Allison Batty-Capps is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her wisdom and dedication.

She was a professional actor but she discovers a deeper calling. Her career once defined by the stage and the art of listening has transformed into a mission to guide others toward healing and self discovery. From acting to becoming a licensed marriage and family therapist, a Reiki Master, and a yoga therapist, her path has been one of continuous learning and profound growth.

She integrates neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality into her coaching. She empowers clients to reconnect with their inner divinity, fostering healing and balance in body, mind, and spirit.

She has a pretty unique approach to coaching. Whether exploring Reiki, yoga therapy, or somatic meditations, her unique approach honors each individual’s journey, offering tools to listen to one’s body, regulate emotions, and develop a personal spiritual practice. With a book on healing set to publish and a new wellness coaching business launching in 2025, she is on a mission to help others awaken their highest potential. Here is what she said…

Meet Life Coach Allison Batty-Capps:

Name: Allison Batty-Capps

Pillar: The Spirit, The Heart

Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to develop a spiritual practice and connect with their divinity, become a better person and REparent themselves.

How they can help: By using various tools and techniques like Yoga therapy, Reiki, shamanic journeying, mindfulness, meditation, active imagination, and internal family systems, just to name a few.

First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?

The pandemic helped me and my husband understand the importance of self care as well as work life balance.

The pandemic forced us to slow down.

Once we did, we had awareness of how stressed and overwhelmed we had become as we tried to maintain the fast pace of life that is the norm in the United States.

Prioritizing self care meant developing more self awareness, so we developed a regular yoga practice, meditation practice, began eating healthier, and gave up alcohol.

We started prioritizing our mental health as we realized we could not show up for others in a compassionate manner if we were not regulated in our bodies and minds.

We both decided that we could no longer work the long hours we had been working in the stressful fields we had been working in.

We decided we wanted to move somewhere that valued work life balance, so we moved to a small town on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

The pandemic created some challenges at the beginning as we learned to share space and connect over technology.

However, after a few challenges figuring out the technology, we settled in and found that the work didn’t actually change that much.

In some ways it was better as it made it possible for me to work with a diverse population as I could now see clients anywhere in the world.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

I spoke to this previously, I think the pandemic really showed me how disconnected I was from myself, my own boundaries, and my own needs.

It showed me how the fast pace and pressure was not something I could sustain long term as it was creating emotional, mental, and physical stress.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

In my twenties and most of my thirties, I was a professional actor.

This helped prepare me for understanding others as acting requires you to listen with your whole being.

It’s about receiving from other actors what they offer and then co creating and experience for the audience.

However, in 2008, I had a calling to become some sort of healer.

I began studying at a psychic school and as I began to open up to a personal spiritual practice, I became overwhelmed and disoriented.

These new complex spiritual themes challenged everything I had been taught about being a human being, and they also connected me with my childhood trauma, which I had repressed.

This led me to study Depth Psychology and become a trauma therapist.

It also led me to become a Reiki Master and a Yoga Therapist.

I became interested in the intersectionality of neuroscience, psychology and spirituality.

I started working with clients in 2015 as a licensed marriage and family therapist.

Through all of my various educational endeavors, and my work with clients, I discovered that the healing component is our connection to the inner divinity within ourselves and the inter connectivity to something human beings have been trying to make sense of since the beginning of time.

Last December, I decided I didn’t want to work in the medical model any longer, so I closed my mental health private practice.

I spent last year writing a book on healing called The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World.

I am currently working with Atmosphere Press to publish my book.

I am in the process of transitioning to being a wellness spiritual coach, helping individuals connect to their inner divinity as a means of healing themselves using reiki, yoga, internal family systems theory, and somatic meditations.

I hope to open my private wellness coaching business in February of 2025.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

As I mentioned in 2008 I had a spiritual experience that changed my understanding of myself and the world.

I am still growing and learning from this experience.

The spiritual emergency that resulted from attending the psychic school, opening me up to the spirit world, and my childhood trauma, created an opportunity to heal complex aspects of myself.

