Matteo Colaciello

A Guide Who’s Been to the Edge and Back

Matteo doesn’t lead from a script. He leads from having walked it himself — anxiety from feeling different, relationships that never quite fit, a stretch of mid-life where nothing added up, health that fell apart, money that ran out, a childhood that left marks. He names all of it plainly, because he knows this work only lands when it isn’t hiding behind a credential. He also holds space for spiritual wrestling, and for the unusual, hard-to-categorize experiences that don’t fit inside a diagnostic manual but are unmistakably part of the person living them.

That path took him through Buddhist monasteries in India, indigenous learning circles in West Africa and Indonesia, and years inside the very corporate and non-profit machinery he now helps people step outside of. He brings a queer, inclusive lens to every room he’s in, and one conviction that shapes all of his work: the change you’re looking for isn’t out there. It’s internal — a shift in how you relate to yourself, not a new job title or a better routine.

Healing is an act of service — not just to yourself, but to the world.

Matteo Colaciello

The Work Underneath the Work

Matteo’s practice weaves Internal Family Systems with somatic work and time outdoors. He doesn’t ask you to fix the parts of yourself that hurt — he asks you to get curious about them. Every part of you, he says, is something to be understood, healed, and harnessed, not eliminated.

Much of that understanding happens in motion. He brings people onto forest trails as often as onto a cushion, trusting that the body knows things the thinking mind talks itself out of. He holds a systems-level view too — the wounds we carry aren’t only personal, they’re collective and intergenerational.

What that looks like in practice is less like being coached and more like being accompanied. He’ll follow the thread you didn’t expect to pull, sit with the part of you that’s been carrying something for years, and give it the room to say what it needs. Nothing gets rushed and nothing gets pathologized — the pace belongs to you. People often leave a session having named something they had known for a long time but never said out loud.

How Matteo Works

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Somatic practices
• Mindfulness and compassion
• Nature immersion
• Emergent strategy

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Sabrina and Matteo talk about his path and the way he works.

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