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Hello, I’m Simone Grimmer.

I began my professional life in engineering geology — studying fault lines, pressure, and the quiet forces that reshape the ground beneath what looks solid. Later, I worked around the world in the oilfield services industry, leading teams in high‑stakes environments where clarity, steadiness, and attuned listening mattered as much as technical skill.

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Those years trained me to read systems, notice subtle shifts, and stay oriented in complexity. But they also revealed something else: people unravel long before structures do. And most of us were never taught how to meet those inner shifts with any kind of honesty or compassion.

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Over time, my attention moved from outer landscapes to inner ones — the places where people quietly come undone, the moments where the old ways stop working, and the deeper intelligence that emerges when we stop overriding ourselves.

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Now I accompany people in those moments.

I work with people who've stopped trusting their own read on things — who check with everyone else before believing what they already sense, and can't quite find their footing because of it. That "something feels off" feeling is often the first sign that a deeper part of you is asking to be heard.

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My role is simple: to offer a grounded, attuned space where you can listen inward, understand your body's language, and find your next steps without all the second‑guessing.

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I don't diagnose or direct. I don't hand you a program to follow. I listen — to what you say and to what you can't quite say yet.

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Together, we slow down enough to hear the part of you that knows what needs to happen next.

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I draw from Focusing, trauma‑aware presence, parts‑informed work, and spiritual companionship — not as techniques, but as ways of paying attention. My work is relational, embodied, and precise. See testimonials.

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I live in North Texas with my spouse and our three cats. I work with clients across the U.S. and internationally.

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I also write Between & Becoming on Substack — reflections on midlife and the inner life.

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Later in life, I learned I am neurodivergent — something I'd spent years quietly working around without a name for it, the same way clients often work around signals in themselves before they learn to trust them. It didn't change my story. It explained it.

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If you'd like to read more about the story that shaped my work, you can find that here:

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My Journey
  • 25+ years across academia, corporate leadership, and mentoring

  • PhD equivalent in Engineering Geology (Dr.rer.nat.), University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

  • A decade as associate professor, mentoring future scientists and leaders

  • Nearly a decade in oil & gas at a Fortune 500 company, collaborating across 20+ countries

  • Certified Focusing Professional

  • Spiritual Director

  • Trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems Method) for Spiritual Companions

  • Volunteer at Seattle Focusing Institute, supporting future practitioners

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My Approach

I draw from several ways of paying attention, not as separate techniques, but as different doors into the same listening: Focusing, which follows the body's own sense of what's true. Spiritual companionship, which makes room for whatever your relationship with the sacred actually looks like, not what it's supposed to look like. IFS-informed parts work, which lets the different voices inside you speak instead of arguing past each other. Reiki and polyvagal-informed presence, when a session calls for settling the nervous system before anything else can be heard. And an attention to inherited and ancestral patterns, when what's stuck in you didn't start with you.

None of these are performed as methods. They're how I listen.

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Let’s explore your questions together. These practices complement therapy and medical care—they’re not replacements, but meaningful companions on your healing path.

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CONTACT ME

For any questions you have, and to request a short call via Zoom, you can contact me here.

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Hours

By Appointment only. Sessions available via Zoom.
Monday through Thursday between 9:00 am - 7:00 pm US Central Time or by prior arrangement.

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