Integrative Coaching
Individual & Group
You have built a good life and something still feels missing
This is a return-to-self problem. And there is a way through
Creating the bridge from a good life to a great life from the inside out, by design, not default
You know what you should do, but you cannot seem to move
You have achieved things and built things. Shown up for everyone who needed you and somewhere in the middle of all of it, you lost the thread back to yourself.
Maybe it happened slowly through years of putting everyone else first, of performing a version of yourself that kept everything running. Or maybe it arrived suddenly, a transition, a loss, a moment of clarity you cannot unsee.
Either way, you are here. And the pull you feel inward is not a breakdown. It is a beginning.
Bridgepath coaching meets you where you are in your body, your story, and your roots, walking with you back to the life that has always been yours. Not just a life that looks good on the outside, but one that feels whole within
This work is for you if...
You have achieved what you set out to achieve, and it is not enough.
You feel like you are performing a life that is not quite yours.
You know your patterns intellectually. You cannot seem to feel the shift.
You have done therapy, read the books, and tried the practices. Something deeper is still calling.
You are a helper, a healer, a leader, or a caregiver who has been giving from empty for too long.
You are in the middle of a transition (a career shift, a divorce, an empty nest, a loss) and you need more than advice or accountability.
You want healing that is honest, embodied, and goes somewhere understanding alone cannot reach.
Three ways to work with Maria Claudia
1:1 Integrative Coaching
A private container for deep, whole-person work.
Some work needs privacy. A space where nothing is held back, where the full complexity of your life can be present, where the pace and direction are entirely yours.
The 1:1 container is for men and women who are ready to go deep, professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone navigating a significant life transition who needs dedicated individual support
This work is not coaching in the traditional sense. It integrates somatic practice, clinical hypnotherapy, yoga therapy, and evidence-based coaching to address the whole person — body, mind, spirit, and the deeper patterns that have not shifted with insight alone..
Bridge Back to Self
For Women · Small Group · 3 Months
A 3-month journey from self-abandonment to living fully.
You have spent years putting everyone first. The people you love, the work you do, the roles you hold. You are good at it. And you are exhausted in a way that sleep does not fix.
Bridge Back to Self is a small group journey for women who are ready to stop abandoning themselves
We work through three phases — Remembering- Awareness, Renew- Acceptance, and Return- Aligned Action — moving from knowing your patterns to actually feeling the shift.
Wisdom Circles
For Everyone · Monthly · Online & In-Person
Sacred gathering for collective healing
Not everyone is ready for a three-month commitment. And not everyone needs to be. The Wisdom Circles are a place to begin or to belong alongside deeper work.
Drawing from the Círculos de Palabra tradition of Colombia's Indigenous communities, these monthly gatherings offer a space to slow down, be witnessed, and reconnect to yourself, to others, and to what actually matters.
Online and in-person. Facilitated by Maria Claudia. Some sessions held in partnership with Indigenous wisdom keepers including Wiwa and Muisca lineage holders.
How this work is different
Most coaching works in one dimension the mind, setting goals, reframing thoughts and building accountability.
This work goes further. Because the patterns that are keeping you stuck were not formed in the mind alone, they live in the body, in the nervous system, in the earliest experiences that taught you who you had to be to be loved.
Maria Claudia's methodology draws from three pillars:
Ancestral wisdom
Specifically the Muisca and Wiwa traditions of Colombia, which understand healing as a return to right relationship with the self, the community, and the earth
Yogic philosophy
It is not a physical practice but as the eight-limbed path of union with the deepest self, a 5,000-year-old map of exactly what you are navigating.
Evidence-based clinical practice
Ttrauma-informed, person-centered, and somatic Grounded in two decades of research on how human beings actually change.
Together, these three pillars bridge the gap between science and soul. It is proven enough to talk to your doctor, and deep enough to heal your spirit.
Most coaching only focuses on how you feel on the inside. Bridgepath does something different. Once you remember who you truly are, the real question is: does your life on the outside actually reflect it?
