Amy K Melson

Somatic Coach

I'm a Certified Somatic Coach living in London. I have two little children, and we spend a lot of time in Epping Forest searching for good climbing trees.

I found somatics right after I had my first baby. It slowly shifted the question I asked myself from "I can't cope, why am I like this?" to "how do I want this to be?". 

Somatics offered me a way back into my own body, after years of living mostly in my head, cycling through the same thought loops. I stopped searching for advice and reassurance from other people, and prioritised a slower, less-than-perfect process of becoming more of myself. 

I learned that the things I was most ashamed of also held the ingredients I needed to feel whole. I discovered the joy and challenge of trusting myself and practicing showing up as me, again and again.

One of the biggest moves I made in this process was training as a coach with the Strozzi Institute (Washington DC programme). That decision now lets me do work I love: supporting people who are leading change in their lives and in the world, and who long to bring more of themselves into it too.

I mainly coach people leading change across Europe and Central Asia, many are navigating sudden, life-altering change: displacement, exile, climate crisis, abrupt funding cuts. My experience and somatic training means I can sit with the full range of what they’re carrying as they work out what leading looks like now, in a world that keeps shifting under everyone’s feet.