Alex Olshonsky

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Alex Olshonsky

Transformational coaching & somatic therapy

I work with founders, executives, creatives, spiritual practitioners, and non-profit teams. I blend somatic psychotherapy and wisdom traditions with modern performance protocols to create deep, lasting transformation.

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What I offer

Here are some of the key areas I focus on

Leadership coaching

Whether you're launching a startup, navigating co-founder tension, managing high-stakes M&A, or changing careers, I'll help you find the the clarity and authenticity needed to thrive.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic explorations to access the innate intelligence within your body. This process will help you release anxiety, integrate wounded parts, shift out of feeling stuck, and discover what you truly want. Trauma informed.

Spiritual + meditation guidance

Deepening meditation practice to transform your mind. Integrating psychedelic experiences and healing journeys. Cultivating spiritual awakening, depth, and maturity.

Habit change + addiction recovery

Whether you're facing 'high-functioning' dependencies, compulsive screen use, or severe addictions, I'll help you break free from fixation and embrace a life without numbing or distraction.

What my clients say

Nice things folks have said about my coaching

William Oliver

Co-founder of InPractise

"Working with Alex has had a deep and sustained impact on my life. Our work together helped me clarify and address the blockages to living my purpose. I believe that part of what makes Alex so effective as a coach is his ability to listen deeply and non-judgmentally. Combined with his proficiency in a range of powerful therapeutic techniques, this allowed us to go deep fast and address blind spots compassionately and creatively."

William Oliver

Co-founder of InPractise

My story & approach

As an executive coach and somatic therapist, my mission is to help you self-actualize and lead a life rich in depth, fulfillment, and joy. Almost a decade ago, as a Silicon Valley executive, I faced a polysubstance addiction that nearly killed me. For years, I'd lived a double life—achieving external success while descending deeper into an underworld of darkness.

From this crisis, from this existential truth-slap in the face, my entire world broke open. What began as survival opened into an unexpected awakening. I plunged myself into the healing arts, becoming a dedicated student of psychology, meditation, somatics, and the Dharma. Through these years of study, I left the startup world to dedicate myself to this path, discovering a life more rich, alive, and meaningful than I could have imagined.

I am deeply called to the coaching work that I do, guiding others through their own transformations, whether in business or psyche, bringing together the pragmatic clarity of leadership with the endless depths of consciousness.

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My coaching style is relational at its core, drawing heavily from Jungian psychology and the Hakomi method. This means I view my client relationships as dynamic partnerships and always strive to tap into the body’s innate wisdom, seeing it as a gateway to deeper insights beyond the thinking mind’s understanding.

My approach, which blends high-performance leadership coaching with somatic psychotherapy, supports people in navigating all aspects of life with clarity and authenticity. I help leaders regulate their nervous systems and cultivate magnetic presence. I coach founders through startup launches, co-founder tension, and make-or-break M&A deals. I guide creatives through vivid somatic journeys to allow the intelligence of their bodies to re-organize trauma and limiting beliefs. And I support executives as they navigate career changes, divorce, loss, addiction, spiritual emergence, and other transitional moments.

No matter what your priority is, we will create a bespoke approach that allows you to thrive across all dimensions of your life.

Above all, I am passionate about helping you cultivate greater awareness of your inner and outer experience. My coaching aims to deepen your understanding of how the unconscious shapes your present reality, while also guiding you to discover the purpose and vitality that already reside within you. Through this work, I will challenge you, care for you, and call upon your spiritual potential.

As an executive coach and somatic therapist, my mission is to help you self-actualize and lead a life rich in depth, fulfillment, and joy. Almost a decade ago, as a Silicon Valley executive, I faced a polysubstance addiction that had nearly killed me. For years, I'd lived a double life—achieving external success while descending deeper into an underworld of darkness.

I am deeply called to the coaching work that I do today, guiding others through their own transformations, whether in business or psyche, bringing together the pragmatic clarity of leadership with the endless depths of consciousness.

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I work with a broad spectrum of clients, with a particular focus on founders, creatives, spiritual practitioners, and executives navigating major life changes.

My approach, which blends high-performance leadership coaching with somatic psychotherapy, supports people in navigating all aspects of life with clarity and authenticity. I help leaders regulate their nervous systems and cultivate magnetic presence. I coach founders through startup launches, co-founder tension, and make-or-break M&A deals. I guide creatives through vivid somatic journeys to allow the intelligence of their bodies to re-organize trauma and limiting beliefs. And I support executives as they move through career changes, divorce, loss, addiction, spiritual emergence, and other transitional moments.

No matter what your priority is, we will create a bespoke approach that allows you to thrive across all dimensions of your life.

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Foundation & training

I am trained and a graduate of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy—a modality that blends mindfulness, talk therapy, Buddhist & Taoist philosophy, and a body-centered approach to promote psychological growth and transformation. I additionally draw on Internal Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, integral theory, and my experience as a yoga teacher.

For over a decade, I've been a student-practitioner of numerous spiritual traditions, including Theravāda and Vajrayāna Buddhism, Hindu tantra, Kundalini yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Amazonian curanderismo, and bare-bones nonduality. This breadth of experience directly informs my approach to supporting psychedelic integration, spiritual awakening, and the deepening of meditation practice.

Moreover, I’ve built successful startups and non-profits from the ground up, whether in Silicon Valley or while innovating in the addiction and psychedelic field. Through my courses, writing, and non-profit work, I've helped countless individuals find freedom from numbing, distraction, and dissociation.

My diverse life experiences, with their intense highs and lows, blend, I hope, the compassionate nature of a somatic healer with the no-nonsense approach of an entrepreneurial operator. I always aim to keep it real and down-to-earth in our sessions. This balance is true to who I am and seems to help people create lasting change in their lives.

I am trained in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy—a modality that blends mindfulness, talk therapy, Buddhist & Taoist philosophy, and a body-centered approach to promote psychological growth and transformation. I additionally draw on Internal Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, integral theory, and my experience as a yoga teacher.

“Hakomi… is something that I found very helpful for learning to feel again, after a lifetime of numbing and dissociation… it’s been a process to relearn how to feel, and to embrace that sensitivity as a gift and not just a liability.”