coaching with me

 

“I highly recommend working with Vix. Her approach feels like a wonderful marriage between intuitive and pragmatic. She will listen with her whole self to your whole self. In her, you'll find a knowledgable and wise practitioner who will work with you with both kindness and an excellent BS radar!”

—  Rowena Gerrett, Coach and Facilitator

"I should be further along in my career/business/life by now. I must be doing something wrong. Why can't I just get it together?"

You berate yourself silently as you review your long to-do list, colour-coded productivity apps, and unfinished projects. You've read all the self-help books, but you keep finding yourself back in the same place. 

"Ugh, why did I leave that until the last minute? I'm my own worst enemy." 

You find yourself procrastinating on important tasks because nothing feels good enough to put out into the world. You berate yourself for a lack of discipline, ignoring all the times you did power through despite challenges.

"I'll feel better once I check everything off my list. Then I can finally relax."

But deep down you don’t that's just an excuse to keep pushing through the overwhelm. As soon as you achieve one goal, the goalpost shifts, and you're stuck on the same relentless treadmill of striving.  You desperately crave downtime, but your definition of a "busy period" keeps getting extended indefinitely.

"I shouldn't have reacted that way. I bet they think I’m such a mess." 

Your harsh inner critic is always there, feeding off the smallest misstep, telling you you're not doing enough, that you'll never be enough unless you try harder. 

"I'm so tired of feeling like I’m not good enough. There has to be a better way..."

"Everyone else seems to have it so much more together than me. Why is this so difficult?"

"I hate how indecisive I am. I overanalyze every little decision until I end up not deciding anything."

"No matter how much I've accomplished, it never feels like enough."

You crave ease, lightness and the freedom to be yourself, without sacrificing your drive and potential. What if you could make empowered choices from a place of self-trust rather than relentless self-criticism?

How I work

I’m a certified and trauma-informed embodiment coach and mentor.

To put it simply, embodied (also known as somatic) coaching is less about thinking your way through a problem and more about feeling your way through. It’s a ‘bottom-up’ approach rather than a ‘top-down’ way of dealing with challenges.

It allows you to access your body’s natural intelligence and get a new perspective when your particular way of doing smart has hit a wall and you’re stuck in old patterns of thinking and behaviour.

Embodied coaching helps you reconnect with the intuitive wisdom within your body to find new perspectives, step out of old patterns, and make empowered choices.

If you feel disconnected from your body and desensitised to yourself and the people and world around you, embodied coaching will help you relearn how to connect with this deep well of intuition and wisdom. 

Somatic coaching wakes up your innate human capacity for choice. Once you are aware of what you are doing as you do it, you have the opportunity to choose among the various options of what to do and how to do it.

Experience deep transformation

Embodied coaching facilitates profound shifts that ripple through many areas of your life. By tapping into the body's wisdom, you can:

  • Develop more sustainable, fulfilling ways of living and working so you function at your best

  • Go from constantly feeling stressed and overwhelmed to having consistent energy, focus and joy throughout your workday - without needing to hustle harder

  • Make decisions with clarity, confidence and alignment with your core values

  • Clarify your deeper purpose and define goals that excite you

  • Relate to others with more authenticity and grace

  • Access your innate creativity and infuse your everyday life with intention

  • Break free of unhelpful patterns and show up with self-assurance

  • Find flow states and mindful productivity

  • Learn to rest and recharge effectively

The embodied awareness you cultivate allows you to live with integrity, navigate challenges with agility, and step into your potential. You gain tools to continue your transformation long after our session ends.

Somatic work gets to the core of who you are, helping you be more of the person you want to be more of the time.

“Vix is able to cut right through the noise to get to the heart of the issue.
She was supportive and challenging in the right measure, and always listens and notices very attentively.”

—  Sara P.

it doesn’t have to be so hard

I believe we can do big, bold things in the world and make a difference to those around us without sacrificing our needs or our humanity along the way.

My passion is to support people to:

  • Reconnect with their inner wisdom and natural rhythms

  • Move beyond numbing busyness and tap into the medicine of living cyclically

  • Tune into their bodies, emotions, and needs and be more of themselves in the world

  • Build a more just and sustainable world from a place of embodiment and wholeness

My hope is for you to embody your innate wisdom and power, reconnecting you with your natural flow, intelligence and creativity.

I believe you’re already enough. You don't have to change yourself to change your life. Self-improvement isn't necessary. Use the time and energy to go after your dreams and change the world instead.

