Holistic Coaching

Your nervous system holds onto the story until you're open to changing it.

One-on-one coaching to help the client self-discover what the pain, grief, and stuck energy is trying to teach us. What if we could begin to have compassion for our challenges rather than shame them?

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What I Do

Coaching people to consider new possibilities beyond their ego attachments.

Mike Palmer, holistic coach
Mike Palmer
The Four Realms
Literal the story or symptom
Metaphoric what it means to you
Paradoxical how it serves you
Creative who you become next

Most of us are aware of our challenges and our patterns, but unaware of the subconscious belief that is driving those patterns.

I work with people carrying body pain, emotional pain, and trauma that hasn't fully resolved — the kind that outlasts a diagnosis, a breakup, a loss, or a hard year that never quite ended.

Sessions draw on four different ways to process and integrate your life's experience. We do this by not just acknowledging the literal story or symptom, but also considering the metaphoric meaning and paradoxical possibility. From here we create a new belief or perception from a higher level of consciousness.

This isn't a technique applied to you. It's a conversation with your own body and history, with me as the guide who knows the terrain.

The Approach

Four realms of healing

This is the same framework I use in every session — four levels of consciousness, each one built on the level before it. We always start at the literal and rise from there.

Spiritual
Human Consciousness
Literal
We start with your literal story or symptom — tangible and physical, the place you're actually standing.
Know yourself
Metaphoric
Discover what things represent to you.
Know your associationsAttaching to Emotions
Paradoxical
Giving your pain purpose.
Removing EmotionFinding Balance
Creative
Create new life experiences with the wisdom and lessons from your past.
Higher ConsciousnessLiving not Surviving
A New Perception
Who This Helps

If you're carrying any of this, there's a place to bring it.

Body pain
Chronic tension, pain, or physical symptoms that persist after the medical explanations run out.
Emotional weight
Grief, anxiety, anger, or numbness that's outlasted the event that caused it.
Trauma
Past experiences that still shape how you respond to the present, even years later.
Life transitions
A season of change — loss, illness, a relationship ending, an identity shift — that needs somewhere to be processed, not just powered through.
Sessions

Meet wherever you are

In Person

For those local and ready for face-to-face work in the room together.

Zoom

Full sessions from wherever you are, with the same depth of attention.

FaceTime

A simpler, more personal option for returning clients who prefer it.

Get Started

How much longer do you want to hold onto the old story?

Reach out and tell me a little about what's going on. I'll follow up to find a time that works, in person, on Zoom, or FaceTime.

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