About - Asha Bauer

"I believe that true resilience is rooted in embodiment - the more we deepen our relationship to our mind and body, the greater clarity, creativity, and courage we will find."

The professional bio version: Dr. Asha Bauer is a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, and digital health consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her work she is dedicated to helping high performing professionals and mission-driven leaders and entrepreneurs to lead with intention and grit and to cultivate values-driven lives and careers. Her research has focused on mindfulness, trauma, resilience, and the utilization of technology as a force for social good. She obtained her B.A. in Psychology and English from Barnard College of Columbia University, and her M.S. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Indiana State University.

Dr. Bauer currently leads the coach development strategy for BetterUp Care, a technology-enabled mental fitness coaching platform, where she is developing evidence-based experiences and training world class coaches to help people, teams, and companies thrive through change. She also sits on the Board of Advisors for Heard Mental Health, a financial insights and bookkeeping platform which aims to help mental health professionals scale their practices with confidence. Prior to these roles, Dr. Bauer conducted research on digital health, blended care solutions, and mental wellbeing coaching at the National Center for PTSD.

The personal version: For as long as I can remember, I have had both a fascination with the modern scientific study of human behavior, as well as a personal calling to mysticism and ancient somatic traditions. This blend of passions is present in everything I do. I believe that true resilience is rooted in embodiment – the more we deepen our relationship to our mind and body, the greater clarity, creativity, and courage we will find.

I’m a coast-swapper, originally from a small town in Maine, now dwelling in Oakland, California. I’ve been doing an accidental tour of the country and world along the way – I’ve lived stateside in the northwest, midwest, southwest, deep south, and overseas in mainland China. I’ve been driven by wanderlust and an unquenchable thirst for experiences that leave me awestruck since I was a child. I love design, extra spicy chai tea, meditation, long distance running, and my chubby tabby cat named Sati. Sometimes I dabble in poetry and prose to balance it all out.

My favorite quote is probably this one from Henry David Thoreau:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…”

"I believe that true resilience is rooted in embodiment - the more we deepen our relationship to our mind and body, the greater clarity, creativity, and courage we will find."

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