About Me
Rooted in truth and warmth
I didn’t set out to become a parenting coach. I set out to stop repeating what hurt me. To understand why I "flipped my lid" when I wanted connection. To make sense of the tension between the mother I longed to be and the woman my nervous system remembered. Parenting became my greatest teacher — revealing every part of me that still needed care, safety, and compassion.
After losing my first daughter, Sophie, I began to see how unhealed pain lives in the body — and how easily we pass on what we haven’t made peace with. When I discovered the science of the nervous system and the wisdom of somatic work, something in me exhaled. It gave language to what I had always felt: that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken, but about remembering our wholeness.
The Turning Point
There came a moment when I realized my unskilful reactions weren’t personal failures — they were echoes … of unprocessed grief, conditioned tendencies, old survival patterns, and childhood wounds doing their best to protect me. I remember standing in the kitchen after an overwhelming moment with my child — flooded with shame and confusion, furious with myself, feeling inadequate. I loved them more than anything… so why did my body react with so much anger, as if I were in danger? My body wasn’t betraying me. It was remembering the familiar shaping.It finally became clear: if I wanted to parent from my values, I first needed to listen to the truth living in my body.
Every healing path begins with a moment of trust, the willingness to keep walking, even when we can’t yet see where it leads.
The day I became aware of my own anger, truly aware, something shifted. I began noticing the shape my body took in conflict: the tightening in my chest, the heat rising, the urge to run or hide, or to get bigger and more menacing. Instead of judging these patterns, I began befriending them. Staying with myself. Offering the presence I never had growing up. Through practice — gentle, consistent, on purpose, compassionate practice — a new possibility emerged: One day, in the middle of what used to spiral, I had a choice. A breath. A moment. A door that didn’t exist before. And in that moment, I chose presence instead of fear. Connection instead of anger. That moment is where my work began to take root.
My healing began when I learned to listen to my nervous system — to pause long enough to feel what was happening inside me, to soften toward the parts that had been carrying so much, to recognize that they were doing the best they could with the tools they had. As I learned to hold myself with compassion and curiosity, everything shifted: my presence, my parenting, my ability to meet my children with connection instead of fear.
We are all born with a natural capacity for connection.
As Dr. Gordon Neufeld teaches, we enter the world as deeply social beings... wired for closeness, relationship, and attachment. But when our early environment doesn’t support those capacities, survival strategies step in. They protect us, but they also cloud the very qualities we long to embody as parents: our warmth, our patience, our playfulness, our presence.
… not to erase them, but to understand them. And when those protective layers soften, something genuine emerges: our authentic self.
The self that knows how to love.
The self that knows how to connect.
The self we were born with.
Embodied transformation
Today, through Share Peace Parenting, I guide parents to meet themselves — and their children — with compassion. My approach weaves peaceful and playful parenting, somatic awareness, attachment science, and neuroscience.It’s relational, body-based, and deeply hopeful: because every moment of reconnection rewires something ancient, creating a kinder future.
Credentials
My path has been one of deep learning — in my body, in my family, and through years of study with teachers who shaped the way I understand healing and connection. My training includes:
M.A. in Human Resources
Peaceful Parenting Coach, trained by Dr. Laura Markham
Playful Parenting Leader, certified by Dr. Lawrence Cohen
Trauma-Informed Mind-Body Coach, trained by Embody Lab
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT)
Comprehensive Course in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Dr. Dan Siegel
Continued learning in Polyvagal Theory, Attachment and Developmental Science, Interactive Meditation, Trauma and Somatic Psychology, and more
Embodied transformation is what happens when what we care about ...our values, our intentions, the parent we want to be — becomes available to us in the moments that challenge us most.
It’s the shift from knowing how we want to show up → to actually being able to access that presence when emotions run high.
When the body feels safe enough, our choices widen. Connection becomes possible. Our authentic self becomes accessible. And we respond from who we’re becoming, not from who we had to be to survive.
Meet Clara
Somatic transformation doesn’t happen in isolation, it happens in relationship. It happens through co-regulation. When we work together, I hold you with compassion and with the deep knowing that every part of you makes sense.
You have innate goodness.
You have inner wisdom.
You are not someone to fix, you are someone to understand.
From that place — of embodied awareness, of rooted love — everything begins to shift: how you respond, how you relate, how you see your child, how you see yourself. My hope is that in our work together, you feel something soften. Something settle. Something open.