The way you dress, the way you speak, and the way you show up in the world is either showing who you are becoming, or holding onto who you used to be. When you outgrow your old self, you have the power to redesign your outer world with purpose. Your style and your image become a clear declaration of your return to yourself.
Your guide
Maria Claudia Montes MSW
Certified Yoga Therapist · Certified Hypnotherapist · Life Coach · Bilingual English/Spanish
I know this territory from the inside.
I was born in Bogotá and came to New York at seven. I lost my mother at fourteen and my father at eighteen. I spent decades learning to survive by being useful, by tending everyone else's fire until I had almost forgotten what my own looked like.
The return to self I guide others through is one I have walked myself. Not once, many times. Through grief, through burnout, through the slow dismantling of a life built for everyone else's comfort. Through yoga, through clinical training, through sitting with the Mamos and Sagas of the Wiwa people in the Sierra Nevada, through the daily practice of placing one hand on my heart and asking what I actually need.
I hold a Master's degree in Social Work from New York University. I am a Certified Yoga Therapist, Certified Hypnotherapist and Life Coach. I bring over a decade of clinical and coaching experience working with individuals navigating trauma, identity, burnout, and life transition.
And I walk alongside the Wiwa people of Colombia's Sierra Nevada as they document the Ley de Origen, the living sacred law that has guided their community for generations. Every coaching engagement directly funds that work.
Your healing and their future are inseparable.
Your healing funds theirs
Every coaching engagement at Bridgepath directly supports La Ley de Origen and the Wiwa Women's Art Initiative in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
This is not a charitable add-on. It is the model. The revenue from personal healing work flows directly to community and cultural preservation initiatives. No distance between the investment and the impact.
When you invest in your own return to self, you are also investing in the preservation of one of the world's most extraordinary living knowledge systems.
This is what reciprocity looks like in practice.
What people are saying
Sara R., Australia
Annina Marie, California
Questions people often ask
Is this therapy?
Not at all, even though Maria Claudia is a licensed MSW. the integrative coaching focuses on where you're going, not just where you've been. Many clients do both therapy and coaching at the same time, and find they work beautifully together.
Is Bridge Back to Self only for women?
Yes — the group program is a women's space. Individual 1:1 coaching and Wisdom Circles are open to everyone
What is the difference between 1:1 coaching and Bridge Back to Self?
Bridge Back to Self is a small group program specifically designed for women working through self-abandonment and the return to self. It offers the power of collective witnessing alongside individual support. The 1:1 container is fully private and customized — for anyone who needs dedicated individual attention or whose circumstances require privacy and flexibility.
I've tried coaching before and it didn't work. Why would this be different?
That is worth exploring together. What I can tell you is that this work goes beyond goal-setting and accountability. We work with the whole of you — body, nervous system, emotions, values, ancestry, and vision. If something has not worked before, that becomes part of what we look at
Do sessions happen online or in-person?
Both. Virtual sessions are available worldwide. In-person sessions are available in the Nyack, New York area.
Do you accept health insurance?
No — coaching is not covered by health insurance. This is a private investment in your own transformation.
I am not sure which pathway is right for me
That is exactly what the free clarity call is for. It is a genuine conversation — not a sales pitch — about where you are, what you need, and which offering would serve you most. No obligation.
What if I am from a company looking for team wellbeing programs?
You are in the right place — but a different page. Visit our Community & Institutional Wellbeing page for workplace and organizational offerings.
Your path back to yourself starts with one conversation
Just thirty minutes to find out if this work is right for you — and which pathway fits where you are.
Maria Claudia shows up to every clarity call as herself. You can too.
This work meets you where you are in your body, your story, and your roots
If you are here on behalf of a healthcare system, EAP, nonprofit, school, or corporate organization looking for team wellbeing programming. Your page is here:
A healing that goes beyond you
Monthly stories from the Sierra Nevada and from individuals finding their way back to self.
No spam, just what matters.
Bridgepath Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Serving individuals and communities globally
Bridging Mind, Body, Spirit, and Earth
