Heather Berg
Trauma-Informed Coach & Counselor-in-TrainingIFS Practitioner · Certified Enneagram Coach · PSAP
Helping you come home to yourself—and begin moving forward again.
I believe healing isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about creating enough safety and space to reconnect with yourself, loosen what has kept you stuck, and rediscover who you are beneath what you have lived through.
Because when there is space, movement becomes possible again.
My Story ~
Healing isn’t something I learned only from books.
It’s something I’ve had to live.
My own journey through trauma, loss, cancer, chronic physical pain, severe relational pain, and deep personal healing reshaped not only my life, but my understanding of what real transformation requires.
For years, I did what many of us do when we are hurting: I worked hard to understand myself. Therapy helped tremendously. So did my training in Internal Family Systems, trauma-informed modalities, betrayal trauma, the Enneagram, embodiment, and the nervous system.
But eventually I began to understand something deeper:
Healing isn’t simply about understanding what happened to us. And it isn’t about fixing ourselves.
It is about creating enough safety and space for what has become frightened, protected, frozen, contracted, or disconnected to begin moving again.
It is about rediscovering the person underneath survival.
Learning to listen to ourselves rather than abandon ourselves.
Developing enough inner capacity to feel without becoming engulfed.
Recovering presence, choice, desire, connection, and agency.
Coming home to ourselves.
And, little by little, becoming more fully who we were created to be.
My faith has been woven throughout that journey — sometimes as certainty, sometimes as wrestling, and sometimes as the faintest thread I could hold onto. Over time, these different parts of my healing became less like separate tools and more like pieces of one larger picture.
Today, that integrated understanding is at the heart of Created to Move.
My role isn’t to fix you or tell you who you should become.
It is to walk beside you as you reconnect with yourself, make sense of what you have lived through, and discover what moving forward can look like for you.
Because I believe you were created for more than survival.
You were created to come home to yourself, inhabit your life, become who you were created to be, and increasingly live the life you were created to live.
Wondering if coaching might be your next step?
Let’s talk about where you are, what you need, and whether working together feels like a good fit.
The Conditions That Help Us Heal, Grow & Flourish
A Felt Sense of Safety
Healing needs more than intellectually knowing, I should be okay.
We need opportunities to increasingly experience safety — both in the world around us and within ourselves.
Sometimes danger is real and requires attention. Other times, the danger has passed while the nervous system remains mobilized or immobilized for protection. Healing includes learning to discern the difference and developing a greater capacity to recognize what safety actually feels like in the body.
Safety does not mean nothing difficult will ever happen. It means we are increasingly able to remain connected to ourselves and respond to reality as it unfolds.
A Relationship With Ourselves
Healing is not becoming someone new. It is often a process of rediscovering, accepting, integrating, and increasingly living from the person who has been there all along.
We learn to meet our inner world with curiosity rather than condemnation — recognizing both our wounds and our strengths, listening inwardly, trusting ourselves more, advocating for ourselves, and taking up appropriate space in our own lives.
In other words: we learn to come home to ourselves.
Presence, Agency & Choice
Trauma can organize our lives around what happened, what might happen, what someone else needs, or what we must do to remain safe.
Healing slowly returns us to the present.
Presence says: I am here.
From presence, we can begin to inhabit our own lives rather than standing at the edges monitoring them. And from there grows agency:
I have a self. I have choices. I can participate meaningfully in what happens next.
Agency is not control. It is the growing freedom to pause, discern, speak, respond, set boundaries, pursue what matters, change direction, create, connect, and act while remaining connected to ourselves.
Room to Breathe
When our inner world is crowded by fear, urgency, shame, overwhelm, or continual self-protection, there is very little room for anything else.
Healing creates spaciousness — room to feel without becoming engulfed, room for uncertainty and curiosity, room for another interpretation, and room for desire, delight, grief, rest, connection, and choice.
That growing inner capacity is part of what allows us to stop merely surviving our lives and begin being present for them.
Where there is breath, there is space. And where there is space, movement becomes possible.
Connection & Belonging
Healing does not happen entirely in isolation.
We are wired for connection — to be known, seen, supported, and to experience that we have a place in the world and in relationship with others.
But hurt can teach us to protect ourselves through hiding, performing, pleasing, overfunctioning, withdrawing, or losing ourselves in order to stay connected.
Healing helps us discover that belonging does not have to require self-abandonment.
We can increasingly bring our whole selves into relationship — with needs, limits, strengths, vulnerability, and choice — while remaining connected to ourselves.
Healthy connection gives us room both to belong and to be ourselves.
And over time, relationships can become places where we not only give love and support, but also learn to receive them.
