Somatic Executive Coaching for founders and leaders in Tech

Through talking therapy you made sense of what’s going on. But the pattern keeps running.

The pattern is familiar across most of my clients. You’re high-performing in your work. You’re known as someone who has it together. And quietly, in the parts of your life nobody sees on LinkedIn, you feel things are getting thin. Things hit you more deeply, small triggers get you off the rails, you snap at colleagues and loved ones.

You feel like

You can’t control your reactions sometimes.
Sleepless nights are taking over and wearing you out more and more.
You are snappy (or toxic) in close relationships. You can see that clearly yet can’t seem to change.
There are behavioral or emotional patterns that are running the show instead of calm and collected you.
Under pressure, your worst is coming up and it’s taking over.

And you want to

Stop running on adrenaline as the operating system.
A relationship with your body that feels like a place you live, instead of a place you manage.
Respond the way you want to under pressure, instead of the way your nervous system has been rehearsing for thirty years.
Less constriction in the chest, more space in the breath, more capacity for what your day actually asks of you.

How somatic work integrates with leadership and founder coaching

Many of my clients started with the leadership or founder version of the work and discovered the somatic layer was where the actual change came from. Some started here and the leadership shifts followed. This is body-based neuroscience. Somatic Experiencing was developed by Peter Levine starting in the 1970s as a body-based protocol for nervous system regulation, originally focused on trauma and increasingly applied in high-performance contexts.

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We will focus on key areas for your leadership development:

A nervous system that returns to baseline faster after a hard conversation, a hard email, a hard week.
A different relationship to anxiety, where it shows up less often and stays for less time.
The capacity to feel uncomfortable without immediately needing to fix it, distract from it, or manage it.

This is where leading others, your team and your business meet your personal development. If you break through a ceiling, your company will level up too.

Plan your free somatic leadership session

Because the body learned the pattern, the body has to be part of changing it.

1. Mapping: What your nervous system is actually doing right now

The first sessions are diagnostic in a body-based way. We track what’s happening in your shoulders, your jaw, your gut, your breath. Where you hold. What triggers a contraction. What relaxes it. No incense or looking at the stars. We just get accurate about your specific nervous system patterns, because that’s the data the rest of the work needs to start.

2. Titration: Small steps and careful pacing

Somatic Experiencing is built on titration. Tiny doses of activation, with careful return to safety, so your nervous system learns to do the work itself rather than being pushed through it. You won’t be flooded. You won’t be cathartised. You won’t be asked to relive something traumatic in graphic detail. Most clients tell me sessions feel slow, almost boring on the surface, with significant body shifts they still register in the days afterwards.

3. Integration: Living the shifts through new patterns

The work continues between sessions in small ways. A different response to a familiar trigger. A breath taken before a hard email. Sleep that resembles sleep. We work weekly or every other week to start, then space out as the work integrates. Most somatic engagements run 3 to 6 months.

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See what other leaders are saying about working with me as their leadership coach

“Miguel has helped me to find the confidence, the right tools and the courage to improve in my managerial position in my startup. With his friendly, challenging and insightful coach appraoch, he helped me to navigate through hard moments in my life and my career, and to handle anxiety and stress related to my job. I would warmly recommend Miguel!”

Nikolas Gaio – startup coaching testimonial

Nikolas Gaio, PhD

CTO and Founder at BI/OND

One of my previous employers was generous enough to offer me coaching sessions with Miguel. And that was the best career advice I ever get in my life. Every session was just an eye-opening experience on how to overcome difficulties and grow. After these sessions I feel that I became a better version of myself. I highly recommend Miguel for his professionalism, personal attitude and experience..

ALEKSANDR ARAKELOV

Engineering Manager

“Through the coaching with Miguel I got to know myself better and find simple ways to move out of my comfort zone. It enabled me to show up more with my team and stakeholders and to work on my personal and professional development. I feel ready and confident to go out in the world and achieve much more. Working with Miguel was enormous fun and I can recommend him 100% as coach.”

Ivo Hristov

Team manager at Gucci

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Somatic Executive Coaching FAQ’s

Is this therapy?

No. Coaching, not therapy. The tools overlap with somatic therapy. The frame here is coaching, not clinical mental health treatment. If you have an active diagnosis of PTSD, complex trauma, or another condition that needs clinical care, we’ll talk about whether somatic coaching is appropriate alongside or in place of working with a therapist.

Do I need to have ‘trauma’ to do this work?

No. Somatic work is useful for anyone whose body is holding patterns their mind can’t change. That includes high-functioning people with no clinical diagnosis. Most of my clients arrive without a trauma label and leave with the same view of themselves they came in with, just with their nervous system in a much better place.

I’ve never been comfortable in my body. Is this for me?

Often this is exactly the place to start. The pacing is gentle. The work happens in small doses you can integrate. Body-disconnect is a common starting point, not a disqualifier.

How long before I notice change?

Most clients notice nervous system shifts within 4 to 6 sessions. Bigger pattern change runs 4 to 6 months. The slow part is giving your body time to trust the new pattern enough to use it under pressure.

What’s the difference between somatic experiencing and yoga or meditation?

Yoga and meditation are general regulation practices. Useful, broad, not specifically targeted at nervous system patterns. Somatic Experiencing is a clinical protocol for working with specific patterns of activation and discharge in your nervous system. Different tool, different precision, different outcomes.

I’ve worked with a somatic practitioner before. What might be different here?

Different practitioner, different blend. I’m SE certified, which is one specific lineage in the broader somatic field. I also bring leadership and founder coaching experience, which means the work integrates with the rest of your life rather than sitting in a separate room.

How do I know if this is right for me?

A few signals. You’ve already done the cognitive work and feel the next layer waiting. You know what your patterns are and can’t seem to change them. You’re high-functioning on the outside and quietly worse than you let on. You’re somatic-curious and allergic to spiritual language. Any of those land? The free first session is the easiest way to find out.

Somatic Executive Coaching

For those of us whose head-based tools have stopped working