RELATIONSHIP COACHING

INTIMATE, AUTHENTIC, FULFILLING RELATIONSHIPS

Wild River offers personal, effective 1-1 coaching to help you transform the relationships in your life.

This is for all relationships - friendships, family, romantic, dating, professional, and community ties.

This is for you if:

  • You can’t seem to connect as deeply as you want with others, even people that you care about. You know, deep inside, that there is more for you out of life, especially in your relationships, but you don’t know how to get there. You wonder if what you want exists or is attainable for you.

  • When you get overwhelmed, you either shut down, freeze, or get snippy. You wish you could better express yourself and communicate what you need.

  • You tend to either isolate yourself or go along with what everyone else wants, and then feel drained or resentful later. 

  • You don’t let others deeply see you or feel that there aren’t people who can meet you in your depths.

  • You avoid confrontation and want to seem easy. This works for a bit, but it ends in either you feeling frustrated or, later, overreacting to somewhat small issues. 

  • You overthink or get stuck in perfectionism. You find yourself replaying conversations and wondering if you said the right thing. You can go back and forth a lot before making decisions, or second-guess after you've made them. 

  • You get told, or feel internally, that you are too emotional, sensitive, or need too much, OR are constantly told how easy you are and you don’t know how to take up space.

  • You care a lot about personal growth, spirituality, and how you show up in your life. Despite doing the work, the same patterns keep repeating themselves. You want connections that match the growth you’ve done internally, and crave relationships that feel soul-nourishing and aligned.

Where you want to go:

  • Feel emotionally close, relaxed, understood, and safe being yourself in your relationships.

  • Remain clear-headed during conflict and communicate what you need in a calm, grounded, and effective manner. 

  • Deeply know yourself, your needs, and what you most want, and understand what steps help you get these things. 

  • Experience more magic, joy, and fulfillment in all areas of your life.

  • Trust yourself to choose partners, friends, and community who align with your values, needs, and emotional availability. 

  • Feel confident in your decisions.

  • Be embraced, rather than just tolerated, for who you are and all that you offer. 

  • Resolve and correct the underlying patterns that you haven’t yet been able to shake. 

  • Cultivate reciprocal, honest, and nourishing relationships. 

  • Feel filled up, rather than depleted, after connection and socializing.

  • Enjoy profound self-acceptance and self-love.

  • Trust your intuition and connect with your body.

  • Deep feelers, deep thinkers.

  • Spiritually inclined and devoted to their personal growth.

  • High performing, intelligent, and capable.

  • Highly value authenticity, personal responsibility, and depth. 

  • Tendency to overthink, overfunction, and overgive.

  • Ready to set down the roles of caretaker, performer, or people pleaser. 

Who I support:

Work With Me

  • 1-hour Zoom sessions with Sam, held weekly or bi-weekly based on your preference.

  • This is ongoing support, designed to be flexible and tailored to your needs. While results occur immediately, I ask all new clients to commit to at least 8 sessions to allow time for measurable progress. Most clients choose to work with me for 12-18 months or longer. You are welcome to continue for as long as it feels productive and aligned, and you can stop at any time.

  • Sessions are conversational but structured. I’ll guide us through reflection, embodiment, or emotional work based on what’s coming up for you. Every session ends with integration steps or reflection prompts to continue the momentum.

  • Our work together draws from my full toolkit, including coaching, somatic practices to foster mind-body connection, Human Design for self-understanding, and energy healing for nervous system regulation, allowing us to customize the approach for your unique journey.

  • See below for a note on mental health credentials.

NEXT STEP: Book a free consultation call so we can connect, discuss your needs, and see if this work is a fit for you. This will be a no-pressure conversation to get to know each other and explore how we can work together.

HOW IS WILD RIVER DIFFERENT?

