Emptied out, not energized
You finish your last session running on fumes, having gotten skilled at performing presence while depleted.
Coaching for Therapists & Practitioners · West Hollywood
Coaching for therapists who hold space for everyone but themselves
Your clients can only go as deep as you have capacity to hold. When you are depleted, sessions stay on the surface. When you are resourced, breakthroughs happen. Word of Mouth is a weekly coaching container in West Hollywood built to restore the internal resource your clients depend on, weaving movement, energy work, breathwork, and coaching into one session.
Weekly sessions · In person in West Hollywood or virtual · For therapists, coaches & healers
You hold others. Be held.
A container built for practitioners
The Pattern No One Warned You About
The hidden cost of holding it all together
Your training prepared you to hold space for everyone except yourself. The same sensitivity that makes you exceptional at your work created an unintended pattern: you absorb instead of channel, you carry instead of release. Holding others became so automatic that you forgot you also need to be held. Most people believe holding it together is strength, but the cost is carried in the body as tension, numbness, and disconnection that quietly accumulates.
Carrying it home
You take your clients' emotions with you, and traditional self-care has not touched the deeper pattern.
Narrowed intuition
As your capacity shrinks, your clinical intuition narrows and you miss the subtle shifts you used to catch.
An invisible ceiling
Your clients feel it, not consciously, but as a limit on how deep they can go with you. And it can be reversed.
Coaching and energy work at Word of Mouth are complementary and restorative. They are not therapy or medical treatment and do not diagnose or treat any condition. If you are in acute burnout, please seek clinical support first.
How We Work With Practitioners
One session that integrates what most programs keep separate
You already know frameworks and you have tools. What you need is someone to hold you while you use them on yourself. Each session is customized to where you are. Some weeks that is deep restoration, some weeks it is working through a pattern limiting your practice, some weeks it is simply being held.
Movement
Grounding and nourishing your nervous system through intentional body practices.
Energy Work
Clearing blockages and sealing energetic leaks so you stop taking on what is not yours.
Breathwork
Releasing what you have been absorbing and restoring your baseline.
Coaching
Transforming patterns around boundaries, receiving, and sustainable service.
Prefer to start with the reiki side of this work? See our reiki for therapists page, or the fuller coaching for therapists overview.
From Absorbing to Channeling
Function as a river, not a sponge
Imagine channeling healing energy through you rather than storing it in you. This is not self-care in the usual sense. It is infrastructure for your practice, the resource your clients quietly depend on.
Deeper sessions with lasting impact
Clients move through resistance faster when you are resourced enough to follow them there.
A practice you can sustain for decades
Serving from fullness instead of obligation, so the work nourishes you as you nourish others.
Energy at the end of the day
Clearer yes and no signals in the body, and boundaries that feel like protection, not walls.
What Practitioners Experience
What shifts as you keep coming back
Clarity, regulation, and confidence build over time, so you feel grounded in your presence and steady in your capacity to hold others.
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In the first few sessions
Immediate relief from being witnessed and held. Awareness of where you have been abandoning yourself, and recognition of the pattern of absorbing versus channeling. Permission to receive without having to give back.
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Within the first month
Clearer yes and no signals in your body. Boundaries that feel like protection rather than walls. Clients moving through resistance faster, and more energy at the end of your workday.
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Over time
Operating from a new paradigm of serving from fullness. Renewed clarity about why you do this work, deeper clinical intuition and presence, and a sustainable practice that nourishes you as you nourish.
Meet Your Guides
Jaime & Yonatan, coaches and fellow practitioners
Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam are Reiki Master Teachers, coaches, and fellow practitioners who have spent years working with therapists, healers, and space-holders. After noticing the same pattern again and again, exceptional practitioners depleting themselves in service of others, they built this approach to address the root cause.
Their work blends deep inner work across energy, movement, and mindset with practical structure and lived embodiment. It is relational, trauma-aware, and multidimensional. They understand what it means to hold others, because they do it too, and they know firsthand that the healer also needs to be healed.
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In Their Words
What practitioners say
★★★★★
As a licensed clinical mental health therapist and a Reiki practitioner for over two decades, my experience with Word of Mouth was profoundly nurturing, professional, and poignant. I walked away wiser and calmer, more present and uplifted.
Hyim Ross, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist
★★★★★
By combining breath, body, mind and energy work under one roof, in a single session, I take care of myself as a whole being rather than doing maintenance on each part individually.
Eric Sagotsky
★★★★★
I have been through a lot of coaching programs, but Jaime and Yonatan's unique combination of movement, energy work and heart-opened feedback had a profound impact on me.
Melissa Muller
How It Works
How to begin
Discover your personalized strategy through a call, then meet for weekly coaching sessions that build clarity and lasting change.
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Book a consultation call
We talk about your practice, your capacity challenges, and what you are hoping to restore. No sales pitch. Just a real conversation between practitioners.
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Get your custom strategy
Every practitioner's depletion pattern is different. We map what is actually happening for you and which approach will be most effective for your situation.
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Weekly sessions
Most practitioners meet with us once a week, in person at our West Hollywood studio or virtually from anywhere. This becomes the container where you receive instead of give.
Who This Coaching Is For
Real, embodied support for space-holders
This work is for those ready for honest self-reflection and transformative guidance, not quick fixes or surface-level advice.
You hold space for others
You are a therapist, coach, healer, or practitioner, exceptional at your work but secretly running on fumes.
You sense the ceiling
You suspect your capacity has become the ceiling on your clients' progress, and you are ready to change that.
You are ready to receive
You want to serve from overflow instead of obligation, and you are willing to prioritize your own capacity.
It is not the right fit if you are looking for quick fixes, are not willing to prioritize your own capacity, or are in acute burnout, in which case please seek clinical support first.
Common Questions, Honest Answers
Coaching for practitioners, answered
Straight answers on time, location, and approach, so you can decide if this container fits your practice.
Most practitioners meet with us for one 60 to 90 minute session per week. The structure is designed to fit into a busy clinical schedule, and many find it becomes the anchor that makes everything else more sustainable.
Most programs separate movement, energy work, breathwork, and coaching. We integrate all four in a single session, customized to what you need that week, whether that is deep restoration, working through a pattern that limits your practice, or simply being held.
Practitioners tell us the opposite. One session a week becomes the container where you receive instead of give, and most find it makes the rest of their week more sustainable rather than adding to the load.
Yes. Sessions happen in person at our West Hollywood studio or virtually from anywhere. Many of our long-term practitioner clients work with us remotely, and virtual sessions are fully effective.
This work suits practitioners who hold space for others, who are exceptional at the work but running on fumes, and who are ready to receive instead of only give. If you are in acute burnout, we ask that you seek clinical support first. The clearest way to find out is a consultation call, which is a real conversation between practitioners, not a sales pitch.
Ready When You Are
You hold others. It is time to be held
Investing in your own capacity is not selfish. It is the most effective thing you can do for your clients. Book a consultation call and let us map what restoration would look like for you.
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Our fuller overview of how capacity coaching supports therapists in West Hollywood.
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The reiki side of this work, for practitioners who want to start with energy sessions.
Reiki for therapists →Holistic Coaching
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Holistic coaching →Reiki Energy Healing
Hands-on and hands-off reiki sessions at our private Melrose studio.
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