Meet Vivananda — Inner Coherence Counsellor
Supporting the restoration of inner knowing and self-trust
About Vivananda Shakti Gaia
Inner Coherence Counsellor.
Vivananda Shakti Gaia supports you in reclaiming safety in your body and reconnecting with ease, pleasure, and self-trust. Her work integrates somatic practices, nervous system literacy, and depth psychology with a trauma-informed, gentle approach to restoring vitality — so regulation becomes self-directed and relationships feel more natural and easeful.
The Journey Home to Yourself
"Since working with Vivananda I can honestly say it’s been life-changing.
Her blend of professional clinical training and advanced spiritual practice brought more depth, clarity, and impact than anything I’ve experienced before.
The tools she taught me continue to shape my daily life — grounding, empowering, and reconnecting me with myself in a way that feels lasting and real.
If you’re seeking deep energetic healing or subconscious work that leads you back to your heart, I highly recommend her.”
— C.S.
A Path Rooted in Lived Experience, Wisdom, and Devotion
Her practice blends evidence-based somatic modalities with nervous system literacy, relational neurobiology, depth psychology, and feminine perceptual wisdom. This integration supports a return to safety in the body, natural rhythm, and a clearer sense of when to move and when to pause.
Vivananda’s path emerged through:
- nearly a decade supporting survivors of trauma
- her own healing and reclamation journey
- a deep respect for the body’s intelligence
- a fascination with the psyche and unconscious processes
- a calling to bridge modern psychology with the unseen
Today, her approach blends evidenced-based approaches with a non-pathologizing holistic framework — grounded, safe, intuitive, and deeply attuned to both the needs and strengths of those she serves.
Is Inner Coherence Counselling Right for You?
To ensure you receive the appropriate level of support, you’re invited to complete the Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ):
If your score is 6 or higher, trauma processing should be considered before or alongside this work.
You may explore other options through Vivananda’s sister company:
Gaia Integration believes:
We heal when we become embodied and feel:
- safe in our bodies
- seen without judgment
- supported at our own pace
- able to move out of disconnection patterns and reconnect with pleasure
- rooted in our intuition, boundaries, and sovereignty
Embodiment is not simply being “in the body.” It is:
Awareness + Safety + Regulation + Permission + Pleasure
When we become embodied, we develop an internal compass so clear that protector parts can stand down and we no longer need to feel overwhelm, shutdown, or dissociation.
We become steady, present, and alive.
This is the foundation of all the work at Gaia Integration.
Reconnection to the body, and restoring self-trust after trauma
Sexual and other traumas impact the body, nervous system, and erotic expression in ways talk therapy alone often cannot reach and sex coaching that is not trauma informed can be triggering.
Vivananda specializes in supporting those who have already done foundational trauma work and are now ready to explore:
- deepening self-trust
- restoring natural timing and responsiveness
- cultivating grounded aliveness
- strengthening somatic attunement and regulation
- feeling more aligned in relationships
- reconnecting spiritually and sensually
- integrating expanded or sacred experiences
Her approach is grounded, non-linear, consent-based, and always paced according to the client’s readiness and nervous system capacity.
Training & Lineage
Academic Training
- BA in Psychology
- Master of Education (MEd)
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
- Registered Social Worker (RSW – BCCSW #13818)
Specialized Trauma & Somatic Training
- Organic Intelligence
- Internal Family Systems (IFS-informed practices)
- Polyvagal & Somatic Studies
- Trauma-Informed Relationships & Indigenous Cultural Safety (UBC, PHSA)
Ceremony, Energetic & Ancient Feminine Technologies
- Ordained Ceremonialist, Awakening Divinity Ministries
- Reiki Grandmaster, DivineYu Academy
- Tantra & Sacred Sexuality Studies
- Kundalini & yogic embodiment practices
- Pachakuti Mesa Carrier – Animist & earth-based ritual and shamanism
- Psychedelic Integration trainings
This combination of training supports work at the intersection of: body, psyche, nervous system, sexuality, and spirit.
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Sacred Medicine & Integration
Sacred medicine work requires reverence, skill, and nervous system awareness.
Vivananda supports those exploring or integrating:
- ceremonial experiences
- entheogenic journeys
- psychedelic therapy
Her integration work focuses on helping you:
- anchor insights
- regulate the nervous system
- avoid spiritual bypass
- embody insight rather than chase experiences
- translate transformation into daily life
Why Choose Gaia Integration
Because safety matters.
Because healing is not linear.
Because sexual trauma requires tenderness and precision.
Because feeling fully alive is possible.
Because integration — of body, mind, eros, and spirit — is the path home.
People come to this work when they are ready for deeper truth, deeper embodiment, and deeper freedom.
Healing begins the moment you choose yourself.
Whether you’re ready to alchemize the pain of sexual trauma, heal trauma adaptations, find clearness in decision-making, or integrating sacred medicine, Gaia Integration offers a grounded, compassionate space to evolve. Let’s look at what’s actually happening in your system.