It’s Time for Us TO Redefine
How We Tend to Trauma
Presence first. Technique second.
1:1 Trauma healing & nervous system support for individuals
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COURSES, Programs & mentorship for coaches, therapists and wellness providers
Meeting complex and developmental trauma with embodied care, fierce compassion and trusted somatic skill.
The foundation of all of these offerings are at the intersection between somatic psychology, embodied nervous system co-regulation work, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, trauma-informed mindfulness, and so much more.
Welcoming Presence:
Nervous System Regulation for Trauma Healing Support
This heartfelt 7-Day recorded experience offers a new way to welcome ourselves into the present moment.
7 Days of Deepening Into Practice Together
WHETHER YOU’RE IN A PROCESS OF HEALING TRAUMA OR DEEPENING YOUR COMMITMENT TO EMBODYING SELF-COMPASSION,
THIS COURSE HELPS YOU OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF HEALING THAT ARE ALREADY INNATE IN YOU.
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THIS IS A space where people ARE NOT problemS to figure out or fix
It is a space where we understand that pushing people past their edges in the name of healing and growth just adds stress to an already stressed nervous system. Welcome to a space where we understand that we’re all whole human beings who have been through the fire and crave healing through presence, empathy, and skill.
Shelby has a great gift for creating a generous, co-creative therapeutic relationship as well as fabulous somatic skill sets that really supported my nervous system. Journeys of trauma healing and collective myths of trauma recovery are playing out all around us. I see her work and presence as providing a rare, crucial sanctuary and a lighthouse for us to navigate that journey together. I am so grateful for my time with her and will definitely work with her again."
“Her steadiness, compassion, and fierce presence provided a deep balm to my soul and my most tender wounded parts. She shared her wisdom, and provided accurate reflection when I needed it the most. Her embodied awareness of trauma healing provided a map, a vital orienting when I was feeling truly lost and overwhelmed and could not find that anywhere else.
"I’ve been working with Shelby 1:1 through one of the most intense unravelings of my life thus far. She’s helped me find resurrection."
Dara
(United States)
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I’m Shelby
I am a licensed somatic psychotherapist, twice-certified coach, and trauma specialist with over fifteen years of experience supporting people with complex & developmental trauma in a holistic and non-pathologizing way.
Trauma: A Sacred Opportunity for Revolution
We all carry trauma.
It’s how we tend to it that matters.
We have an incredible ability as human beings to survive and thrive, no matter what we’ve been through. Even amidst helplessness, pain and suffering, we all have the ability to experience profound healing, aliveness and a new orientation to how we experience our lives.
Healing doesn’t have to be so hard. Less is more when it comes to tending to trauma, especially in a somatic way. If you’ve found yourself here, you might experience yourself as highly sensitive, an empath, neurodiverse, a child of a neglectful or unavailable parent(s), and someone who has already spent years on a healing journey - possibly even decades. Here is a space where something new is possible.
You are welcome just as you are, every part. Whether you’re an individual seeking healing or a practitioner seeking support - you get to be you. Fully and completely.
I also understand (first-hand)
how challenging it can feel to:
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Not feel fully expressed and known as your genuine, authentic self - or even know who exactly that might be.
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Be stuck in a state of reactivity and overwhelm, often feeling like you’re in a state of recovery and never fully thriving or nourished.
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Only have just enough energy to get from moment to moment instead of rest into a trust that you’re enough and what’s unfolding is enough.
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Feel impossible, broken, relentless, stuck, flat, hopeless, on fire, or an absolute wreck.
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Feel uncertain about how to settle the ongoing dysregulation in yourself or those you support in a long-term and sustainable way.
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Get caught up in black and white thinking while also overwhelmed with perfectionism and unable to take action.
If this sounds familiar, you just might have landed in a place that can support your next chapter… whatever it is that you’d love to have happen for yourself, your life and/or your work.
“I remember being with her in retreat in Mexico and being captivated by her and her presence. Every chance I've had to be with her and learn from her since then, I've taken. She is a deep well of knowledge and embodied experience around the nervous system and trauma.
I've been in multiple rounds of her Embodied Coaching Experience (Body of Work Program) that offers something deeply needed in the coaching and therapy fields... ongoing, embodied, trauma-aware, self-sourced "supervision"/ consultation for people holding space for others. And, now I work with her as my personal coach and mentor.
