Somatic & Evidence-Based Leadership Coaching

Stay grounded and on task through the pressure of building what’s never been built.

Coaching for venture-funded startup founders, socially conscious leaders, and creative entrepreneurs who look successful from the outside—and want durable mental fortitude, nervous-system resilience, and clarity without burning out.

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18+ Months Long-term founder & executive engagements

Somatic + Practical Nervous-system rewiring & leadership skill building

ICF ACC & WLCT Certified leadership & whole-life coach

Jessica Garver — Leadership and Executive Coach

Jessica Garver, ACC

Holistic Career Growth, Startup Grounding & Transition

Three Clear Doors

Built for leaders carrying real weight—choose your path

Most clients arrive having built impressive businesses or careers, yet running on fumes. We use somatic, evidence-based practices to build stress resilience and sharp cognitive function under pressure.

Primary Path · Startup Founders

Venture-Funded Startup Founders

Stay on task and grounded through the first months and high-stakes milestones of a startup—when you’re building something you’ve never built before and can’t afford to spin out or burn out.

Mental fortitude & nervous-system regulation under board and runway pressure
Clear decision-making without performance theater or founder isolation
Weekly 45-minute sessions + direct text/email support between calls

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Book a Founder Exploration Call

Path 2 · Individual Leaders & Creatives

Socially Conscious Leaders & Creative Entrepreneurs

For visionaries, executives, and neurodivergent creatives who know they have bigger potential—and want to unstick the stuck places without forcing themselves into a linear mold.

Move past crippling self-doubt and chronic overwork
Holistic career growth, executive transition, and creative agency
Personal map & tools tailored to how your brain and body actually work

Book an Individual Exploration Call

Path 3 · Organizations & Teams

Leaders’ Organizations & Creative Teams

Yes, there’s a team version—and it’s just as rooted, powerful, and sustainable as the 1:1 work. Backed by practical experience coaching sales and creative teams to high performance.

Team alignment, communication clarity, and burnout prevention
Somatic leadership practices for managers leading under pressure
Custom scope for growing companies and creative organizations

Explore Team & Org Coaching

Who this practice is not for: This work is somatic leadership and career coaching—not clinical psychotherapy, and not pitch-deck fundraising or product-management consulting.

The Method · Deeply Somatic & Evidence-Based

The Three Mileposts: From Surviving to Creating

Research shows that mindfulness and movement create the most durable improvements in stress resilience and cognitive function. Every client moves through this arc at their own pace.

Milepost 1 · Safety

Coming Home to the Body

You can’t create from freeze, and you can’t expand while bracing. We strip away the performance, the proving, and the pushing through pain so your nervous system can settle and hear its own intelligence.

Milepost 2 · Power

Reclaiming Agency

Power isn’t dominance. It’s the quiet clarity of choosing yourself—shedding the layers of “should” and striving so your decisions take you where you actually want to go.

Milepost 3 · Creation

Building What’s True

If your system isn’t safe, your success won’t be either. From a regulated, grounded baseline, your best ideas, next steps, and aligned leadership decisions emerge naturally.

What Working Together Includes

Your Pack for the Journey

Weekly 45-minute 1:1 coaching sessions tailored to your active leadership and business challenges
Direct text and email support between sessions when high-stakes moments come up
Your personal map of where you want to go during our time together—and practical somatic tools to get there
Snail mail surprises to anchor the work offline
Complimentary community & Substack access to a supportive circle of creatives and entrepreneurs plus a paid subscription to Finding The Gift of You

Process & Package Guidance

How Engagements Work

We start with a complimentary 15-minute Exploration Call on Calendly to talk through where you are, what pressure you’re navigating, and whether 1:1 or organizational coaching is the right fit.

Clients typically begin with an initial coaching package and often continue semi-monthly or weekly as their company or career evolves (several leaders have partnered with Jessica for 18+ months).

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What People Are Saying

Trusted by CEOs, Creative Directors & Senior Professionals

Real reflections from leaders who partnered with Jessica across multiple packages and multi-year growth.

“The first thing I want to say to whoever is reading this is that I cannot give a strong enough recommendation to work with Jessica. The amount of help, confidence, and change that has happened in my life and career—helping me advance and make necessary adjustments in both my personal and business life—has been monumental. Working with her has been amazing. The care, passion, thoughtfulness, and delicate work that she does... I couldn’t give a stronger recommendation to work with her.”

Adam Aerospace CEO & Owner

“First of all, you should know that not all coaches are created equal, and if you’re considering hiring a coach to help you personally or professionally, you should have a very high standard. Jessica goes above and beyond that standard for me. She has immense practical experience coaching sales teams and domain training as a coach. She is a delight to work with, we’ve been meeting semi-monthly for more than 18 months… Her style of coaching is such a novel category of nervous system rewiring and skill building that your brain and body will be changed for the better.”

Zac Podcast Producer, Creative Director, Executive Ghostwriter

“Jessica Garver is incredibly perceptive. Extraordinarily insightful. Jessica ‘gets it’ in ways many people simply miss. It is a compliment not a criticism that, after the initial ‘package’ was over, I signed up for another set of sessions… Jessica excels in motivating professionals to become unstuck and redirect themselves as needed. I am absolutely certain that the path will be easier and more rewarding because I have trusted Jessica Garver to Coach me along the trail.”

Marc Patent, Trademark, Copyright Attorney

Meet Jessica Garver

“Thriving isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about returning to who you’ve always been.”

I support founders, creatives, visionaries, and sensitive leaders in using their own creative intelligence to build businesses and lives that thrive—by helping them remember the power of who they were before fear taught them to perform, prove, or push through.

In 2021, I had the opportunity to lead a team of creatives to a level of success no one thought possible. Having lived through the reality of high-output burnout myself—and having spent my career around highly creative and neurodivergent builders—I combine practical team leadership experience with certified somatic coaching (ICF Associate Certified Coach & Whole Life Coach Training).

“I help entrepreneurs stop feeling trapped by one-size-fits-all advice and start building businesses — and lives — that actually feel good to live inside.” — Jessica Garver, featured in ShoutOutLA

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