Where High Performance Stays Human
Present Company is the leadership practice of State House Somatics, offering nervous-system-informed executive coaching and leadership development for leaders, teams, and organizations operating under sustained pressure.
Based in Brooklyn, New York · Serving clients worldwide
I help executives and leaders work with the physiological patterns that shape how they lead.
Most executive coaching focuses on insight, mindset, and behavior. Those matter. But under pressure, the nervous system can override what a leader already understands.
Using Somatic Experiencing® principles, this work helps leaders recognize the state they are leading from, build greater capacity for recovery, and develop more choice in how they respond.
The result is clearer thinking, steadier relationships, and more adaptive leadership when the stakes are high.
CLARITY UNDER PRESSURE
Maintain access to clear thinking and sound judgment when urgency rises.
RELATIONAL STEADINESS
Stay present and constructive through tension, feedback, and conflict.
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Respond with greater flexibility instead of defaulting to familiar stress patterns.
For leaders carrying significant responsibility—and seeking a more human way to sustain performance, relationships, and themselves.
Ways to Work Together
Executive Coaching
Private somatic coaching for executives, founders, and leaders navigating sustained responsibility, consequential decisions, and the need for meaningful recovery.
Ongoing 1:1 work begins with STATE HOUSE Foundations, a six-session grounding in the somatic skills we’ll build on in deeper coaching. For one high-stakes moment, begin with the PRESENT COMPANY Intensive.
Organizational Coaching
Nervous-system-informed leadership development for executive teams, senior leaders, and organizations operating under sustained pressure.
Available through executive retreats, leadership-team engagements, custom workshops—including PRESENT COMPANY Signature Workshop—and longer-term leadership development.
Groups & Cohorts
Small, thoughtfully facilitated experiences for leaders who want space to slow down, and develop alongside others who understand the weight of responsibility.
PRESENT COMPANY Groups & Cohorts bring together somatic leadership development, reflective practice, and meaningful connection—creating space to become more present to yourself and more intentional in how you lead.
OUR METHOD
The Human Capacity Method™
The nervous system work is the foundation. Greater capacity for work, relationships, and life is the purpose.
The Human Capacity Method™ brings together four interconnected processes: Awareness, Resourcing, Renegotiation, and Integration.
Rather than following a fixed sequence, these processes work together to help people recognize established patterns, access the support needed to navigate pressure, and develop greater flexibility in how they respond.
The result is more room for choice, connection, and adaptability in the moments that matter most.
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Recognizing patterns in the body and nervous system.
Develop the ability to notice how pressure shapes your physical sensations, emotions, and habitual responses. By becoming more aware of these patterns, you begin to recognize what happens within you before, during, and after challenging experiences.
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Building the internal and external support for regulation.
Discover and strengthen the resources that help your nervous system navigate stress and activation. Through embodied practices, you develop greater access to steadiness, connection, and flexibility without needing to suppress or avoid difficult experiences.
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Creating new possibilities within established patterns.
Explore how protective responses and habitual patterns have developed, and how they may begin to change through new embodied experiences. This process supports greater flexibility in how your nervous system responds, making room for choices that previously felt unavailable.
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Making new capacities available in everyday life.
Allow emerging changes to become more familiar and accessible over time. Integration supports the movement from meaningful experiences within a session toward greater choice, adaptability, and connection in your leadership, relationships, and daily life.
The goal is not constant calm. The goal is adaptability under pressure.
ABOUT
The Practitioner Behind Present Company
Alicia Divers, MA-SD, SEP™, is the founder of State House Somatics and creator of The Human Capacity Method™.
Before training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, she spent over twenty years in roles that put her in the room with people under real pressure — in ministry, crisis response, and organizational leadership. That background shapes how she coaches now: less interested in advice, more interested in what's actually happening in a leader's body when the stakes are high. Her work with executives and teams is about building the kind of capacity that holds up under pressure, not just when things are calm.
What Would Feel Different With More Capacity?
Whether you are seeking private executive coaching or exploring leadership development for your organization, the work begins with a conversation.