Jo Jacklin

If confidence has felt out of reach, it is not because you are broken or weak. Trauma changes how the nervous system learns safety. When the body has learned to stay alert, guarded, or shut down, confidence does not grow through positive thinking or forcing yourself to be brave. It grows through safety.

As a Somatic Trauma Informed Life Coach, I work with the body as well as the mind. Trauma lives in the nervous system, not just in memories or thoughts. This is why talk alone often feels like it helps for a moment but does not create lasting change.

Somatic work gently supports your nervous system to come out of survival and into regulation. From this place, confidence becomes something you feel rather than something you perform. You begin to trust your signals, your boundaries, and your choices. You feel steadier in your body and clearer in yourself.

This work is not about reliving the past. It is about learning how to feel safe in the present. When safety increases, confidence follows naturally. You stop second guessing yourself. You stop shrinking. You start responding to life instead of bracing against it.

If you are ready to build confidence that is rooted in safety rather than pressure, and strength that does not cost you your wellbeing, somatic trauma informed coaching offers a compassionate and powerful way forward.

You do not need fixing. Your nervous system needs support.

ICF Accredited Somatic Trauma-Informed Coaching Certification Course

IDVA Independent Domestic Violence Advocate Level 3 - OCN - Safe Lives

Older Persons Vulnerable Adult - Safe Lives

Brainspotting Level 2

Hypnotherapy - currently undertaking Caroline Strawson

Music Therapy Course

Mindfulness Diploma

Mental Health First Aider

Level 2 Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Adults from Exploitation

Certificate in Resilience Practitioner Training

Certificate in De-escalation

Certificate in Compassion-focused-ways-of-working

KUF 3 days of Complex Mental Health and Personality Disorders

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Essentials Level 2

BTEC Level 3 in Customer Service

Anxiety

Confidence

Depression

Empowerment coaching

Family

Lifestyle

Menopause

Mentoring

Motivation

Neurodiversity coaching

Personal development

Relationships

Self-esteem

Spiritual coaching

Stress

Success

Wellness

Work-life balance

My work with clients is rooted in the understanding that the body holds onto stress and difficult experiences, often in ways that talking alone can't fully reach. Using Brainspotting, I help clients gently access and release what is stored deep in the brain and body, without needing to over-analyse or relive the past. We work at a pace that feels safe, paying close attention to what the body is telling us and how the nervous system is responding. This creates the space for real shifts to happen; not just in how you think, but in how you feel day to day, and how you move through the world.