Maeba Jonas

Author • Speaker • Interfaith Chaplain • Integration Coach

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Some things can't be thought through. They must be moved through.

Rev. Maeba Jonas, M.Div.


Ordained minister, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner.


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For the people everyone else leans on

I work with pastors, founders, executive directors, and organizers — the ones who do the holding and are the last to be held. Through somatic work, clinical hypnotherapy, and spiritual discernment, I help you release what years of leadership have stored in your body, and hear what it's been trying to tell you.

I know both sides of this room: ten years as a college chaplain, an acting associate vice presidency in higher ed, and a body that finally called in its toll. I left that career to build this work.

I spent ten years as a college chaplain — the one they call when the news is bad and someone has to stay in the room — with my clinical training in the trauma bays of a Level 1 hospital. I know the other rooms too: I left higher education as an acting associate vice president, so I understand from the inside what it is to hold a job that never rests.

Here's what all those rooms taught me: the people who do the holding are carrying the most, and they're the last ones anyone thinks to hold. The pastor who preaches hope on two hours of sleep. The founder whose company lives in her chest. The executive director who writes the hard emails, then drives home rehearsing them again.

Through somatic work, clinical hypnotherapy, and spiritual discernment, I help you release what years of leadership have stored in your body — and hear what it's been trying to tell you. I built this work after the toll came due in my own life: I lost my mom, my health broke open, and I left the career I'd spent my life climbing. First for myself. Now for people like you.

Who I Help

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About Me

I'm Maeba, a writer, interfaith chaplain, and integration coach. I didn't arrive at this work by mastering one method, I got here through my own healing, trying nearly everything, and paying attention to what actually worked.

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You already carry more wisdom than you realize. Much of it you have already thought through. What's left just needs somewhere to move. And a place to land.

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