Empower your Authentic Self -Professional Coaching with Alyssa Herzig, PhD
Cultivate emotional intelligence, relational fulfillment, and the freedom of emotional mastery
"Alyssa has helped me immensely with negative self talk, self doubt, lack of confidence and lack of connection with myself. As a result I’m happier, finding peace and learning to love myself, believing in myself more and more and
improving my relationships with those around me..."
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Jo Taylor, Australia
Meet Alyssa Herzig, PhD
PhD, MA in Clinical Psychology
Coaching for Emotions, Relationships, and Authentic living
Are you struggling with navigating painful emotions, critical self-talk, fear of rejection or abandonment, confusion, or feeling stuck? Do you long for a deeper sense of aliveness, purpose, and connection in your life?
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Welcome to my coaching services! I specialize in one-on-one online coaching to guide you in the realms of emotions, relationships, self-worth, and living from your authentic and energized self.
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My mission and passion involve developing and sharing leading-edge knowledge and skills for navigating emotional, relational, and personal growth challenges. I'm dedicated to empowering you in experiencing the harmony, peace, flow, love, and vibrant energy you desire.
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My coaching approach is strongly grounded in mindfulness (present moment awareness), experiencing the body (somatics), and whole-self acceptance. We'll focus on identifying and meeting your emotional needs, balancing your nervous system, deepening consciousness and presence, and pursuing your goals while cultivating inner vitality. I offer a completely safe, non-judgement space where I will welcome and show you how to accept every part of you.​​
To show you through embodied experience how to:
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Connect with your inner truth, clarity and knowing
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Navigate and process emotions and experience in healthy ways (rather than stuff down or avoid pain),
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Balancing your nervous system
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Identify, meet and communicate your emotional needs and boundaries,
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Create harmony in relationships and with the outside world without sacrificing yourself,
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Turn your inner critic into an effective inner coach and create an inner world that feels safe, peaceful, and supportive, and inspired
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Step into your power, and live in alignment with your deepest desires and purpose
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The outcome of this is often relief, peace, grounding, inner trust, joy, increased energy, and purpose.
My Mission & Passion
Coaching Focuses
Sessions can focus on one or more of the following:
Emotions, Safety & Needs
Fighting with and suppressing big emotions produces profound inner turmoil and stifles your vitality. My primary specialization is in supporting clients in navigating the emotional realm and their inner world with increased safety, confidence, and mastery. This can include navigating overwhelming emotions, or learning to feel and express emotions for the first time. Learn how to regulate your nervous systems in the present moment, identify and meet your emotional needs as they come up, such as unmet needs for connection, and to express our authentic self, and feel seen, believed, validated, cared for, safe, loved, and free.
Relationship & Communication
Learn to create more connection and harmony in your relationships with a significant other, yourself, and other important people in your life. Learn to navigate conflicting needs, wants and feelings, in ways that feel more authentic and aligned. Uplevel your communication skills. This work may involve helping clients who are experiencing insecure attachments to better identify, honour, communicate, and meet their emotional needs and boundaries. It can also involve working with clients to navigate ethical non-monogamy and explore sexuality in ways that feel safe and empowering. Finally, it may involve improving communication with coworkers, friends, and children.
Self worth, Empowerment & Purpose
In my coaching, I have developed a particular interest in guiding people to let go of shame and self-criticism and to cultivate self-worth, self-love, and self-acceptance. Feeling self-worth and inner peace often begins with a decision and commitment to set a standard and explore prioritizing this need above a need to avoid any disconnection or conflict. Common barriers include intense fear and shame. I enjoy creating a safe and welcoming space for clients to explore their true selves. I want you to feel that you have your back and to feel safe in your body and mind, as it is now. I deeply appreciate my work in guiding clients to identify and care for their most vulnerable or challenging parts, as well as their deep wounds, desires, needs, and challenging emotions. Through this integration process, clients come to feel more empowered, grounded, and peaceful
Boundaries & Saying No
There are many reasons why our needs and boundaries can be routinely dismissed and violated by ourselves or others. Regardless of the reason, we usually feel stressed, fearful, or angry as a result. Meanwhile, enforcing boundaries can feel terrifying or impossible. Let's get unstuck together.
