Welcome to Garacci Somatic Therapies

A body–mind practice rooted in thought work, intentional action, and embodied change

Garacci Somatic Therapies is a holistic coaching and body-mind practice grounded in a simple but powerful principle:

The way you think shapes the way you act — and repeated action reshapes your life.

At the core of all our practice is thought work: learning to recognize thoughts as mental events rather than commands, understanding how they drive behavior, and deliberately choosing actions that create lasting change.

Whether we are working through conversation, movement, or parenting support, the foundation is the same:
changing how you relate to your thoughts so you can act differently — and consistently — in your life.

This page may describe what we do, what we offer,
but the work itself is always about you.

The foundation of our work: thoughts → actions → transformation

Most people wait to feel different before they act.

Our work is based on the opposite understanding:

Action comes first — and thoughts are trainable.

Your mind will always produce reasons not to change:

I don’t feel like it.
This is too hard.
I’ll start later.
This isn’t me.

Thought work teaches you how to:

notice these thoughts without over-identifying with them
stop treating every thought as truth
choose intentional action anyway

When action changes, physiology changes.
When physiology changes, identity follows.

This is how real, sustainable transformation happens — not through motivation or insight alone, but through deliberate repetition guided by awareness.

A unified approach to body and mind

While thought work is the foundation, it is never practiced in isolation.

At Garacci Somatic Therapies, thought work is integrated with:

somatic awareness
nervous-system-informed practices
relational and emotional insight
and embodied action

This allows change to move beyond understanding and into the body — where habits, regulation, confidence, and self-trust are built.

How you can work with us

Coaching for Adults

Clarity, agency, and intentional change

We offer one-on-one coaching for adults who want to:

change unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior
strengthen emotional regulation
improve relationships
take consistent action aligned with their values

Sessions are available in person and online.

Locations & availability

In-person services in Southern California, New York City, and Rome
Online coaching available worldwide

Relational-Somatic
Coaching

Thought Work Coaching

Somatic
Movement

Food Freedom Reset

The Parenting Practice

Services

About Sofia Garacci

Founder of Garacci Somatic Therapies

Sofia Garacci is the founder of Garacci Somatic Therapies, a body–mind coaching practice grounded in thought work, somatic awareness, and intentional action.

Over time, the practice has grown to include a small team of like-minded professionals who share the same foundational approach. Sofia personally trains and collaborates only with practitioners who work from this methodology, ensuring that all support offered through Garacci Somatic Therapies reflects the same clarity, integrity, and depth of work.

She holds a degree in Clinical Psychology from La Sapienza University of Rome, a certification in Psychosomatic Counseling from SIAB (Italian Society of Bioenergetic Psychoanalysis), and a Teen and Parent Coaching Certification from the Scuola di Coaching Umanistico in Rome, Italy.

Sofia works with clients in person in New York City and Rome, Italy, and offers remote coaching worldwide, creating a flexible and supportive space regardless of location.

How this work came to be

Sofia’s approach is shaped not only by formal training, but by years of clinical experience — and by her own personal transformation.

Through her work as a therapist and coach, she observed something consistently:
insight alone was rarely enough to create lasting change.

While emotional understanding and somatic awareness are essential, real transformation tended to occur when clients learned how to work directly with their thoughts — especially the ones that quietly drive behavior, avoidance, and self-sabotage.

At the same time, Sofia experienced this shift firsthand.

Learning thought work fundamentally changed how she related to her mind, her emotions, and her actions. By recognizing thoughts as mental events rather than absolute truths, and by choosing deliberate action even in the presence of resistance, her life began to change in concrete, measurable ways.

What felt like effort became habit.
What felt unnatural became normal.
What once required motivation became identity.

Thought work was not just another tool — it was a revolution.