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Wise and kind guidance as you meet life’s everyday challenges.

MIA BOLTE, M.A.

Welcome — I’m So Glad You’re Here

Life can feel overwhelming and confusing — but it doesn’t have to stay that way. My work is about helping you reconnect with your own wisdom, find calm in the chaos, and feel more at home in yourself. Whether you’re seeking insight, emotional healing, or greater clarity in your relationships, you’re not alone.

As a mindfulness-based coach and body-centered therapist in Minneapolis, I offer grounded support, gentle guidance, and a space of real care — with a cup of Japanese tea close at hand.

Support That Meets You Where You Are

We all get stuck sometimes. Whether you’re facing relationship tension, internal conflict, burnout, or self-doubt, you’re welcome here. At miabolte.com, you’ll find classes, individual sessions, and group offerings designed to grow your self-awareness, support nervous system regulation, and help you feel more equipped to navigate life with kindness and clarity.

Contemplative Coaching with a Therapeutic Lens

I believe we are all inherently whole and worthy. My approach is rooted in compassion and respect, drawing from my graduate training in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, somatic therapy, and spiritual traditions like Buddhism and Nonviolent Communication.

While I’m trained as a psychotherapist, what I offer here is coaching and education, not clinical treatment. (If you need help managing severe mental health issues or addiction recovery, I’ll help you find the right support.)

Together, we’ll gently explore what’s showing up in your life. We follow your lead — moment by moment — working toward your goals, your healing, and your wholeness.

Practical Tools for Lasting Change

Whether you join a Hakomi-inspired Matrixworks group, a mindfulness class, or a 1:1 coaching session, we’ll use body-centered tools that go beyond talk therapy. You’ll learn to notice patterns, shift habits, and move through stuck places with more confidence and ease.

My goal is always to help you develop a deeper relationship with yourself — one rooted in love, resilience, and inner strength.

I wanted a spiritually minded practioner, who’s done her own work. Mia’s a clear, sparkling mirror. You can tell, this woman walks her talk!

I felt heard, validated and seen. This was so healing for me since I don't get that in my everyday life. With this new experience working with Mia, my relationships are getting easier, and I’m more comfortable with me!

Mia challenged me, but was also empathetic. And ethical. I appreciate and value her and hope many others get to study and meet with her. She’s a gem.

Mia has a B.A. in American Studies (Her social justice mindedness can be traced to this education.) and Communications from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University.  She taught at both universities for nearly 20 years.  Perhaps of biggest influence is the deep and ongoing practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism.  It’s safe to say that this 2500 years old technology for understanding the heart and mind is what she draws on most heavily, and is the cornerstone for her services in psychotherapy or contemplative coaching.

You don’t need to meditate or even be interested to get started.  Just bring your curiosity, and openness.

Mia is a gentle, personal guide, offering Buddhist-inspired online courses, mentoring and and therapeutically minded coaching.  It’s gentle and you set the pace.  Influences that inform her practice and teaching are:

  • Communications Studies: that undergrad degree is a foundation for what happens a lot in this work–teach people about communicating well with themselves and others!
  • Contemplative Approaches: including her own ongoing practice and study of Buddhism and meditation. (She’s got roughly the equivalent of a Masters in Divinity!)  All traditions are welcome!
  • The Hakomi Experiential, Body-Centered Method: a client centered psychotherapy, deep and gentle approach to self-exploration.
  • Internal Family Systems and Gestalt for looking at the parts of oneself.
  • Somatics: including Somatic Experiencing and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, because we live in bodies and need to include them in our healing journey.
  • Body-Mind Centering and Baby Bare:  experiential anatomy for a better understanding of the physical and psychological development of the body.
  • Shamanic Studies: including shamanic expressive arts coaching and a training with Julie M. Kramer.
  • Social Justice:  As one dear teacher, Rev. angel Kyodo williams suggests, “You can’t be serious about enlightenment unless you include everybody.  Every body!” 
  • Expressive Arts: when words are limited, art making allows further expression of the inner landscape.
  • Matrixworks: group training and facilitation-with an eye for finding the health that’s in every group.
  • Transpersonal Theory: connecting with something larger than ourselves is a great resource.  She’s pleased to have mentored and taught a generation of counselors in training, as an adjunct professor at Naropa University.
  • Nervous system regulation via Transforming Touch and Transforming Intentional Touch and polyvagal theory.

For understanding trauma and its resolution, Mia has both studied and been mentored by folks trained in:

Please note that I do not assess, diagnosis or treat alcohol/substance use or mental health issues or disorders.  Nor do I provide licensed mental health services in any state in the USA. Please see this page for lots and lots of details. 

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