About Light Matter Coaching
Trauma-informed & neurodiversity-affirming coaching for the whole person
Founded by Amanda Heck, Light Matter Coaching supports reflective people who have learned to adapt, keep going, or meet expectations, and want space to understand what has been required of them and what they need now.
Here, coaching can help you understand what has been shaping your experience, reconnect with how you work, and choose a way forward that honors your needs, values, and real life.
The foundation of the work
Light Matter Coaching is grounded in four values that shape the work.
Love
A commitment to meet people where they are, without agenda, urgency, or prescription. Love prioritizes dignity, safety, and humanity over outcomes.
Equality
A way of being that removes hierarchies of worth. No one is better, worse, ahead, behind, good, or bad because of where they are, how they function, or what they are carrying.
Acceptance
A recognition that each person’s lived experience is valid and meaningful. Growth does not require someone to become a different version of themselves.
Truth
A recognition that each person’s truth is shaped by their own history, culture, identity, belief systems, and personal meaning. Each person is supported in listening to, trusting, and honoring their truth for themselves.
Meet Amanda Heck
Amanda Heck is the founder of Light Matter Coaching and a Trauma Informed Whole Person Certified Coach based in Las Vegas.
Her work is shaped by formal coach training, creative leadership, deep listening, and curiosity about how people make meaning, move through the world, and reconnect with who they are on a deep level.
Before coaching, Amanda spent more than 20 years in creative direction, motion design, visual storytelling, and leadership. That background still shapes the way she notices patterns, listens beneath the surface, makes room for complexity, and explores possibility from more than one angle.
In coaching, there is room for clarity and uncertainty, emotion and practicality, humor and quiet, directness and reflection.
Acceptance and forward movement
“I appreciated Amanda’s curiosity and acceptance of me as a complex person. I also really appreciated her excitement and enthusiasm in helping me make improvements and solve problems.”
BF - Salt Lake City, UT
Credentials and training
The following credentials support a coaching space that is relational, collaborative, consent-based, and centered on your wisdom, lived experience, context, and choices.
Associate Certified Coach
Reflects professional coaching experience, ethical practice, and demonstrated coaching competency through the globally recognized International Coaching Federation.
Professional Whole Person Certified Coach®
Centers the full person, including values, emotions, strengths, identity, body, relationships, work, and real-life context.
Trauma Informed Certified Coach
Supports pacing, choice, and awareness of how past experiences may shape what feels safe, possible, or available in the present.
Neurodiversity Certified Coach
Supports coaching that honors different ways of thinking, processing, communicating, sensing, focusing, and moving through the world.
Las Vegas and online coaching
Light Matter Coaching is based in Las Vegas and works with clients locally and online.
Coaching supports personal and professional development, including transitions, values, communication, leadership, self-trust, identity, capacity, and choices that better fit your real life.
Select in-person options may be available in the Las Vegas Valley.
Ways to begin
You do not need to know exactly what you need before beginning.
There are several ways to connect with Light Matter Coaching, whether you want to ask questions first, focus on one present need, explore ongoing support, join a small group, or stay connected through email.
What the Heck?
Frequently asked questions
How is this coaching different from traditional life, career, professional, or leadership coaching?
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Light Matter Coaching views personal and professional development as interconnected.
Your work, relationships, identity, health, values, responsibilities, nervous system, history, and real-life conditions may all shape what feels possible.
The work can include goals, career, leadership, communication, confidence, and next steps. Those topics are explored through context, choice, and the whole person, rather than pressure to perform, optimize, or override yourself.
What does neurodiversity mean?
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Neurodiversity refers to the natural variation in how humans think, sense, process, communicate, focus, relate, and move through the world.
A neurodiversity-affirming approach recognizes that there is no single correct way to function. Support can be shaped around how a person actually works.
Do I need to be diagnosed neurodivergent to be coached by a Neurodiversity Coach?
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No. A formal diagnosis is not required.
Here, neurodiversity coaching is a natural extension of Whole Person Coaching. It honors how each person thinks, processes, communicates, relates, and moves through the world.
Some clients are diagnosed, some are self-identified, some are exploring, and some simply want coaching that recognizes their natural strengths while supporting the places where things do not come as easily.
What is the difference between trauma-informed coaching and trauma-aware coaching?
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Trauma-aware coaching recognizes that trauma may affect a person’s experience.
Trauma-informed coaching also shapes the coaching relationship around choice, consent, pacing, context, nervous-system awareness, and respect for the client’s sense of safety.
At Light Matter Coaching, this means movement is explored without asking you to override yourself.
Why do the certifications matter?
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Certifications matter because coaching involves trust, skill, ethics, and care.
Amanda’s credentials reflect formal coach training, ICF-aligned ethics, trauma-informed education, neurodiversity coaching, and continued professional development.
They do not make Amanda the expert on your life. They help support a coaching space held with skill and responsibility.
What does “Light Matter” mean?
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The name Light Matter points to the things that shape us, even when they are not immediately visible.
In coaching, when light is brought to patterns, pressures, values, needs, and possibilities, more choice can become available.