Stand-Alone Sessions:
Contemplative Coaching for Personal Growth

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Private, 70-minute, 1:1 sessions for a question, decision, relationship, conflict, or experience that needs your full attention.

Sometimes you do not need another program or an ongoing commitment.

You need a place to bring one thing that is happening now.

A decision you keep circling. A relationship you cannot quite make sense of. An emotion that feels larger than the immediate situation. A professional, creative, personal, or spiritual question that needs more attention than you can give it alone.

During this session, we slow down, get specific about what you are experiencing, and explore what may be happening beneath the question or difficulty you bring.

You will leave with greater clarity about what is happening and at least one specific way to continue working with it after our session.

Clarity does not always mean having an answer. Sometimes it means more spaciousness, wiser questions, a new way of meeting what is happening, or a deeper understanding of your experience.

What’s possible during our time together?

Seventy minutes will not resolve what took years to form. I want us to have realistic expectations about what one session can do. One session can change your relationship to what you bring, and that change is real.

Sometimes the change is something you can feel in your body. Sometimes a question that has been circling finally takes shape and moves you into new possibilities.

You may begin to understand what is happening beneath the immediate problem, why a decision has felt impossible, or why a relationship or conflict has been so difficult to make sense of.

A feeling, need, or truth that has been difficult to reach may become more accessible. You may recognize where your own desire has been tangled with fear, obligation, urgency, shame, or someone else’s expectations.

At other times, the shift is in how you are able to be with the experience itself. You may find that you can stay with an emotion you had been trying to solve, suppress, or move past. You may see the situation from a perspective you could not reach alone. Or you may feel the relief of being accompanied inside something you have been carrying by yourself.

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You may leave with a clearer sense of what needs your attention now and what does not need to be forced.

That might mean having a conversation, setting a boundary, taking action, resting, grieving, reflecting, gathering more information, allowing more time, or recognizing that ongoing support would be useful.

Sometimes the most important clarity is understanding what kind of support you need next, whether that involves me or not.

The outcome may not be resolution. It may be movement, a more honest question, a clearer understanding of what you need, or the beginning of a different way of meeting what is already here.

About Valerie

Valerie Louis, PhD, SEP, is an interdisciplinary practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in somatic work, spiritual practice, energy healing, ritual, education, and contemplative practice.

She brings together the body, emotions, spirituality, relationships, culture, and human development rather than approaching an experience through one narrow lens.

Her breadth of training supports the depth of her work, allowing her to hold complexity, notice connections, and help clients understand the deeper layers of what may be asking for attention.

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Modalities & Wisdom:

  • Cultivating Connection to Self and Soul

  • Multidimensional Inquiry

  • Spiritual Connection and Healing

  • Intersectional Social Analysis

  • Somatic Exploration

More About Valerie:

  • PhD in Educational Studies

  • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner

  • Level 3 Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner

  • Master of Natural Theology in Sacred Healing

  • Ordained non-denominational Minister of Healing

  • More than 1,200 hands on hours of training in energy healing, pastoral care, and spiritual arts

  • Training in mediumship, trance channeling, ritual, ceremony, yoga, iRest Yoga Nidra, creativity coaching, and SoulCollage®

Outside of her work, Valerie loves reading, researching, making art, exploring tarot, listening to music, collecting resources, watching television, going for walks, and spending time with her cats.

Pricing & Scheduling

I ask that you complete an intake form before we meet so we begin what is most pressing for you.

We meet for 70 minutes together on Zoom. I encourage you to give yourself some time after our meeting to capture some notes and give some space for reflection.

After our meeting I will send a few short notes from the session with insights (main themes, next steps, invitations for practice).

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

1 Virtual Zoom Session (70 minutes)
$265

Reflective note from our session

Schedule Here

If you would like a more immersive support, please see Inner Alchemy Coaching HERE

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This is not therapy not and is not a replacement for it. Therapy often centers on understanding what happened and why. Our work together centers on living from what your understanding & lived experience. If you are currently working with a therapist, this work can complement that relationship rather than compete with it.

    This is contemplative coaching for personal growth and healing. It is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, mental-health treatment, crisis care, or a substitute for medical or psychiatric care.

  • No. Spiritual connection is one thread among several, and you decide how much of that lens we use. Nothing here asks you to believe anything. What matters more is your willingness to be curious, to sit with questions, and to consider possibilities you may not have considered before.

  • This work is built around you, not society’s expectations of you. Your sensory experience, your pacing, your ways of processing, your capacity, and your ways of moving through the world are treated as meaningful information rather than problems to overcome. There is no protocol here to fit yourself into. And no expectation for how a person or a nervous system is to be in this space.

  • No this is not a session for crisis work. Crisis requires more time and a different scope of practice not provided in these sessions.

  • CLICK HERE to schedule. You will be taken to my calendar and to an intake form to fill out before we meet.

  • Cost for 1:1 standalone coaching session is $275

  • You can send a message HERE

  • Sessions are 75 minutes and take place virtually, so we can work together wherever you are.

  • Yes.

    The session is complete in itself, but it can also give you direct experience of how I work before you consider a longer commitment.