Iza Clara Healing

Iza Clara Healing is the practice of Iza, an author and energy healer in Austin who combines somatic therapy, Reiki, and mediumship into customized sessions. Before going full-time with healing work, Iza spent nearly 15 years in People Operations and HR leadership at the corporate level. That background shows up in how they hold space. They're attentive to nervous system regulation and relational dynamics in ways that feel less woo and more practical. When they talk about "reconnecting people back to wholeness," it comes across as someone who has sat across from hundreds of employees navigating stress and burnout, not someone who picked up the phrase from an Instagram caption.

They started formal energy healing training in 2020 with Reiki Second Degree certification and began seeing private clients in 2021. After continued study and mentorship, they left the corporate world to practice full-time. Their method blends energy healing through Reiki, Tai Chi, and what they call "light weaving," with bodywork via somatic therapy. Each session is built around the individual rather than following a set protocol, which makes sense given that Iza's toolkit is broad enough to pull from multiple modalities depending on what someone needs.

Their group offerings follow a similar thread. "Reclaiming Inner Safety: A Collective Trauma Release" is one example, a session focused on releasing stored trauma in community. The name gives you a good read on Iza's style: direct about what's happening (trauma release), but framed with care (reclaiming, inner safety). They describe their facilitation as "poetic presence with embodied guidance." That tracks. Their writing leans earnest and devotional without tipping into vague spirituality. They call their method "an act of sacred service," and it reads as sincere.

Iza is also an author. Their book "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" is due from Disruption Books in March 2026. They write on Substack under the title "Never Broken," which doubles as a thesis for their practice: "You were never broken. Your soul is ready." The phrase recurs throughout their work. It's the operating premise, not marketing copy. Their writing voice has a poetic, incantatory quality that carries over into how they run sessions.

The specific combination of corporate people-operations experience and ancestral trauma work is unusual, even in Austin's crowded healing scene. Iza talks about "bridging corporate leadership, ancestral trauma repair, and embodied spiritual practice," and that bridge holds weight because both sides are real. Someone who spent 15 years managing people in organizations and then trained seriously in energy work and somatic therapy brings a different kind of attention to a session than someone who came up through yoga teacher training alone. The corporate years gave them a framework for how humans break down under pressure. The healing training gave them tools for repair.

You can find Iza online at izaclarahealing.com and @izaclarahealing on social media.