Vanessa Bear

I can help you to harness the innate wisdom of your body and mind and, connecting with nature, explore practical, personalised tools to help you hold boundaries, communicate your desires, develop robustness and connection to lead a more enlivened and authentic life.

Embodied/ Somatic Coaching
My specialty is in working with people with anxiety, stress and trauma*. We explore individualised strategies and resources that can help you be more in control of your body, your emotions and your choices; to increase your capacity and to express and embody dignity.

Wild Coaching
In Wild Coaching nature is a co-coach, also offering insight through metaphor, offering a variety of landscape, resources and stimulus; space that can help bring out your own natural/ inner self. The “wild” part is about connecting to your inner wildness, the parts beneath socialisation that hold your true desires and the innate resources you may have lost access to or awareness of.

Personal Coaching with me can help you:

• Be more resourced in challenging situations
• Cultivate feelings of safety, connection and belonging
• Gain confidence and assert your boundaries, feel good saying no and yes
• Connect to your body and deepen your relationship with yourself and nature
• Build mutual esteem for a more interconnected, compassionate world
• Feel uninhibited in making this world a safer space for all
• Reclaim and recognise that you are valuable, powerful, capable, lovable and equal
• Reflect and reconnect with your values, resourcefulness, and purpose

I work in a trauma-aware way which, to me, means that I will understand if you feel overwhelmed, and have a variety of resources that can support bringing more grounding. I am considered in my approach to offer sessions that aim to avoid distress and re-traumatisation.

In coaching sessions we don’t explore traumatic memory or past experiences, we notice how they are affecting you now and focus on exploring the right strategies for you to have a better quality of life in the present.

My work is informed by a broad body of wisdom, including ancient practices of yoga therapy and yogic mindfulness as well as modern-day neuroscience, wellbeing coaching and body psychotherapy.

*At this time, none of my services are psychotherapeutic in nature or a replacement for qualified mental healthcare.