Somatic Therapy · IFS · Executive Coaching

The work that goes where insight alone can't reach

You've understood the pattern. Now let's actually change it.

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Rudi Doku, Somatic Therapist and Executive Coach, Melbourne

Change that is felt, not just understood.

About the work

Most of us know what we'd like to change. Knowing isn't always enough.

Insight opens the door. But the patterns that keep us stuck live in the body and the nervous system, not just the mind. This work meets you there.

Whether you're navigating something personal, leading through complexity, or carrying stress your thinking can't seem to shift, we work with what's actually happening underneath.

About Rudi

Anxiety and chronic stress that won't settle
Patterns that insight alone hasn't shifted
A nervous system stuck in overdrive or shutdown
Leadership under sustained pressure
Difficulty trusting yourself or others
The sense that you're performing rather than living

Ways of working

Three paths, one practice

Individual

Somatic Experiencing

For stress, trauma, and nervous system patterns that thinking hasn't been able to shift. We work with what the body already knows.

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Individual

Internal Family Systems

For the parts of you that feel at odds with each other. IFS brings curiosity and compassion to the patterns beneath the surface.

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Executive

Leadership Coaching

For leaders navigating complexity, pressure, and the gap between how they want to lead and how they actually show up.

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About Rudi

I didn't study these methods from the outside. I walked them first.

Fifteen years in technology consulting, then a decade coaching leaders across five continents. What I do now grew out of what I had to learn the hard way: how to regulate my nervous system, face the parts of myself I'd been avoiding, and build a life that actually fits.

I bring all of that into the room. Not as a method I apply, but as a path I'm still walking.

Read Rudi's story

From a client

"From our first session, I felt truly heard. What surprised me most was the body work: simple exercises that helped me short-circuit stress in a way that thinking alone never had."

Servane · Client

Client experiences

"Working with Rudi, I realised how much courage and authenticity matter, not just in how I lead others, but in my relationship with myself. I'm now more skilled at holding conversations that matter, bringing out the best in my team, and succeeding together."

Francine · Client

"My firm provided the coaching, but I kept coming back because it was genuinely useful. Rudi helped me stay calm through significant leadership change, build daily practices that stuck, and communicate more confidently. I came for stress management and left with a different sense of myself as a leader."

Anuja · Client

"I was looking for someone who had navigated the same challenges I was facing, and Rudi had. He listens in a way that actually helps you hear yourself. Despite having worked together only briefly, he felt like a trusted guide. I've since started practising genuine self-care and moving toward the kind of leader I actually want to be."

Thomas · Client

"Navigating a dynamic international team while trying to make a real impact is hard if you don't know how your words and actions land. Rudi helped me understand why I respond the way I do, pointed out patterns I couldn't see myself, and gave me practical tools to pause and act with intention."

Baris · Client

"Rudi helped me untangle professional challenges I hadn't been able to make sense of on my own. I left every session with clarity, practical actions, and things to explore at my own pace. One of the most meaningful changes was learning to set and hold boundaries at work."

Servane · Client

"I came to Rudi at a time of need and found the sessions to be really helpful. He is great to talk to, highly knowledgeable, skilful and empathic. His sense of humour is pretty unique and that helped too. Rudi is very passionate about his work and generous with his follow-up and suggesting practices for in between sessions."

Claire · Client

"What's rare is finding someone who can be sophisticated, tender and delicate, but at the same time bring real presence and gravitas. The way Rudi creates a space where you feel genuinely heard is remarkable, and it's the first step where you can start getting curious about yourself."

Min L · Client

"I'd recommend this especially to people who think they know themselves, but for some reason keep hitting the same wall. There's a chance you've been intellectualising your journey. There's so much wisdom available through a somatic approach, and so many options you haven't seen yet. It's one of the most beautiful gifts you can give yourself."

Min L · Client

What changes

Not just relief. A different relationship with yourself.

A nervous system that can settle

Less reactivity, more capacity. The ability to be present without bracing.

Patterns that actually shift

Not managed around, but changed at the level where they live.

Access to yourself under pressure

The kind of groundedness that holds when things get hard.

Clearer boundaries and voice

Knowing what you need and being able to say it without derailing.

Better relationships

With the people around you, and with the parts of yourself that have been hardest to be with.

Leadership from a steadier place

Regulation as capacity, not a wellbeing topic. The foundation everything else builds on.

Get started

Thirty minutes. No pitch, no pressure.

A free call to talk about where you are and whether this makes sense.

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