The Core Sessions
A grounded, human approach to meaningful change.
The Core Sessions are private, structured, four-session containers with Ellie designed to help you address a particular set of issues, to understand what’s happening in your life, shift the patterns that keep you stuck, and build a steadier, clearly laid out, more connected way of living.
All Core Sessions follow Ellie's CORE framework:
Center + Clarify → Observe + Organize → Regulate + Realign → Evolve + Embody
and also includes daily digital check-ins, three worksheets a week, journal prompts, challenges and meditations in between sessions to keep you on track.
You begin with alignment, and then if you're ready, you shift.
Choose Your Core Sessions
Core
Alignment
Core Alignment is the beginning of your journey.
Core Alignment helps you:
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understand what’s really going on
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name the emotional, physical, relational or spiritual patterns in play
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work with reactivity, overwhelm, shutdown, or stuckness
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find steadier internal ground
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begin to realign your choices and relationships
This is the starting place for people who feel:
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confused about what they’re feeling
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disconnected from themselves
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exhausted by repeated patterns
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overwhelmed by life transitions
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unsure how to take the next step
Structure:
4 x 60-minute private sessions
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session notes or practices if needed
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optional support between sessions
Core Shift
Most people enter Core Shift after Core Alignment. This is the shift from understanding to long term change.
Core Shift helps you:
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deepen the work you began
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build new relational, emotional, and behavioral patterns
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strengthen nervous system steadiness
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shift long-standing habits and reactions
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translate insight into daily life
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embody what’s emerging
This is for people who have already begun moving but need support to make the change hold.
Structure:
4 x 60-minute private sessions
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individualized practices
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deeper integration work
Core Alignment for Couples
For couples wanting connection, communication, and relational clarity.
Core for Couples helps you:
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understand the patterns you fall into
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see what each person is protecting
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communicate more honestly and safely
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soften reactivity
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repair ruptures
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rebuild trust or connection
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create and practice new relational patterns
This is not therapy.
It’s grounded relational work that integrates:
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emotional patterns
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attachment
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communication
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nervous system responses
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Jewish values
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practical tools for daily life
Structure:
4 x 75-minute sessions
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optional short check-ins between sessions
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personalized relational practices
Core Shift for Couples
Core Shift for Couples is a four-session container for partners who want to move from insight into new patterns of communication, connection, and teamwork.
This is for couples who:
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understand their dynamic and want to change it
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are ready to practice new ways of relating
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want support moving from reactivity to clarity
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want to deepen trust, respect, and connection
What you’ll work on:
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interrupting reactive cycles
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communicating in ways that land
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repairing conflict more quickly
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strengthening emotional and spiritual partnership
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building habits that support closeness
Format:
4 x 75-minute sessions
Optional brief check-ins
Core Alignment for Couples - Pre-Marriage
Core Alignment for Pre-Marriage Couples is a four-session process to help you understand each other deeply, communicate well, and build a shared foundation before marriage.
This is for couples who want to:
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understand each other’s emotional patterns
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learn how to navigate conflict and repair
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clarify expectations, values, and vision
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create healthy habits for communication and connection
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enter marriage feeling prepared and aligned
What you’ll explore:
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how each of you processes stress and emotion
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your communication styles and needs
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family-of-origin influences
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shared values, roles, and daily rhythms
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practical tools for staying connected during change
Format:
4 x 75-minute sessions
Summary practices to take into marriage
Ideal for couples who want to step into marriage with clarity, intention, and confidence.
what are the core sessions
The Core Sessions grew out of years of working with people in many different ways — coaching, intuitive work, Jewish learning, somatic awareness, and emotional patterning. I eventually realized that the people who came to me weren’t looking for one modality; they were looking for someone who could see the whole picture and help them understand what was happening in their lives on multiple levels at once.
The Core Sessions are the synthesis of my best work: the intuitive listening that helps me hear what’s underneath,
the psychological and relational understanding that reveals patterns, the somatic and nervous-system work that brings steadiness, and the Torah-based lens that helps people find meaning and alignment.
I created this structure because I saw how much faster and deeper people could shift when all these pieces were held together.
The Core Sessions give me the space to work the way I’m actually built to work — and they give you a clear, grounded path to meaningful, sustainable change.
Center and Clarify
Center: Come back to yourself. Find your ground, settle your nervous system, and create enough inner steadiness to see what’s really happening.
Centering creates the conditions for honesty and insight.
Clarify: Name what’s going on inside. Identify the feelings, needs, patterns, and tensions that have been driving your reactions. Clarifying brings coherence to what previously felt confusing or overwhelming.
Observe and Organize
Observe: Notice the patterns with openness rather than judgment.
Observe how you react, what you protect, how your body responds, and how the past may be shaping the present.
Observation is the doorway to understanding.
Organize: Make sense of what you’re seeing.
Connect the pieces—emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual—into a clear picture.
Organizing turns insight into orientation.
Regulate and Realign
Regulate: Create internal safety.
Soften activation, calm reactivity, and bring the nervous system back into balance. Build a personal toolbox to know how to return to self and sanity.
Regulation makes new choices possible.
Realign: Shift how you respond, relate, and communicate.
Move toward truth, connection, and values-based choices.
Realignment is the step where patterns begin to change.
Evolve and Embody
Evolve: Step into a new way of being. Shift where you make your life choices from.
Let the work reshape how you show up—in your relationships, habits, and emotional life.
Evolution is the quiet emerging of what’s next.
Embody: Practice what you’ve learned until it becomes natural.
Integrate new patterns into daily living, relationships, and your inner world.
Embodying is where change becomes real and lasting.
Why Do The Core Sessions?
Because change is easier when you have a clear process and someone who can hold the whole picture with you.
The Core Sessions help you see your patterns, regulate your system, realign your choices, and practice new ways of being.
They integrate the emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual layers of your life — so you’re not working on one part while neglecting another.
This is work that stays with you long after the sessions end.