Breath
Conscious breathwork settles the nervous system you have spent the week regulating for other people, before anything else begins.
Coaching for Therapists · Los Angeles
Coaching for therapists in Los Angeles: support built for you, not your caseload
Therapists who have been through a lot of coaching programs and are still depleted, still stuck in cycles insight alone will not break. Coaching for therapists at our Los Angeles studio blends reiki, breathwork, and movement with direct coaching conversation to restore capacity, rebuild boundaries, and reach the nervous system, not add more analysis to a body already carrying plenty. Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam are a married Usui Reiki Master Teacher team who know your clinical world.
By complimentary discovery call · In-person & virtual · Private Los Angeles studio
Certified Reiki Master Teachers
Married practitioner team · six years supporting therapists
The Approach
What is coaching for therapists, and how is it different?
Coaching for therapists is a professional support container focused on the clinician's own wellbeing and capacity, not their client caseload or private practice revenue. It is not clinical supervision, and it is not therapy, which the American Psychological Association describes as licensed treatment for mental-health conditions. Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam are Certified Reiki Master Teachers and coaches, not licensed mental-health therapists, and coaching here is a complement to your own therapy and supervision, never a substitute for either.
Word of Mouth coaches therapists using body-based practices that supervision and personal therapy rarely include: reiki, breathwork, movement, and direct coaching conversation. The goal is to restore what the clinical week takes out of a practitioner, not to add more cognitive analysis to a body that is already carrying plenty.
Why Talk Alone Is Not Enough
Signs you have hit the wall more insight will not fix
Therapists are skilled self-analysts. The wall is not about understanding the problem. It is the problem living in the body at a level understanding alone cannot shift.
Emptied out, not energized
Finishing the last session of the day depleted rather than replenished, even by work you believe in.
Insight that does not move anything
Your own therapy gives you clarity, but the clarity does not shift anything felt in the body.
No release mechanism
Secondary trauma and countertransference accumulating week over week, with nothing built in to move it.
A caseload that outgrew your restoration practice
Your caseload has grown. Your own restoration practice has stayed exactly the same size.
Reiki, breathwork, and classical movement work at the physiological layer where conversation stops. Each session opens by locating where the week's weight has landed in the body, then works there directly. Explore reiki for therapists.
Your Session
What a coaching session looks like for a therapist
Every session opens with a conversation that locates where the week's clinical weight has landed in the body, then moves through breath, body, energy, and conversation in order.
Body
Classical Pilates-informed movement restores grounded physical presence after a week spent holding stillness for clients.
Energy
Reiki supports the energetic layer, where secondary trauma and countertransference often sit unspoken between sessions.
Conversation
Coaching conversation follows once the body is ready to receive it. The insights that surface tend to be sharper than talk alone.
Two Paths
Coaching paths built for where you are right now
Every path is confirmed together on a complimentary discovery call, priced to the container, not to a fixed menu.
1:1 Holistic Coaching
A 3-month weekly container combining reiki, breathwork, movement, and coaching conversation. In-person at the Los Angeles studio or virtual.
Learn about holistic coaching →One-on-one coaching is $4,500 for twelve weeks, in three payments of $1,500 every four weeks, or $4,200 if you pay in full. Your free discovery call is where we work out whether it fits.
In Their Words
What coaching clients say
HYIM VIBE
As a licensed clinical mental health therapist as well as a Reiki practitioner for over two decades, I must say that my experience with Jamie was profoundly nurturing as well as professional and poignant. I walked away both feeling wiser and calmer while also more present and uplifted. I will definitely be referring clients to her work as part of their healing journey and I will be back to Jamie and Word of Mouth. Thank you again.
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William Kendig
I am finally having conversations with myself that are loving. I don't know how I survived so long without feeling love for myself. I met Jaime and Yonatan through a class they taught. In that short class I learned things that started to change my life immediately. The amount of suffering in my life started to ease. I decided to get a consultation with them and see if we were a good fit. Since then I have healed and grown in ways I only thought possible in books and movies. I have felt so much love, my love. I have felt joy, fulfillment, sorrow, closure, awe. I've started being authentic with myself. Yes authentic with others as well. I feel safe with Yonatan and Jaime. I have shared things/burdens I have never shared with anyone, because until them I thought trust was an illusion, an act, a game of dare or chicken. I now know what trust feels like. I now know how it feels to feel safe. Safe in my head and safe with two amazing beings that continue to listen, guide, and nurture.
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Good Questions
Coaching for therapists, answered
Honest answers about scope, ethics, and how this fits alongside your own licensure and care.
No. Supervision is a clinical and regulatory relationship focused on client welfare and licensure accountability. Coaching here is a personal support relationship using somatic, energetic, and coaching tools. It does not replace supervision and does not count toward licensure hours.
Yes. Receiving coaching, reiki, or somatic coaching from a non-licensed practitioner is not a licensure or ethics violation for therapists. It is comparable to receiving acupuncture or massage. We do not provide therapy or supervision. For board-specific questions, we are happy to clarify our scope on a call.
Yes. Our therapist client base includes LMFTs, LCSWs, psychologists, and associates. We also work with coaches, bodyworkers, and healers who are not licensed clinicians. Programs are designed for anyone who holds space for others professionally.
We do not diagnose, treat, or provide clinical services. Reiki, breathwork, and movement coaching are complementary wellness modalities. We are transparent about scope in every intake. If what you are carrying needs clinical care, we will say so and refer you.
One-on-one coaching is $4,500 for twelve weeks, in three payments of $1,500 every four weeks, or $4,200 if you pay in full. Many therapists consider coaching a professional development expense; consult your CPA about deductibility. We are not a CEU provider.
Both options are available. Our Los Angeles studio near Melrose and Highland is open for in-person sessions. Coaching also runs on Zoom, wherever you live.
Every coaching program starts with a discovery call designed to help you decide whether this is the right next step, not to sell you on it. If you are not a fit, we will say so and point you toward something that is.
Ready When You Are
Ready to stop absorbing and start receiving?
The discovery call is free, no-obligation, and not a sales pitch. We will map what a coaching container could look like for you, in-person at our Los Angeles studio or virtually.
More Ways In
Other paths at Word of Mouth
Holistic Coaching
Mind, body, and energy coaching for clients who have hit the talk-therapy plateau.
Holistic coaching →Reiki for Therapists
Hands-on and hands-off reiki to restore capacity between sessions of holding space for others.
Reiki for therapists →Burnout Recovery
Body-based support for depletion, compassion fatigue, and a caseload that has outgrown your capacity.
Burnout recovery →