integration of old patterns and wounds while creating more space for authenticity, joy, creativity, purpose, pleasure, and a deeper sense of wholeness.
Session Details
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All sessions are 75-minute and held via WhatsApp video
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Sessions are ideally held weekly, or at a minimum of three times per month, to allow the work to build momentum and depth
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Personalized integration practices, guided meditations and reflection "homeplay" will be sent to you between sessions when supportive to your process
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Email support between sessions to help keep the work alive in everyday life (one thoughtful response per week)
Free Connection Call
If you're curious about working together over time, I invite you to book a free 30 min complimentary connection call.
This is a relaxed, no-pressure conversation where we can explore what you're looking for, answer any questions you may have, and feel into whether this work is a good fit for you.
If you've found your way here, chances are you're not new to inner work.
Perhaps you've spent years healing, growing, learning, and trying to understand yourself more deeply.
You've been willing to turn toward your inner world.
You've done the therapy, read the books, explored different healing modalities, and done your best to work through the patterns that have shaped your life.
And if that's true, I want you to know something:
The fact that certain struggles, wounds, or patterns still exist does not mean you've failed.
It does not mean you're doing it wrong.
And it certainly doesn't mean you're broken.
In my experience, some of our deepest wounds do not heal through insight alone.
They ask to be felt.
Witnessed.
Understood.
Met with compassion.
Again and again, I am humbled by the intelligence of the human psyche and the incredible capacity we all have for healing when given the right support, safety, and space.
This is one of the reasons I'm so passionate about Somatic IFS Parts Work.
It allows us to move beyond trying to fix ourselves and instead enter into a different relationship with our inner world—one rooted in curiosity, compassion, and trust.
It is an honor to witness people reconnect with lost parts of themselves, soften old burdens, and remember the wholeness that has been there all along.
If something in these words resonates with you, I invite you to fill out the application form below and to book a connection call to see if this work is a fit for you.
What Clients Share About Their Experience
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"Working with Johanna has been such a gift on my healing journey.
From the very first session, I felt deeply safe and genuinely held. There is something about her presence that immediately creates trust. She does not rush and she does not push. She attunes. And you can truly feel that she is with you.
Johanna has a rare combination of clarity and compassion. She holds space with strength and steadiness, yet with such softness and care. I always experience her as deeply attuned, wise, and incredibly grounded. Even in vulnerable or complex moments, I feel supported, never judged and never steered, just gently guided.
Working with her gives me clarity. She helps me access parts of myself I would not have reached alone. Through her guidance, I have been able to explore my inner world in a way that feels structured but never forced. I leave our sessions feeling more connected to my Self, more aware, and more empowered.
There is a deep integrity in the way she works. I trust her completely, and that trust allows me to open in ways that have truly supported my healing.
If you are looking for someone who can hold profound emotional depth while staying grounded and clear, someone who embodies wisdom rather than simply speaking about it, Johanna is that guide.
Working with her continues to be deeply transformative for me. "
- Dominique
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"I cannot say enough about the impact Johanna has had on my life.
Before meeting her, I was struggling with deeply troubling dissociation from myself. I had a wonderful therapist whom I love and helped me so much, but something was still missing from my healing journey.
I came across Johanna’s work and her words spoke to that deep place within me, a ring of truth that came through the fog. Once we began working together, I found that truth constantly ringing as she guided me gently back to myself. She is one of the most authentic, kind, genuinely compassionate, and intuitive people I’ve met. Even beyond what she’s done for my life, simply knowing someone with such a beautiful soul is a gift in itself. There is no doubt how much she cares about her clients, as evidenced by her ability to hear and see what’s below the surface, always redirecting back to the inner wisdom of our bodies and our wholeness for guidance rather than to some external source.
Since I’ve worked with her, I’ve found a deep well of peace, meaning, and power within myself, anchored in my experience as a woman, that I did not know was there before. The physical problems my body had also began to fade away as Johanna helped me locate and release stored pain and grief. It’s hard to put into words how much finding this place has meant to me, and I am so grateful for Johanna’s wisdom in helping me get here."
- Emma
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