Jennifer de Chickera
Somatic coaching, breathwork, meditation and regulation, alongside nearly two decades working with people, learning and change.
You know the pattern.
It's still happening.
You've thought about it.
You've probably read about it.
Maybe you've worked on it for years and can trace it right back to where it started.
And then it's Thursday, and you're doing it again.
Understanding it isn't the same as changing it in the moment.
That's where working with the whole person can become useful.
6 sessions · £695 founding rate · online
Where might we begin?
Cancer, treatment + life after cancer
Cancer can change your relationship with almost everything.
Your body. The future. Work. Sex. Relationships. Sleep. What matters. What doesn't anymore.
You might be frightened before every scan.
Notice every sensation in your body.
Struggle to trust it again.
Feel completely different while everyone around you is waiting for things to go back to normal.
Or you may be living with a diagnosis where uncertainty isn't something you get to put behind you.
This is support for the person living through cancer, not treatment for the cancer itself.
We can work with fear and uncertainty, body trust, identity, relationships, work, meaning, agency and how you want to live from here.
This work sits alongside your medical care, never instead of it.
Health + burnout
You don't necessarily have a diagnosis.
Maybe you're exhausted but keep going anyway.
You recover just enough to start pushing again.
You know what would probably help, but somehow you're still eating lunch at your laptop, cancelling the walk and answering messages when you're supposed to be resting.
Or perhaps your body has started making it harder to ignore what isn't working.
We can look at what happens to you under pressure, the patterns that keep you overriding yourself, what supports your health and recovery, and what might need to change for life to become more sustainable.
Work + confidence
You know what you're doing until you're in that room.
The senior meeting.
The difficult conversation.
The moment you need to disagree.
Ask for more.
Set the boundary.
Be visible.
Then something changes.
We can work with confidence, visibility, boundaries, difficult relationships, leadership pressure and what happens inside you when being fully yourself suddenly feels risky.
I spent nearly two decades working across people, learning, inclusion, leadership and organisational life.
I know this world from the inside.
Life + relationships
Maybe you're the person everyone relies on.
The capable one.
The accommodating one.
The one who can carry an extraordinary amount and make it look fairly normal.
Until you don't want to anymore.
Motherhood. Relationships. Caring. Identity. Ambition. Separation. Starting again.
Or simply realising that being good at meeting everyone else's needs has made it difficult to hear your own.
We can start there.
You don't need to fit neatly into one of these.
Most humans don't.
Why work with me?
If you've become very good at coping, carrying and figuring things out in your head, you can get a long way in life. Until the same patterns show up anyway.
You may understand exactly why you do what you do. You've read the books, done the therapy, changed the habits, tried to think differently.
And still you freeze in the meeting. Overgive in the relationship. Push until you crash. Override what your body's been telling you. Make the choice you swore you wouldn't make again.
Understanding it isn't the same as changing it in the moment.
What I do is slow things down.
Enough for us to notice what is actually happening, rather than only the version you've already explained to yourself.
The pattern you learned.
What your body does just before you react.
What you're protecting.
What you need.
Where there may be more choice than it feels like there is.
Why I can do that.
I've spent nearly two decades working with people, behaviour, learning and change inside organisations, alongside training in somatics, breathwork, meditation and regulation.
And I know what it is to have your life change faster than your identity can keep up with.
What we do depends on you.
Some weeks we might spend most of the session talking.
Other times we might slow down a moment that keeps happening and notice what changes just before you freeze, withdraw, overgive, push, appease or override yourself.
Sometimes the useful thing is understanding the pattern.
Sometimes it's feeling what happens in your body when the pattern begins.
Sometimes it's practising doing something differently while you're actually here with me.
We might use breath, meditation, movement or body-based practices, or look more closely at your habits, health, relationships, identity and what happens to you under pressure.
I choose from the approaches I'm trained to use based on what we're actually working with, rather than forcing every person through the same method.
The method serves the human.
Not the other way around.
I'm not here to tell you who to become.
I'm here to help you hear yourself clearly enough to choose what happens next.
Tell me a little about what's going on before we meet. Then we'll talk it through and work out whether this feels like the right kind of support.
No pressure to continue.
6 sessions · £695 · online
I'm opening ten founding places in my private coaching practice.
We'll work together across six 60-minute sessions, usually over approximately 8 to 12 weeks.
That gives us time to understand what is happening, work with it in different ways and notice what actually changes when you bring the work into your life.
Payment can be made in full or in two instalments.
As the practice develops, the price for new private coaching clients will increase.
You book the twenty minutes. Nothing to prepare.
We talk about what's going on, and whether this is the right kind of support.
If it is, we book your six sessions at a rhythm that suits your life.
If it isn't, I'll tell you, and where possible I'll point you somewhere better.
Six sessions of sixty minutes, online, usually across eight to twelve weeks.
We'll book them at a rhythm that suits your life rather than a fixed weekly slot.
Between sessions there's usually something small to notice or try. Never homework. Just attention.
You can reschedule with 24 hours' notice. If at any point this doesn't feel like the right support, tell me and we'll stop. I'd rather that than have you continue out of politeness.
Payment in full or in two instalments.
That's what the twenty minutes is for. No preparation needed, nothing to prove, and no obligation at the end of it.
The call is free, and it isn't a sales conversation. If cost is the thing standing in the way, say so. I'd rather find a way than lose the chance to work together.
My work draws on formal training in somatic breathwork, meditation and regulation, alongside nearly two decades working with people, learning, leadership and organisational life.
I'm continuing professional training across somatic coaching, functional health coaching, trauma-informed breathwork and embodied movement.
I work within the scope of the training I hold, I'll be clear about what I'm still learning, and I'll refer on when somebody else is better placed to support you.
Stay on the path.
Life has a way of pulling us away from what matters.
We send occasional reminders to come back, alongside new concepts we're exploring, emerging research, ancient wisdom, practical ideas and things we're learning about health, healing and being human.
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