"I've worked with Shelby in just about every capacity possible over the last four years. First I was taught and guided by her as a senior teacher & trauma specialist in my intensive coaching certification.”
Her course, Creating Safer Space, is nervous system + trauma awareness for coaches, counselors, facilitators, body workers, teachers... and its information and experience I wish I had in my earlier years of teaching and coaching. It's information I wish school teachers had. It's definitely information I wish medical professionals had.
It has given me tools to stay more settled in my own system and confident to meet whatever may arise in my client sessions. And tools to be sure my clients are able to fully receive what I have to offer. Not to mention the differences nervous system + trauma awareness has made in my mothering and marriage."
Intimacy and Empowerment Coach
(Los Angeles, California)
Kendra Cover
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It is my passion and my privilege to help people emerge into their steady Aliveness to create thriving lives grounded in embodied knowing of who they are.
Stick with me and we can break out of that old paradigm of “labeling”, “fixing” and “figuring out” and focus instead on feeling settled, inspired, spacious, connected.
“Trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.”
one-on-one
1:1 Sessions are designed to support people who are ready for a new sense of healing and growth.
With co-regulating somatic work, we can finally heal and turn our hearts towards life in a new way. When we can welcome all parts of ourselves, a steadiness and soothing arrives that embraces all that we carry and all that we meet in our lives in the day-to-day.
This advanced trauma specialization meets people with developmental and complex trauma in ways many of us had only dreamed of.
Nervous System and Trauma Healing Support for Individuals
client experience
Daniela Perez
Director of North America Pacific Programs at Women's Earth Alliance (San Diego)
OFFERINGS
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Creating Safer Space
Trauma comes in many forms and affects us all in different ways.
There is no shortage of programs to tell you what to do and what to say. The Creating Safer Space online course takes you deeper.
Learn how to regulate your nervous system and feel settled, centered, and supported so that others can lean fully into your care.
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Body of Work
A 10-month program for coaches and therapists who want to develop their practice through somatic expansion and community.
Understand what’s happening beneath the surface in yourself and your clients, and in your patient/caregiver relationships.
Become grounded in your craft and build self-trust that’s fiercely compassionate.
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SOULFUL RETREAT
A somatic embodiment retreat for healing & wellness practitioners.
Experience a week of luxury, nervous system support, yoga and surfing in Cambutal, Panama. This retreat brings you back into alignment with your deepest heart's purpose.
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SOLO BEND RETREAT
Rest into support for a unique tailored-to-you retreat nestled in the ponderosa pines near Bend, Oregon
Whether you're solo seeking refuge, rest, reflection and healing or a couple desiring a peaceful and supported getaway, or a creative soul longing for an quiet space to ignite your inspiration, this retreat might be just the perfect spot.
client experiences
Filmmaker & Visual Storyteller
(Indiana, United States)
Chris Keaton
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Breathwork Facilitator
(Bali, Indonesia)
PABLO
PODCAST EPISODES
“I was just listening back to a coaching session I did as I was putting it together for my podcast, and realised the other thing I’ve learned so well from you is how to sniff out and recognise when trauma is likely present. And not to label it out loud, but to modulate how I respond and hold space. I go slower, I’m immediately paying extra attention to what level of intensity is doable in the moment, where their nervous system is at, asking for lots of permission and incorporating resourcing. There are so many signatures of potential trauma that I pick up on which I would not have recognised as such before. So thank you for that too!”
Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach
(Northern Beaches, NSW, Australia)
Carol Anne
“I loved your coaching development calls, the trauma workshops, and then getting to see you work in person with a student one day at the retreat. I’ve been blown away by your work and especially by the compassionate, wise presence you’ve cultivated inside yourself and that you bring forward into the world. Your trauma workshops changed my life in such a huge way! Understanding the window of tolerance and nervous system and how to work with it was a huge piece for me that has helped me profoundly, I’m so grateful for what you created and offered! I know it would be a blessing for anyone like it was for me to receive your high-quality teaching and transmission.”
Massage and Shiatsu Therapist
(Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)
Lily Romaine Shank
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