That you feel seen, supported, and gently reminded of your innate capacity for love, leadership, and wholeness.
That you walk away with more than tools, with a deeper trust in yourself, a sense of safety in your body, and practices that nourish you and ripple outward into your home.
I’m not here to fix you. You’re not broken.
I’m here to walk beside you as you remember who you are, and who you are becoming.
With deep care and gratitude,
Below you’ll find the questions I hear again and again, and the heartfelt responses that reflect how I show up for you in this journey.
Our sessions are gentle, collaborative, and conversational.
We explore what’s happening in your parenting, how your body responds in difficult moments, and what parts of you are trying to protect you. I guide you through simple, accessible somatic practices that help you build awareness, softening, and regulation.
There is no performance, no pressure, no expectation.
Just curiosity, compassion, and support at the pace of your slowest part.
Not at all. Everything I teach is designed to meet you where you are. I’ll guide you gently, with practices that are simple, grounding, and easy to bring into your daily life.
You come exactly as you are — overwhelmed, reactive, exhausted, hopeful, unsure. Your nervous system is welcome in any state. You don’t have to “be ready.” We build readiness and capacity together.
Yes — this work is especially for you. Many parents feel frightened or overwhelmed by the idea of turning inward. That makes perfect sense if your body holds old stress, trauma, or loneliness.
In our sessions:
• you never have to close your eyes
• we start with the smallest possible steps
• everything happens at your pace
• we stay connected the entire time
• I guide you gently so you’re not alone with your experience
This isn’t meditation. It’s co-regulated awareness — two nervous systems creating safety together.
You don’t have to “sit still.”
You don’t have to “empty your mind.”
You don’t even need to like being in your body yet.
We begin with what is tolerable, and slowly widen your window of capacity.
Your body learns safety by being met with safety.
This is somatic, relational parenting support. It’s not therapy, though it can feel healing. It’s not traditional coaching, though it offers structure, tools, and change.
Somatic coaching is rooted in:
• nervous system science
• somatic awareness
• attachment and developmental psychology
• parts work
• peaceful and playful parenting
It supports your emotional patterns, your body’s responses, and your real-life parenting moments to become the parent you want to be.
That’s often why parents come to me.Tools don’t stick if the nervous system is overwhelmed. Scripts don’t work if your body is in survival. Strategies fall apart when your internal world doesn’t feel safe.
Somatic work creates change from the inside out —so your responses shift not because you’re trying harder, but because your capacity is growing.
Yes — not through control, but through connection. As your body feels safer and more regulated, your child’s nervous system responds.
Your presence becomes the anchor. And their behaviors begin to settle because you feel safer. Children rise or fall to the level of our regulation.
And we don’t stop there.
Together, we also brainstorm practical tools for connection and coaching — ways to guide your child with warmth, boundaries, playfulness, and empathy.
You’ll walk away with strategies that feel aligned, doable, and supportive of your child’s emotional development.
Every parent is different, but many notice shifts within the first few weeks —more awareness, more pause, fewer blowups, softer moments of repair.
Deeper, lasting transformation happens slowly and gently over time, months and even years, as your nervous system rewires old patterns, as you practice on purpose repeatedly.
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
Your body makes perfect sense.
This work meets you exactly where you are — and honors the intelligence your nervous system has been carrying for decades.
Healing is possible, and we go slow.
We move at the pace that feels safe for your body.
And because I want you to be fully supported, if at any point we notice that trauma needs deeper therapeutic care, we can talk about it together. I’m not a trauma therapist, and I don’t provide trauma treatment — but I can help you find a licensed therapist who is the right fit, while still supporting your parenting, your nervous system patterns, and your day-to-day capacity.
You don’t have to navigate any of this alone.
Thoughtful, growth-oriented parents who want to:
• understand their triggers
• break reactive cycles
• parent with presence
• build nervous system resilience
• raise emotionally healthy children
Most of my clients are parents who feel overwhelmed by big emotions — their own or their child’s — and want support that goes deeper than scripts.
You leave with:
• somatic tools you can use immediately
• internal clarity
• more awareness of your patterns
• a calmer, more anchored body
• practices that build regulation over time
• compassion for the parts of you that struggle
And most importantly — you leave feeling supported, not alone.
If you’re longing for:
• less reactivity
• more connection
• a gentler relationship with yourself
• tools that actually work under stress
• a parenting experience rooted in presence instead of fear
then this work will feel like a homecoming. Your nervous system will keep guiding you forward.