Something in you already knows the answer. Your body is an insightful and untapped teacher. Perfectionism, over-striving, and overthinking all take you out of your body and desensitise you to the wisdom you already have. Get out of your head and the endless paralysis-by-analysis by learning to tune in and trust your own nature.

Isolation is a dream killer. Sure, you could do it all by yourself but gritting your teeth and getting on with it can’t replace encouragement, different perspectives and accountability. You need input and support from other people. They'll tell you things you need to know, encourage and believe in you and keep you moving toward your goal. You’ll even enjoy it more.

Your pace is perfect. Only you know what the right speed for you is. Stop comparing your life to what other people are doing; it’s not a race. Tune into your own rhythm; dance to your own beat. It’s better to take many small steps in the right direction than take a giant leap forward, only to stumble backwards.

My Training + Scope of Practice

Like many of my clients, I’m something of a learning junkie. You can find all my qualifications here and I am regularly engaged in my professional development.

I work with clients to:

  • Nurture their embodied resilience through trauma-informed practices;

  • Develop embodied awareness and range to support desirable changes in behaviour and perspectives;

  • Connect more deeply with themselves, their innate rhythms and cycles, and the people around them.

I regularly participate in Coaching Supervision as well as engaging in coaching and therapy to support me in upholding high standards in my practice. I proactively seek and respond to feedback from my clients about our coaching dynamic.

Coaching isn’t therapy nor a substitute for it. Coaching requires a base level of psychological safety that may be difficult to access if you are experiencing mental health issues or unresolved trauma. If you need to choose between coaching and therapy, I recommend you choose therapy and can suggest some wonderful practitioners. Many of my clients do both.

“I’ve gained so much from working with Vix in a more embodied way. I now have a sense of trust in myself and in my body. It feels dramatic to say that I've never felt like that way before but it's true! I’m much more aware of what my body is telling me and more confident in following its guidance. That’s been helping me make better decisions and find more kindness towards myself. I trust myself to take a break when I need to, rather than forcing myself to do things no matter how I’m feeling. It feels corny to say, but I really feel like my authentic self is coming through. I feel liberated. I have this sense of self-acceptance and it feels easier to be myself, which has been a big shift for me and one I am very appreciative of.”

— Debbie Lee, Business Mentor

I also bring with me…

  • 15 years of leadership and operational experience in the military and international development sector, often working in high-risk, high-pressure environments.

  • 7 years of self-employment as a multi-potentialite. While coaching and facilitating are now my main focus, I’ve managed a portfolio career across multiple interests including inclusive leadership, DEI consultancy, operational management and security, and women’s rights in conflict zones. 

  • 7 years of teaching, coaching and mentoring solopreneurs, small business owners, and coaches.

  • A lifetime of perfectionism and over-striving that I’m slowly and surely recovering from.

When you book time with me, you are welcome to tap into any of my experiences alongside receiving coaching.

 

 “Working with Vix has been nothing short of transformative.

She expertly guided me toward understanding and embracing my inner rhythms,
empowering me to navigate my creative journey with grace and resilience.

Her compassionate approach and practical tools and strategies helped me break free from the shackles of perfectionism and burnout that once stifled my creative spirit. Through her intuitive coaching, I've been able to dissolve the barriers that once held me back, and instead, flourish in both my personal and professional life.

Vix's wisdom has been invaluable in guiding me toward a more balanced and fulfilling way of living, working, and creating while staying attuned to my natural cycles and strengths.”

— Kelly Wilde Miller, Founder Wild on Purpose

What to Expect in a coaching session

Each session begins by getting clear on your current challenge or inquiry; some clients have something very specific they want to work with (anything from relationship struggles, work stress, lack of creativity or feeling disconnected from yourself and others) and others prefer to work with whatever’s present for them in that moment. I’ll guide you in identifying a clear intention for our time together - whether that's cultivating more self-confidence, learning to set boundaries, tapping into decision-making wisdom or simply getting in touch with a deeper part of yourself.

We work predominantly with your felt sense - the subtle physical sensations, intuitions and imagery that convey insight about a situation or challenge you face. Don’t worry if you struggle to connect to your body and have no idea what ‘felt sense’ really means - we’ll figure that out together.

