Somatic Resiliency Coaching

Online and in-person in Aljezur /Arrifana, Portugal.

Start here when anxiety, panic attacks and overwhelm have become your normal.

Because normal doesn’t mean it’s natural.

1:1 Somatic Nervous System Coaching for those who feel constantly wired, stuck in their head, and tired of anxiety taking over their days, even when nothing is technically wrong.

Good news - your body has all necessary tools to get you out of this spiral and I’ll show you where to find them.

In our coaching, we facilitate the first essential shifts from the cycles of anxiety into your reference points of inner safety, where your nervous system can relax and you’ll get back into the driver seat.

From there we’ll map out your pathway of getting back in control over your life and your next clear steps to help your system find back to balance.

Your pathway begins with your initial 3 sessions Nervous System Mapping.

No, you’re not going mad. We’re living in a mad time.

I’m Elena, and as a Somatic coach I know that what you’re going through is not a failure, nor a weakness, nor something you ought to blame yourself for.

We’re living in an age where we are asked for far more that we can naturally provide. We’re expected to keep up with the insane pace our lives have taken in the context of advancing technology, connectivity, and the need of getting more done, faster.

And you’re trying to stay on board, but you can feel the price you’re paying for it. You’re staying in the loops of productivity, yet your body and mind drift out of control.

And it’s not like you’re not doing your inner work.

You’ve analysed your triggers. You’re doing therapy. You can name all the Why’s, and have become an expert on your childhood trauma, attachment patterns, shadow work.

And yet you’ve never really felt the actual relief of yourself being at peace, and your body still keeps throwing you signals of panic and fear that feel way too overwhelming to handle. 

So, frustratingly, you do all the right things and practices to understand and soothe your symptoms, but the anxious feeling stays.

  • You live in persistent anxiety, panic attacks, or loops of overthinking and are tired of constantly being on high alert.

  • You’ve done psychotherapy, CBT or personal development work, but still feel like you can’t let your guard down.

  • You’d like to move your passion project forward, but don’t have the energy because you’re busy with just getting through your day and handling your anxiety symptoms.

  • You make time for things that are supposed to relax you, practice Yoga or try to meditate, but you simply cannot switch off your mind.

  • Your feelings feel too intense and oftentimes the only way to not get overwhelmed by them, is to numb out.

  • You cancel and procrastinate your plans because you are anticipating what might go wrong before anything has actually happened.

  • You replay conversations in your head long after they’re over.

  • You’re pushing important decisions in front of you because you’re afraid of getting them wrong.

  • You try to control every little detail

And underneath all of it, something in you knows this isn’t how you’re meant to live and you’re craving clarity - you just don’t know how to get there.

This coaching is for you if…

In your first session we will:

Invite your current challenge, anxiety, or decision into clear focus without overwhelm.

🌱 Slow down overthinking loops through somatic presence-centering

🌱 Anchor your attention in inner safety through simple sensory awareness

🌱 Explore your nervous system’s current capacity without pushing it

🌱 Identify where energy is leaking and where support is already available

🌱 Clarify your next grounded step from capacity instead of pressure

My trauma-safe approach is rooted in applied nervous system science and informed by Polyvagal theory, somatic focusing, Organic Intelligence principles, and deeply attuned co-regulation.

This is a steady holding space where you can show up as you are, hold things a little lighter, and allow your system to shift toward grounding and clarity.

By the end of our time together, clients take away: 

➝ A tangible drop in internal urgency, anxiety, and overwhelm

➝ Feeling more in touch with themselves, their strength, and their intuition.

➝ More space between feeling and reaction

➝ A felt sense of centeredness and self-trust

➝ A clearer sense of what actually matters and a grounded next step 

  • 'When my anxiety got really strong, I didn’t have any capacity anymore. Nothing was working. It felt like a real crisis. Now I can observe it much more. I can feel the up and down - like a wave. It peaks, and about fifteen minutes later it already comes down again. My system doesn’t stay stuck there anymore.'

    — Linda

  • “After stressful situations I used to feel completely K.O., like I had no capacity left. Now I notice that I come out of difficult phases faster. I feel like I have more capacity again - to take care of myself, to come back to myself.”

    — Hannah

  • "For the first time in years, I can feel an opening again. A hope that I can change things. It feels exhilerating and like I have a choice again."

    — Dina

START HERE:

YOUR FIRST SESSION

Chaos to Strategy

Nervous System Mapping

3 sessions I online

  • get a break from the loops of anxiety

  • learn your SOS regulation technique to interrupt anxiety

  • become familiar with the patterns of your nervous system

  • take away your embodied strategy for building resiliency

  • take back agency on your life

  • one take-away audio meditation for orientation in stressful moments

Investment: 540€ / 3 sessions

BUILDING YOUR FOUNDATION

Overwhelm to Safety

Pathway 1

3 months I online

  • * 9 weekly Somatic Coaching sessions à 75min

  • * weaving safety into your body

    *rewire your Nervous System after the Organic Intelligence framework

    * supported by self-paced ‘Safe within myself’ audio program to rewire your Nervous System patterns towards ease

    * gentle education on your unique nervous system

  • * learn to live without the fear of anxiety

Investment: 540€ / month*

bookable after your initial Nervous Mapping session

Not sure if it’s for you?

READY FOR LIFE

Growth to Resiliency

Pathway 2

6 months I online

  • * 18 weekly Somatic Coaching sessions à 75min

  • * grow your capacity for long-term resiliency

  • * learn to stabilise your senses and perception to anchor yourself in any situation

  • * move beyond anxiety and towards unleashed creativity

    * start the project / life that’s been waiting in the background

Investment: 520€ / month**

extendable after your 3 months Overwhelm to Safety Phase

*3 months package // 540€ / month x 3months

**6 months package //520€ / month x 6months

Let’s have a 30min conversation to get to know each other and see if the vibe is right.

Who you work with

My name is Elena Orth and I’ve spent the last two decades studying the human dilemma we all live in.

With a natural deep attunement to the emotional depth and finetunings of life’s energetics, I pivoted my own career from fully licensed architect to soaking up everything I can about our fascinating capacities as human beings.

In my work as a Somatic Coach I am weaving together my vast experiences in nervous system work, my own anxiety disorder healing, Yoga and Somatic movement, eastern as well as western wisdom traditions into an open-edged web of curiosity.

My clients value my grounded energy and feel safe and seen in their authentic capacity building process so they can live life on their own terms.

I genuinely believe that life is worth to be lived, and I am here to compassionately hold a non-judgemental, deeply optimistic space for everyone daring to break out of rigid conditioning and limiting structures and build the resiliency for unscripted living to experience the joy, fulfillment and expansion we all deserve as humans on earth.

Love to have you here.

x Elena

Qualifications

  • ICF-accredited Somatic Coach (ACC level), Diploma in Body-Oriented Coaching from The Somatic School, UK

  • student in training in the Organic Intelligence framework of post-traumatic growth (OICC) by Steve Hoskinson, US

  • certified Yoga teacher with 650h of training in various styles (Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin, and Rocket Yoga), Sampoorna Yoga, Markus Henning Giess, David C. Kyle, India, Germany, Italy

  • Shiatsu and Reiki Level 2 practitioner, Germany, Sri Lanka

  • M.A. and licensed architect, member of Ordem dos Arquitetos, Portugal