About
"I hold a space where your own sources of embodied intelligence can surface, allowing you to make sustainable, effective changes towards your vision."
-- Dr. Chrysalis
Chrysalis is an Integral Professional Life Coach trained under Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Academy LLC, an ICF-certified program. With a former academic background and Master’s in comparative constitutional law from UC Berkeley (UCB), Chrysalis traversed her own career transformation and obtained a doctorate degree in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
Her professional background includes copywriting and copyediting in the fields of holistic health and wellness, East-West spiritual traditions, as well as teaching instruction at Kaplan International in Berkeley.
Chrysalis has been an academic scholarship recipient at both UCB and CIIS and was a Distinguished Writing Fellow from 2017-2022 for the Center for Writing and Scholarship at CIIS. Her doctoral study involved an inquiry into intersectional cumulative trauma for multi-marginalized populations as a queer woman of color feminist researcher, and in 2021, she obtained an Intersectionality & Equity in Therapeutic Practices certification. Most recently, she has studied the tools and practices of nonviolent communication and the philosophy of nonviolence for both her personal and professional work.
Chrysalis Integral Coaching is informed by:
yoga
qigong
mindfulness & meditation
somatic practices
12 Step
Butoh
Jungian archetype / dream analysis
A Short Message from Me to You
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With my graduate studies in depth-somatic psychology and dissertation work in inter-sectional cumulative trauma, my coaching approach is grounded in current understandings from somatic and embodied neuroscience research, as well as my own meditation and movement practices of over two decades.
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Offering holistic, embodied coaching is important to me because many coaching approaches (like much of Western culture) overemphasize purely rational, linear, or hierarchical understandings of growth, meaning, and accomplishment. With the social and cultural context of our troubled world today, my mission is to guide individuals into a deeper relationship with their body's own unique intelligence and creativity in achieving their goals. It is a sacred joy to witness clients shifting out of paralysis or a "stuck" behavior pattern by honoring the workings of the mind-body connection, taking next steps from a more embodied space, and actualizing new visions even in the face of old fears and belief systems. I would love to talk with you about how this works!