Embodied Healing Photography Experience

Looking for a personalized photography experience that is trauma informed? Look no further than this Embodied Photography Experience. This individualized experience is designed to help you embrace your body as it is, and will build upon your unique personality. This is a one-of-a-kind experience to help you accept your true self so you can feel confident and empowered in front of the camera. This experience is designed for those who want to deep dive into body acceptance, people whose bodies have changed recently or over time, people who do not feel comfortable behind the camera, or folkx looking to try a one of a kind way of accepting their body with the aid of photography, coaching and self reflection.

This uinique journey helps you leave behind your percieved flaws, self hate, body negativity and judgment to create space into healing, self love, and body acceptance through personal one-on-one coaching with Darlene, journaling, leaning calming/ground skills, guided journaling and photography.

Who is this for?

This experience is for anyone who feels disconnected from their body, struggles with shame or avoidance, or wants to see themselves with more compassion and clarity. It’s ideal for those navigating trauma, identity shifts, body changes, or moments of becoming—and for anyone longing to feel more at home, more visible, and more alive in their own skin.

Trans and Queer bodies

Burn and Cancer Survivors

Surgery Survivors

Post partom and Aging bodies

What is looks like:

Let's Begin

Meet one on one with me as the photographer and coach to start exploring your beliefs, values, thoughts, and emotions around your body. This is designed to help you get to know me, and to start the process of connecting to yourself.

Begin Journaling

You will be provided a workbook to help guide this experience. This is designed to allow for very personalized internal learning and exploration. You will explore topics such as body shame, size-ism, body positivity, body acceptance, how to embody your body, and the scripts you were raised on about your body. The workbook provides education as well as practices to help you learn how to embody your body.

Coaching with Darlene

Meet up with me 2 times to go through your insights to the workbook activities and coaching on your goals. This will also allow for time to set up your photography session and share insights from your journaling. We will work together to create a safe and empowering photography experience. One which you direct, shape, and are in control of.

Photography Session

You pick the place, you pick you what you wear, and you pick how you'd like to be photographed. This session will be presented with emotional safety and collaboration to best help you shine. This is designed for just you, and to help you get the photography that you have always been wanting. I will support you every step of the way.

Reveal Session with Darlene

Our final meeting is a dedicated space to view your edited photography together. This session gives you time to reflect on your growth, take in the images with support, and integrate the inner and outer shifts you’ve made throughout this experience—embracing who you are, exactly as you are.

The ripple effects of this experience extend far beyond the session itself—clients leave feeling more connected to their bodies, more compassionate toward themselves, and more grounded in their identity and worth. As shame loosens and identity opens, they gain a greater capacity for intimacy, allowing them to show up in relationships with more vulnerability, trust, and emotional presence. They develop the courage to be more visible in their personal, professional, and creative lives, and this coherence naturally attracts healthier relationships and opportunities. Creativity re-enters their life as self-expression becomes safer and more accessible. With a more regulated nervous system, a softened inner critic, and images that anchor them in truth and resilience, clients begin living with more authenticity, clarity, and confidence. This work doesn’t just change how they see themselves—it transforms how they relate, create, and move through the world.

Is this right for me?

Trauma

This experience helps you see yourself clearly beyond trauma, gently process shame, and step into true resilience. Through a trauma-informed, somatic, and deeply attuned process, you learn to reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and experience being seen in a way that feels safe and empowering. The images we create together become visual anchors of your strength—reflecting not what happened to you, but who you are becoming. This is not about taking pictures; it’s about reclaiming visibility, softening shame, and embodying a more compassionate, resilient relationship with yourself.

Body Image

This experience helps you gently interrupt body shame, reduce avoidance, and see yourself with more compassion—even if looking at your body or face has felt overwhelming or painful. Instead of forcing confidence, we create space for curiosity, neutrality, and dignity. The session helps you reconnect with your body in a way that isn’t about performance but presence. And when you receive your images, they become supportive mirrors—showing you a fuller, kinder truth beyond the distortions of shame or dysmorphia. Over time, clients report being able to look at themselves with less judgment, more acceptance, and a growing sense of belonging in their own skin.

Disconnect

This experience gently guides you back into connection with your body, soul, and emotions by creating a safe, regulated space where you can meet yourself with compassion instead of fear. The session becomes a bridge back to your inner self, helping you listen to your emotions with curiosity and reconnect with the deeper, authentic parts of your soul that trauma or stress may have silenced. The images we create together then serve as reminders of this reconnection, reflecting your essence, your strength, and your truth. Over time, this work helps you feel more at home within yourself—emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Introductory Price $1000.00

Valued at $1,500

This package includes a deeply supportive, multi-step experience designed to help you reconnect with yourself and prepare for a trauma-informed photography session. We begin with a first session where I learn about you, your goals, and your story. This initial consult is non-refundable and requires a $150 deposit. After this first meeting, the full payment for your package is due, with a minimum of half paid before your second coaching session. Payment plans are available to support accessibility. You’ll receive a guided self-workbook to explore at your own pace, and you can schedule a check-in coaching session anytime as you move through your reflections. We then meet for a third coaching session to review your insights, growth, and intentions, and to set the stage for your personalized photography experience. Your session includes up to two hours of individualized photography, where you choose the style—boudoir, professional headshots, casual portraits, or any single-person session that feels aligned. I’ll complete the edits based on your preferences, and we’ll come together for a meaningful reveal of your images, celebrating your transformation and the powerful way you now see yourself.

Alexa Young, CA