1:1 Coaching

ONLINE or in-person in Aljezur /Arrifana, Portugal.

If you’re new here, begin with your free Intro call.

And we start where you are, from human to human.

We meet, we talk, I listen to your situation, and we both get a feel whether the vibe is right.

Simple as that.

HERE IS THE FULL ROADMAP IF WE ARE A FIT:

YOUR FIRST SESSIONS

Chaos to Strategy

Initial Arc & Nervous System Mapping

3 sessions

  • learn your first simple and efficient regulation tools to break the circuits of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm

  • map your Nervous System’s state and find it’s current growth edge

  • ground into your own ogranism’s safety

investment: 540€

MONTH 1-2

MONTH 2-5

STABILISE YOUR SYSTEM

Strategy to Structure

9 sessions

  • rewire your Nervous System’s patterns and get unstuck from Fight / Flight / Freeze

  • stabilise safety within your body and prepare the ground for deeper processing and integration of past overwhelm and trauma

  • discover your current season’s growth edge

investment: 540€ / month for three months

READY FOR LIFE

Structure to Freedom

18 sessions

grow your capacity for long-term resiliency

  • release and integrate unprocessed tension patterns and complex trauma

  • move from survival mode towards creation, freedom, and life agency

  • mov

investment: 520€ / month for six months

MONTH 5-12

Maybe anxiety, panic, chronic stress and overwhelm have become your normal.

But 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 arc of 5 sessions and your personal 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 5 sessions 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 pathway from capacity instead of pressure

My trauma-safe approach is rooted in applied nervous system science and informed by Polyvagal theory, interpersonal neurobiology, 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

➝ an embodied strategy to liberate themselves from stress, pain, and overwhelm that is unique for their very own body and psyche

➝ tools & techniques for deep grounding and present-moment anchoring instead of spiralling

➝ profound knowledge of how their own organism works, and the confidence and self-agency to take their healing into their own hands

➝ 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 in the bigger context of their aligned life

  • '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

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

  • Organic Intelligence® certified Coach and its framework of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) by Steven Hoskinson, USA

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

  • certified E-RYT 500 Yoga teacher with 650h of training and 10years of experience 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