About me
My Unique Multi-Cultural Background
Time to say a little more about me.
I am grateful for my first name, Marie-Flore. I thank my father for that. He named me. He was from Togo, a small country in French speaking West Africa. This is where I was raised. With the indigenous. With neighbors from the Netherlands. With the rituals. And everything in between. Dancing in the mud potholes when it rained. Sneaking away to eat fresh hot red peppers by the handful in the field behind the house at the age of two. My mother is from Guadeloupe, a Department of France, in the French West Indies. My parents met in France where I was born.
I am multi-cultural. I have lived equal time in Africa, in Europe where I moved in my late teens, and in the United States where I currently live in Northern Virginia. I am also a native French speaker.
Support for Your Journey
Imagine yourself in the Serengeti in Eastern Africa, the world renowned ideal location for wildlife.
Fully embodied. At night. One with the stars. Those same stars that guided several civilizations over 2,000 years ago, including but not limited to the Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, Mesopotamia, Ancient Kemet (Egypt), Akans in West Africa, Zulus and Xhosas of South Africa, and world famous centers like Timbuktu in Mali.
Imagine yourself fitting within the ecosystem of the Serengeti. Its flora. Its fauna. Alive, vibrating. This is what our lives were designed to be. Not just for pleasure. Not just for pain. But capable of dancing with the ebb and flow of what the universe brought to our door. Capable of embracing everything in our own Serengeti. My goal is to help you re-imagine your life. To rewire you in such a way that something deep within you will have the voice it needs to remember how you were originally designed. Physiologically. Emotionally. And in your spirit.
Informed by my own. personal journey through various forms of trauma, with extensive experience in Life Coaching and a vast history of client success, my individualized and professional approach will help you attain your goals. I only work with people who are motivated to turn their lives around. I work with individuals from all walks of life but also with very accomplished professionals (some of them burned out), including members of the legal, healing, or mental health professions.
Professionalism and Experience
My path began with my own journey through trauma and healing, supported by skilled practitioners and a lifelong commitment to learning. What I offer is not theoretical but grounded in direct experience, ongoing study, and personal practice.
I am a Certified Integral Coach®, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), certified astrologer, and attorney. Each of these disciplines informs how I accompany clients toward wholeness and capacity.
I completed the rigorous, year-long Professional Coaching Course through New Ventures West, one of the world’s leading coaching schools, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Level 2 training program. Integral Coaching® is a comprehensive, developmental approach that works across mind, body, heart, and spirit. It cultivates not only solutions but lasting transformation—helping individuals expand their awareness, resilience, and way of being in the world.
As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I trained for three years in Dr. Peter Levine’s body-based method for healing trauma and stress disorders. I now serve as a teaching assistant in the international professional training of Somatic Experiencing® International. I am also certified in Thought Field Therapy™ (TFT), an evidence-based tapping technique used worldwide to alleviate psychological distress, including PTSD.
My work is further informed by training in Integral Somatic Psychology® (ISP) with Dr. Raja Selvam, which deepens emotional embodiment, and by advanced study in sexual trauma resolution with senior SE faculty Ariel Giaretto. I also practice daily Reiki (Level 2) self-care and incorporate Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as taught by Oren Jay Sofer, rooted in Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s principle that “every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.”
In my astrological work, I am a certified astrologer trained with internationally recognized teachers including Adam Elenbaas, Chris Brennan, and Viktor. My approach blends spiritual and divinatory traditions, with a specialization in ancient astrology, valued for its precision, lineage, and grounding in time-tested principles.
I also come from a maternal lineage of seers and intuitives, which naturally informs my work with divinatory arts and ancestral traditions. My background as an attorney sharpens my capacity for clear analysis and communication, allowing me to bridge intuition with discernment and clarity.
Across all modalities—somatic, integral, astrological, and ancestral—my approach remains rooted in presence, humility, and the conviction that every healing journey begins with remembering what the body, heart, and spirit already know.
Taking the Steps
Committing to your own Serengeti is just that – a commitment, and it’s a big one that will take a lot a dedication. My commitment is to provide you with accountability, understanding and support.
We live in sacred times. Each of us is a sacred star in the Serengeti (wilderness) of our own physiology. Of our worlds. Inner. And outer. The only missing ingredient is the right coach. Or astrologer.