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​​​Founder of Garacci Somatic Therapies

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Sofia Garacci is the founder of Garacci Somatic Therapies, a body–mind coaching practice grounded in thought work, somatic awareness, and intentional action.

Over time, the practice has grown to include a small team of like-minded professionals who share the same foundational approach. Sofia personally trains and collaborates only with practitioners who work from this methodology, ensuring that all support offered through Garacci Somatic Therapies reflects the same clarity, integrity, and depth of work.

She holds a degree in Clinical Psychology from La Sapienza University of Rome, a certification in Psychosomatic Counseling from SIAB (Italian Society of Bioenergetic Psychoanalysis), and a Teen and Parent Coaching Certification from the Scuola di Coaching Umanistico in Rome, Italy.

Sofia works with clients in person in New York City and Southern California, and offers remote coaching worldwide, creating a flexible and supportive space regardless of location.

How this work came to be

Sofia’s approach is shaped not only by formal training, but by years of experience — and by her own personal transformation.

Through her work as a therapist and coach, she observed something consistently:
insight alone was rarely enough to create lasting change.

While emotional understanding and somatic awareness are essential, real transformation tended to occur when clients learned how to work directly with their thoughts — especially the ones that quietly drive behavior, avoidance, and self-sabotage.

At the same time, Sofia experienced this shift firsthand.

Learning thought work fundamentally changed how she related to her mind, her emotions, and her actions. By recognizing thoughts as mental events rather than absolute truths, and by choosing deliberate action even in the presence of resistance, her life began to change in concrete, measurable ways.

What felt like effort became habit.
What felt unnatural became normal.
What once required motivation became identity.

Thought work was not just another tool — it was a revolution.

The core of the practice

Today, thought work forms the foundation of all work offered through Garacci Somatic Therapies.

Sofia and the professionals she collaborates with help clients learn how to:

• notice thoughts without over-identifying with them

• understand how thoughts shape emotional and physical experience

• take intentional action regardless of momentary discomfort

• and build new patterns through repetition and consistency

All practitioners working within the practice are aligned with this approach and trained to apply it consistently across modalities.

This work is always integrated with somatic awareness and nervous-system-informed practices, so change is not only cognitive, but embodied.

Sofia currently offers two core coaching modalities for adults:

• Thought Work Coaching

• Relational-Somatic Coaching

Both are designed to support greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, and a more grounded, intentional way of moving through life.

A note on philosophy

Garacci Somatic Therapies is not built on fixing, bypassing, or endlessly analyzing.

It is built on teaching people how to think clearly, act deliberately, and trust the process of change — even when the mind resists.

It is Sofia’s joy to bring this work to others, and to cultivate a practice where every professional involved works from the same foundation, supporting clients in building lives that feel strong, self-directed, and deeply lived.