Why Work With Elana
The Anxiety Alchemist
Dubbed “The Anxiety Alchemist” by those who know me, I have spent over four decades mastering the art of transforming chaos into calmness — first in my own life, and now in the lives of my clients. My journey from grappling with debilitating anxiety to embracing a life of peace and resilience has become the foundation of every coaching session I offer.
With my unique blend of talk-based coaching and body-based healing, I help clients reclaim their lives from anxiety’s grip — whether the struggle is in business, in relationships, or simply in getting through the day.
Ready to shift from chaos to calm? Take the first step — book a free, no-obligation discovery call to find out how Elana can help you.
40+ Years of lived anxiety experience
Not just trained in anxiety — lived it, understood it, and found the way through.
12 Years of acute daily anxiety
The first 12 years were the hardest. Anxiety was daily, acute, and relentless.
28 Years with anxiety in the backseat
For the past 28 years, Elana has lived with anxiety managed — and she wants the same for you.
Elana's Story
I Have Been Exactly Where You Are
Anxiety was not a chapter in a textbook for me. It was my daily reality. I know what it feels like to wake up and already dread the day. To hold everything together on the outside while something feels deeply wrong on the inside. To try everything — and still feel like you are losing the battle against your own mind.
But I also know what it feels like to come out the other side. And that is the journey I am here to help you take.
The first 12 years — acute daily anxiety
For 12 years, anxiety was relentless. Every day brought a fresh wave of overwhelm, tension, and the exhausting effort of just getting through. This was not manageable anxiety. It was debilitating.
The turning point — discovering what actually worked
Through years of personal study, formal training, and deep exploration of holistic healing — including BodyTalk, Quantum Touch, and Mind-Body Coaching — Elana found the tools that actually moved the needle. Not coping strategies. Real change.
The past 28 years — anxiety in the backseat
For the past 28 years, Elana has lived with anxiety managed — not eliminated entirely, but no longer in the driver’s seat. She has built a full, joyful, purposeful life. And now her mission is to help others do exactly the same.
The Transformation
From Chaos to Calm
Anxiety coaching with Elana is not about managing your symptoms so they become slightly more bearable. It is about a genuine, lasting shift in how your nervous system responds to the world — so that calm becomes your default, not something you have to fight for.
Where you are now
- Waking up already anxious before the day starts
- Tension in the body that never fully releases
- A mind that won’t stop even when you’re exhausted
- Reacting before you can think — then regretting it
- Feeling like anxiety is just who you are
- Trying everything — nothing lasting
Where you are going
- Waking up with a sense of calm and possibility
- A body that feels like a safe place to live in
- A mind that can rest when you need it to
- Responding rather than reacting — from choice
- Knowing tools that work — and using them daily
- Anxiety in the backseat. Joy in the driver’s seat.
Benefits of Mind-Body Coaching
What Mind-Body Coaching for Anxiety Can Help You Do
Elana’s coaching sessions combine the science of the mind with the wisdom of the body — giving you a toolkit that works both in the moment and over the long term.
Unlike approaches that address only the mind or only the body, mind-body coaching works with both simultaneously. This is what makes it so effective for anxiety — because anxiety is never just a thought. It lives in the body too.
Understand the biology of belief
Discover how your beliefs are directly linked to your behaviours, habits, and physical health — and how shifting those beliefs changes everything downstream.
Understand your nervous system
Learn how your nervous system drives your anxiety responses — and how to release old patterns and conditioning that keep you stuck in cycles of overwhelm.
Daily mind-body practices
Learn specific daily techniques that align the mind and body — including breathing techniques, mindfulness, and journalling — that you can use for the rest of your life.
The science of happiness
Explore positive psychology and evidence-based strategies for stress reduction — understanding not just how to manage anxiety, but how to genuinely build a life that feels good.
My Approach
Talk-Based Coaching Meets Body-Based Healing
What makes Elana’s anxiety coaching distinct is the integration of two powerful approaches — talk-based coaching that works with the mind, and body-based healing that works with the nervous system and energy field simultaneously.
Most coaches work with thoughts and beliefs. Most bodyworkers work with physical tension and energy. Elana works with both — because anxiety lives in both.
Talk-based coaching
Forward-focused conversations that help you understand your anxiety patterns, shift your beliefs, build self-awareness, and create a clear path to the life you want.
Body-based healing
BodyTalk and Mind-Body techniques that work directly with the nervous system — releasing stored tension, restoring communication between body systems, and addressing anxiety at its physical root.
Practical daily tools
Breathing techniques, mindfulness practices, journalling, and positive psychology strategies that you can use every day — not just in sessions.
Tailored to you
Every coaching journey is different. Elana draws on all her modalities — BodyTalk, Quantum Touch, and Life Coaching — to meet you exactly where you are and choose what your body and mind are asking for.
Your Questions Answered
Before You Book Your First Coaching Session
Everything you need to know about anxiety and stress coaching with Elana — including the questions people are sometimes too nervous to ask.
Mind-body coaching for anxiety combines talk-based coaching with body-based healing to address anxiety at its root. It helps you understand how your biology, beliefs, habits, and nervous system are connected — and gives you practical daily tools to shift from anxiety to calm.
Therapy typically explores the past to understand present patterns. Coaching is forward-focused — it starts where you are and builds toward where you want to be. Elana’s approach combines both: understanding the root of what you are carrying, and building the tools and mindset to move beyond it.
Elana has lived with anxiety for over 40 years — the first 12 experiencing acute anxiety every single day. She is not just trained in anxiety coaching. She has lived the journey herself, found her way through, and has spent years helping others do the same. That lived experience is the foundation of every session she offers.
Yes. Coaching sessions are available online via video call — to clients worldwide, in any timezone. They are just as effective as in-person sessions.
Real People. Real Results.
After the passing of my mother I felt incredibly low, depressed and was suffering from a lack of energy. I engaged Elana Sissison to do a series of distance BodyTalk sessions (as I live in Canada and she is in Johannesburg having heard about Bodytalk from a friend of mine. After the first session, I felt a distinctive "lifting" of my mood. I no longer felt so down and fogged in.
After the second, one I felt an increase in energy and general well-being. After the third session, I was able to sleep a lot more soundly. The accumulative effects of BodyTalk have been nothing short of miraculous. I highly recommend this healing modality and consider Elana to be a caring and gifted practitioner.
Elana is a wonderful coach who works with her client to achieve goals. She navigates sessions positively and creates such a nurturing environment and trusting relationship that talking about and facing issues feels easy and manageable.
She can push you ever so slightly out of your comfort zone and shift and re-focus thoughts and experience and that's where the true magic happens. Elana is highly skilled and professional in her approach, and I highly recommend embarking on a coaching journey with her.
While on holiday in Johannesburg I developed a nagging cough which persisted all day. I tried allergy medicine, cough mixtures and even an asthma pump to alleviate it - but all to no avail.
Someone suggested I try BodyTalk with Elana. Thank goodness I did as about 18 hours after the session the cough abated, the colour in my face returned and I felt my old self again.
What I found fascinating was the emotional issues that came up during the session. Clearly, they were the cause of the cough, and once released, the cough could abate.
For a while I had terrible discomfort in my neck and lower back. After many sessions with a physiotherapist and a variety of home remedies I still had very little relief. I then went to Elana for a few BodyTalk sessions.
The day after the session I woke up in so much less pain and after the 3rd session, I was pain free!
Begin your journey to wellbeing with BodyTalk sessions. Book a session with Elana today!