Movement, Becoming & Flourishing
Movement does not always mean doing more. Sometimes movement looks like slowing down — resting, stabilizing, grieving, asking for help, setting a boundary, trying something new, allowing delight, or simply taking one small step.
Created to Move is not about pushing people to “move on.” It is about helping people create the conditions in which what has become frozen, contracted, protected, or disconnected can begin moving again.
As safety, capacity, presence, and agency grow, our lives can gradually expand. We begin to create. Connect. Love. Risk. Play. Contribute. Become.
And eventually, like a deeply rooted tree beside water, bear fruit.
That is flourishing — not a life without pain, but a life increasingly capable of aliveness.
Healing has roots before
it has fruit.
- Safety and stabilization create room for presence.
- Presence allows us to inhabit our lives.
- Connection teaches us that we can belong without losing ourselves.
- Agency makes meaningful movement possible.
- And over time, movement can become expansion, becoming, and flourishing.
My Approach
We are complex human beings, and healing rarely happens through one pathway alone.
What we have lived through can affect the way we think, feel, relate, respond, and experience ourselves in our own bodies. Patterns that once helped us cope or stay safe can eventually leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward.
That is why my approach is integrative, trauma-informed, and deeply curious about the whole person.
Rather than beginning with, What is wrong with you? We begin by becoming curious about what happened, what adapted, what your system has been trying to protect, and what you may need now.
My work draws from:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) to understand the different parts of ourselves with greater curiosity and compassion.
- Somatic and nervous-system-informed practices to help build awareness, regulation, and a greater felt sense of safety and capacity.
- Polyvagal theory and the window of tolerance to understand patterns of activation, shutdown, connection, and protection.
- The Enneagram as a tool for self-awareness, helping us recognize patterns while creating greater freedom and choice.
- Trauma and betrayal-trauma-informed principles to understand how painful experiences can shape our sense of safety, trust, identity, and relationship.
The goal is not to apply a formula or fix what is “wrong.”
It is to understand what your mind, body, relationships, and story are communicating — and to create enough safety, curiosity, and capacity for something new to become possible.
Because healing is not simply about understanding ourselves better. It is about increasingly being able to live from what we are discovering.
What I Bring to This Work:
Training matters. So does lived experience.
My work is shaped by both — years of professional training as well as my own experience of trauma, healing, questioning, growth, and learning to live forward again.
My work is trauma-informed and relational in nature, offered as coaching, and is not a replacement for psychotherapy or crisis-level care.
Lived Experience:
I know what it’s like to come from a broken home and carry those early wounds into adult relationships.
I know what it’s like to walk through betrayal trauma and the lingering effects of complex trauma — to feel stuck in emotional pain even after years of trying to heal.
I know what it’s like to live through chronic physical pain and cancer, and to discover how deeply our bodies, minds, emotions, and stories are intertwined.
I know what it’s like to raise three boys, move across states and countries, navigate seasons of enormous change, and experience both the beauty and grief of a life that never stays the same.
I know what it’s like to be hurt by the church and to walk through a dark night of the soul — questioning God, myself, and things I once thought I knew.
And I know what it’s like to keep reaching for something deeper: to want to know who I really am, who God really is, and who I am to Him.
Do I matter?
Do you see me?
Do you even care?
I also know what it’s like to dig deep, seek help, make difficult choices, and keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Qualifications & Training:
M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling
In progress
IFS Practitioner
Internal Family Systems Institute
Advanced IFS Consultation
Two years of consultation with IFS Senior Trainer Jenna Riemersma
Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional (PSAP)
IITAP — specialized training in betrayal trauma and its impact on individuals, couples, and families
Certified Wholehearted Coach
Simply Wholehearted — active member of the Wholehearted Coaching Collective
Certified Enneagram Coach
Your Enneagram Coach
Certified Life Coach
Breakthrough Academy
My work is grounded in ongoing training, lived experience, and a commitment to trauma-informed, relational care — always shaped by consent, pacing, and respect for each person’s nervous system.
Additional Training & Course Completions:
• Deepening Practice: Enneagram & IFS — Joan Ryan & Tammy Sollenberger
• A Compassionate Approach to Addictive Processes with IFS — Richard Schwartz, PhD (Founder of IFS Therapy) & Cece Sykes (Senior IFS Lead Trainer)
• Trauma Training (CCTP) — Janina Fisher
• GYROTONIC® Method — former certified trainer. Movement and body-awareness training
You’re not created to stay STUCK ~ You’re CREATED TO MOVE!
Where there is space ~ there is movement. Where there is movment ~ there is no dis-ease