I’m Anda from Coaching with Anda — a somatic, intuitive integration coach

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Live from the inside out and move from overwhelmed and porous to grounded, protected, and confidently intuitive.​

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I work with highly sensitive, spiritually rooted women- often healers and creatives- who want change they can feel. Blending trauma informed somatic coaching with simple micro-practices, I help clients go from frazzled to peaceful. I’m a trained educator and group facilitator with extensive experience teaching in community, spiritual, and medical settings.

 

I move through the world as a gentle visionary. My gift is seeing what others can’t yet—and helping them step into it without fear. I bring compassionate presence, gentle optimism, visionary pattern‑seeing, and an ease with energy. As a nonverbal, visual thinker, I intuitively notice patterns and potentials others often miss—then translate those visions into simple, embodied practices that help people feel at home in themselves, especially in the evenings, when sensitivity is often at its highest.

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Teaching has always been one of my core gifts. I began as a teacher in church settings, creating and leading children’s programs, facilitating Bible studies, and speaking to large groups as a missionary. From there, I moved into medical education as a gynecological teaching assistant, training small groups of students in breast and pelvic exams with a focus on consent, safety, and compassionate care. I later went on to teach SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) nurses, deepening my skills in trauma-informed education, space-holding, and group facilitation. Alongside my undergraduate minor in Education, this background grounds my work as a coach in clear communication, attuned teaching, and an ability to “read the room” and adapt to what’s truly needed.

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A reclamation: how I found my way home

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For over fifteen years, I stayed in a place that never truly fit. I moved back to West Michigan because I didn’t say “no.” I didn’t set a boundary. I gave my power away.

 

It was familiar—the shops, the dunes, the Lake, the bakeries and ice cream—but deep in my gut I knew I wasn’t meant to be there. The conservative culture and the lingering influence of a church I had already left kept me small.

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When I walked away from Christianity, I lost most of my community. Even outside the church, the region echoed beliefs I no longer held. I felt hopeless, lonely, confused—and convinced I was the problem. Then I lost a job I hated. Just before that time, sitting in ceremony with psilocybin loosened old patterns and opened a new pathways.

 

Beneath it all, a clear knowing rose up:

You have to get out.

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It wasn’t logical or strategic. It was cellular—a remembering. If I stayed, I would have shrunk into nothing. I had to go. Around the same time, I met my partner, who felt the same pull. Something in us recognized the truth in each other and gave us both the strength to move.

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So we left—not just a job, a town, or a state, but the entire region. We traded the Midwest for the Pacific Northwest. My partner, our animals, and I drove 2300 miles to Southern Oregon. Our first night on the road, we camped in an enchanted forest beside a babbling stream. Lying on an air mattress in our tent, I felt my soul take a breath of fresh air I didn’t even know  it needed.

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This was more than a move. It was a reclamation.

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Since then, I’ve built more aligned friendships and networks in months than I had in years. I’m learning what it means to be supported, not stifled. I live next to a giant forest where I listen to frogs and crickets and stargaze at night. I’m in a thriving partnership I once didn’t believe I was worthy of.

 

And I launched my business—alive, earning, and growing.

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I’m not just surviving anymore. I’m alive. This is what happens when we stop waiting for permission—and choose to trust ourselves instead.

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Now, whether I’m guiding someone through postpartum transitions, supporting integration after a plant‑medicine journey, coaching highly sensitive people, or leading workshops on subtle allies, my aim is the same: to nurture authenticity, sovereignty, and wholeness.

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My work is rooted in lived experience and deep healing; that healing includes somatics, energy therapy, coaching art therapy, group therapy, and plant medicine. I’ve sat with psilocybin, ayahuasca, kambo, and cactus medicine—each offering clarity, compassion, and the exact medicine I needed at different stages of life. These journeys helped me meet the complexity of my story—not to bypass it, but to integrate it.

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That story includes surviving childhood sexual assault, growing up with an intense parent, moving alot, enduring an ultra‑conservative, cult‑like Christian college, and later leaving Christianity after a seminary degree and years in ministry. I’ve had to unravel religious wounding, toxic femininity, and the lifelong ache of not belonging.

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An autism and ADHD diagnosis at 42 brought new understanding to lifelong challenges with work, education, and self‑talk. Living with the tension between off‑the‑charts nonverbal intelligence and “just” above‑average verbal skills made traditional education disorienting and isolating. Plant medicine helped me meet these pieces of myself with compassion—not to erase them, but to weave them into wholeness.

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My work now is to help others do the same: to turn fragmentation into wholeness, insight into action, and sensitivity into sacred strength.

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Training & credentials

I didn’t just wander into this work—I trained for it, and I live it. Over 20 years, I’ve contributed more than 3,000 hours supporting hundreds of individuals and groups in ministry mentoring, survivor advocacy, postpartum care, plant medicine integration and integrative coaching.

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• Education: M.A. in Theology and Organizational Leadership, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary

• Coaching: Certified Integral Associate Coach (Integral Coaching Canada); trained in Somatic Coaching (The Somatic School, UK)

• Teaching and Facilitation: Minor in Education with 10+ years of teaching experience; Former gynecological teaching assistant training medical students in breast and pelvic exams; Advanced instructor for SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) nurses; Extensive experience leading groups in community and spiritual settings (children’s programs, adult study groups, and public speaking)

• Postpartum Support: Certified postpartum doula (Innate Traditions, The Matrona, Lasava)

• Energy: Eden Energy Medicine Foundations

• Spiritual Study: Incarnational Spirituality; training with Ariya Lorenz

• Advocacy: Former patient advocate with a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program—supporting survivors and training medical professionals in compassionate care

• Personal Growth: Living Sexology with Dr. Willow Brown; Mindvalley’s Lifebook​

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✨ My role isn’t to carry answers. It’s to hold grounded, compassionate space so you can live life upgraded by skillfully and intuitively turn your sensitivity into a super power

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