The Skill Every Coach Should Master: Holding Safe, Compassionate Space
- Course
- 11 Lessons
Because your clients don’t just bring goals. They bring fears, nervous system patterns, and tender stories.
FREE VIDEO TRAINING FOR COACHES & WELLNESS PRACTITIONERS
A 6 part video series teaching coaches essential tools & techniques for safe, trauma informed space holding through a compassion focused approach.
If These Feel Familiar… You’re in the Right Place
You Care About Creating Safety First
If you're a coach, therapist, or space holder (or you want to be), then you already know: your clients need to feel safe with you. Not just emotionally, but physically and energetically, too.
In this training, you’ll learn how to become a regulated, trustworthy presence—so your words, your energy, and even your silence help your clients feel grounded and supported.
Especially when they come to you holding stress, overwhelm, or trauma in their nervous system.
You Want to See the Whole Picture
You know healing isn’t just mindset.
And it’s not just the body either.
This training will help you look at your clients through a truly holistic lens—considering their mental, emotional, physical, and environmental realities.
Because real transformation happens when you see the whole person.
You Want to Feel Truly Confident in Your Work
Your clients can feel it when you're second-guessing yourself.
Especially the ones who already carry anxiety or trauma.
They’re looking for someone who can hold their experience with calm, solid presence.
If imposter syndrome, doubt, or perfectionism is holding you back, this training will help you work through that—so you can start trusting your intuition and owning your space.
What You’ll Walk Away With (That Most Coaches Are Missing):
1️⃣ The real reason so many coaches struggle to hold deep, compassionate space—and how to shift it (hint: it’s probably not what you think)
2️⃣ A clear understanding of what “safety” actually means in a client relationship—and the 3 things you need to start integrating right away
3️⃣ The concept of “spaciousness” through a trauma-informed lens—how to create more room for big emotions without overwhelming your clients
4️⃣ 3 simple but powerful micro-communication tools that help clients feel seen, heard, and deeply understood
5️⃣ A whole-body approach to coaching—why combining top-down and bottom-up tools creates real transformation
6️⃣ The #1 practice to move through imposter syndrome and finally feel proud, aligned, and courageous in your work
7️⃣ What ethical care and long-term growth actually look like as a space holder—and why your evolution matters just as much as your tools
PLUS! You’ll receive a bonus 75-minute webinar recording. In this special session (originally hosted by Nikki for a group of psychologists, coaches, and practitioners), you’ll learn how to safely and compassionately hold space when clients experience big, difficult emotions. Discover the basics of emotional avoidance and shame, how these beliefs often develop in childhood, and a series of cognitive and somatic practices you can integrate into your sessions right away.
This bonus training will deepen your understanding and give you even more tools to support your clients when they need it most.
Imagine a newfound sense of confidence in yourself which ripples into transformative client experiences
Start Learning Immediately!
Meet Your Lead Facilitator
Nikki Heyder
Nikki Heyder is a qualified, trauma informed Psychotherapist (MC), E-RYT Yoga Therapist & Somatic Coach, and former Nutritional Therapist (BHSc Nut) who has worked for over a decade within the wellness industry. She has also completed additional training under trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate and his team - completing over 240 hours in Compassionate Inquiry (a psychotherapeutic somatic approach to healing trauma) along with additional trauma treatment training & certifications with Dr West-Olatunji, Dr Dan Siegel, Arielle Schwartz, and Dr Albert Wong.
Nikki is deeply committed and driven by a heart centered approach of healing meaning that compassion, safety, and trust in her clients is of utmost importance to her successful, growing practice.
Having worked extensively with clients suffering with eating disorders, addiction, PTSD and complex trauma, she has fine tuned her unique holistic approach of attuning to mind, emotion, body and spirit through a multi-modality framework which incorporates talk therapy, CBT, somatic experiencing, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices.