Sheila Menezes

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Sheila Menezes

Description

Something in us knows the way home, even when we’ve forgotten how to get there. I accompany your journey, holding a culturally responsive space attuned to how identity, power, and systemic conditions shape experience. We slow down, look beneath behavior and patterns, and meet what is asking for tender attention.

Since 2015, I have led trauma-informed, Nonviolent Communication, and restorative justice programs in prisons, creating spaces for incarcerated individuals to heal.

 

In this work, I sustain relationship with difficult human realities — both harm experienced and enacted. I sit at the edges of tragic attempts to meet needs, without simplifying it. 

Witnessing people’s capacity to return to themselves, relationship, and community with compassion and without abandoning accountability keeps me humble. 

Clients come to me when navigating change, mental exhaustion, relationship patterns, questions of identity and belonging, and a desire for greater agency and connection.

Come as you are. We’ll start there.

Practitioner Info

Languages Spoken
English
Other Certified Training
Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF) | 2025
Compassionate Inquiry (CI) Practitioner Certification | 2025
Harvard Kennedy School Leadership, Organizing, and Action: Leading Change (Marshall Ganz) | 2024
Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) Leadership Program | 2024
CI Mentorship Program | 2023
CI Professional Training, first BIPOC cohort | 2021
Certified EQ-i 2.0 / EQ 360 Practitioner | 2020
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), CTI | 2016
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Certification Candidate
CI Practitioner Certification | 2025
Safer Communities Project, NVC in San Quentin | 2015–present
Insight Prison Project, VOEG Program | 2016–present
Profession
Executive Coach
Specialties
Adolescents, Anxiety, Codependency, Couples, Domestic Abuse, Family violence, Grief and loss, Life Coaching, Parenting, Racial Identity, Self-esteem, Sexual Abuse, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, Business
Hourly Rate in CAD
275
Sliding Scale Available
Yes
Accepting New Clients
Yes

Location

Oakland, California, USA

Contact Information

Address
Oakland, California, USA

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