Intimacy Perspectives

Intimacy Perspectives Relational Counseling, Depth Psychotherapy & Soul Guidance

This is a practice devoted to awakening consciousness, cultivating a zone of mindful, heart-centered self-development, social and emotional intelligence, purpose, passion and integrity. Working in an integrative way with a variety of methods including: somatic, affect regulation, cognitive therapeutics, movement, inquiry and deep relational processing, we can collaborate to co-create intensive growth, transformation and healing

05/08/2026

💬 How are you moving through everything that’s coming up right now?

These are complex times. There’s a lot of distress, fear, and emotional weight — not just personally, but collectively. It can feel like we’re carrying more than we know what to do with.

This is why we’re creating this space. ✨

A place to slow down, feel what’s there, and work with it — rather than pushing it aside. Through practices like journaling, meditation, breathwork, movement, and expressive arts, we create space to process, release, and reconnect.

We also come together in a relational way — witnessing, supporting, and holding space for one another as we move through what’s real.

This is an invitation to come as you are, and to give yourself time to reset, reconnect, and find a sense of steadiness within.

From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage
📅 May 16, 2-4pm | 📍 San Leandro, CA

👉🏼 Register here: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

05/06/2026

Are you feeling the intensity of these times? 🙏🏼

So much is moving — personally and collectively. The constant stimulation, the news, the pressure… it can leave a lot sitting inside us, unprocessed.

🌿 That’s why Claudia and I are creating this space.

A space to slow down.
To feel what’s there.
To gently turn toward the shadow — and bring light to it.

Through relational connection, breathwork, and expressive practices, we’ll move through what’s been held and create space for something new. 💗

You’re welcome to come exactly as you are — whether you feel open, overwhelmed, or somewhere in between.

From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage
📅 May 16, 2-4pm | 📍 San Leandro, CA

👉🏼 Registration link: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

05/04/2026

“You have the capacity to arouse many emotions in me… please choose carefully.”

⚡️ We are living in a wide emotional field right now — love, grief, anger, hopelessness, courage, grace, kindness… often all in the same day.

The real question is: how do we navigate it without losing ourselves?

For me, resilience comes from awareness, grounding, and connection — and also from humor, softness, and shared humanity.

That’s what Claudia Weitkemper and I are creating space for in our experiential journey in San Leandro.

A place to slow down, ground, and metabolize what we feel together — through breathwork, sensory awareness, movement, and relational witnessing.

Not alone, but in connection. With presence. With care.

From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage
📅 May 16
📍 San Leandro, CA

If you’d like to learn more or join us, reach out or register through the link: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

04/30/2026

Emotions move through us like notes on a keyboard. 🎹

Some are heavy. Some are light. Some are loud, others quiet.
But all of them are part of the human experience — especially in these intense times we’re living in.

The question isn’t how to avoid what we feel.
It’s how to navigate and metabolize the full range of emotions moving through us — individually and collectively.

That’s why Claudia Weitkemper and I are coming together to offer a guided experiential journey — a space to ground, connect, and work with the energies that are present in our lives right now.

Through breathwork, movement practices, relational witnessing, and honest communication, we create opportunities for connection, resonance, and a sense of belonging — supported by humor, kindness, and care along the way.

From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage
📅 May 16
📍 San Leandro, CA

If you’d like to learn more or join us, reach out or register through the link: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

We are living in intense times — emotionally, personally, and collectively. ⚡️From fear and grief to courage and connect...
04/28/2026

We are living in intense times — emotionally, personally, and collectively. ⚡️

From fear and grief to courage and connection, we are moving through a wide range of human experience. The question is not how to avoid it, but how to stay present with it, together.

From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage is an experiential journey I am leading together with Claudia Weitkemper, created as a space to slow down, reconnect, and work with what is present in us.

💗 Through breathwork, movement, meditation, expressive practices, and relational witnessing, we explore how to stay with experience rather than turn away from it.

A space for presence. For awareness. For connection.

📍 Saturday, May 16 | San Leandro, CA

👉🏼 If this speaks to you, you’re welcome to join us: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

04/24/2026

Anyone else feeling a full range of emotions lately? ⚡️

Our emotions are like a keyboard with a full spectrum of keys — fear, anger, grief, anxiety, love, joy, kindness — that interplay as music in our lives. In the turbulence of our times, learning to meet and metabolize these energies is possible with presence and practice.

