Riikka is an internationally certified holistic practitioner (IPHM) working in the field of nervous system coaching to trauma healing.  

At the beginning of her professional career, Riikka worked as a certified personal trainer, lifestyle coach and fitness facility manager in corporate settings. Riikka’s passion to understand the MINDBODY continued to grow, as did her experience and development into the fields of Pilates, pelvic health and birth recovery.

Riikka’s gift for understanding the body was first sparked by her own experience with chronic pain. She suffered from postpartum complications and the health field she worked in did not provide her effective solutions. It was during this time she began to specialize in trauma recovery, attachment repair and Somatic Experiencing, and transitioned to the studio setting where she found fulfilment working with clients one-on-one.

It was her personal postpartum recovery that helped her understand the SOMATIC connection to healing.

Riikka started coaching pelvic health and core restoration, first for herself and then others, through trauma informed lens. The missing link in health care services was a view limited to the body’s physicalness.

Riikka created her C.O.R.E. Informed® coaching method as a result of what was lacking in her field.

Understanding the effect of trauma and how the body absorbs and holds on to stress, helped Riikka’s clients immediately shift from chronic pain to easier movement. She applied her somatic method with each client, accounting for their history, and symptoms started to change.

Riikka’s clients began to explore new pathways in a safe space. 

By nervous system centered coaching, her client’s symptoms can shift within a session. Renegotiation of these patterns support her client’s engage their life again. 

Riikka works with clients in person and online, and every session is different due to the uniqueness of each individual. She has a unique way of reading the body through nervous system attunement. Even working from afar, Riikka has the ability to hear your body and ability to support its needs and integrate it into your movement. And evenmore, Riikka guides you to be in the driver’s seat so that your systems start to make sense to you. This helps the sessions to integrate into your day-to-day life. Not just the moment when you work together. 

As a mother of three, Riikka has embodied to revive the health of her postpartum body.

She has tremendous amount of compassion, experience and understanding of the body, and her coaching makes an immediate shift withIN.

In virtual group sessions Riikka empowers every body to feel the freedom of movement and access enjoyment. 

Riikka lives in Helsinki, Finland with her husband, three children and a puppy. She continues to grow and experience life in new ways. Riikka believes deeply that in these ‘new ways’ are the possibility for growth.