
Coaching with Esma
Start to Alchemize and Transform
Esma Verma
Esma is a psychotherapist, coach, Brainspotting practitioner and spiritual creative. In her 10+ years of practice, Esma has worked with many clients from diverse personal and professional backgrounds helping them understand the root issues behind unwanted patterns and how to develop internal strategies for grounded confidence and a more fulfilling life.
Who does Esma work with?
Esma works with highly motivated individuals who want to reach their goals in the following areas:
Enhancing Confidence and Self-Love
Improving Communication and Boundaries
Attracting Healthy Love and Partnership
Breaking free from Anxious-Avoidant Relationship Cycles
What Happens During A Coaching Session with Esma?
1:1 Coaching
Somatic Journey Work
Brainspotting
With each coaching session, you will learn to metabolize hidden blockages and gain insight into deeply rooted feelings and energies that may be affecting your ability to reach your goals.
Testimonials
“It was like an embodied out of body experience. The journey felt as if I had taken plant medicine except I was competely sober.”
“I felt safe and challenged at the same time. Esma is caring and nurturing but direct. She doesn’t sugar coat her messages.”
How can Brainspotting and Somatic Journey Work Help Me?
Esma combines Brainspotting and Somatic Journey Work into Somatic Activation Coaching. Somatic Activation creates a catalyst which ignites deep self-awareness and awakens your body’s natural capacity for personal growth. It helps you explore deeper and work through old blockages in the mind and the subtle energy body to empower you to reach your most desired goals.
Somatic Activation Coaching is not psychotherapy. It is not intended to treat mental illness. Somatic Activation focuses on energetic awakening, performance enhancement, addressing limiting beliefs, and removing energetic blocks
Each session will allow you to access effective tools for personal growth: Acquire practical strategies to achieve your goals and enhance your personal and spiritual path.
FAQs
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A somatic journey is a way to access a different state of consciousness where you can connect to subtle energy in your nervous system, psyche and spirit. Your coach will guide you into a deep subcortical state where you can process small pieces of the experience at a time and gently move between sensations of discomfort and calm.
Your coach will guide you to be more aware of physical sensations that may connect to emotions, energetic blocks, different parts of your psyche and connection to spirit.
When deeply engaged in a somatic journey, you do not consciously control the journey, but rather allow it to unfold, trusting the experience beyond the rational mind.
Somatic Journey Work is a practice rooted in ancient traditions but adapted for modern use and current understanding of Polyvagal Theory and Internal Family Systems Theory.
Somatic Journey Work offers a unique path to explore the inner realms and connect with the nervous system and spiritual dimension of life.
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Brainspotting is a powerful brain/body focused technique that identifies, processes, and releases deep neurophysiological and emotionally based negative self-beliefs, problematic behaviors, and performance blocks.
Brainspotting uses specific eye positions to target "brainspots", which are areas of the mind that store thoughts and emotions. By focusing on these brainspots, clients can uncover hidden mental challenges. Brainspotting works by accessing the subcortical brain, which is something that talk therapy cannot access.
In Brainspotting, the practitioner guides the client to center on the present-moment experience, focusing their eye-gaze in one spot while remaining in a subcortical state. Brainspotting allows the practitioner and client to enter deep into the amygdala where neurophysiological and emotionally based negative self-beliefs, problematic behaviors, and performance blocks are stored.
The practitioner supports the client’s self-observation or “processing” of deeply stored memories within a “dual attunement” frame.
In Brainspotting, the expression “dual attunement” refers to a process that is both relational and neurological, through which the practitioner continuously tries to remain connected to the client relationally, as well as to the client’s brain-body response in session.
The eyes are an extension of our brain. When a fetus is developing in the womb, the eyes literally emerge from the brain and hold thousands of neurotransmitters. So, when we utilize approaches that involve the eyes, we are able to have direct access to the brain.
According to current research, Brainspotting has been shown to be one of the most highly rated and effective forms of accessing deeply stored somatic memories.
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While Brainspotting is primarily a therapeutic modality, it can be utilized in coaching to enhance performance, address limiting beliefs, or facilitate personal growth.
Somatic Activation Coaching does not use Brainspotting to treat psychological disorders or trauma.
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The theoretical mechanisms of Brainspotting are well-grounded in scientific evidence, and detailed neurological explanations of the Brainspotting process have been discussed widely in academic literature.
Brainspotting was discovered by Dr. David Grand in 2003 and is considered a cutting edge and efficacious neurophysiological technique.
For more information see the links below:
https://brainspotting.com/about-brainspotting/research-and-case-studies/
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People report having deeper and more profound releases with Brainspotting as compared to other brain-based, body based and traditional approaches.
The brain is resourcing and re-stabilizing during Brainspotting. Many clients compare Brainspotting to running a marathon and report feeling very physically and mentally tired after a Brainspotting session.
The brain re-stabilizing process often continues to occur after the session has ended and clients may be in a subcortical state from 1 hour to 72 hours after a Brainspotting Intensive.
A doorway has opened, and information will continue to come up for release. Some clients report the following side effects for up to 72 hours after a Somatic Activation Coaching Session:
Tired
Brain Fog
Sleepy
Crying
Irritability
Uncontrollable yawning
Vivid Dreams
It is recommended that you do not drive or operate machinery immediately following a Somatic Activation Coaching Session and that you wait to resume these activities until you feel fully alert and capable.
If you have a history of trauma or mental illness it is recommended that you schedule a session with your psychotherapist in the days following a Somatic Activation Coaching Session to talk about any new information that comes up after the Somatic Activation Session has ended.
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Yes! The power of Somatic Activation is just as effective virtually as it is in person. Your session will be conducted via zoom.
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Somatic Activation Coaching Sessions are NOT a replacement for therapy. Somatic Activation Coaching Sessions are NOT a treatment for mental illness or physical illness.
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Somatic Activation Coaching Sessions are not recommended for individuals with the following conditions.
Bipolar Disorder
Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders
History of Seizures
History of Suicide Attempts
Current Suicidal Ideation
History or Current Self-harm
History of Homicide attempts
Current Homicidal Ideation
Current Alcohol Use Disorder
Current Substance Use Disorder
Currently in a domestic violence situation
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Yes! Somatic Activation Coaching Sessions are available worldwide.
Coaching From The Comfort of Home
Somatic Activation Coaching sessions are conducted via zoom. Perfect for professionals who travel often or anyone with a busy schedule.
$375 per 50-minute Coaching Session
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