Where Eve Soma Began

For much of my life, I’ve felt that my mind was my greatest asset, above anything else.

From a young age, I lived with depression and anxiety, alongside a persistent sense that there was “something wrong with me.” I learned to rely on thinking, analysing, and staying mentally alert as a way to cope and move forward. If I could rationalise enough, understand enough, I believed I could resolve what felt unsettled inside.

For a long time, that approach worked — until it didn’t.

My first year living in Singapore marked one of the most destabilising seasons of my life. I was adjusting to a new country, culture, and way of living, while navigating financial strain, difficult personal relationships, and a work environment that left me depleted rather than supported. Everything familiar had fallen away at once. There was no single area of life that felt steady or safe — not work, not home, not my inner world.

Outwardly, I kept functioning. Inwardly, my mind rarely rested, and my body carried a level of tension and fatigue I couldn’t explain. I did what many capable, driven people do: I tried harder. I sought solutions. I went on a long quest to fix myself — through insight, self-improvement, coaching, therapy, and a wide range of healing and personal development modalities.

Each offered something meaningful. Yet something still felt unresolved.

The heart of Eve Soma

What I hadn’t understood then was this: the body was holding what my mind could not resolve.

Encountering body-focused approaches — and later reading The Body Keeps the Score — became a turning point. I began to see how stress, protection, and survival patterns live not just in our thoughts, but in our nervous system. How we brace, push through, and stay “on” for years — and mistake that for strength or resilience.

The last 6–7 years have been a gradual, sometimes challenging return to the body. There were periods when things felt harder before they felt easier. But over time, something shifted. I experienced more spaciousness, steadiness, curiosity, and a growing capacity to rest — not because life became easier, but because my body learned how to feel safer within it.

This work taught me something essential: Feeling more at ease is not about making difficult experiences disappear. It is about learning how to stay present with the full range of life — including discomfort, uncertainty, and pain — without being overwhelmed or shutting down.

It is about helping the body and nervous system learn that safety and difficulty can coexist, and that both are part of a meaningful human life.

My name is Evelyn

Alongside this personal journey, I bring nearly 15 years of experience in organisational psychology, leadership, and coaching, working across industries and regions from the US to Asia Pacific.

My work has spanned fast-paced corporate environments, moments of large-scale change, and quieter one-to-one spaces — often with people who are capable, conscientious, and carrying far more than they let on.

Many of the individuals I worked with were successful by conventional measures, yet lived with constant internal pressure. They struggled to rest without guilt, found it hard to switch off, or felt disconnected from their bodies despite knowing all the “right” strategies. Over time, I saw a clear pattern: lasting change rarely comes from mindset alone. It comes when the body feels safe enough to slow down.

This understanding now sits at the centre of my work. Rather than asking people to push through or fix themselves, I focus on creating a safe space where the body can soften, orient, and respond differently.

When the body feels safer, clarity returns, energy frees up, and change begins to feel less like force — and more like coming home to yourself.

Walking this path together

Eve Soma is a space to remember what safety, ease, and coming home to yourself can feel like.

Here, the pace is gentle and the work is grounded in what your body is responding to in the moment. In our sessions, we slow things down, listen to subtle signals such as breath, tension, and settling, and allow your nervous system to find more ease without forcing change or revisiting what feels overwhelming.

This work is not about making life’s challenges disappear. It is about creating enough safety in the body so you can meet stress, pressure, and uncertainty with more steadiness and less effort.

Whether we are supporting the release of long-held tension or helping you reconnect with a sense of calm and presence, my role is to offer a steady, attuned space where your body can respond at its own pace.

I don’t work as an expert who has all the answers, but as someone who has walked this path, too, and continues to.

Qualifications & Certifications

My work sits at the intersection of organisational psychology, leadership development, and body-based healing. Below is a summary of the education, certifications, and professional foundations that inform the way I work:

Education & Psychology

MSc in Industrial & Organisational Psychology — California State University, Long Beach
BSc in Psychology — Sunway University

Leadership, Coaching & Assessment

Newfield Coaching Certification
ICF Accredited Coach (ACC)
Wechsler Intelligence Scales (Children & Adults)
Insights Discovery®
DISC Flow®
Situational Leadership®

Somatic & Body-Based Training

Somatic Experiencing® — Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced Levels
Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) — 1:1 Practitioner (Group certification in progress)

I am committed to practising with care, integrity, and ongoing learning, and I continue to deepen my understanding of the nervous system, embodiment, and trauma-informed practice through recognised trainings and supervision.

"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness"

Dr. Peter Levine