Salayeh Self is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her passion and expertise.
She brings a multidimensional lens to personal growth and empowerment. What sets her apart isn’t just her impressive list of qualifications or her bold vision, it’s the life she’s lived. A survivor of multiple traumas, a single mother for over a decade, and a relentless advocate for justice, she embodies resilience and purpose.
She has a background that spans social work, clinical therapy, somatic healing, and executive coaching. Her mission? To create sexual healing and empowerment centers around the world, safe spaces where people can reclaim their voices, their bodies, and their power.
She has a very unique approach customized to each individual. Through a 12 pillar method that blends clinical precision with soulful integration, she guides clients to heal their past, unlock their sensuality, and step fully into the lives they were meant to live. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Salayeh Self:
Name: Salayeh Self
Pillar: The Spirit, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to break trauma loops, stop people pleasing, embody presence, pleasure, and purpose, deepen intimacy, reconnect to their nervous systems, desires, and unleash the true unconditional confidence they carry within.
How they can help: Through trauma informed coaching and by using various tools and techniques like somatic therapy, expressive arts, clinical frameworks, shadow work, esoteric rituals, nervous system regulation, and tantra, just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?
We’ve come through deeply changed.
As a critical thinker, I saw the pandemic not just as a health crisis but as a pivotal global moment that exposed hidden agendas and shifted financial systems.
Personally, I faced significant discrimination for refusing the experimental injections, both professionally and socially.
It was a challenging time for my family and me, but it solidified my values, resilience, and purpose.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The mental health toll was undeniable.
Many clients lost jobs, income, and stability, making therapy a luxury they couldn’t afford when they needed it most.
It revealed the vicious cycle of trauma and economic instability.
For me, it reaffirmed the need for accessible, trauma informed, and purpose driven healing models.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
Never blindly trust mainstream narratives.
Do your own research.
Think critically.
And above all, trust your inner knowing.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I’m a qualified Social Worker, Clinical Trauma Therapist, Creative and Somatic Therapist, Executive Coach, and Sex Therapy Informed Practitioner.
My journey includes working with 24 non profits in legislative and criminal justice reform, school counselling, youth outreach, and now studying my Master’s in Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.
I’m also a multiple trauma survivor, and this lived experience fuels my mission: to open sexual healing and empowerment centers worldwide…
Spaces where people can recover their bodies, voices, purpose, and power.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
My life began with layers of adversity: sexual trauma, homelessness, financial abuse, domestic violence, addiction.
I’ve now been raising two children alone for over 13 years.
These lived experiences shaped me into the resilient, purpose led leader I am today.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
My method is rooted in 12 transformative pillars.
I begin with foundational blueprints (purpose, business, relationships) then guide clients through trauma healing, shadow work, attachment patterns, and inner child repair.
From there, we unlock sexuality, intimacy, and full body self actualization.
It’s a deep, integrated journey across mind, body, and soul.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
There’s no one else doing what I do, because no one else has lived my life or trained across such a wide range of modalities.
I bridge clinical therapy, spiritual coaching, business strategy, sexual healing, and trauma informed transformation into one integrated experience.
From legacy building to embodied intimacy, I meet clients wherever they are and guide them into who they were born to be.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
They become deeply self aware and accountable.
They break trauma loops, stop people pleasing, and finally embody presence, pleasure, and purpose.
Many launch aligned businesses, deepen intimacy, and reconnect to their nervous systems, desires, and confidence.
They learn about anatomy, foreplay, boundaries, and their personal blueprint for thriving, sexually, relationally, financially, and spiritually.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
Absolutely.
My toolbox is expansive and intuitive: somatic therapy, expressive arts, clinical frameworks, shadow work, esoteric rituals, nervous system regulation, tantra, trauma informed coaching, and energy based methods.
Each session is tailored to the whole person, mind, body, and soul.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
Life is a sacred game, and the only opponent is the part of you still living in fear.
You are worthy of love, safety, abundance, and freedom.
But don’t outsource your happiness to others’ opinions or perceptions.
Be courageous enough to live your life.
Be kind.
Be vulnerable.
Leave the world better than you found it.
And remember: if you don’t get the lesson in this lifetime, you’ll return to repeat it.
So start now.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
No one is coming to save you.
You can’t have what you want, you can only have what aligns with who you are.
So become the version of you that matches the life you seek.
That’s when everything shifts.
Your final thoughts?
My life’s work is dedicated to one core truth:
Remembering who we are!
Our sexuality is not separate from our success, our self worth, our relationships, or our spiritual path, it is the very foundation of them.
Sexual energy is life force energy.
It’s the current that fuels our creativity, our confidence, our capacity to connect, and our ability to create a meaningful legacy.
Yet for so many, especially those who have experienced trauma, this energy is either blocked, shamed, or distorted.
I’ve seen firsthand how unhealed sexual trauma or chronic disconnection from the body can manifest as relationship dysfunction, emotional reactivity, lack of purpose, money struggles, addiction, self abandonment, or people pleasing.
We can’t bypass this work if we truly want to thrive.
That’s why my mission is to revolutionize how we approach healing.
I don’t just work with symptoms, I support people to excavate the roots.
My approach is somatic, spiritual, and strategic.
I help people reconnect to their bodies, repair nervous system dysregulation, rewire attachment wounds, and reclaim their sensual, erotic, and emotional intelligence.
I bring together trauma informed therapy, sexuality education, sacred intimacy, and legacy activation, because they’re all connected.
Ultimately, sexual empowerment is not just about sex, it’s about safety, sovereignty, and wholeness.
It’s about being able to say:
This is who I am.
This is what I desire.
This is what I deserve.
When we are sexually empowered, we stop performing for love, we stop betraying ourselves for approval, and we start living from truth, embodiment, and divine purpose.
My dream is to build global healing and empowerment centers where survivors and seekers alike can access this level of transformation.
Because when we heal the root, we change the world, one soul, one body, one truth at a time.
Where Can You Find Salayeh Self?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to break trauma loops, deepen intimacy, and unleash your sacred sexual power, contact Salayeh Self here and see how Coach Salayeh can help you do that.
Feel free to explore her website and learn more about all of the services that she offers.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, follow her Instagram account and Facebook profile.
And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message on her WhatsApp or her Email salayeh@heartarise.com.au. It was an honor having this interview with her.