Tears streamed down my face as I sat on the lawn overlooking a lake at a park near my house, talking via FaceTime with a mentor of mine. I shared both the fear and the draw I felt to say yes to the alchemy journey. The pull felt magnetic, almost impossible to refuse. I could stay where I was, or I could move. This would be the largest investment I’d made yet in my own transformation, and still, the pull itself felt greater than the investment. Saying yes meant real change, change I desired and still felt uncertain about. The swirl of feeling both inspired and terrified made the moment feel even more charged. And yet, somehow I knew with every cell of my body this was my next step.
I’m so glad I chose to listen to my inner guidance amidst that flurry of emotions. I haven’t looked back since saying yes. And I could not be more grateful.
That threshold moment when you feel the pull toward something you can’t fully explain, and the courage it takes to say yes anyway. It’s magical. And it is the work I hold space for clients to experience in their own unique way.
Through alchemical transformational coaching — Ghost Points, Alchemy Sessions, and Evolutionary Leadership Coaching Containers — I create the conditions for your highest potential, and your deep inner knowing, to naturally emerge.
My work happens in the realm conventional coaching, therapy, and strategy can’t quite reach. The place beneath your visible life where old patterns, inherited stories, and stuck places have been running the show. Sometimes I talk about these as invisible (outdated!) puppeteer strings that determine your experience of and movement in the world.
Ghost Points offers a powerful clearing and reset. This day-long ceremony dissolves, releases, and transmutes what’s been running beneath your conscious awareness. This process opens opportunities for a deeper understanding of yourself. (You can read a full story of this work here.)
Alchemy Sessions support ongoing integration and alignment. As we work together over time, you move through the Nine Stages of Alchemy. These stages are a progressive deepening that lets your full genius come forward, releasing the weight of what’s been holding you back, and finding the unique resonance of what’s calling you forward.
Evolutionary Leadership Coaching Containers weave it all together into a comprehensive year-long partnership. Here, we track not just what you’re accomplishing, but what’s realigning in you. What’s becoming possible that wasn’t before.
By coming together, we create a space where your intellectual brilliance and intuitive wisdom equally thrive, where your full genius, AND your full YOU has room to naturally emerge.
I’ve heard some version of this from clients and colleagues for decades, across continents and contexts. There’s something in my presence that lets people say what they need to say, and access what they haven’t been able to reach on their own. I’ve come to understand this as a field of sacredness and safety, and it’s part of what makes this work what it is. The field we create together becomes part of the transformation itself.
I hold space for complexity, for the accomplished person who’s also weary, for the leader and big visionary who knows something deeper is asking to emerge but can’t quite name it yet.
And I build in spaciousness. Our work together isn’t rushed. There’s room for silence, for somatic awareness, for the organic unfolding of what needs to surface.
I work with big visionaries, leaders, and innovators. People who’ve accomplished a lot by any outside measure, and who still feel misaligned or unfulfilled. There’s a sense of disconnect between how you’re living and what feels true, or even possible, to you. Between what you’ve experienced, built, and what you’re actually feeling.
Maybe you’ve done the therapy, the coaching, the strategy work. And it got you this far. But not all the way. Maybe you’re called to something you can’t quite put words to yet. And maybe, somewhere in you, you already understand that the shift you’re sensing has to happen in the invisible realm first, before it shows up anywhere you can point to.
This work is for those ready to go deep, and move quickly, in a way that feels aligned, attuned, and spacious.
I’m Emily Paul, an alchemist based in the Seattle area who has walked the transformational path for over thirty years. My approach transcends traditional credentials, though I hold them: a Masters of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Bastyr University, and a Bachelors of Art in Women and Gender Studies from Macalester College. My most profound wisdom comes from something beyond academia: well-earned life experience, apprenticeships, and countless initiations.
I’m a certified Alchemy Practitioner, and the only certified Ghost Points facilitator in the Pacific Northwest. These credentials represent years of rigorous apprenticeship in the transformational protocols I now practice.
Over three decades, I’ve worked with teachers, mentors, and healers, in the United States and internationally. They’ve guided me through meditation and mindfulness, somatic intelligence, energetic healing, leadership through presence, and the practical application of perennial wisdom.
My approach is informed by Daoist Alchemy, perennial wisdom, intuitive guidance, and decades of walking this transformational path myself. I bring both professional rigor and well-earned life experience to this work.
Each person’s journey is unique. Some begin with Ghost Points, for a powerful clearing and reset. Others start with ongoing Alchemy Sessions. Still others step directly into a comprehensive year-long whole body coaching container.
During a Discovery Call, we explore where you are on your journey, what’s calling to shift, and whether we’re aligned for this next phase of your personal and/or professional growth. I work with people where there’s genuine resonance, and where our partnership can truly serve what you’re moving toward.
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While I maintain clinic space in Seattle, I serve visionaries around the world through both remote sessions and immersive in-person intensives.
For Seattle-area clients, in-person Ghost Points sessions are held in my clinic space in Ballard.
For clients anywhere else, whole body coaching sessions and Alchemy Sessions happen remotely, via Zoom or phone. Distance doesn’t change the depth of what’s possible. I’ve watched this work unfold just as powerfully over a screen, or via phone, as it does in person. The energy doesn’t seem to know the difference.
Whether you’re local to the Pacific Northwest or joining from somewhere else in the world entirely, this work rises to meet you where you are.
Envisioning your highest potential, profound emergence, and what only you can bring to the world… I can’t wait to meet you!
You’re invited to a complimentary conversation with me in the form of a Discovery Call.
As a Coach, I’ve done a significant amount of personal development work! My work with Emily has been the most impactful work I’ve ever done, and has far exceeded my expectations…I’ve learned how to listen to my body on a deeper level and approach my health from a place of ease, and most importantly, I’ve learned how to trust myself and my abilities and lean into my own intuition.
-Cameron (Washington)
Photo by Caylie Mash Photography. Washington. February 2025.