Nichole Michelson
Nichole Michelson, APC, PCC, ELI-MP, 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's 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 Background That Shaped SOMA
Before founding SOMA, Nichole spent over a decade in corporate finance, where she experienced firsthand the toll of high-performance culture: the chronic stress, the patterns of overriding your own needs, the gap between external success and internal well-being. That lived experience, combined with her transition from New York to Georgia and her own midlife reckoning, became the foundation for everything SOMA stands for.
She didn't leave corporate America to escape it, she left to transform it. To create a different kind of leadership development, one that integrates the psychological depth most coaching overlooks with the practical, results-oriented approach executives need.
Credentials That Inform the Work
Nichole is a Licensed Professional Counselor (APC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Energy Leadership Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), Enneagram Practitioner, and Mindfulness Facilitator. Each of these credentials informs SOMA's integrative approach and the ARC-G framework: Awareness, Resilience, Connection, and Growth, that guides all of her work:
Therapy training (APC) allows Nichole to help clients process emotions safely and work through deeper patterns that may hold them back from maximizing their potential.
Professional coaching (PCC) equips her to move clients toward action and measurable results, turning insight into transformation.
Energy Leadership Master Practitioner training gives clients a framework to understand how they show up under stress and develop strategies to lead themselves and others more effectively.
Enneagram work helps clients uncover the motivations and blind spots driving their behavior, creating powerful self-awareness.
Mindfulness facilitation provides clients with practical tools to stay grounded, present, and resilient in daily life.
This combination of expertise allows clients to go deeper than traditional coaching. They are led through a grounded, evidence-based process that blends insight, self-awareness, and clear next steps, giving them the internal alignment and external behaviors needed for more conscious leadership.
Beyond the Credentials
Nichole is also a writer and the voice behind The ARC-G Well blog, where she explores the intersection of high performance, midlife transitions, and the return to authentic selfhood. In early 2026, she will launch a reflective, somatic-based podcast expanding these conversations through guided practices and intimate dialogue. Her forthcoming book, Fueling the Return to Self, is an integrative memoir for high-performing women navigating the shift from living by external expectations to embodying their own truth.
She lives in Georgia and works with clients nationally, creating transformational spaces for both individual leaders and organizational teams ready to do the deeper work.