ABOUT ANNIKA
Annika Fae,
Threshold Witch
Woman-Centered Coach · Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® · Energy Healer
Twenty years of learning how to support a human being to become fully themselves.
Annika Fae, Threshold Witch
Transformational coach. Energy healer. Feldenkrais practitioner.
Twenty years of learning what it actually takes for a human being to become fully themselves.
This Work
I work with capable women who have hit a wall that intelligence and effort can't move.
Women who have done the work — therapy, coaching, personal development — and find themselves still hitting the same walls. Women whose lives look successful from the outside and feel increasingly wrong on the inside. Women who sense that what's needed isn't more insight, but something that can reach the place the insight can't get to.
My approach is grounded in the Woman-Centered Coaching method — a research-based framework built specifically around the hidden barriers that hold capable women back. The contracted identity. The shrunken vision. The self-concept that formed around old stories and never got the news that it's safe to expand.
This is coaching that works at the level of identity and self-concept, not just behavior and strategy. And when the stuckness has roots that go deeper than coaching can reach — held in the body, threaded through lineage, running at an energetic level that talk-based approaches can't touch — I bring fifteen years of somatic and energetic healing work to meet it there.
I read where the stuckness actually lives and unravel it.
I left engineering in my twenties — early enough to see the trap before the golden handcuffs closed. What I took with me wasn't technical knowledge. It was a way of thinking I've never been able to put down.
The conviction that there is always a solution — or at least a workaround. The discipline of looking at the actual facts of a situation rather than the story about the situation. The habit of naming what's known and what isn't, what can be changed and what can't, which variables actually matter. The ability to think about a problem dispassionately — to care deeply about the person while staying clear-eyed about the system. The instinct to stop when something isn't working and actually fix it, rather than glossing over and hoping for the best.
And perhaps most usefully: the systems view. Everything is connected to everything else. A change in one place creates effects somewhere unexpected. Unintended consequences live in the parts you weren't watching. The big picture is always the real picture. The details that don't matter, don't matter — but the ones that do, can change everything.
I didn't know yet what I was going to do with that way of thinking. But it turned out to be exactly the right foundation for everything that came next.
Waldorf early childhood education ignited something in me that hasn't gone out since.
The core idea — that a child is a fire waiting to be lit, not a bucket to be filled — reoriented everything I thought I understood about human beings. Every child arrives in the world with gifts and a destiny. Our job isn't to fill them with content or shape them into something useful. It's to create the conditions in which what they already carry can unfold.
I learned to see the imprint of the soul in the physical and subtle bodies. To speak with a child's angel. To recognize the genius working in a small person, and the obstacles that could form early — the ways that development proceeds naturally when supported, and how quietly it can be hindered through poor conditions, cultural pressure, the unintentional wounds of well-meaning parents and teachers.
I learned the importance and magic of movement, play, music, purposeful work, rhythm, imagination, and breathing — not as enrichment but as the actual substance of healthy human development. I learned to set conditions that make desired states more likely without force or coercion. I learned how to speak to the young child.
And I carry this always: we all still have that young child inside us. The one who was shaped by early conditions. The one whose needs and wounds and unanswered longings are still quietly running in the background of an adult life. Speaking to that child — knowing how to create safety, how to set conditions, how to kindle what's already there — is one of the most useful things I know how to do.
Nature-connection mentoring connected me to the natural world, to the healing power of play, and to the grief of all we have lost as a species.
I learned that we are profoundly disconnected — not just from the natural world, but from our own human birthrights. Primary satisfactions that our bodies and souls require and that modern life has systematically removed. The dark starry sky. The cacophony of birdsong. Walking everywhere. Living in genuine community. The presence of elders. The daily ritual of sharing the story of our day. Long-term mentoring. The continuity of generations.
So many of what we call the ills of modern life — the anxiety, the numbness, the persistent sense that something is missing — are symptoms of this disconnection. Not personal failures. Cultural losses.
I learned to facilitate groups through their own remembering. I learned the deeper phases of adult development and how rarely we're supported through them. I learned to listen to the land. To acknowledge and ask permission. To be in right relationship with the beings — seen and unseen — that support my work.
Feldenkrais anchors all of it in the body.