Mind-Body Connection and Somatic Processing

Strengthening the mind-body connection is one of the most effective ways to build confidence, self-understanding, and the ability to regulate. However, many therapeutic and coaching models overlook it. Not only does this connection help you in your day-to-day, it also facilitates profound healing. You will keep repeating the same patterns and feeling stuck in the same fears until you heal the wounds that created them. One of the most effective ways to heal those wounds is through somatic processing (the use of mind-body techniques to process difficult experiences). Wild River teaches you to tap into the wisdom of your body to create lasting change.

Inner Child Work, Parts Work, and Guided Emotional Inquiry

Wild River utilizes several methods to help you explore your inner landscape, especially the younger parts of you that formed core beliefs and coping strategies. Through inner child work and parts work, we identify the origins of your emotional patterns, bring awareness and compassion to previously unmet needs, and create space for new responses. These practices help you understand, contextualize, and regulate your emotions, which is essential to cultivating fulfilling and healthy relationships.

Intuition and Spiritual Reflection

You are a spiritually curious person, so your support should make space for that curiosity. Wild River believes that your intuition is valuable, and your Soul is wildly intelligent–both should be listened to! This method also explores spiritual truths, including the importance of prioritizing love and compassion, connecting with nature, and trusting your path.  

Wild River Method

The Wild River method focuses on five key components to developing intimate, authentic, and fulfilling relationships: 

  1. Self-Awareness: Identifying and understanding your needs, desires, boundaries, triggers, and patterns. 

  2. Emotional Intelligence: See below.

  3. Healing and Repatterning: Gently addressing the unresolved wounds and formative experiences that shaped your current relational patterns.

  4. Communication: Grounded, effective, and honest communication of needs, boundaries, and desires, including during conflict. 

  5. Emotional Regulation: Managing and processing emotions, especially challenging emotions, in real time.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is an essential skill for intimate, authentic, and fulfilling relationships. However, most adults today were never taught that skill. A key component of Wild River coaching is building your emotional intelligence, which includes the ability to recognize an emotion, understand the context around it, label it, express it appropriately, and regulate it. While many coaching models focus solely on mindset or communication tips, Wild River goes deeper by helping you work with the root emotional patterns that drive your reactions.

Bridge Spiritual Inquiry with Practicality

Though Wild River centers spirituality as a key tool in personal development, this work is equally pragmatic. Being able to connect with your intuition, feel Spirit, and read energy will help you feel at home in this world. But relationships take more than good energy and prayer. We blend the mystical with the practical to provide grounded tools, approaches, and practices that actually help you in the day-to-day, especially with those in your life who have different spiritual inclinations.

APPROACH TO HEALING & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Before focusing on relationship coaching, I offered coaching on emotional health and spiritual healing. In doing that work, I developed a healing model that facilitates an emotionally healthy, fulfilling, and vibrant life. In the video below, I describe this approach.

Even though I now focus on relationship coaching, the principles in this video are the same. In relationship coaching, we work on many of these things to enable better communication, intimacy, authenticity, and emotional intelligence.

Watch this video to get a better sense of my approach to coaching and personal development.

  • Authenticity and Self-Trust: You stop overfunctioning, people-pleasing, or trying to be “good enough” to be loved. You trust yourself. You express who you really are, which gives you more purpose and confidence.

  • Attract Better Relationships: You stop settling for connections that drain, confuse, or diminish you. As your self-worth and clarity grow, so does your discernment. You begin to attract and build relationships that are rooted in mutual respect, emotional safety, inspiration, and soul-level compatibility, whether romantic, platonic, or professional.

  • Deepened Spiritual Connection: Continuous spiritual exploration in our work together allows for a richer, more meaningful connection to yourself and the greater universe. I help you define what spirituality means to you and how you want to connect with it.

  • Practical Tools for Life: You’ll gain actionable strategies and practical tools for managing stress, relationships, and challenges that arise, creating a foundation for lifelong growth.

  • Safe Space for Reflection: Ongoing support provides a consistent, safe space where you can reflect on your experiences, feel heard, and receive guidance without judgment.

