Meet Your Coach
My name is Alena Schabes. I’m a mother of two, ages 11 and 8, living with my family in Oakland, Bay Area, California.
As a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience, I entered motherhood thinking I was well-prepared. I had the knowledge, the tools and the discipline. Yet from the very beginning, I found myself deeply stretched, humbled and transformed. Despite all my research, planning, resourcefulness and privilege, I was surprised by how disorienting, exhausting and awakening this stage could be.
That journey became my initiation into the true alchemy of motherhood where I learned how to hold both the beauty and the chaos, the exhaustion and the expansion. Determined not just to survive, but to grow through it, I began weaving together the science of psychology with the deeper wisdom of transformation.
I guide mothers through this same passage from survival to soul-alignment helping them reconnect to their clarity, ambition, and radiance while nurturing their families with presence and grace.
Because when a mother thrives her whole world expands.
My Approach
True transformation doesn’t happen in isolation; it happens in the middle of real life. Everything I do is grounded in practicality. My work offers tools and teachings you can actually use while making breakfast, driving to practice, or managing bedtime chaos.
I offer the distilled insights, frameworks, and science-backed tools that blend understanding how thoughts and emotions influence actions with the depth of soul-aligned practices that help you embody calm, confidence and connection from within.
You learn simple, grounded ways to shift your energy and realign your inner and outer worlds so growth feels natural not forced and deeply unique - just like you.
Every practice is designed to be doable, compassionate, and supportive even in the busiest seasons of motherhood. My deepest intention is for you to return to yourself: to feel grounded, alive and fully aligned in the life you’ve worked so hard to build.
ALENA SCHABES