About Shakti
My Story
For more than a decade, I have had the privilege of working with individuals and couples who are ready to know themselves more deeply, create meaningful change, and experience more authentic and fulfilling relationships.
My coaching style is warm, compassionate, playful, and deeply personal. I create a space where you can feel safe enough to look honestly at yourself, explore the patterns that may be getting in your way, and discover new ways of being in your life and relationships.
Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of clients, and much of my practice has grown through personal referrals. I am especially grateful for the couples who have continued to refer friends and family to me and have shared how our work together has helped them reconnect, communicate differently, and create healthier, more loving relationships.
My Journey
Before becoming a life and relationship coach, I spent 28 years as a talent agent. Working closely with actors taught me something that has stayed with me throughout my coaching career: there is something uniquely powerful that happens when people are encouraged to see their own gifts, trust themselves, and step more fully into who they are.
Eventually, I realized that I needed to take that same journey myself. I traveled to Pune, India, to explore meditation, spirituality, and my own process of healing and self-discovery. It was there that I received the spiritual name Shakti, meaning the feminine nature of power and strength.
My experience in India opened me to a new way of experiencing myself and the possibilities of life. That journey ultimately led me to the Hendricks Institute, where I became a Certified Life and Relationship Coach. I am also an Osho meditation teacher and facilitator.
How I work
My coaching has evolved considerably over the years. Today, I draw from many years of experience working with people and relationships, along with transformational coaching practices, meditation, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a coaching tool.
I believe we all have different parts of ourselves that have developed to protect us. Sometimes those parts can become fearful, controlling, critical, people-pleasing, or defensive, especially when we feel vulnerable in our closest relationships.
Rather than judging or trying to get rid of these parts, I help clients become curious about them and understand what they are trying to protect. As we develop greater awareness and compassion for ourselves, we have more freedom to choose how we respond rather than simply reacting from old patterns.
This work can create profound shifts in how we relate to ourselves and to the people we love.
I help clients learn to speak more authentically, make conscious commitments, move beyond limiting patterns and soft addictions, develop greater self-awareness, and create healthier, more intimate relationships.
What I Believe
I believe that real transformation begins with the willingness to know yourself.
When we become curious about all the different parts of ourselves and learn to meet them with compassion rather than judgment, we begin to discover a deeper sense of who we are and what we truly want.
And from that place, change becomes possible.
You don’t have to become someone else. You get to become more fully yourself.
— Shakti Bracilano