Liberation-Centered Embodiment Coaching for Queer, Trans, and Neurodivergent Adults
Relational Inner Ecology Work
There’s a way of coming back to ourselves that’s non-linear, and I venture, spiralic.
We return to the same places, histories, stories, sensations within ourselves as we grow older, but each time with new potential. Working with me is about learning how to stay with yourself without turning away. We’re not about becoming “the best version of ourselves” or “healed.”
I’m lenna jove, a Whole-Hearted Embodiment Guide and Liberation Doula (coined by Jordyn Hope) based in St. Louis, offering virtual embodiment work across the United States.
I work with queer, trans, and neurodivergent folks who are tired of holding themselves together through force.
You might be my kinda human if you’re ready to live in a way that feels more honest and spacious in your bodymind and more aligned with what your Soul is here for.
Who This Is For
For Those Who Are Tired of Circling the Same Survival Loops
Many people arrive here already fluent in their own survival. They know how to (over)function, how to please others, how to talk about their feelings and experiences.
Yet something inside doesn’t feel met, held or understood.
They often describe:
cycles or long periods of burnout
feeling split from their own desires, signals, or values
patterns of self-abandonment in relationships or work
dissociation, numbness, or emotional distance
chronic self-doubt beneath high awareness
the sense of being “almost themselves” but not quite arriving
A lot of the folks I work with are queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, creative, sensitive, or shaped by systems that have required translation and masking to survive. But I hear some of the same questions over and over:
What would it feel like to stop leaving myself? Where does all of this big feeling and avoiding trace back to? How do I create and sustain the changes I crave so deeply? Am I worthy of them?
What This Work Is
A Practice of Returning Through Relationship
Together, we’ll practice staying in relationship with your inner world long enough for it to stop fragmenting into something you need to manage. We won’t be “fixing,” optimizing, or correcting anything inside you. We will simply be listening and loving (“investing in one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.”)
Some of this listening will be non-verbal: noticing the tightening in your throat before you speak, the softening as you are witnessed with compassion, the expanding in the moment you recognize some part of yourself that’s been forgotten.
In our sessions, we might talk, track sensations, follow memories, images, or imagination. Sometimes, we’ll even sit in silence long enough for something really honest to emerge.
Together, we practice replacing shame with curiosity, domination with relationship, and self-abandonment with deeper self-trust.
I meet you as a complex being with a vibrant inner ecology, rather than as a machine to be fixed or a system to be corrected. Your entire bodymind, and your inner world, are always shifting, adapting, sensing. It’s quite an intelligent design!
Liberatory Relational Inner Ecology
How I Work
My work draws from many lineages, including and not limited to:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts language (as one way of describing experience and moving inward)
somatic awareness and nervous system listening
imaginal and guided inner exploration
relational and attachment-based work
queer and trans liberation frameworks
decolonial and anti-oppressive reflection
symbolic, spiritual, and meaning-centered inquiry
But the center of our work is relationship—between you and your experiences, you and your body, you and your thoughts, you and how you’ve adapted to survive, between you and what you’ve inherited from your family.
And between you and me, as we sit, together.
What Makes This Different
This is A Living Field, Not a Method
I am never a neutral observer in your process. I’m present—human, responsive, intuitive, and engaged. I don’t work from a place of distance or blank-slatedness; I work from from my own autonomy, authenticity, and from relationship.
Folks who come here have often been in spaces where they’ve had to translate themselves to be understood, simplify their complexity to be received, perform coherence in order to be supported, and hide their deepest care needs.
Together, we do something different! We slow down enough to let contradiction exist without forcing resolution. We let multiple truths coexist and learn now to make integrous decisions based on these multiplicities. Together, we’ll listen for what your system has been trying to protect, express, or preserve.
We’ll treat your inner world not as something to fix but as something to listen to like weather, like tide, like ecosystem.
What Changes Over Time
This work is always non-linear, and in my perspective, spiralic. We might time travel to the past and to the future, resourcing from and to the present.
Over time, folks notice that they begin to:
feel more present inside their own bodymind
recognize their needs earlier and with less self-blame
interrupt self-abandonment without forcing it
feel less ruled by internal conflict or collapse
trust their own perception more consistently
experience more moments of aliveness, clarity, and contact
move through uncertainty without disappearing from themselves
What We Explore
queer and trans identity, becoming, and unfolding
spiritual emergence or deepening
neurodivergence, exhaustion, and nervous system depletion
self-trust and internal conflcit
relational patterns and attachment dynamics
creativity, meaning, and life direction
imagination and inner symbolism
liberation from inherited and adapted survival scripts, capitalistic expectations and timelines, and internalized colonization
learning how to stay present with complexity
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You just need curiosity about what might become possible!
What It’s Like to Work with Me
People often tell me they feel calm and grounded around me, before they can understand why (I think it’s my moon in Taurus).
But anyways part of my work is helping people slow down enough to hear themselves. I support people in making sense of experiences that have felt tangled, overwhelming, contradictory, or impossible to put into words.
I have a gift of noticing connections—the history beneath the story, the feeling beneath the explanation the question underneath the question. Together, we untangle what has become knotted, give language to what’s felt unspeakable, and discover what your emotions, patterns, relationships, and longings might be trying to communicate.
Sometimes understanding emerges. Sometimes it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, we practice something equally important: learning how to stay present with uncertainty without collapsing into it. Making room for the natural mystery that exists in Life, and trusting that most meaningful things don’t arrive on demand.
I believe deep healing happens when we are trusted. I trust your capacity to know yourself. I trust your willingness to navigate tensions and conflicts with me. I trust your inner world, even when it’s feeling confusing. And, I trust the wisdom that can emerge when we stay with something long enough to truly meet it.
I am willing to say the honest, difficult thing, delivered with tenderness that doesn’t feel patronizing. What I offer is always in service of a deeper relationship rather than judgment.
Based in St. Louis — Working Nationwide
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Based in St. Louis — Working Nationwide 〰️
Logistics and Sliding Scale:
I offer virtual sessions across the United States and in-person sessions in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sessions are:
Weekly or biweekly for 90-120 mins
I work with a limited number of long-term clients in order to maintain depth, steadiness, and sustainability in this work.
Current sliding scale:
$20 weekly 90-minute sessions for one person making minimum wage or receiving disability (spot is open)
$88 for weekly or biweekly 90-minute sessions
Other sliding scale options potentially available upon request
if you’re able and want to pay a higher rate that can help sustain lower-cost offerings and support my needs as a disabled provider, and enrich my continued training in practices like astrology, breathwork, spiritual care, and somatics — please propose your rate.
Start Here
If something here resonates—if you feel curious, relieved, challenged, or deeply met—you’re welcome to reach out.
I offer free consultations to explore whether this relationship and work feels aligned for both of us.
Let’s navigate change together.
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