This extended journey facilitates a more profound and lasting transformation than ad hoc sessions can allow, helping you to embody the changes you seek and fully experience life as authentic, vibrant and purposeful.

This work is only really effective when you are ready to grow and evolve in your life. You don’t have to know how it is going to work, how to make the changes, or how it will look, but you do need to be ready and desiring of the change. If you are, book a consultation call and we can explore if ongoing support is a good fit for you.

Coaching offers a sustained, transformative experience that allows for deeper healing, growth, and integration over time. Here are some of the key benefits and outcomes you can expect:

  • Fulfillment in Relationships: You begin to experience relationships that feel mutual, safe, and deeply satisfying. Whether romantic, platonic, familial, or professional, you show up more honestly and invite others to do the same.

  • Intimacy and Visibility: You let yourself be seen without shame or over-explaining. You learn to express your truth clearly and receive others with curiosity and compassion, creating real closeness.

  • Happier and More Supported: You stop doubting your needs or feeling like they’re “too much.” You learn to identify, advocate for, and hold boundaries around what matters most, without guilt or shutdown, and as a result, get what you actually want.

  • Emotional Intelligence & Regulation: You get better at recognizing your emotions, naming them, and staying grounded through difficult moments. You don’t spiral or shut down like you used to. Your nervous system becomes your ally.

  • Breaking Old Patterns: You unravel outdated dynamics. You learn your patterns, explore where they came from, and change them. This lets you live with more choice, rather than reacting from an emotional place.

  • Stronger Boundaries: Coaching allows you to practice and refine boundary-setting in real-time, making them more effective and easier to maintain. This is a key skill that most people need support in developing.

HOW COACHING CAN HELP YOU:

WHAT PAST CLIENTS ARE SAYING:

  • “Through this relatively short amount of time working together, you have helped me feel heard, celebrated, brave, pushed, and proud of myself. You strike the perfect balance of being supportive and offering actionable advice. You are a friend I can't wait to catch up with and a mentor who I can't wait to learn from. You are a talented meditation leader and I always walk away feeling more grounded. Initially, I thought I would only budget a few months worth of funds towards my coaching sessions, and now I can't imagine moving forward in my life without them. These sessions are a reminder that I am worth this time, this ritual, and this inner knowing. I can't wait to continue to be your sponge and flow through this journey with you!” - D.M.

  • “I don’t even know where to begin! My work with Sam has been completely transformational. She is such a light, and just being in her energy makes me feel better, supported, and like I have a partner and trusted advisor in all that I do. I’ve worked with Sam throughout my mid-twenties and together we’ve navigated a lot! A few of the things she has supported me through include: body image, issues with self-worth and self-belief, career clarity, disempowering sexual experiences, a breakup, spiritual guidance, and emotional regulation. She’s given me tools to better connect with myself, stop judging myself, and embrace who I am.” N.A.

  • “I feel like I haven’t ever found adequate words to describe how much I received from working with you. I think it is in the top 5 most important decisions I made that have had the most significance on the trajectory of my life for good. I can never express enough gratitude for you and sharing your gifts with me.” A.A.

  • “The coaching you provide fulfills my life in a way that traditional talk therapy has never been able to. Untangling my trauma with each guided meditation, has led me to deep rooted work that I'm empowered to do ( not forced ). You have helped me relate to meditation, making deep breaths and imagination reliable to ground me on the heaviest days. During my time with you I have learned to trust my small voice. The louder things get, the more important it is to get quiet and listen. I have learned that I love to be alone and I am not crazy. Being submerged in the mystical can only bring love and light, if you choose. I have learned that I like moving slowly. And how I want to be love/what doesn't feel loving. I have learned a lot about love.” - A.M.

