Integrative Somatic Coaching
with Dani Laindear
about
about you | about me | FAQ + ethics
Welcome Prismatic Being.
Have you struggled to find YOUR way in a world that doesn't feel built for you?
You may be an Edgewalker.
This space is here especially for you.
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Whatever brings you to this practice - be it transition, queerness, neurodivergence, grief, trauma, chronic illness, marginalization, or feeling disempowered, disorganized, disconnected, exhausted, unsure or upside down - you are held here.
Your safety matters. Your well-being matters. Your one and only body matters. Your one true life matters.
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You are worthy. You are enough. You are here.
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So what now? And why?
Perhaps you're seeking to be in deeper connection with your body, mind, nervous system, emotions, and Being as you clarify and prioritize your next best steps in your relationship to yourself and others, your career, and your life.
You could be ready to feel affirmed in and further uncover your unique radiance, or to truly integrate all of your facets and embrace your wholeness.
Maybe you're ready to understand and synthesize your capacity and capabilities.
To figure out the "hows."
To create congruence between your physical world, thoughts, feelings, heart, somatic and internal parts, values, belief systems, and aligned actions so you can truly shine in the ways that make your soul feel most alive.
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Your pain is real. Your past has happened. And, you are more than what has happened to you. You are more than the sum of your parts.
How do you want to move forward, from this moment?
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Are you ready to find your way? This is where our paths converge.
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Who am I?
My name is Dani Laindear (they / she) and I am your Integrative Somatic Coach.
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I practice this work from the compassionate intersection of expertise and lived experience.
I am a trauma-informed certified somatic practitioner and certified integrative life coach helping people find their way, as I find mine.
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I'm here for the Edgewalkers, as an Edgewalker.
I specialize in working with queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and highly sensitive people, and especially value supporting systemically marginalized folks, creatives, parents, trauma survivors, and people dealing with transitions, grief, stress, burnout, or overwhelm.
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My comprehensive education and field experience over the past decade includes integrative somatics, integrative holistic life coaching, Integrative Somatic Parts Work based in Internal Family Systems (IFS), grief and trauma recovery, Emotional Clearing Method (ECM), Trauma Tapping Technique (TTT), Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki, wellness and career consulting, and peer support group facilitation. All of these practices have come together to create the distinct framework for Integrative Somatic Coaching.
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Among many interwoven identities, I am white (of predominately Irish descent), queer, non-binary, an AuDHD HSP, a single parent and co-parent, a multi-modality creator, and a person navigating my own multi-faceted healing journeys around complex PTSD, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, POTS, depression, and anxiety. While I am not bound by these experiences, they absolutely influence how and who I serve.
I live and practice through a trauma-informed, culturally competent, and intersectional* lens and strive to foster both a safe and brave space of collaborative connection and transformation for folks of many identities and expressions through the consistent unlearning and re-patterning of my own conditioning (*h/t Kimberlé Crenshaw). Read more about the ethics of this practice below.
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I have an unwavering commitment to bringing my extensive and continued training, competent skill sets, and personal experience together to provide effective, ethical, and heart-centered care.
I'm grateful to be on this journey with you.
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Training and Continued Education
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Certified Integrative Somatic Practitioner - Integrative Wellness Academy with Dr. Rachel Eva Dew
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Certified Integrative Life Coach - Integrative Wellness Academy with Dr. Rachel Eva Dew​
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Certified Culturally Competent Trauma-Informed Practitioner - International Trauma Training Institute​
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Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate Program (certification in progress) - The Embody Lab with Frances Booth LICSW
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Healing Trauma: Working with Somatic Wounds - The Embody Lab with Dr. Peter Levine
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Usui Reiki I and II - Reiki Unleashed with Eleonore Koury
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Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki III Advanced Master Teacher and Practitioner - Reiki Lifestyle with Colleen Benelli
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More About This Practice
FAQ
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What can I expect in a session or a program?
All sessions are virtual on Zoom, so we'll start there. It’s encouraged to be in a quiet-ish space where you’ll be undisturbed for the duration of our session - sometimes this is your bedroom, a car, or whatever you have access to. Because we will usually practice body-based techniques that can include accessible movement or breathwork, I recommend wearing comfortable, non-restrictive clothing if possible and being well-hydrated. However, if you wear a binder or other type of gender-affirming garment, we can work around them as needed.
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If you are new to this practice, you'll complete a short intake form and client agreement before our first (paid) session. Discovery Calls are always free and do not require an intake or client agreement.
