Experience the power of Somatic Life and relationship Coaching

When you align your thoughts, energy, and emotional intelligence with your body, your life shifts in meaningful and lasting ways - you experience the world with more clarity, passion, joy & peace.

You’ve gained wisdom. You’ve healed in many ways. Yet if life still feels tight, familiar wounds keep resurfacing, or the changes you’ve made don’t seem to last—your nervous system, your soma, may still be carrying what your heart and mind have already released.

I help my clients create congruence—aligning thoughts, energy, and emotional intelligence with the often-missing piece: the body. From this place of embodied safety, healing becomes not just a memory, but a lived experience.

And from that place of congruence, your most important relationships—including the one with yourself—soften and expand, possibilities open, and you experience life with a grounded sense of passion, joy, and ease.

The Adult Chair is a manual for your life.

It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident, and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness, and respond to life in a healthy way.

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Welcome! I’m Mara Pressman

I’m a certified Adult Chair® life coach and Soma+IQ® breathwork practitioner, with training in IFS, trauma, and polyvagal theory. I’m here to guide you in creating lasting, transformative change.

Science shows we can change the patterns, reactions, and feelings that keep us feeling stuck—but lasting transformation isn’t just about willpower or self-talk. True change happens when we guide the parts of ourselves that feel unsafe to release, let go, and move forward.

As your coach, I’ll help you navigate this process at a pace that is both tolerable and measurable. Through our work together, you’ll develop control over your emotions, uncover clarity of purpose, and move toward your goals with confidence. Along the way, you’ll discover deeper joy, self-compassion, and more meaningful connections with yourself and others.

Come explore this page, and I’ll show you how this process has been transformative for me—and how it can be for you, too.

Read My Story

I've been carrying around a belief (unknowingly) for a lifetime. In the last few years I've become aware of it but couldn't stop the ruminating thoughts and didn't know why I felt this way or how to get out of it. You helped me reframe this belief so that is has shifted so entirely. You also helping me to go back inside to the little me to understanding what she needed to set it free from. I can't believe what an impact our session has had on me - I am so grateful!

-Tracy B
Opening up to [Mara] was very easy and comfortable. She listens well and I especially liked how she was able to consolidate my thoughts and feelings and repeat them back to me. She helped me think of alternate ways of looking at situations which were more productive for myself. I highly recommend her to others seeking guidance and help! Thank you very much.

-Julie G
I have been in and out of therapy for decades and have tried it all — retreats, events, podcasts, self-help books … you name it. Still, the wall of pain is so thick inside of me. Then I started [working] with Mara. She hears me and sees me. Baby step by baby step, I am opening up to ME. My once impenetrable wall has a small crack and I trust that Mara will guide me home, and for that I am forever grateful.

-Leslie A