About

Elizabeth Brink is a Certified Professional Coach, Certified Neurodiversity Coach, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner for neurodivergent adults. Her approach integrates nervous system healing modalities with neurodivergent-affirming coaching.
 
Elizabeth became passionate about embodied self-partnership as she noticed her clients shared similar painful patterns of rejection, cruel inner critics, and lifelong anxiety and depression. It became clear that making life make sense for someone requires healing and strategies for lasting transformation.

 

Her integrated approach is focused on self-acceptance and nervous system healing. Elizabeth empowers clients to embrace their unique ways of moving through the world while building deeper understanding of themselves. 

 

Elizabeth has experience working with patterns of significant stress, rejection sensitivity, chronic disorganization, perfectionism, executive functioning, depression, anxiety, and a host of other common challenges among neurodivergent humans.

As a coach, Elizabeth was trained and mentored by some of the ADHD coaching greats, Nancy Ratey, Linda Roggli, and Denslow Brown. In her somatic work, Elizabeth has trained with Scott Lyons, Nkem Ndefo, Maureen Gallagher, Mahshid Hager, Kathy Kain, and Stephen Terrell.  

Before coaching, Elizabeth enjoyed a career in project management, corporate communications, and employee engagement in big tech, non-profits, and for a boutique strategy consulting firm.

Elizabeth grew up in Plano, TX, spent 12 years in Boston, MA, and in 2017 relocated to Kansas City, MO where she currently resides with her husband and two children. She spends her down time researching hobbies, baking, doing jigsaw puzzles, and listening to podcasts.

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Credentials

• • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)

  • Certified Neurodiversity Coach (CNC), Institute of Applied Coaching/Coach Approach

  • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), Somatic Experiencing International

  • Board Certified Coach (BCC), Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE)

  • Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, University of North Texas

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Education

• Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Program, 280+ hours, Somatic Experiencing International

• Certificate in Integrative Somatic Parts Work, 25 hours, The Embody Lab

• Certificate in Somatic Attachment Trauma Therapy, 60 hours, The Embody Lab

• Certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, 60 hours, The Embody Lab

• Neurodiversity Coaching Program & Continuing Ed, 95+ hours, Coach Approach Training

• Certificate in Professional Project Management, UMass Boston

• Graduate coursework in Journalism, Emerson College

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Additional coursework completed in Somatic Inner-Relationship Focusing (IRF), Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED), Relational Life Therapy (Terry Real), and Somatic Resilience and Regulation Level One with Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell.
 

Identities

 I am a white cis-gendered woman, a parent, a married person, and entrepreneur. I reside on the native lands of the Otoe-Missouria people.

 

I am a survivor of generational and childhood trauma, including the death of my infant brother, my parents' divorce, and my mother's 15-year battle with cancer. I am the child of an alcoholic-in-recovery who is the child of an alcoholic.

 

I am the beneficiary of generational wealth and status that I did nothing to earn or deserve. I am a college degree holder and have traveled internationally.

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I acknowledge the privileges I carry in my person and the impact they have on my thoughts, views, and business practices. I am committed to unlearning oppressive beliefs rooted in colonization and white supremacy, and working to make reparations and peace in my community. I welcome feedback and correction.