Skilled support for
deep feelers &
sensitive souls.
welcome
THIS IS A space where people ARE NOT problemS to figure out or fix
It is a space where we understand that pushing people past their edges in the name of healing and growth just adds stress to an already stressed nervous system. Welcome to a space where we understand that we’re all whole human beings who have been through the fire and crave healing through presence, empathy, and skill.
-1:1 private practice
-Group Programs
-Self Paced Courses
For Individuals & For Professionals
The weight of trauma, the exhaustion of chronic health struggles, and the tenderness of being deeply sensitive in a world that doesn’t always make space for you can result in a life that feels overwhelming and challenging.
I’m here with you for all of it.
Through 1:1 work, group programs and self paced courses, I offer gentle, effective and fiercely compassionate support for complex & developmental trauma, attachment wounds & lasting nervous system regulation to help you feel steady, grounded and alive.
I also offer mentorship and guidance for therapists & coaches. You have a dual role - you’re a professional, AND you’re a human with your own need for support.
I believe it’s not truly possible to - and important not to - separate the human being from the professional, and so all facets of who you are are very welcome in spaces with me.
Bring your whole self - the challenges that come with holding transformative spaces for others while staying grounded in your own well being, your client and business questions, your life outside of work.
The foundation of all of my offerings is a skillful weave of somatic psychology, embodied nervous system co-regulation work, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, trauma-informed mindfulness, and many other threads. This work is gentle yet powerful - clients are often surprised by the depth of their results without having to push or work so hard.
Offerings for Individuals
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1:1 Private Practice
Gentle, effective 1:1 support that promotes nervous system regulation, supports healing of complex trauma and attachment wounds, and helps you feel alive and steady.
Read more and book a free 25 minute consult to see if we’re a good fit through the button below.
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Group Program
Join the waitlist for Embrace, a 9 month group program designed to wrap around you in 360 degrees of support. Including live group calls, guided audio practices, writing prompts, an online community space and optional 1:1 sessions.
Next group: September, 2025.
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Self Paced Courses
My self paced courses are available on Insight Timer, and are designed to offer nervous system regulation for trauma healing support.
If you’re curious, scroll down to receive Welcoming Presence for free, or click below to find me on Insight Timer.
Welcoming Presence:
Nervous System Regulation for Trauma Healing Support
This heartfelt 7-Day recorded experience offers a new way to welcome ourselves into the present moment.
7 Days of Deepening Into Practice Together
WHETHER YOU’RE IN A PROCESS OF HEALING TRAUMA OR DEEPENING YOUR COMMITMENT TO EMBODYING SELF-COMPASSION,
THIS COURSE HELPS YOU OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF HEALING THAT ARE ALREADY INNATE IN YOU.
Expect to learn new concepts around nervous system regulation and healing, to be guided in 15-25 minute daily practices, meditate, breathe, move, laugh, love it, hate it, and everywhere in between.
Take what you love and leave the rest.
1:1 Client Story
Shelby has a great gift for creating a generous, co-creative therapeutic relationship as well as fabulous somatic skill sets that really supported my nervous system. Journeys of trauma healing and collective myths of trauma recovery are playing out all around us. I see her work and presence as providing a rare, crucial sanctuary and a lighthouse for us to navigate that journey together. I am so grateful for my time with her and will definitely work with her again."
“Her steadiness, compassion, and fierce presence provided a deep balm to my soul and my most tender wounded parts. She shared her wisdom, and provided accurate reflection when I needed it the most. Her embodied awareness of trauma healing provided a map, a vital orienting when I was feeling truly lost and overwhelmed and could not find that anywhere else.
"I’ve been working with Shelby 1:1 through one of the most intense unravelings of my life thus far. She’s helped me find resurrection."
Dara
(United States)
Offerings for Professionals
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1:1 Mentoring
1:1 sessions where I bring my 20+ years of experience in creating creating and holding transformative spaces to support you in your client practice, your business, and your life.
Book a free 15 minute consult to see if we’re a good fit through the button below.
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Group Program
Join the waitlist for Body of Work:
A 10-month program for coaches and therapists who want to develop their practice through somatic expansion and community.
Understand what’s happening beneath the surface in yourself and your clients, and in your patient/ caregiver relationships.
Become grounded in your craft and build self-trust that’s fiercely compassionate.
Next group: September, 2025.
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Self Paced Course
Trauma comes in many forms and affects us all in different ways.
Creating Safer Space is a self paced online course that will teach you simple, effective, trauma-informed tools you can use immediately to level up your space holding skills for the people you support.
Learn how to regulate your nervous system and feel settled, centered, and supported so that others can lean fully into your care.
Client Story
“I remember being with her in retreat in Mexico and being captivated by her and her presence. Every chance I've had to be with her and learn from her since then, I've taken. She is a deep well of knowledge and embodied experience around the nervous system and trauma.
I've been in multiple rounds of her Embodied Coaching Experience (Body of Work Program) that offers something deeply needed in the coaching and therapy fields... ongoing, embodied, trauma-aware, self-sourced "supervision"/ consultation for people holding space for others. And, now I work with her as my personal coach and mentor.
"I've worked with Shelby in just about every capacity possible over the last four years. First I was taught and guided by her as a senior teacher & trauma specialist in my intensive coaching certification.”
Her course, Creating Safer Space, is nervous system + trauma awareness for coaches, counselors, facilitators, body workers, teachers... and its information and experience I wish I had in my earlier years of teaching and coaching. It's information I wish school teachers had. It's definitely information I wish medical professionals had.
It has given me tools to stay more settled in my own system and confident to meet whatever may arise in my client sessions. And tools to be sure my clients are able to fully receive what I have to offer. Not to mention the differences nervous system + trauma awareness has made in my mothering and marriage."
Intimacy and Empowerment Coach
(Los Angeles, California)
Kendra Cover
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I’m Shelby
I am a licensed somatic psychotherapist, twice-certified coach, and trauma specialist with over fifteen years of experience supporting people with complex & developmental trauma in a holistic and non-pathologizing way.
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