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Gillian McMichael

What Is Energetic Coaching? How It’s Transforming the Future of Personal Growth

21 Aug 2025

Have you ever been in a situation where you're doing everything right, yet you have a feeling that something doesn't feel aligned?

You've set your goals, built consistent habits, and maybe even hired a coach, but there's a silent feeling that something more is lost. Enters Energetic Coaching.

Compared to traditional coaching, which focuses more on your mind, energetic coaching awakens your emotional, energetic, and spiritual blueprints. It is not only a matter of changing what you do, but also how you feel, who you are, and which inner order corresponds or not with the sort of life you are struggling to bring about.

In this blog, we shall take a look at what energetic coaching is, what it offers, and why it’s revolutionizing the future of personal growth.


What is Energetic Coaching?

At its core, energetic coaching is a holistic process that goes far beyond surface level change. It is an integration of principles from energy medicine, somatic awareness, spiritual practices, and traditional coaching to assist an individual in opening inner blockages, restoring their vibration, and moving forward with a clearer mind.

Everything is energy—and energy is everything. Energetically, emotions, beliefs, traumas, and even the stories we carry hold some energetic weight. Chronically, these energies have the power to make you or to stifle you. With energetic coaching, you can learn to tune in to those subtle energies, which make the unconscious conscious and enable you to live in harmony with your authentic self.

Unlike Life Coaching, which often begins with the question, “What do you want to achieve?”, energetic begins with exploring the question, who are you becoming?


What Does Energetic Coaching Entail?

Energetic coaching is not a standard fit. It is usually associated with:

Energy Awareness: Helps you identify areas of your energy that feel burdensome, impeded, or diminished.

Subtle Shifts: Uses simple, effective tools such as breathwork, visualization, chakra balancing, and emotional release techniques.

Conscious Coaching: Asking powerful questions that raise your unconscious behavior to your consciousness, enabling you to get out of self-sabotaging patterns.

Integration Practices: Helping you anchor your experiences by journaling, embodiment practices, meditation, or intuitive action.

The energetic coach becomes a mirror - offering a safe, non-judgemental space to meet yourself honestly and listen to your inner voice.

Over time, you begin to notice synchronicity, having developed a heightened intuitive sense and a closer connection to your inner compass.


What Makes Energetic Coaching So Powerful?

"Energetic coaching is powerful because it transforms you from the inside outshifting your energy, not just your actions."

It transcends the mind.

Mindset coaching or productivity tools can provide short term relief- however more normally the problem goes deeper, residing within the energetic body. Energetic coaching is at that deep level where real change occurs.

It assists in getting rid of the accumulated trauma

Our bodies memorize both emotionally and energetically. Whether they are childhood wounds or recent events, these stored energies can create blockages. It is through energetic coaching that these blocked energies will be recognized and released, making room for healing and transformation.

It promotes alignment rather than chasing external success.

Without alignment, success feels hollow. Energetic coaching helps fill the gap between who you are and what you do—encouraging wholeness where your energy supports your actions.

It develops intuition and self-confidence

It is reported by many clients that they feel more connected with their intuition. Decisions become less forced and easier to make, and they seem to be more established.


Energetic Coaching vs Traditional Coaching

Aspect

Traditional Coaching

Energetic Coaching

Focus

Goal setting and mindset

Energy alignment and inner healing

Approach

Analytical and cognitive

Intuitive, holistic, and somatic awareness

Tools

SMART goals and accountability

Energy clearing, visualization, and somatic awareness

End Result

Achieved goals

Embodied transformation and alignment


Although there is a role for traditional coaching, energetic coaching is a complementary (and frequently more comprehensive) way--particularly to those who are willing to delve deep.


Who Is Energetic Coaching Suitable for?

Energetic coaching is not only confined to the spiritually minded. It’s for:


  • Leaders who desire to lead inside-out

  • Professionals caught in the burnout cycles

  • People who are seeking a life of greater meaning

  • Individuals navigating life transitions - career or relationships, identity

  • Anybody who believes they have done all ‘right’ yet is feeling stagnant.


If something inside you knows there's more to uncover, energetic coaching may be the piece you’ve been waiting for.


The Future of Personal Growth

The landscape of coaching evolves in response to the development of collective consciousness. An increasing number of people are bypassing the facile process of achievement and opting instead to level in the soul. They desire fulfilment, authenticity and recovery.

To meet this change, there has been an increased popularity of energetic coaching. It acknowledges the complete domain of human experience and offers a path to total integration- of body, mind, energy, and sprit.

Organizations are evolving as well. Heart-led leadership, emotional intelligence and mindfulness is becoming the standard. Energetic coaching facilitates this transition by helping individuals appear as their best and most authentic selves.


Energy Coaching: What To Expect

A session can begin with a check-in, followed by guided practices that help you navigate your inner landscape. You may experience emotional releases, spiritual insights, or a palpable shift in energy.

Each of your sessions is tailored to your pace, your narration, your energy. No haste. No hurry. What happens is simply the emergence of your authentic self beyond the roles, rules, and resistance.

And unlike fast solutions or inspirational highs, the transformations caused by enthusiastic coaching are likely to be permanent, because your most fundamental truth causes them.


Final Thoughts

Energetic coaching is more than a tool, a doorway—an entrance point to a greater self, revolution, and harmonious existence. In a world that often prioritizes performance over presence, energetic coaching invites you to feel, to heal, and to simply be.

Nowadays, pursuing objectives that do not appeal to our soul is insufficient. Personal growth is holy - with energetic coaching, it is an act of remembering, rebalancing, and reclaiming who you are.

Is it time to realign with your energy, your purpose, and your most authentic self?

Gillian McMichael is an internationally certified transformational coach, energy practitioner, and wellness expert whose vision is to help others learn how to live true-to-themselves and soul-led lives.

When you're ready to explore a deeper, more integrated way of growing, Gillian offers a calm, supportive space where real transformation unfolds—mind, body, and spirit.

Take your next step inward.

Make your development dynamic.

Make your journey authentic.