You know how the conversation should go in your head: calm, clear, connected. Then the moment starts, your chest tightens, the wrong words come first, and by the time you find the right ones the other person has already shut down. Word of Mouth teaches conscious communication coaching in West Hollywood, a somatic approach that helps you stay regulated in hard conversations by working with your nervous system instead of around it.
By complimentary discovery call · In-person & virtual · Private West Hollywood studio
Conscious communication is the practice of staying present, honest, and connected during conversations that would normally trigger a defensive or shut-down response. It is not a script or a formula, it is a body-level skill. Regulated enough to hear what the other person is actually saying, not just what your nervous system is bracing against, that requires practice in the body, not only in the mind.
Coaching is a complement to therapy, not a substitute for it. Jaime and Yonatan are not licensed therapists, and this work does not diagnose or treat any condition. Therapy goes deeper into history and pattern origin; coaching builds the real-time practice of staying regulated while the pattern is actually happening. Many clients do both at once.
Support for people whose hardest conversations keep going sideways, even when they already understand the pattern.
If the same conversation keeps going sideways with a partner, co-parent, sibling, or close friend, we address the specific dynamic, including couples who have done therapy and still feel stuck.
Explore couples coaching →You know the frameworks and teach them daily. But when the hard conversation is about you, a supervisor's feedback, a family boundary, a peer conflict, the frameworks do not always hold under your own pressure.
Most clients start 1:1, even when a partner is involved in the pattern. Changing how you show up in a conversation shifts the dynamic before the other person changes anything.
Most communication programs teach you what to say. Nonviolent Communication gives you four steps. Attachment theory gives you a framework for what happened. Both are useful and true. What they do not change is the moment itself, the ten seconds when your voice tightens, the other person's face closes, and the conversation goes somewhere you did not mean for it to go.
Before a conscious thought forms, your nervous system detects a tone, a word, or a look that matches an old threat pattern. This happens in milliseconds, faster than you can choose a different response.
Breathing goes shallow and chest-bound as the body prepares for a fight or a withdrawal, neither of which serves the conversation you actually want to have.
The part of your brain managing words and the part tracking your feelings disconnect under threat. Words come out harder, flatter, or not at all, and the message lands wrong.
The first skill we teach is catching this sequence in your own body before it runs to completion: a 3-second breath, a named sensation, a deliberate pause. These interrupt the pattern before it hijacks the room.
We start with the breath, the body, and the nervous system because that is where the conversation actually lives. Once you can interrupt the physiological sequence, the language often takes care of itself.
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A body-based skill takes practice, not a single insight. Here is how the work typically unfolds.
Twenty minutes, no charge. We talk through the pattern you want to shift and whether a 1:1 or couples format fits best.
Most clients begin 1:1, even when the goal involves a partner. Changing how you show up in a conversation shifts the dynamic before the other person changes anything.
Sessions build the notice-and-name skill, catching the threat signal, the breath change, and the disconnect before it runs the conversation for you.
The goal is not a technique for the session room. It is staying regulated with a partner, a co-parent, a supervisor, or a peer, in the moment it counts.
Couples can also do sessions together through our couples coaching format once individual regulation has a foundation.
Jaime and Yonatan are a married couple and the co-founders of Word of Mouth. They practice conscious communication with each other in their work and their life, including in difficult moments, in front of clients, and in training rooms. That is not performance. It is the proof of concept.
Jaime is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Somatic Facilitator, and Relationship and Life Coach. Yonatan is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Classical Pilates Instructor, and musician with 30 years of vibrational study. Together they have worked with couples, creatives, therapists, and high-achievers across Los Angeles for over 10 years from their private Melrose studio in West Hollywood.
Book a discovery callIt's not therapy and it's not your typical relationship coaching. It gets to the source of everything, helping guide you to the conversations that really matter, the connection that really is there underneath everything.
I am finally having conversations with myself that are loving.
The way I talk to people, connect on the dance floor, hold eye contact... all different.
Honest answers about how this compares to Nonviolent Communication, whether your partner needs to join, and what it costs.
Sessions happen at our private West Hollywood studio or virtually. Program and session pricing is shared on your free, 20-minute discovery call, no obligation.
Weekly sessions blending breath, body, energy, and conversation for therapists, creatives, and couples.
Holistic coaching →The full coaching arc for partnerships, practicing conscious communication together.
Couples coaching →Body-based coaching for nervous-system patterns that talk alone has not shifted.
Somatic coaching →Support for practitioners who teach these frameworks and still find themselves reactive under pressure.
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