Coaching FAQ
Who is your somatic coaching work for?
My coaching service will be a strong fit if you recognize yourself in one of the following:
1. You feel stuck despite understanding your patterns. You’ve done reading, learning, or talk therapy, but your old patterns or struggles in body connection, relationships, intimacy, or sexuality still repeat.
2. You’re done with quick fixes. You want a deeper, more integrated approach beyond how-to tips or talk-only methods.
3. You value depth and active support. You’re willing to engage, practice, and apply what you learn with clear and specific guidance.
My work is NOT for people who are looking for quick fixes or surrogate partner services. It is NOT for people who want a talk-only, cognitive learning, or psychoanalysis format.
What’s the difference between your coaching and talk therapy?
I specialize in intimacy, relationships, and sexuality through body-centered and energy-based approaches. I guide people to cultivate body awareness and wisdom, deepen erotic connection, and heal trauma responses that interfere with fulfilling intimacy, relationships, and self-expression. To be specific:
1. Format: My regular 1:1 sessions are 90 to 120 minutes, allowing sufficient time for deeper exploration, embodied processes, and integration within each session. In addition to our sessions, I provide timely support between sessions, customized somatic practices, and accountability check-ins to help clients apply the work in daily life. My immersion sessions are half-day to two-day of experiential learning and healing.
Most talk therapy sessions are shorter (45–50 minutes) and typically do not include individualized support between sessions.
2. Approach: I integrate nervous system healing, embodiment, sexuality coaching, touch, energy practices, and bodywork into a cohesive framework. As an out-of-network provider, I am not limited to a single modality. This allows me to draw from a range of approaches based on your goals, learning style, and needs.
3. Focus: My work is forward-looking and desire-based. It is best suited for clients with a baseline of self-awareness and the capacity to take action between sessions. This work is not a replacement for therapy and does not treat medical conditions or severe PTSD. Some clients choose to work with both a therapist and me simultaneously, using each for different areas of support.
4. Process: My work supports embodied, lasting change, and I emphasize support and real-life integration between sessions.
Many clients choose ongoing support over multiple months to create sustainable results.
I guide clients from their current state toward a desired outcome through 1:1 sessions, ongoing support, and customized body-based practices. Some clients choose an immersion, which provides a concentrated experience of learning, exploration, and practice.
How do you offer sessions?
Regular 1:1 sessions: in-person in Manhattan, NYC, and virtual sessions worldwide.
Immersion: A half-day, one-day, or two-day immersion for individuals or couples. Travel for in-person work can be arranged for 2-day or longer immersive sessions.
What is a session like?
Each session is highly customized to your needs and learning style. The sessions are experiential. A regular 1:1 session may include:
- Body-based practices to build body awareness, deepen energy connection, or learn skill sets
- A guided process to shift patterns, uncover blind spots, or work with shadows
- Integration of aha moments and nervous system responses from the process
- Outline real-life practices and implementation
Immersions (for couples or individuals) follow a different structure, highly customized for each person and couple.
What is the investment?
1. Ongoing Coaching (Individuals)
Many people choose a monthly coaching structure, which includes 1:1 sessions, between-session support, and customized somatic practices. A single introductory session may also be available for new clients.
In the monthly structure, my 1:1 coaching rate is $300 per hour, and most sessions last 1.5 to 2 hours. If we're a good fit, I'll recommend the structure and cost based on your goals at the end of the strategy call. For example, the fee for two 90-minute sessions in a month plus between-session support is $900/month. Payment may be made monthly.
2. Private Immersions (Individuals & Couples)
Immersions are designed as deep-dive, experiential learning and may range from a few hours to a multi-day experience. Each immersion is highly customized, and I will propose the cost after the strategy call. Please send your inquiry to jin@theladyjin.com, and specify your location and your goals for requesting an immersion.
Do I need a partner to do the work?
You don't need a partner to do the work. You could be single, dating, in a relationship, or any status in between. Individual coaching includes Relationship coaching, Sexual confidence coaching, and Tantra coaching. Only couples coaching requires a partner.
Strengthening the inner connection with your body, sexuality, and mind creates a solid foundation for your existing and future partnerships. The deeper you connect with your desires, pleasure, and body, the better you can relate and share with others. I also offer workshops for individuals, couples, and groups.
What is Tantra coaching and what do you offer?
Tantra is an Eastern philosophy that emerged in India around the 6th century. Tantra advocates mindfulness and love. It guides people through breathing, movement, touch, and meditation to foster a deeper connection with body, sexuality, and spirituality.
Neotantra, known as Tantric sexuality. It applies Tantric practices to intimate connection. Through these practices, people experience increased energy flow, sensation, and presence, which improves the quality of sex and intimacy.
My Tantra coaching and immersion can explore various topics to learn and practice, for example, but not limited to
- Learn a broad range of touch skills to cultivate erotic connection and expand your range of intimacy
- Activate chakra (energy centers) to support energetic connection, liberation, and pleasure
- Practice Tantric principles to enhance sexual energy and intimacy
- Conscious touch and bodywork
- Discover pleasure types to expand erotic connection
How much time do I need outside of the sessions?
Individual coaching consists of 1:1 sessions and home practices. The home practices are highly recommended, but not mandatory. The estimated time for solo practices will start from 5 to 10 minutes a day in the first month. Then it may switch to 2-3 times a week, 20 minutes each time, in the following months.
Ultimately, you decide the time you want to devote to self-growth. There is no upper limit on your engagement. I am mindful of making the home practices easy to implement in daily life.
What is your coaching style?
My personal style is compassionate, direct, and caring. I welcome my clients to directly share their requests, needs, and feedback with me.
My coaching style is somatic coaching. Somatic coaching emphasizes body awareness, movement, and body-mind integration. It is very different from traditional cognitive methods. It engages body wisdom rather than processes analytically.
What is your background?
I grew up in mainland China and completed my 2-year business graduate education (MBA) in the U.S., and then I spent 10+ years in corporate America as a business management professional. I speak English and Mandarin Chinese fluently and professionally.
After thousands of hours of coaching and training in different modalities, I changed my career to coaching. One of my strengths is to express complex concepts in simple terms and metaphors, and provide clear and structured guidance to abstract concepts.
Gender diversity and inclusion in your service
My pronouns are she/her. I support the diversity of genders, sexual orientations, and human bodies. I honor the nuanced language for that diversity.
My life experience has guided me to primarily support cisgender folks. I acknowledge the use of gendered language throughout my site. I continue to deepen my education in gender, body, and sexuality. When a prospective client expresses a need for specific diversity-related support, I happily include colleagues with relevant experience or refer them.
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