Susan McDaniel, ACC

Helping you move forward with clarity and purpose

Somatic Coaching for Midlife Change

Hi, I’m Susan. 

I am here to support you.

I’ve been working with individuals in a healing/helping capacity for over 25 years. As a massage and manual therapist I found deep respect for the body’s wisdom and how the healing process is unique to each of us.

Becoming a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), offered me tools to expand my facility and capacity for helping others. I discovered that by coaching, I could deeply support my clients to find choice, balance and forward movement in their lives, especially during times of change and transition.

My coaching is greatly influenced by my decades of somatic awareness practice, by recognition of the body as a portal of information and truth and by the power of being witnessed in community. Through these practices I’ve learned so much about what truly matters, how I choose to show up and what it means for me to live a life of purpose.

Virtual Sessions Across America and Canada

Susan McDaniel, ACC

Tap into the wisdom of your body, heart, mind and soul.

My coaching style is supportive, compassionate and down-to-earth, blending intuition, playfulness and a little challenge. With decades of experience in the field of healing arts, I’ve learned how physical and mental patterns form in response to life’s stresses. These patterns, while once helpful, can now hold you back. I help you recognize and move past these patterns to create a more fulfilling and balanced life.

My coaching includes embodiment techniques, visualization and awareness practices to help you gain new perspectives and self-knowledge. Through the somatic process, I support you in facing and exploring your current experiences, allowing for healthy expression and progress.

Together, we will journey through the field of creative process to help you gain insight and maximize your personal and professional potential.

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

~ Carl Jung

Core Values

Each coaching session is deeply rooted in my core values of compassion, curiosity and presence. I believe every person has the ability to grow their capacity to live a truly authentic and fulfilling life.

Compassion

I believe compassion is one of the greatest offerings we can give to ourselves and others. My coaching style is non-judgmental, empathetic, warm and caring.

Curiosity

I strive to stay curious, open and engaged in both my professional and personal life.  My intention is to honor and respect your unique view of the world and help you move toward authentic expression.

Presence

The guiding light in my life and practice is presence. By being fully available to myself and to you, there is allowance for intuition, deep listening and a synergistic connection in each session. 

Testimonials

  • “ Susan’s background in bodywork and the healing arts make her coaching style uniquely integrative and incredibly transformative.

    I started working with Susan during a stressful period of unsureness, tension, and frustration with my career. We went well beyond where I “thought” the problem was, intuitively guiding awareness directly into physical discomfort, finding pockets of unease hidden in the body, and resourcing me with tangible practices for learning from my somatic experience.

    She taught me how to tap into a wellspring of inner wisdom I didn’t know existed within myself, and feel what it actually means to integrate mind and body. After each session, I was filled with a renewed sense of optimism, energy, and possibility. Susan’s skillful and compassionate approach helped me tremendously, and I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking powerful personal growth and an ally in navigating life’s challenging transitions."

  • “The coaching sessions helped me get clarity and supported my decision to shift focus to what was calling me with more passion and aliveness. I appreciated that Susan was open to, and in fact encouraged, active listening to what was true and moving each week.  Her joyful smile felt supportive and affirming of my inquiry, and I appreciated her invitation to somatically move with and go further into potent places of discovery.

    I felt relieved to set down the burden of an “action plan” I didn’t really want to carry out, and encouraged instead to follow my intuitive knowing. Susan's caring energy and thoughtful questions were an integral part of that discovery.”

  • “Susan's presence and perception felt very welcoming to me. I could bring anything to her, and she would support me to find ways to support myself in my integrity and simplicity.

    In articulating to her how I went over my own boundaries in my business to please clients, Susan supported me to find my body sense of what I needed to do to be good to myself, and to trust that that would overflow to my clients. I have found that to be true! In working with Susan I got to feel grounded permission to be fully me in my practice.”

  • “ The way Susan set up our sessions helped me to land more deeply into myself and to mine the really important things that needed and desired my attention. I was surprised to find that within the first couple of sessions I learned much more about my self satisfaction in all areas of my life. 

    I found Susan to be a careful listener. Her guidance was kind and she sometimes challenged me in ways that were revealing. I especially appreciated the somatic approach she has when things are not clear. I have learned many tools that are accessible and helpful."