Testimonials
Radical Impact:
“In terms of a sense of intervention or shift, sessions with you have the most radical and tangible impact than I experience in any other sort of venue. I leave feeling “ok, I’m totally different now.” ~ SD, Non-profit executive
Accessing My Core:
“Your work cuts through what would take several sessions with an average psychotherapist or healer, and you can do it in just one session. It’s so efficient, so clear, it just cuts through layers and layers in one swoop of the sword.” ~ JG, yoga teacher and healer
Communicating with Parts of Me I Can’t Hear:
“You are actually able to communicate with a part of me or with my guides that I sometimes can’t hear. So it’s almost like you have an insider’s track to me, in a way, that sometimes I can’t access. So I can hear my deepest wisdom most clearly through you, and I don’t think any other coach or healer working in any other way would be able to do that.” ~ LC, Sustainability Consultant
Giving Voice to the Whispers:
“I moved to San Francisco from Chicago knowing no one. I remember thinking, ‘I can reinvent myself, be whoever I want to be now.’ I was firmly agnostic, but started to feel there was something at my core begging expression. What started as a playful experiment eventually became a grueling self-exploration. I remember hitting a lot of walls because I was such a pragmatist. I promised myself that I would approach my work with complete honesty and refused to take the ‘fake it ‘til I make it approach when it came to a critical leap of faith. I met up with Sonya, and, in a way I cannot express, something cracked open beyond my intellectual understanding: a most wonderful point-of-no-return and divine example of the teacher appearing when the student is ready. Sonya has been, and continues to be, the most potent spiritual catalyst in my life.” ~ MA, writer and actor
Embracing All Aspects of Self:
“As a healer, Sonya has the rare gift of integrating profound spiritual insight with psychological depth, which speaks to her own highly developed personal and spiritual self. With her truly loving and accepting presence, she embraces all aspects of one's self, including the many paradoxes and limitations we inhabit. Her remarkable insight and presence allows others to truly be seen and understood in a healing and transformative way.” ~ JF, psychotherapist
Healing Original Wounds:
“Each time I meet with this vivacious sprite of a woman I keep marveling at how so much wisdom has been packed into such a youthful person. Sonya has seen me through a number of issues and she’s been able to meet me in whatever realm I presented. Her clear perspective offers both lightness and depth but she has shown a flexibility of being able to work in many ranges of experience. For example, I’ve been amazed at her ability to stay firmly anchored within her loving self while being able to match and hold the energy of powerful emotions within a particularly explosive marital conflict. And she’s been able to help me navigate through deeper complexities of abuse from a spiritual teacher. I’m impressed with her ability to unravel threads and stacks of history around traumatic experiences so that the original wounding has a chance to heal. She’s consistently able to point to ever deepening truth while energetically healing inner children that still show up to be heard and seen. Sonya’s familiarity and clear devotion to the spiritual realms expresses through all she does, and it expresses in very practical, balanced ways.” ~ HC, cranio-sacral practitioner
The Power of Unconditional Love and Non-Judgment:
“Sonya has been a significant support for my awakening process at several junctures along the way and across many years. In particular, Sonya has been an essential resource for me as I have learned to fully embody and live from an awakened view. Recently, when I was presented with a major life decision, Sonya supported me in the exploration and richness available to me within the decision-making process. She did this by holding the process with unconditional love and non-judgment. By opening the range of possibilities to include any outcome without ideas or pre-conditions, Sonya steered me gently towards a larger view. This brought more compassion, love and acceptance to my process than I had been able to find on my own. She also helped me to see new possibilities for myself and my life that I had not yet considered. With her guidance and loving support, I was able to address my life circumstances creatively and – more importantly – I was able to deepen the sense of truth and potential in myself and in the world around me.” ~ SD, non-profit executive
Dark Night of the Soul:
“I first found Sonya when I was in the depths of a three-year long ‘dark night of the soul.’ In my very first session with her, Sonya helped me to gain a broader perspective of how this dark time was serving me, how it fit into the overall cycles and patterns of my life and how to move through it with more ease and lightness. She also accurately predicted about how much longer it would last – which is good to know when you are in a place of thinking it will last forever!
One of the things I love about working with Sonya is that she holds me in a place of wholeness and unconditional love and acceptance no matter what I am working through. I feel that I can bring up anything and it will be held with honor and gentleness. Because Sonya has experienced a deep awakening and embodiment of that awakening, she can use her psychic/intuitive gifts to see her clients’ process, life patterns and spiritual path from a viewpoint and in a context that most intuitives and healers simply cannot. Sonya somehow gracefully manages to be a healer, intuitive, counselor and spiritual guide all wrapped up into one amazing being!” ~ AM, mother and consultant
Support for Our Deepest Parts:
“Sonya holds the kind of space that is vast and powerfully safe and genuine. I feel seen, deeply heard, loved, and completely guided through the container that she creates. She is truly a gift to my life and her presence has helped me through transitions, loss, and my thirst to "see" all the untruths I have always held on to. She has supported me in the deepest parts of me that I assumed were so dark and unpleasant, and reminded me of the light and safety when we are "willing" to uncover them. She truly shares this gift of guidance and internal "journeying" with humility, deep love, and even laughter at our own humanness.
My being has been touched by Sonya in ways that I cannot put into words, but my life and view of who I am has been phenomenally transformed. I am now pursuing truth in my relationship, my calling in my career, and am receiving the magnitude of abundance in my life like never before. Sonya is a deeply powerful and beautiful blessing and her deep inquiry has opened up my life, my heart, and the "new" reflection I see in the mirror today.” ~ JD, Hospice Counselor
Coming Through Emotional Fog to Clarity:
“When I first starting seeing Sonya, over 3 years ago, I was having trouble seeing through the thick fog of my emotional body and feeling tossed around like a rag doll. It was difficult to see the multiple, and often contradictory, messages inside of me. Sonya has an extraordinary way of extracting and seeing into the most subtle layers of my being and then inviting me to see new perspectives and essentially embrace all of these aspects and cries for wholeness. Since working with Sonya I feel more connected to trusting my inner authority, my emotions as counselor and my fear as placeholders for my journey back home.
In addition to the individual work I've received with Sonya my partner and I have engaged in couples sessions too. Sonya has allowed us to embrace and step into the fullness of who we are and to allow the relationship to die and rebirth itself over and over again. She has the ability and wisdom to first tune into our 'readiness' to receive before she will unveil a 'hidden' belief system that we may be very protective of or attached to. Ironically what could appear to be a threat to those parts of us ends up landing like a soft embrace. Each of us are continually invited to be with the reality that unfolds from these moments. Essentially she always brings us back to what's true. Her ability to shift perspectives and challenge my limiting beliefs, assumptions and vulnerable protective mechanisms feels like a sword made of roses.
I'm deeply grateful for her profound ability to stay in her experience, allowing me to feel the clear mirror and safety to meet whatever arises. The level of trust is profound. One of the most powerful gifts about working with Sonya is that I know she will move from love and truth rather than making me feel better, in the moment, or coddling a false identity. She is fearless and moves from the deepest essence of being.” ~ AM, Business and Life Coach
