Founder
Alyssa Herzig, M.A., PhD
Integrative Coaching at the Intersection of Psychology, Embodiment, and Consciousness
Creating Deep Safety and Aligned Leadership
Founder Summary
Alyssa Herzig is a PhD-trained integrative coach whose work is guided by the questions: what do we want most and how do we create or receive what we want deliberately across every dimension or domain of life? Her work bridges psychology, somatics, consciousness studies, and spiritual wisdom to help adults develop agency, mastery, and internal alignment. Her work integrates both deep acceptance of what is with creating what we want. Alyssa is known for her depth, precision, and ability to integrate mind, body, emotion, and belief into coherent, lived transformation. She works primarily one-on-one with clients internationally and is based in Montreal, Canada.
What Alyssa Herzig’s Work Is Known For
Alyssa’s work is known for its depth, clarity, and integrative intelligence. She is recognized for helping people understand how consciousness, belief systems, emotional needs, and embodied experience shape the lives they create—and for teaching practical ways to work with these forces deliberately rather than unconsciously. Her approach is highly attuned, trauma-informed, somatic, and empowerment-oriented, supporting clients in moving out of victim consciousness and into agency, authorship, and self-trust. Alyssa’s work is often described as precise, transformative, and unusually integrative, combining rigorous psychological training with embodied somatic practices (often working with big emotions) and the metaphysical laws of consciousness and causality.
What Makes for the Best Life?
What makes for the best life, and how do we create that life deliberately across every life dimension or domain?
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Answering this question has been a driving force and has guided my personal life, my academic path, and my professional work for decades. It is what I question, study, live, test, refine, and teach.
Alyssa's Worldview
I’ve come to the view that our lives are largely shaped by our consciousness itself—by how we perceive, interpret, react or respond, and take action in the world.
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Meaning matters. Belief systems matter—both conscious and especially unconscious beliefs. Internal stories matter. How we relate to our body, feelings, needs, wants, and fears matters. They become the building blocks and mortar for what we create, and the source of what the world reflects back to us.
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There are metaphysical dimensions to life—laws that govern cause and effect, and how our consciousness and actions impact the way experience unfolds—and it is more effective to work with these forces consciously than to ignore them. Life is often a mirror of our current consciousness and our relationship to, and capacity to be with, experience. Alongside practical action, there is almost always a deeper level of inquiry available.
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My work exists to help people become radically empowered creators of their own lives, who understand how to work with the laws of nature rather than against them, to receive everything our souls truly want, rather than remaining victims of past or present circumstances. This is a journey of agency, mastery, empowerment, and discovering and honouring our true selves.
Client Empowerment & How I Work
I work primarily one-on-one with adults.
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People are different. I attune to each person to meet you where you are and get very precise—one-size-fits-all does not apply well here. My sensitivity helps me perceive what someone is experiencing, where it is held, and the stories attached to it.
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Even when I help you see blind spots or unmet needs, my focus is always on your empowerment. I do not find it helpful to create dependency. From the beginning—when clients are open to it—I teach clients how to work with their own internal experience so they can develop confidence, capacity, and agency on their own path. In many ways, this means offering you the understanding and tools to do my job for yourself.
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Although I hold a PhD in Clinical Psychology, as an anglophone in Quebec I am not registered with the professional order. I therefore work under the title of coach. This allows me to integrate the full range of practices I have studied and to work outside a strictly medical model—an approach that feels aligned with how I work and, in my experience, can be more empowering for clients.
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I am currently based in Montreal, Canada, and work online, offering coaching sessions to both Canadian and international clients. I have worked with clients in Canada, the United States, Australia, Thailand, and Europe.
Personal, Academic, and Clinical Formation & Integration
I am an integrative thinker, and no single framework contains everything.
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I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. Around the age of 15, I became increasingly passionate about developing the empowerment to surmount my circumstances and creating the life I wanted to live. This blossomed into deep philosophical inquiry—questioning, hypothesizing, living, and testing many different models. As I worked with these questions, my focus naturally deepened. I became increasingly interested in how consciousness, attitude, perception, belief systems, internal stories, and postures shape what we experience and create.
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This inquiry has driven my academic choices, professional development, life goals, relationships, spiritual life, and inner work.
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I completed a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and PhD in research and clinical psychology. I used opportunities in grad school to research the placebo and expectancy effect on physical healing, the mechanisms of hypnosis, and the influence of mind and emotion on the body.
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Concordia University offers an extremely rigorous graduate training program, and through approximately 15 practicum, internship, and residency placements, I received supervised practice in many psychotherapeutic orientations, including CBT, mindfulness-based CBT, psychodynamic and Jungian psychology, Gestalt and humanistic psychology, emotion-focused therapy, and internal family systems. During these placements, I worked with individuals facing a wide range of mental health challenges and was particularly drawn to severe and trauma-related presentations—especially trauma arising from chronically unmet emotional needs in childhood. I learned what works, what doesn’t, and why.
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My personal, clinical, and research interests intersect the realms of mind, body, and energetics. I have trained in somatic and body-based healing work and psychedelic integration. After completing my PhD, I delved into studies, trainings, and embodiment practices to deepen my understanding of meditation, somatics, energetic, relationship dynamics, conscious sexuality, eros, and relational work. This has included body–mind centering, massage, Reiki, tantric and shamanic approaches, as well as osteopathy-informed perspectives and related practices. I have participated in and guided somatic practices with individuals and groups, and I continue to renew my understanding so that my work remains accurate, responsive, and alive.
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Most recently, I have been deeply studying Ayurveda and the ancient mystical teachings of Kabbalah. The latter offers wisdom that I perceive as profoundly clear, precise, heart-opening, empowering, and oriented toward higher and more expansive states of being. This profound wisdom feels largely missing from both secular perspectives and many earth-based spiritual traditions.
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I value humility, openness, and a willingness to integrate insights across disciplines while remaining grounded in lived experience and always open to deeper understanding.
Personal Life & Creative Work
I love nature and spending time outdoors with loved ones. I have been rock climbing for approximately 20 years and enjoy many other outdoor sports. I love music, dancing, traveling, and reading.
In my spare time, I make macramé wall hangings and run a young jewelry business. In this work, I focus on gemstones and their energetic properties, creating pieces intended to support intentions such as radiance, joy, open-heartedness, compassion, confidence, and intuition.
The body—and understanding how to support physical health and vitality—is also a closely related and important area of interest for me, as physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing are deeply interconnected.
Contact
To book a session or a free 15-minute discovery call, you can email me at coaching@dralyssaherzig.com.
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You can also read more about how I work in sessions on my website:
https://dralyssaherzig.com