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Every session will follow a similar structure of check-in, addressing your needs and concerns, moving through the practices outlined by the monthly framwork, and resourcing you with comprehensive somatic(+) tools. While I cannot guarantee "results" or a specific type of experience, you will ALWAYS leave a session with multiple tools, techniques, and/or resources that provide support for your areas of concern and your goals for our work together.
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What is the Inside-Out, Outside-In care model?
Using the Inside-Out, Outside-In approach means that we will focus on addressing your particular areas of concern WHILE simultaneously providing you with actionable support to move toward your version of wellness across all interconnected systems of Being.
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For example, you may desire explicit support for a career change, acute grief, symptom relief, or a relationship transition. You may want to experience more joy, less stress, or a more value-aligned, fulfilling life. You may simply seek to learn better systems of organization and attunement in parenting, finances, or business.
Whatever your specific goals, we will equip you with direct support for working towards your focus in a sustainable way, while also helping you safely connect with and understand your body, emotions, nervous system, mind, ways of being, and attachment patterns. Because all of our systems are connected, it helps to create a conversation between all our parts so that they can collaborate cohesively, or at least come into acceptance that they all exist. From that new (or deepened) awareness, you can make desired changes in your life with a better understanding of how and why your systems operate the way they do, and work WITH yourself, not against yourself.
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While this approach isn’t a fit for everyone (because we all have different needs), I find it to be effective and accessible - NOT overwhelming. We start as small and move along as slowly as you need to, always. We begin exactly where you’re at. Because there is no way that works for everyone, this work is only here to help you find YOUR way.
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What is trauma-informed care?
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The trauma-informed care framework follows (at minimum) the Five Principles of Trauma-informed Care:
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Safety
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Trustworthiness
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Choice
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Collaboration
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Empowerment
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It is my job to insure that I do no harm, provide care that NEVER causes re-traumatization, and that allows you feel safe in all aspects in our work together - emotionally, physically, and mentally.
My goal is for you to stay in your window of tolerance, or your "safe zone" physiologically, so you increase your capacity for regulation without being re-activated or guided back into trauma. We absolutely DO NOT need to go into memories of traumatic events or places in your body or brain that feel unsafe to create changes in your relationship to them - EVER. You will always be asked to provide consent in our work, and I will never lead you into an exercise or process that doesn't feels safe or that feels too activating. This doesn't mean you won't be invited into change - you will be encouraged to lean into growth edges where they serve you. The difference between traditional coaching or counseling models and trauma-informed care is that it will always be YOUR choice, and YOU will inform what feels safe for you and where you're willing to be a bit more challenged at any given time.
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So what if I feel like something isn't clicking in our work together?
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This framework is both structured and flexible to meet you where you’re at! My goal as your Integrative Somatic Coach is to insure you can feel safe and free to explore the wants and needs of your body, mind, spirit, and Being - and these can (and most often do) change as we go!
If something isn’t working or just doesn’t feel right, we’ll connect on a more aligned way forward. Part of the beauty of this work is getting to practice, play, and adjust within your own personalized approach to insure you are getting the functional and effective relief and support you deserve. However, if you have needs that I feel I can't meet at this time, I will thoughtfully refer you to a practitioner that seems like they would be a better fit.
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Ethics
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While Integrative Somatic Coaching is a well-rounded and functional healing framework with a therapeutic approach, I am not a therapist or licensed mental health care provider. I will never provide medical advise, diagnose, prescribe, treat conditions or undermine any conventional path of healing. Integrative Somatic Coaching is intended as a supportive modality, and can be used in harmony with traditional practices such as therapy and conventional medicine - I LOVE when my clients already have supportive therapists and medical providers. This work does not replace any necessary physical or psychological care. I believe these practices can exist in perfect complement of each other.
All of the integrative coaching and somatic techniques I'm trained and qualified to practice are trauma-informed. They are not dependent on any particular belief system to be effective, but I do ask that we work together with a willingness to examine, connect, evolve, and expand.
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I am committed to the work of deconstructing harmful systems of oppression - while acknowledging my own place and privileges within these systems. My priorities in practice are safety, accessibility, consent, validation, integrity, radical self-responsibility, and continuously evolving to be in right relationship with the techniques I use and the Beings I share them with.
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I have received permission from my teachers to practice these methods and lineages, and I am dedicated to continued learning on a lifelong path. I honor and give gratitude to all those who have held the wisdom of these ways before me - the teachers, elders, guides, storytellers, and keepers.
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