About Me

My understanding of time and embodiment is intergenerational, rooted in lineage and Love. I come from people who endured the systemic relational ruptures of enslavement and colonialism - legacies that shaped patterns of disconnection, mistrust, and abandonment.

And yet, across generations, Love persisted. Our desire to reach for one another could never be extinguished. My journey in this body, in this lifetime, would not be possible without those ancestral efforts made in Love.

I believe that Love is the truth of who we are, and the truth to which we return when we dissolve and reintegrate everything that tried to make us forget.

Mary Oliver said it best: “My work is loving the world.”

For me, loving the world means tending the intersection of personal healing and radical social transformation. As a relational coach, writer, facilitator, and deep feeler, I support people in reconnecting with their bodies, longings, and belonging.

I am a bridge between the material and the spiritual - a holder of space for both the seen and unseen. Through tender but piercing questions, sensory and extrasensory attunement, and compassionate care, I help us to move closer to the root, to the truth.

Always in service of Love.

Lineage & gratitude

I move in dialogue with the lineages of Black feminist thought, queer love, politicized somatics, and Earth-rooted spirituality. I honor the numerous teachers, healers, collaborators, comrades, lovers, friends, ancestors, and spirit guides who have supported and sustained me on my journey.

A little more of my journey

I come from a background in the arts, higher education, and community-based facilitation. For over a decade, I worked with artists, students, and cultural workers to study and shape liberatory stories and practices. I achieved much. But no amount of accomplishment could soothe my deepest ache - the longing for a love that I thought was always just out of reach.

Discovering myself as highly sensitive and neurodivergent was the turning point. What once felt like “too much” became the doorway back to myself.

For years, I tried to toughen up, to numb my tenderness. But sensitivity has a way of speaking louder the more we ignore it. Eventually, I let the grief of separation break me open. And in that opening, I met myself. Spirit met me.

Through tending to trauma, reclaiming my voice, and remembering my worth, I came to see my sensitivity as my greatest gift. My way of feeling the emotional currents of others, the energy of a room, and the tender wounds behind even the harshest behaviors.

I now know: we are all vessels for Love.

And I understand that even the sharpest political theory cannot liberate us if we refuse to touch the body, the emotional, the relational. The deep repair that this time calls for means tending the nervous system, opening the heart, and restoring our intimacy with Life, with Love, with Earth, with Spirit.

My journey has been a slow and sacred reweaving of body and mind, intellect and intuition. Less about external titles. More about internal wholeness.

What I offer now

Through KinSense, my relational coaching practice, I walk with those who are ready to:

  • Reclaim their sensitivity as strength.

  • Heal deep relational wounds and old looping patterns.

  • Release habitual survival strategies that once kept them safe but now keep them stuck.

Together, we can soften, thaw, and remember ourselves as Love.

I also share writing, audio transmissions, and YouTube videos exploring healing, intimacy, and the spiritual undercurrents of this moment of collective death and rebirth.

I’m trained in high sensory coaching through the Inluminance High Sensory Specialist program. I also have a background in trauma-responsive care and liberatory education. But, more than anything, I’m shaped by my own journey of returning to myself, and the relational containers that have held me in that process.

Curious about working together? Click here to explore my coaching process and book a discovery call.

KinSense Relational Coaching

We’ve been conditioned to suppress our pain and relate through fear. But the coercion and disconnection shaped by dominant systems are not, and never were, our truth.

I believe our loving relationships are sacred technology. Powerful portals for healing, transformation, and remembrance of who we really are.

KinSense offers relational coaching for those who are:

  • Healing from disconnection.

  • Longing for deeper embodiment.

  • Ready to remember themselves as the source of the Love they seek.

This is a space to reawaken your felt sense of kinship, to return to your deepest trust in your own belonging, guided by the wisdom of subtle, embodied knowing.

What Happens in Our Work Together

In our sessions, I’ll hold space for you to explore the patterns, wounds, and desires that shape your relational life. With somatic attunement, intuitive insight, and compassionate care, I’ll support you to:

  • Listen to your body.

  • Meet yourself with tenderness.

  • Reconnect with your deepest truth.

This facilitation is gentle, grounded, and trauma-responsive. As you meet the parts of yourself that both long for and resist intimacy, they can begin to trust that it is safe to connect.

The KinSense Approach

My practice is co-creative and rooted in Love - not love as sentiment, but, in the words of June Jordan, Love as lifeforce. This is the Love that wants to move us all, guiding us toward wholeness through interconnection.

