My Approch

My approach is gentle, compassionately paced, deeply curious and sometimes a little spicy. I’ll be by your side in your most vulnerable moments of self discovery, and I’ll also call out your BS if it walks in the door. I’ll support you to break through your most stuck stories, rewire your nervous system, and shift into your most aligned, vibrant self.
I blend my coaching expertise with Somatic Experiencing, embodied practices, polyvagal theory, positive psychology principles, and so much more to guide you to deeply connect with your own body and harness your wisdom and power from within.
And while all the formal training I’ve done is vitally important, my gift of identifying the cycles that keep you stuck and how the body is the key to break free was truly born out of doing (and continuing to do) this work within my own self.
I am a big proponent of live what you teach and I continually invest in myself professionally and personally. Here are my professional qualifications and credentials:
- Graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a MA in Integrative Health Studies and certifications in Wellness Coaching & Guided Imagery
- Advanced-Level trained in Somatic Experiencing
- Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
- I wrote my thesis on an embodied approach to recovering from burnout, but got my "PhD" in burnout after working 4 years in corporate tech
- For 3 years, I trained over 300 health coaches, spearheaded the creation of coaching operations, and led a high-performing L&D team
- I am a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher and have a certificate in Mindful Yoga Therapy with over thousands of teaching hours and 12+ years of experience
- For 4 years, I directed and facilitated programming at a non-profit mindfulness center which provided experiential education around PTSD, trauma, and self-care
- I also hold certifications in Applied Positive Psychology and Positive Psychology Coaching from The Flourishing Center
- Dare to Lead Trained
- Currently finishing the Polyvagal-Informed Certificate for Coaches
These are the experiences that have taught me the most embodiment: the life situations that have challenged me to apply my somatic work, to repair my relationship with rest, to learn how to sit with big feelings and not run away, to learn how to let my body express instead of holding onto old stories or expectations. While as a trauma-trained practitioner my education is highly important to me, I would not be the practitioner, mentor, or guide I am today without having navigated (and continuing to navigate) life.
- Big friendship ruptures and boundary ruptures
- Breaking the cycle of devaluing my worth
- Advocating for the program experience I paid for and desire
- Navigating a toxic female manager and mentor
- Healing the intergenerational wounds of scarcity
- Maintaining healthy communication with my long-time partner
- Experiencing and healing from burnout (what I call my PhD in burnout)
- Rebuilding my capacity for experimentation + “failure”
- Getting out of shutdown and freeze and re-acclimating my system to positive sympathetic activation
- …and so many more

becoming an inner alchemist

In college, a professor affectionately dubbed me a "nibbler" (which due to my penchant for eating peanut m&m's by the chocolate first, then the peanut), I immediately said "yupp, that's me".

And I clung onto this identity for YEARS.

Because it both described my life up to that point- the various unfinished craft projects in my mom’s basement, bouncing around different after school activities, and being a particularly slow eater.

But as I clung harder to being a nibbler and even wrote my grad school entry essay on this identity, I saw it sneaking into all areas of my life, including my healing journey. I dipped my toe traditional talk therapy, hypnosis, NLP (neurolinguistic programming), yoga, read all the self-help books, and meditated all to solve the baffling reality of “why do I do what I do when I know what I know?”.

I wondered why people around me were thriving or bouncing back from challenges, while I still felt like I was trudging through quicksand.

What I’ve come to realize over time is that while I had gained a lot of insight and knowledge about myself (and read all those good self-help books), I was missing the thread that could weave all of those smaller insights together into a cohesive picture.

I learned that I was moving and operating in life from old, inherited and learned patterns. Once I acknowledged this, I was able to acknowledge that those patterns got me to where I am today, but they are no longer serving me.

So I began to learn to listen to my body’s signals and its own rhythms outside of society’s expectations and my inherited narrative. Listening to my body turned out to be the gateway I needed to feel safe and unravel the patterns that no longer served me and that were blocking me from feeling that deep sense of trust within myself.

We each have a rich history of events, traumas, patterns, and beliefs. We each have an innate desire to recalibrate our bodies to homeostasis. We each crave that understanding of how we can take all that we know and turn it into powerful, meaningful action.

It is my deep intention and purpose to help you alchemize and transmute the past, rewire your system for safety, and restore your deep sense of self-trust so that you can vibrantly step into your next phase of life.

Let's work together

i’m all about

living without regret

when we alchemize the experiences of our past, we turn the power that previously kept us stuck in cycles of regret and turn it into fuel to live our purpose.

seeing you

like the phrase from Avatar, I'm here to see, celebrate, honor, and support all parts of you. (I just don't have a cool tail that connects to the heartbeat of mother earth.)

living the anti-hustler life

I work hard, but I work within my own rhythm. AKA: I prioritize deep restorative rest, play, listening to my nervous system, and don't tie my worthiness to my productivity.

Kind Words

T, dual-licensed EMDR therapist

“I know few therapists, coaches or guides who embody a wise heart like Kayleigh.
She is a uniquely gifted healer. As wise as she is warm, curious as she is committed, daring as she is dynamic, passionate as she is playful, compassionate as she is competent, suffice it to say that on whatever healing journey you may be accompanied by this healer, you will be in the utmost capable of hands.”
Kelley Wolfe, Seeking Serenity Life Coach and Nature Photographer

“Kayleigh's approach was a balm for my nervous system and soul.
It’s a combination of sharing enlightening, important need-to-know information with her incredibly safe, respectful, compassionate and loving voice, energy and style. I love that I set my session goals before our time together, and I can honestly say my time with her far exceeded my expectations of meeting those goals.
I feel a lightness and a clarity toward my business that I did not feel before.”
Sarah Lacy

“During my time with Kayleigh I had I huge paradigm shift on, what I'd call a shadow value or limiting belief in hindsight. This defining moment has changed my life for the better.
Kayleigh is gifted at what she does and has a genuine approach to her work and helping others.
After working with Kayleigh, I was able to change my thought patterns around some huge life areas. Had I not had this time, and received the help, my life and thought life would look completely different than it does today.”

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