  • “Before working with Sam, my relationship with myself was safe & solid – there was a limit to which I allowed myself to feel. I've since become more aware that restricting myself to these 'safer' emotions throttled my experience of life, limited my connection to others, and plateaued my own evolution. After working with Sam, my love for self (& other) has expanded and so have the boundaries of these safety structures – I have greater confidence & trust to feel bigger emotions. This allows me to go deeper into spiritual work which would have otherwise been overwhelming; it has also made it more comfortable for me to expand, to grow, and to feel more of life & more of myself.” - S. D.

  • “I wasn’t the same person when I left ongoing support with Sam, I started to feel and process buried things and come out of the other side with compassion for my past self and hope for the future, and the beginning of an awakening to a new kind of connection to spirituality and a curiosity to dive into many new things since my mind wasn’t obsessed with cruel thoughts and ruminations of my past mistakes. Over the past two years I have felt the impact of this work in every area of my life. I have been able to navigate challenging life events, heartache, religious deconstruction, and also fun new opportunities that would have felt too scary to try before, but now I have the capacity to handle more joy in my life. I am so grateful that I took a chance and invested in myself to learn from Sam!” - A.A.

  • “I have worked with a number of therapists with various specialties over my lifetime, and I have never felt so supported by anyone the way I have with you. The ongoing kindness, understanding, flexibility, and accessibility to your practice has changed my life. I feel a closeness to you in a way I would never feel comfortable relating in a professional setting, which has opened me up to healing quicker than years of therapy. I have felt you are truly a resource that is safe to rely on.” A.M.

  • “Our time together has helped fuel me into the artist that I am. You helped me feel comfortable being alive. Your dedication to yourself, and your story, has inspired me to share mine. You have helped me feel safe in being seen for all that I am.” A.M.

  • “As someone who is very spiritual yet also very "of the world," I’ve struggled to find spiritual healers who can relate to both aspects of my life. Sam totally gets this and walks the line perfectly.

    She understands me. She meets me where I am at in every session and is incredibly patient with me. She remembers our work and the intimate details of my journey, often tying in prior context to illuminate something new or to celebrate my progress.

    Sam is also full of joy. There’s a misconception that healing needs to be difficult, sad, and scary. While it sometimes is, it can also be joyful and funny! Though I have spent plenty of time crying with Sam, we often laugh in sessions together, which is exactly what I need.” -N.A.

  • “Working with Sam in ongoing support can have very much a kind of ripple effect in your life because as you learn to embrace yourself from your heart, more and more can come in. Sam is really, really gentle and really aware and really intuitive about how she responds to what she hears regardless of where it is. I just found her gentle guidance to be something that really put me in a very nice, high vibrating place to attract more high vibrating things.” R.B.

BOOK A CONSULTATION CALL AND LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

NEXT STEP: CONSULTATION CALL

This 30-minute free consultation call is a relaxed, no-pressure opportunity for us to get to know each other. We'll discuss your goals, challenges, and personal journey, and I’ll be available to answer any questions you may have.

If you’re considering working together, this is the perfect place to start. It allows us to both explore if this feels like the right fit for your needs and desires.

A NOTE ON MENTAL HEALTH CREDENTIALS

This work is not a substitute for therapy. I am not a mental health practitioner.

I encourage everyone to explore working with a therapist at some point in their life. Therapists can be phenomenal resources, and at times, necessary solutions. Nearly all Wild River coaching clients have worked with a licensed therapist at some point. My work can be a great complement to therapy, or something clients explore after completing a therapeutic relationship. Wild River coaching is a way to build on skills learned in therapy or other personal development spaces, address lingering patterns and wounds, explore spiritual dimensions, strengthen the mind-body relationship and intuition, and bring in a greater emphasis on the Soul and Spirit.

Wild River coaching does not offer mental health treatment. While I am skilled at working with people navigating emotional pain, I work with those who feel emotionally resourced in their day-to-day lives. If you're currently in a mental health crisis, navigating acute trauma, addiction, or symptoms of serious mental illness, I strongly encourage seeking the support of a licensed therapist or clinical team.