About Inbal Sansani

My experience is focused on coaching women who were socialized to be ‘good’ – and not ‘too much’.

The result of this socialization is that we don’t give ourselves permission to imagine and explore what we really want.

And we definitely don’t have boundaries that honor our needs and preferences.

Inbal Sansani - Former Litigator, Humanitarian, Executive Coach, Immigrant, Auntie.

Inbal Sansani, M. Phil., J.D.

My name, Inbal, is pronounced like 'pin ball.' 😆
(A friend came up with that eons ago and it stuck.)
My last name is SAHN-sahn-nee.

My background spans 16 years of facilitation, capacity strengthening, mentorship, technical writing, program and people management, and advocacy.

I'm deeply committed to women's empowerment and ending violence against women and girls.

With 3 advanced degrees, 3 careers, and numerous 'dark nights of the soul', I've dedicated much of my life to holding space for people to share stories, imagine possibilities, and strategize next steps.

These experiences have vastly expanded my own understanding of choice and possibility.

My work is grounded in decades of depth-based, trauma-informed training and skill application.

Beyond my formal education and work as a litigator and humanitarian aid worker, I've also integrated years of comprehensive transformational skills training.

My primary coaching and facilitation training was through the Applied Depth Institute, including supervision with a senior practitioner.

As a life-long learner, I've immersed myself in shadow work, liberatory teachings, Buddhist study and practice, and workshops in somatics, various therapeutic approaches, and business.

This diverse background fuels my ongoing curiosity and commitment to personal and professional growth.

Formal Degrees & Education

Ongoing Professional Development & Continuing Education

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Arts, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA
    • Self-created, multi-disciplinary major titled War, Gender and Religion in the Middle East
    • Studies encompassed international policy and relations, Arabic language study, women’s and comparative literature, philosophy, gender studies and religion
  • Master of Philosophy in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  • Juris Doctor, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Arabic Language Institute of Fez, Fez, Morocco. 

Coach & Facilitation Training

  • Sacred Depths & SD Gold, including coaching supervision
  • Advanced Depth
  • Into the Depths (ritual, facilitation)
  • Life-Changing Courses
  • Liberation Spring (2018-2021, 2023-2024)
  • Courage of Care Coalition
  • White & Awakening in Sangha (EMBC)
  • Hakomi, Somatics
  • Miscellaneous workshops and business trainings

I think of myself as a loving, straight-talking, feminist mentor & guide.

I help women and femmes get clear on who they actually are…

…and what they truly want for their lives...

... rather than who they have been told they should be...

... and what ‘success’ looks like.

I support clients to access their own wisdom and discern what’s most important to them in their lives, to allow themselves to claim these desires, and to create strategies and practices for pursuing what’s most aligned for them.

I help women and femmes to see themselves clearly...
including the conditioning and stories that keep them stuck or unfulfilled.

By exploring new practices and ways of showing up in the world that are aligned with who and how
they want to live now...

...I help them re-pattern outdated thought patterns, transform fear and shame, write new stories of self, expand their perception of possibility...

...and embody innovative ways of being and showing up in the world and relating to themselves and others that honor who they are and what they value.

I work in liberatory and empowering ways so that you are supported to connect with and trust your inherent intuition, wisdom and power.

In this way, we not only co-create your goals, but you also transform and gain tools and strategies for sustained empowerment. 

I support your understanding and transformation at four interrelated levels – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual so that your transformation is wholistic, embodied and lasting. 

I offer the skills, experience, compassion and capacity to hold both the details and the big picture, to find the gold in the mundane and the unsavory, and to ground theoretical ideas and concepts into tangible practice and strategy.

And I have the ability to go as deeply as you’d like to venture, because the depths are where I can support you to alchemize your fears and longingings into power and intentional action.

I approach my work through a nuanced understanding of the complexity of human behavior and needs, intergenerational relationships and patterns, social and cultural conditioning, the intersected systems we are a part of – and the times we live in.

My Personal Story

I am both an immigrant and the first-born and only daughter of immigrants, navigating the challenges of adapting to a new country since age 11. 

I got on the immigrant overachiever’s (and overgiver’s) success escalator and it took me to where I had always thought I should be. 