When we allow this Love to flow through us, we can better embody the personal and collective liberation that we desire.

I bring lived and professional experience supporting those who are:

  • LGBTQIA2S+

  • Polyamorous / ENM

  • Neurodivergent / highly sensitive

  • Disabled / chronically ill

  • Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities

  • Survivors of interpersonal violence

And if you don’t see yourself reflected here but feel drawn to this work, you are welcome, too.

Testimonials

"Amissa brings such gentle somatic and trauma-informed wisdom to her coaching that guided me towards remembering my inner resilience and power, as well as my deep capacity for healing and change. My heart felt expanded by her thoughtful questions and I had so many beautiful epiphanies."

“Before working with Amissa, I felt disconnected from myself, my family, and friends. Through her gentle guidance, exercises and tools, and spiritual insight, I’m relearning how to care for my body, mind, and soul. I’ve gained confidence and clarity. I truly cannot recommend Amissa enough.”

Ready to Remember Yourself as Love?

Click here to book your free discovery call with me.

Creative Reflections and Transmissions

My creative work is another way that I love the world, by sharing the stories, questions, and awakenings that emerge from my own journey of healing and remembrance. I create in dialogue with ancestors, Spirit, and the unseen currents that weave us together. My work is less authored than it is received, gifts I’m asked to carry, interpret, and share with others as part of a long lineage of remembrance.

Youtube: amissaloves

My YouTube channel is a living archive of my awakening through Love.

Here I share stories and discoveries for those walking the path of both/and: the personal and the political, the internal and the external, the material and the spiritual.

It’s a space for sensitive souls drawn to politicized somatics, embodied spirituality, and radical relationships. If you’re committed to your own healing as an interdependent part of our collective healing, this channel is for you.

Click here to watch and subscribe.

Writing

My writing explores Black femme interiority, radical worldbuilding, and intergenerational kinship between the material and spiritual realms.

Selected Works

  • Heart Like an Ocean (forthcoming, Meridians Journal, Spring 2026)

  • Her Own Things (African Voices Magazine, Fall 2019)

  • Breaths (Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Best Plays of 2019)

  • Refusal of the Call (PlayGround SF Reading Series, 2020)

  • Breathing Body of Water (Same Faces Collective, March 2025)

  • On This Bridge (Pensive Journal, April 2025)

  • Contributor, The Harlem Renaissance: An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Ongoing

For raw, personal musings, subscribe to my Substack, the woman who feels everything. There I write about the connections between my political, creative, sexual, and spiritual awakenings as a radically loving Black queer neurodivergent femme.

I also contribute to UNSPOKEN, a collaborative Substack by women of color, offering diverse perspectives from a fierce femme formation that I’m honored to be part of.

Work with Me

Whether one-on-one, in a group, or with your organization, my work is about returning to Love as the guiding force in our relationships and practices. Every offering - relational coaching, workshops, speaking, or consulting - is rooted in depth, attunement, and the belief that healing and liberation are inseparable. Together, we can meet patterns and wounds with curiosity and care, open space for transformation, and invite the Love that’s already within you and your community to flow more fully.

1:1 Relational Coaching

Through KinSense, I guide clients to:

  • Reclaim sensitivity as strength

  • Heal relational wounds and patterns

  • Rediscover themselves as the source of their own Love

Each session is co-creative, trauma-responsive, and deeply attuned, offering space to explore patterns, meet yourself with compassion, and reconnect with your deepest truth.

Book a free 30 minute discovery call with me here.

Speaking & Workshops

I speak and facilitate on topics that light me up - and that can be co-created to meet your needs:

  • Radical self-care as liberation

  • Love as a lifeforce and leadership practice

  • Foundations of consent

  • Healing relational and organizational dynamics

Whether a keynote, small group, or bespoke workshop, I bring depth, clarity, and embodied insight to your audience.

Fill out the contact form below, or contact me at amissa@kinsensecoaching.com, to book a speech or workshop.

Consulting and organizational support

I consult with organizations, collectives, and relational formations ready to embody liberation in practice. Together, we can:

  • Reflect on relational patterns in your structures

  • Identify opportunities for repair and reintegration

  • Design practices grounded in Love, presence, and collective care

Whether you’re looking for a one-off consultation or ongoing support, I bring relational expertise, lived experience, and a love-centered perspective to help your community thrive.

Fill out the contact form below, or contact me at amissa@kinsensecoaching.com, to start the conversation.