About Me
Therapeutic Coaching | Visibility & Business Consultant for Women
Andrea Arledge is a Master Therapeutic Shadow Coach, somatic healing practitioner, and intuitive energy worker with over 20 years of experience guiding women toward wholeness, self-authority, and aligned leadership.
The Founder of Inner Alchemy Consulting, LLC and based in South Carolina. Before entering the healing arts full time, Andrea worked as a Registered Nurse. That clinical background — combined with decades of study in Jungian depth psychology, somatic practices, energy medicine, and trauma-informed care — shapes the distinct, body-based approach she brings to every client engagement. I spent 16 years as a nurse learning how to care for people in some of their most vulnerable moments, but my curiosity about healing was never confined to what could be measured, diagnosed, or treated.
For more than two decades, I’ve studied the places where psychology, the body, energy, creativity, and identity meet. Today, as a Therapeutic Shadow Coach, creative strategist, and founder of Inner Alchemy Consulting, I work with women at that intersection.
Sometimes that means sitting beside a woman as she meets the parts of herself she learned to hide.
Sometimes it means helping you find the courage to be seen, speak about your work, build the thing you can’t stop thinking about, or finally take up more space in your own life. The doorway may be different, but the work keeps bringing you back to the same place: home to yourself.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl jung
FAQs
What is therapeutic Shadow Coaching?
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Shadow coaching is a form of depth coaching rooted in Jungian psychology that helps individuals identify and integrate the unconscious patterns, suppressed emotions, and exiled gifts that shape their behavior, decisions, and sense of self. Unlike traditional life coaching, which focuses primarily on goals and strategy, shadow coaching works beneath the surface — with the parts of the psyche that drive self-sabotage, perfectionism, undercharging, fear of visibility, and relationship patterns.
What is the Golden Shadow?
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The Golden Shadow is a Jungian concept describing the positive, powerful, gifted aspects of a person that have been suppressed or exiled — often in childhood or early adulthood — because they felt unsafe, too much, or unacceptable. In women, the Golden Shadow often shows up as suppressed leadership, silenced expertise, undervalued gifts, and the persistent sense of being a "hidden gem." Reclaiming the Golden Shadow is at the heart of Andrea Arledge's coaching methodology.
What makes you different?
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Andrea is one of the few practitioners who brings a clinical nursing background, 20+ years of intuitive energy work, and a Master-level shadow coaching certification into a single, integrated methodology. She doesn't just work with your wounds — she works with your buried brilliance. And she sits at the exact intersection most practitioners avoid: the place where your inner world meets your business, your body meets your psychology, and your suppressed gifts become your greatest power. This is not generic coaching. This is precision work, built from the inside out.
How can I contact you?
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. I aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
Ready to Be Seen?
My mission is to help you achieve not just external success but internal freedom—the kind that comes from knowing and embracing every part of yourself. Together, we’ll explore the shadows, unlock your potential, and allow you to step fully into your brilliance.