I went to Duke University on a full-ride scholarship and got many more accolades and two more degrees after that. I became a lawyer.

These achievements provided great cover for a growing anxiety (along with harmful coping mechanisms) that something wasn’t right.

After getting fired twice in quick succession, I felt compelled to heed the signs I had been ignoring and allow myself to pursue what I had always been passionate about: Supporting women and girls who had experienced gender-based violence.

I became a humanitarian aid worker and spent a decade working with refugees in camps and along borders in several different countries. 

I loved this work and was really good at it. But, overtime, the 18-hour days and misaligned use of resources exhausted me.

I had too much responsibility and not enough authority to keep my staff safe. I was moving up in the system – but the system too often asked me to make myself smaller, hide my identity . . . and it ultimately made me sick.

In 2012, I made one of the boldest decisions of my life: To choose myself over what I did for others.

I left the only work I had ever really loved and, with no capacity to envision what was next, I stepped into the unknown.

As a result of an ongoing, many-year journey of realigning with who I am, I made a series of big and seemingly little choices that have helped me create a life that honors my values and how I want to be in the world. In 2014, I became a coach.

Who I am now is someone who doesn’t ‘fit in’ hardly at all but has learned to belong to herself.

  • I’m queer.
  • Still and always a feminist. 
  • Childless by choice. 
  • Late-diagnosed ADHD.
  • Highly sensitive.
  • Navigating anxiety and depression most of my life. 

As a result of my journey, I have a highly tuned bullshit meter. 😆

I honor my own rhythms with trust and confidence. 

I have the skill to discern what’s my responsibility and where I have capacity to make a difference.

I am living my purpose of pursuing justice through service to women and femmes and becoming a benevolent ancestor. 

I am now devoted to supporting others in also creating work and lives that honor your unique values and definitions of success.

Changing your life direction is a mature response to new information and ongoing self discovery.

Are you ready to lean into what you really want?
(even if you're not 100% sure what that is yet... 😉)

Your first step is to book a clarity call so we can chat about what you want and what feels in your way.

Sometimes this looks more like getting clear on what you don't want first – and that's totally okay.

From there we can talk about the ways I can help you uncover more aligned choices, and begin to implement them without taxing your nervous system.

My part takes about 20 minutes. If it feels like a good fit to both of us, we can get you set up.

And if not, that's okay too. My goal is to help you make a good decision for yourself.

Kind Words from Past Clients

Tina H. - Headshot for Testimonial

“After working with Inbal, I felt empowered and strong.

When we first started working together, I was quite confused with my feelings and emotions about what I wanted for work, home and life.

Boundaries have always been difficult for me.

Now, after working with Inbal, I have a greater sense of where I stop and others begin.

Tina, H.
Hermosa Beach, California
Haja K. - Headshot for Testimonial

"I have never felt as confident and excited as I do now to move forward in my professional life.

I knew what I wanted the next step in my career to be but I was unclear and unfocused on how to get there.

This roadblock stemmed from multiple factors such as insecurities, fears and lack of a mentor.Now I feel ready to make a major step in my career.

My personal life is improving daily as I’ve learned to communicate with my partner in ways I have never done before."

Haja K.
Brooklyn, New York
Kim C. - Headshot for Testimonial

"I felt seen and held in conversation with Inbal, and from this space real transformation is possible.

I reached out to Inbal initially because I felt stuck and uncertain about next steps, and needed support with knowing and trusting where to relax and let go.

Inbal’s deep, consistent encouragement to think about myself first, and helping me find ways to cultivate trust in myself and the Universe have been transformative.

Our work together really supported me to give myself permission to pause, and tend to myself, and to release self-judgment."

Kim C.
Berkley, California

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During this free and private conversation, we'll talk about how you got where you are and what's important to you in your life right now...

...plus what you feel is holding you back from creating what you want.

...and how you may be able to move forward, towards what you want, alongside your existing commitments.

From there, I will share the most popular services I offer, based on what would suit you best in this moment.

I'll explain how you can begin to make shifts you may not believe are possible yet, and if it feels like a good fit, great, we can get you set up.

But if not, that's okay too.

My goal is to help you make a good decision for yourself.

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