About
Hi, I'm Malcolm Phoenix McCloud.
Somatica Institute trained intimacy coach, death doula, community builder. I help people meet themselves — and each other — with more honesty, tenderness, and courage.
In short
- · Trained at the Somatica Institute — the leading intimacy coaching school in the world
- · Background in caregiving, childhood development & end-of-life work
- · Death doula, community organizer & lifelong student of the body
- · Off the clock: dancing, writing, hiking, yoga & martial arts
My path here wasn't a straight line — it was a long arc of being present with people in the most tender chapters of their lives. I've worked in caregiving and childhood development, alongside the differently abled, and as a death doula sitting with families at the end of life. The through-line has always been the same: how do we stay connected — to ourselves and each other — when it would be so much easier to numb out?
That question led me to the Somatica Institute, where I trained as an intimacy coach. Today my work blends somatic awareness, inner child work, and honest conversation to help people move through shame, soften old armor, and build relationships that actually feel like home.
Cloud 9 is the name I give to that higher vantage point — the place above the weather where you can finally hear yourself think. Helping people find their way back up there is the most useful thing I know how to do.
Specialties
What I focus on
- Trauma resolution
- Inner child work
- Men's intimacy
- Shame reduction
- Couples work
- Self intimacy
- Relationship deepening
Who I work with
All are welcome
- Men, women, trans & non-binary
- Sexuality & aging
- Childbirth & postpartum
- Parenting & fatherhood
- LGBTQ+
- End of life
- Relationship design
- Sexual dysfunction
What I believe
You're not behind.
There is no timeline. There is only this moment, and what you do with it.
Feelings are weather, not climate.
We learn to read them, not be ruled by them.
Shame loses in the light.
Most of what we carry was never ours to begin with.
Self-trust is the work.
Everything else — clarity, courage, calm — grows from it.
Off the cloud
When I'm not coaching
You'll find me dancing, studying Hawaiian language and Hula, writing, on a trail somewhere, on the mat, or in the dojo. Movement is how I think — and how I stay honest about the work I ask of others.