A session may involve talking, movement, posture, breathing and archetypal poses to bring more embodied awareness to your patterns and to identify practices to help you develop more range and more choice for how you engage with the world. You'll leave with practical exercises and tools tailored to your individual needs and growth that become tools you can use in daily life. These practices help anchor the inner shifts, allowing you to actualise more joy, creativity and meaning.

Even after a single session, you'll realise just how much possibility exists when you channel the wisdom of your whole self - body, mind and spirit. You gain deeper self-awareness, opening the door to create a life infused with your unique gifts. You’ll learn to trust your felt sense more and be able to make more empowered, more intentional choices to live authentically, aligned to your values and rhythms, and amplify your success and satisfaction.

Why is Embodied Coaching different?

Embodiment, simply put, is how we are. It’s how we relate to the world and we show up. It’s the way we express ourselves, through our character, behaviour and posture. It’s how we are sensitive to ourselves, others and the world around us. Embodiment is more than being in the body; it’s feeling through the body.

Embodiment is the simplest and most direct path to self-awareness, transformation and wise action.

Many of us use the body as the thing that carries our brains around, leaving a huge part of our natural intelligence out of the picture. Cognitive science shows how the body shapes all human activities: perception, relationships, ability to speak and listen, abstract thinking and creativity, decision-making and commitment.

Embodied coaching consciously regards the body as an insightful and untapped teacher to help us know ourselves and grow as an individual with tools to help us respond skilfully to each situation. It facilitates embodiment through exercises engaging the body and mind to promote self-awareness and change.

Coaching in this way aims to allow the conscious mind to take a step back so that we can connect with the body. This isn’t to say we ignore the mind, rather treat the body and mind as an integrated whole and create space for the body to speak its wisdom.

As a certified embodiment coach, I share embodiment practices to help you tune into your innate inner wisdom so you can relate to challenges in a more empowered way. I'll use my somatic toolbox to guide you.

“Vix's experience and practice cover a huge spectrum from head to heart-based work and living. She encourages exploration of the whole person, enabling us to access all that we might be capable of. I had been stuck in my head for a long time, missing out on body-based feelings and emotional literacy for both myself and my coaching clients. My sessions were often on the edge of my comfort zone - and rightly so! I also found them fun, revelatory and energising.

I’ve now incorporated embodied practices into my daily routines, which allows me to respond to what my body is telling me in the moment in day-to-day life.”

— Jacqueline Hill, Leadership Coach and Change Mentor

Packages and Pricing

Resource

A single 60-minute somatic coaching session
Get the ball rolling with embodied awareness around an immediate dilemma or life transition.
£150

Reimagine

3 coaching sessions within 3 months (60 minutes each)
Make the changes concrete. Ideal for igniting transformation around a specific challenge or stuck point. Anchors and solidify the embodied shifts.
£375

Rewild

6 coaching sessions to be used within 6 months (60 minutes each)
Profoundly step into your potential. With multiple sessions, we gently unwind habitual patterns to help your fullest self blossom. Release your innate true and wild nature.
£600

cyclical alignment coaching

6 coaching sessions over 6 months
My signature 1:1 coaching adventure is designed to help you unlock your creative brilliance and embrace your excellence by following your own flow.
£600

All packages of 3 or more sessions include:

  • An enrolment questionnaire to help me prepare for our sessions and to help you get clearer on your goals for coaching;

  • My reflections, suggestions and resources for you, as appropriate;

  • Unlimited coaching and check-ins via Signal throughout our time together;

  • Access to a package of seasonal coaching check-ins;

  • Non-punitive payment plans, if you’re paying for your coaching yourself.

When my income allows, I offer limited numbers of one-off coaching sessions on a Pay What You Can Afford basis. I announce these spaces to my email list.

If you are employed by a corporation, you may find that your employer is willing to cover or contribute to the cost of your coaching. Please email me at vix@vixanderton to discuss this and I can provide you with more information to share with your employer. My corporate rate is 33% higher than the published rate.

“Vix will help you get your act together in a way that is right for you.
Creating order out of chaos in a structure that feels good.”

- Emma McClelland, Director, Knitster LDN

If You’d Like to Work With Me…

I'm here to help you be more fully you.

You’re not broken and you certainly don’t need fixing.

You’re also not meant to do it all by yourself. It would be my privilege to be your sounding board, guide and support.

NOTE: I’m travelling in Europe during September and October 2024. I will still be working and accepting clients. To book a session during this time, please send an email to vix@vixanderton.com.

To book a coaching package or talk about what working together could look like, please schedule a 30-minute chat with me below.