Here I learned that the nervous system holds patterns the mind doesn't know it has. That awareness alone — precise, unhurried, curious attention — can reorganize what years of effort couldn't touch. That movement is intelligence. That the body isn't the container for the self; it's where the self lives, and where its entire history is written.
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® isn't a weekend course. It's a years-long apprenticeship in learning to listen at the level where habits of self live before they become thoughts.
And underneath all of it, running in parallel for fifteen years: energetic and intuitive practice. Working with the layers of human experience that science is only now beginning to investigate seriously — the ancestral threads that run through a life, the spiritual presences that influence what feels possible, the energetic architecture of stuck places that have no other name.
We're living in a remarkable cultural moment.
Consciousness research is mapping what healers have always known. The boundary between ancient wisdom and scientific investigation is dissolving — not because the science has gotten softer, but because the phenomena keep showing up in the data. Millions of people are encountering, through podcasts and research and their own lived experience, confirmation of things they already sensed were true but didn't have permission to say out loud.
What looks like magic is almost always a sufficiently sophisticated understanding of a system that mainstream frameworks haven't mapped yet. The tools I use — muscle testing, energetic repatterning, ancestral healing, oracle work, spirit guidance — work for the same reason everything else works: they make contact with the actual pattern. The label doesn't matter. The contact does.
What I Bring
Woman-Centered Coaching — research-based transformational coaching methodology built specifically for the hidden barriers that hold capable women back
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® — somatic intelligence, nervous system awareness, and the understanding that the body holds what the mind can't reach
15 years of energy healing practice — somatic and energetic work, ancestral and lineage threads, spiritual and intuitive dimensions of stuckness that have no other name
Nature-connection facilitation and mentoring — adult development, ecological relationship, the grief of disconnection and the medicine of coming home
Waldorf early childhood training — human development, the inner child, the conditions that allow potentials to unfold
Engineering background — systems thinking, root cause analysis, the discipline of finding what's actually wrong rather than patching what's visible
I keep learning. New tools and approaches arrive regularly — sometimes in sessions themselves, when something wants to be worked with in a way I haven't done before. What I bring now is not the same as what I brought five years ago. And that keeps it alive for me.
Who I Work With
Most of the women I work with are capable, self-aware people navigating a significant life transition — or sensing one approaching.
They've built meaningful careers, relationships, and lives. They're good at solving problems. And they've encountered, often with some frustration, a problem that doesn't respond to the skills that have served them well everywhere else.
They may be facing:
career shifts · divorce or relationship changes · children leaving · the loss of a parent · a health scare that rearranged their priorities · a creative life that came back for what's hers · the quiet realization that the life they built is ready to evolve
These moments feel disorienting.
They are also invitations.
I also work with coaches, healers, therapists, and practitioners doing their own ongoing work — self-navigating people who need skilled energetic support for something specific, rather than a full coaching container.
My primary methodology is called Woman-Centered Coaching — a research-based approach developed specifically around the patterns and barriers that show up most commonly in women's lives. The name reflects the method, not the door. I work with anyone navigating a major life threshold. Men find me less often, but when they do, the work is just as powerful.
How I Work
I help you see what's actually in the way — the patterns running underneath the story you've been telling, the contracted identity that formed around an old wound, the place where energy has been stuck for so long it started to feel like personality.
I'm unusually good at finding that place. And at knowing which tool will actually move it.
Some of what I do looks like coaching — questions, reframes, forward movement, vision work, building the inner and outer structures that support change. Some of it looks like healing — working directly with the body, the energy field, the ancestral or spiritual dimensions of a pattern. Often it's both, moving between them as the session calls for it.
I follow what's alive. I go where the work actually is.
My job isn't to apply a method. It's to find the key that fits this particular lock.
Let's Talk
If something here has resonated — if you recognize yourself in any of this — I'd love to have a conversation.
A free 30-minute discovery call is the place to start. We'll talk about what's happening in your life, what feels stuck or unclear, and whether this work is the right fit for where you are.
Substack:
My Life Is A Spell
My Substack is the other side of this work — personal, stranger, and less edited. It's where I write about what it actually looks and feels like to live inside this practice: the synchronicities, the animism, the land relationship, the things that don't fit neatly into a service page. The work I offer clients is the same either way. But if you're curious about the life behind it, take a look.