It helped me develop deep compassion for the suffering of others.

It has taught me the importance of boundaries and advocating for my needs, while respecting the boundaries and the needs of others.

It has given me the gift of seeing that spirituality is deeply personal and only the individual practitioner knows what they need.

My ability to respect the free will of others without judgment has also been a gift, as I now want to collaborate with others on outcomes that benefit the highest good of all involved.

This includes the offerings I make to my clients, I never tell them what they should do, but offer suggestions of things that might help.

I guide them to listen to themselves to determine what offering they need at any given moment.

I also no longer feel I need to fix people as I see they are not broken, they are merely working through something.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

I believe that my clients have guided themselves to find me and the teachings I offer.

I believe they already know what they need to heal themselves and to connect to their own spirituality.

I believe in empowering my clients to explore the various practices I offer, and encourage them to experiment with them and adapt them to what feels right for them.

I am merely a guide, helping them to remember what they have forgotten that they are divinely human.

Based on the goals that they have set for our time together, I tap into reiki and my connection to the spirit world and ask for guidance of what would help the client.

I also teach them how to tap into reiki and their own spiritual connection so they can learn to guide themselves on their journey.

I teach them how to listen to their body for cues of what is true for them, based on when their body feels calm, and their heart open and compassionate.

I teach them how to understand what their body, mind and emotions are trying to communicate when they are experiencing something other than a sense of calm, openness, and compassion.

I teach them how to re parent and heal the parts of themselves asking for assistance. 

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

The interconnectivity of spirituality, neuroscience and psychology.

I am trained in various disciplines and am able to hold space for people with different beliefs.

For example, I work with many clients that do not believe in the spirit world, yet they connect to something that they say feels loving, peaceful, and it helps them heal.

They still don’t believe it is the spirit world, but they know they feel better when they connect to this within themselves, and explaining the science of what they are tapping into helps them trust it.

Versus, others have profound experiences connecting to the spirit world and they have conversations with beings that live there, and for them this is deeply healing.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

They will learn how to recognize when their body needs help regulating and they will have the tools to regulate themselves.

They will learn how to observe their thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and beliefs from a distance and be the caretaker for those parts of themselves.

They will develop an understanding of their core beliefs and will have an opportunity to change them if they do not align with who they feel they are or what they want to experience.

They will become more compassionate and understanding and more open to collaborating with others.

They will develop a personal spiritual practice that is unique to their needs based on who they feel they are.

If they are interested in having a relationship with the spirit world, they will learn how to do so tapping into this energy for additional healing, support and guidance.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

Yoga therapy, Reiki, shamanic journeying, mindfulness, meditation, active imagination, and internal family systems.

Although I do not offer mental health therapy and do not do trauma processing, I understand how this can be interconnected to my clients goals and I am trauma informed.

I can work in collaboration with their mental health therapist if they desire this.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

You are divinely human.

You are lovable, worthy and part of the whole.

Shine your uniqueness brightly, because our diversity strengthens the totality of what we are together.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

That I am a divine spiritual being having a human experience.

That although we all have different experiences on earth, at our core we all want the same things.

To be loved, to be safe, to be accepted, to be respected, to have autonomy.

That when we remember our interconnectivity to all of life, we can cause one another less harm and work together for the common good of all.

However, all of that can only happen if we heal the wounds in our unconscious and remember that all of creation is divine.

Your final thoughts?

I am deeply honored to be given an opportunity to share my work with this network of people.

I invite everyone looking for a coach to listen to how your body feels when you read their profile.

If your body feels calm, open, expansive and you feel loved, then the individual whose profile you are reading may be a good fit for you.

Trust yourself, as you know what you need.

Where Can You Find Allison Batty-Capps?

If you liked this interview and if you would love to connect with your own divine spirituality, go to blossomingheartwellness.com and see how Coach Allison can help you do that.

If you’d like to peak a glimpse of her coaching, follow her YouTube channel where she shares valuable nuggets of wisdom, and you can also follow her Facebook and Instagram accounts.

And if you’d like to connect more personally with her, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message on her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.