FOUNDER
Nichole Michelson
LPC · PCC · ELI-MP · Enneagram Practitioner
Nichole is the founder of SOMA and a rare hybrid in the leadership development space: clinically trained, professionally certified in coaching, and seasoned by more than a decade inside corporate America. Her clients trust her because she understands high-pressure environments not as an observer but as someone who has lived them.
Combining therapeutic depth, coaching strategy, and real-world corporate insight, Nichole helps high-performers and executives break long-standing patterns, build emotional resilience, and lead with greater clarity and self-mastery. When leaders are ready for transformation, not just performance optimization, they come to Nichole.
THE STORY BEHIND SOMA
She didn't leave corporate America to escape it. She left to build something better.
Before founding SOMA, Nichole spent over a decade in corporate finance and experienced firsthand what high-performance culture actually costs. The chronic stress. The over-functioning. The gap between external achievement and internal well-being that no promotion or milestone ever seemed to close.
SOMA grew from that reckoning: a leadership approach that finally integrates the psychological depth most coaching overlooks with the practical, grounded work that high-performing women actually need. Not more strategies. Not another framework layered on top of an already overfull life. A real way to understand what's driving the patterns and shift them from the inside out.
"I saw a gap: women were achieving at high levels externally, but internally feeling misaligned, reactive, or exhausted. SOMA is the work of closing that gap."
NICHOLE MICHELSON, FOUNDER
THE STORY BEHIND SOMA
Training that spans clinical psychology, coaching, and human development.
Each credential shapes how Nichole works and together, they're what makes SOMA different from traditional leadership development.
LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Allows Nichole to work safely with the deeper emotional material that shows up in leadership the patterns formed early, the beliefs running quietly beneath behavior, the nervous system responses that no amount of strategy can override.
ELI-MP
Energy Leadership Master Practitioner
Adds a lens for understanding how energy, stress response, and perception shape how leaders show up and what it takes to shift it in real time, not just in reflection.
PCC
Professional Certified Coach
Keeps the work oriented toward action and real-world application. Insight without movement isn't transformation. Nichole bridges both the depth of clinical training with the forward motion of professional coaching.
ENNEAGRAM
Enneagram Practitioner
Brings depth to the pattern work at the heart of SOMA, surfacing the motivations, blind spots, and adaptive strategies that drive leadership behavior beneath awareness the layer most coaching never reaches.
BEYOND THE WORK
A writer exploring the shift from expectation to embodiment
Nichole writes regularly on the SOMA Reflections blog and is currently at work on her first book. She is based in Georgia and works with clients nationally."
IN PROGRESS
Beneath the Title
The Inner Architecture of a Woman's Leadership
A framework-driven guide for high-achieving women ready to understand the hidden patterns shaping how they lead and step into something steadier, more embodied, and fully their own.