Exceptional at the work, running on empty
You give your clients everything you have, and by Friday there is nothing left over for you. This work is built to restore what the week takes out.
The Nourished Healer · West Hollywood
The Nourished Healer: restoring your capacity to hold space
Therapists, healers, and space-holders who are exceptional at their work often absorb what they should be channeling, and the body keeps the tally long after the caseload closes for the day. The Nourished Healer is how we work with practitioners moving through burnout, built to restore the internal capacity your clients depend on so sessions can go deeper again, and so the work is still sustainable years from now.
Coaching for practitioners · Starts with a discovery call · In-person & virtual
Certified Reiki Master Teachers
Married practitioner team · Six years in LA
The Work
What is The Nourished Healer, and who is it for?
Working with therapists, healers, and space-holders across Los Angeles, Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam noticed the same pattern again and again. The practitioners seeing the fullest caseloads were not always the most depleted. It was the ones absorbing energy instead of channeling it whose capacity was quietly running out. Clients feel that ceiling even when they cannot name it, and sessions plateau without an obvious reason.
The Nourished Healer is how we work with practitioners to reverse that pattern. Rather than adding one more thing to an already full schedule, it restores the capacity your clients are drawing on every week, so you can function as a channel again instead of a reservoir. This is complementary coaching and energy work, not therapy or clinical supervision, and Jaime and Yonatan are not licensed therapists. For general guidance on protecting your own mental health while caring for others, NIMH's overview of caring for your mental health is a useful companion resource.
Who It Is For
Who The Nourished Healer is built for
For practitioners who give exceptional care to everyone except themselves.
Watching client progress plateau
You suspect you might be the variable. When your own capacity narrows, sessions tend to stay surface-level even when your clients are ready to go deeper.
Past the point self-care alone can reach
You have tried the walks and the boundaries talk. Traditional self-care has not touched the deeper pattern of absorbing instead of channeling.
This work is not built for quick fixes or surface-level tips, and it asks you to prioritize your own capacity. If you would rather figure this out alone, a discovery call can help you decide whether this is the right season for it.
What the Work Involves
What the work looks like
One-to-one, weekly, and scoped on your discovery call so it fits inside a full caseload rather than competing with it.
A weekly 90-minute session
Long enough to work rather than check in, with the capacity pattern named as you go so it is understood as well as felt.
Body-based work, not only conversation
Grounding movement and reiki carry the physical and energetic layer of the week.
Something to carry between sessions
Short practices and reflection prompts for the days when the caseload is heaviest.
Work that adjusts as you go
What a session holds is decided by what the week actually took out of you.
How the Work Moves
Where the work usually starts, across the work
It moves roughly in this order, though it follows you, from noticing where capacity leaks out to holding boundaries that let you receive as well as give.
1
Self-attunement and energetic leaks
Identify where your capacity is quietly draining and begin sealing those gaps.
2
Nervous system nourishment
Restore the internal resource your clients have been drawing on, so you are not running on reserves alone.
3
Boundaries and receiving
Turn boundaries from walls that keep everyone out into doorways that let support back in.
Your Guides
Meet Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam
Jaime is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Somatic Facilitator, and Relationship and Life Coach. Yonatan is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, and Classical Pilates Instructor with 30 years of musical and vibrational study.
After years of working with therapists, healers, and space-holders across Los Angeles, they noticed the same depleting pattern often enough to build a way of working that addresses it directly. The Nourished Healer blends energy work and movement with coaching conversation, relational and trauma-aware, so the body is part of the work rather than an afterthought.
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In Their Words
What practitioners say
★★★★★
This isn't just feeling more relaxed. It's living inside your body with a level of comfort, trust, and at-homeness you didn't know was available, something that quietly changes how you move, relate, and choose.
Caitlin Neal
★★★★★
As a Reiki practitioner for over two decades, my experience with Word of Mouth was profoundly nurturing as well as professional and poignant. I walked away feeling wiser and calmer while also more present and uplifted.
Hyim Ross
Good Questions
The Nourished Healer, answered
Honest answers about time, cost, and how this fits alongside your caseload.
One 90-minute session a week, plus short practices in between. We set the rest on the discovery call. The structure is built to fit inside a busy clinical schedule, not compete with it.
We start with a complimentary discovery call. This is ongoing work rather than a one-off session, so we want to confirm it is the right fit before you begin.
Scope is set on your discovery call, so there is no single posted price. That call covers what the work would look like for you, including structure and investment, and payment plans are available.
No. Jaime and Yonatan are Certified Reiki Master Teachers and coaches, not licensed therapists, and The Nourished Healer is not therapy, supervision, or a treatment for any condition. It is complementary coaching and energy work designed to restore your capacity alongside your existing clinical support.
Yes. Sessions run in person at our West Hollywood studio or over video, whichever works for you.
No. This is consumer-pay and is not covered by health insurance. We do not bill insurance and do not accept FSA or HSA payments.
Ready When You Are
Ready to begin?
The consultation call is free and not a sales pitch. We will map what the work could look like for you, in-person at our West Hollywood studio or virtually.
More Ways In
Other paths at Word of Mouth
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Holistic coaching →Burnout Recovery
Somatic sessions with Certified Reiki Master Teachers for high-achievers moving through burnout.
Burnout recovery →Coaching for Therapists
Restore capacity with reiki, breathwork, and movement alongside our married practitioner team.
Coaching for therapists →Reiki for Healers
A single-session way to restore capacity to hold space, for therapists and coaches.
Reiki for healers →Book a Discovery Call
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