What I keep returning to is the importance of awareness and connection. The goal isn’t to get rid of difficult emotions, but to notice, stay tuned and relational, witnessing with honesty, grace and courage.

🌿 This is the work I care deeply about — learning how to stay engaged with life, even when it’s challenging, and how to be in relationship with others while we do it.

On May 16 in San Leandro, we’ll be gathering for an experiential afternoon of breathwork, movement, meditation, expressive practices, and relational witnessing as part of our workshop, From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage.

👉🏼 If you would like to join us, you can sign up here: https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

💬 What has been most present for you emotionally these days?

We are living in intense times marked by fear, loss, disconnection, and immense uncertainty, emotions that call upon or ...
04/21/2026

We are living in intense times marked by fear, loss, disconnection, and immense uncertainty, emotions that call upon or courage, kindness, compassion and authentic, relational connection.

✨ From Shadow to Light: Facing Fear, Awakening Courage is an experiential, embodied journey through breath and sensory awareness, expressive practices, visualization, and relational witnessing — supporting a return to honesty, inner awareness, and authentic connection.

This workshop is an invitation to slow down and turn toward what is real. To stay present with what arises, rather than turning away from it. Together, we will create a space where emotions can be acknowledged, expressed, and met with care. 🙏🏼

You are welcome to come as you are.

📅 Saturday, May 16
⏰ 2:00–6:00 PM
📍 San Leandro, CA

Join us for an afternoon of breathwork, movement and expressive practices, meditation, and relational witnessing in a supportive group setting:

https://fromshadowtolight.eventbrite.com

🔔 A gentle final reminder.This Sunday we’ll gather for Breathing Thru Grief — a small, intentional workshop to slow down...
03/27/2026

🔔 A gentle final reminder.

This Sunday we’ll gather for Breathing Thru Grief — a small, intentional workshop to slow down, breathe, and meet what you’ve been carrying.

This is a space for presence, not performance.
For support, not advice.
For grief to be held with care.

Registration will be closing soon to preserve the intimacy of the group.

If this has been quietly on your mind, you can trust that.

📅 Sunday, March 29 | 12–4 PM
📍 San Leandro, CA

We would be honored to hold this space with you.

🔔 Register here: https://www.breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

Grief doesn’t always look dramatic.Sometimes it looks like “I’m fine.”Sometimes it looks like moving through the day wit...
03/20/2026

Grief doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like “I’m fine.”
Sometimes it looks like moving through the day without much room to pause.
Sometimes it lives quietly, without having had a place to be spoken or shared.

We don’t always have spaces where grief can land.

Breathing Through Grief is a small, in-person workshop created with that in mind — a place to slow down, breathe, and gently turn toward what has been carried, often without enough support or attention.

Through breath, somatic awareness, and shared presence, we create a space where you can feel, notice, and be witnessed with care.

There is no need to justify what you feel, or to compare it to anything else. Only an invitation to come as you are.

Sunday, March 29 | 12–4 PM
San Leandro, CA

Registration: https://www.breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

🔔 A gentle reminder:Early bird pricing for Breathing Thru Grief ends today.If this space has been calling you, this may ...
03/13/2026

🔔 A gentle reminder:

Early bird pricing for Breathing Thru Grief ends today.

If this space has been calling you, this may be the moment to respond.

This workshop is a small, intentional circle — a place to slow down, listen to your body, and meet grief with care. No fixing. No performance. Just presence, breath, and witness.

🕊️ Early Bird: $100
Use code "EARLYBIRD"

🏷️ Regular Price: $120 starting tomorrow

📅 Sunday, March 29th, 12-4pm
📍 San Leandro, CA

We’ll hold this space together. You don’t have to do it alone.

👉🏼 Register here: breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

03/05/2026

There are bears on the path. 🐻

That’s what a Native American woman said at my social work graduation in 1983 — and it has stayed with me ever since.

The older I get, the more I see how true it is.

There are bears in our nervous systems. Bears in the headlines. Bears in our personal lives. Grief. Heartbreak. Collective strain.

The question isn’t how to get rid of the bears.
It’s how we bear them.

I’ve come to believe we do that together. We go into the woods with someone we trust. We stand at the river — of grief, of strength, of shared wisdom — and we allow ourselves to see and be seen. Collective presence makes the weight more possible to carry.

💬 Who walks with you when you meet the bears on your path?

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333 Estudillo Avenue, Ste 206
San Leandro, CA
94577

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Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30pm - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 1pm

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