About Me
Hello! I’m David Javate, an Embodied Performance Coach, Somatic practitioner, and Licensed Psychotherapist. I help clients discover their best self from the inside out. I use conscious awareness of your body experience to help you rediscover your own innate sense of truth, leadership, and creativity.
MY APPROACH :
I believe that coaching is about helping people thrive in life, and my approach is to do it through the body. You may be wondering, “why the body?”. For me, the body can be a direct path to discovering freedom.
What does that mean? Well, many forms of coaching revolve around discovering a goal, and helping you stay accountable to accomplishing this goal. While that may be effective and helpful, who you are at the base level stays the same. Embodied Performance coaching is about truly embodying and BEING your true self as a leader, artist, creator, and human being.
Through the use of mindfulness, or conscious awareness, we begin by exploring your current experience, which may show up as sensation, tension, or even a particular posture or movement. By exploring your experience with curiosity, we can discern between self-critical or “fragmented” ways of being and more helpful or “expansive” ways of being. From this place of discernment, we can purposefully embody these more expansive ways of being and apply this embodied expansive perspective towards life decisions, performance, and in leadership.
Through exploration and discovery of unconscious beliefs, somatic coaching can open up the possibility of having new perspectives and new ways of being in the world.
MY BACKGROUND :
Professionally, I have experience as a licensed psychotherapist in California, and previously as a top-producing sales manager. I have coached and counseled business owners, managers, software engineers, and artists as clients.
My personal development background includes experience in insight meditation, men’s work with the Mankind Project , martial arts, and fitness. I also have a creative background as a former DJ and producer, and I enjoy live music, exercise, the arts, and nature.
MY TRAINING:
Qualifications:
Certified Hakomi Practitioner
Certified Brainspotting Practitioner
Certified CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California #144782
Education:
MA, Somatic Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
MBA, Marketing, Golden Gate University
BS, Biology, College of William and Mary
Additional training:
Hakomi Comprehensive Training, Hakomi Institute
The Re-Creation of the Self, META trainings
Brainspotting Expansions Training, Brainspotting
Holistic Lifestyle Coach Training Levels 1 & 2, CHEK Institute
Co-Active Coach Training, Co-Active Training Institute
Coach Training, Wellcoaches School of Coaching
Web Development, Product Management, UX Design, General Assembly
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Please note that I am licensed to practice psychotherapy only in the state of California. Outside of California, I offer services solely in the capacity of a "coach." Coaching services differ in significant legal and ethical ways from psychotherapy. While psychotherapy often involves diagnosing and treating mental health conditions, coaching is focused on personal growth, achieving specific goals, and enhancing performance and well-being. Coaching services do not include the diagnosis or treatment of mental health issues and are not a substitute for psychotherapy.