Increasing your energy and vitality
Your vital energy is the wellspring of your joy, health, and capacity to create your deepest desires. In our work together, you'll be guided in identifying the barriers blocking or draining your inner reservoir, while exploring emotional, spiritual, and lifestyle practices that replenish and amplify your life force.
Integration of psychedelic experience
In 2020, I received training in and began offering psychedelic integration sessions. This means I can offer you a safe space to process after your experiences.
If you’re interested in multiple focuses, that’s great! These processes fit well together. To date, I have worked with many hundreds of clients and have provided approximately 6000 hours of sessions. I cannot describe the full variety of goals I support clients in working towards. I will be happy to have a free 15-minute consultations with you, during which we can discuss what you’re looking for and I can answer any questions you have about working together. I’m looking forward to our growth journey!
What Makes me different
My interests, education, and philosophy set me up to offer you a unique coaching experience:
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My PhD included rigorous training in both clinical and research best practices, which inform my coaching approach. See my professional bio.
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My approach is highly trauma-informed, as I am drawing on my extensive experience working with clients who have endured relational trauma. While I am not currently licensed to treat trauma, I can teach you how to care for your wounded parts in ways that promote inner safety. See my note on licensing.
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​ As a coach, my approach is practical and directive (if you prefer). I offer clear tools and strategies, with step-by-step instructions for implementing them at home, for you to create the transformation you desire.
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My approach is somatic, experiential, and evidence-based. I accompany you in connecting with the wisdom of your own body through felt experience. This method allows you to perceive, feel and understand your current experiences and coping strategies with deep awareness. You will be guided in practicing new habits and feeling their effects on a physical, emotional, and energetic levels. This approach reaches far beyond the intellectual focus of talk therapies, and equips you in becoming your own expert knower.
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This approach aims at empowering you as you become your inner knower and as you build trust in relating with your body, mind, and needs, and with others.
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This approach works well with both secular and spiritual frameworks. For those who are open, I combine evidence-based practices with mystical practices which help you to transform your nervous system reactions and your beliefs.
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Everything I guide you through is something I practice in my own life.
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This is a safe space—I support LGBTQA+, ethical non-monogamy, sex positivity, and various spiritual, religious, as well as secular frameworks.
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I also offer psychedelic integration sessions. This means I provide a safe space for you to process your experiences.
To book a session or a free 15-minute consultation, please fill out this form or send me an email at the address below.​
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Individual sessions are available via videoconference and by phone.
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50-minute sessions - $150 + taxes
80-minute sessions - $225 + taxes​
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*Please note, sessions are unlikely to be covered by your insurance unless you have flexible coverage for coaching and wellness.
Get in Touch or Book your Free Consultation
Working with Alyssa the past year has been an incredible life changing experience. Her empathetic, nonjudgmental approach made me feel comfortable being vulnerable with her right away. She gave me practical, easy to follow instructions that quickly helped grow a sense of unconditional love for myself that I always lacked. . .
- Tim Ulmer, Montreal
Alyssa created a safe space where I felt comfortable being vulnerable. She showed me how to connect with my emotions and ultimately how to take care of them. I feel much less alone than when we started, she’s taught me the true meaning of self care and self love. . .
- Daniel B., Montreal
A note on licensing, titles, and insurance coverage
I am not registered with any provincial licensing body for psychologists. Therefore, my title is ‘coach’, not ‘psychologist' and I offer coaching, not psychotherapy. This means, I am not licensed to diagnose or treat mental disorders or to offer psychotherapy. I do not practice in the field of psychiatry.
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You'll have to check with your private insurance to find out if they will cover our sessions through coaching, consulting, or education.