Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting.
My greatest joy at Power Within is supporting people to gain clarity about what they truly want, and to access their deepest wisdom and inner resources to get there.
Each of us has multiple forms of intelligence: mental, emotional, physical, intuitive, social, and spiritual. When these are aligned, life flows. But often, we experience blocks. Your body may hold wisdom your mind hasn’t yet accessed. Your heart may want one thing while your mind says another. Limiting beliefs and old pain can quietly shape choices that don’t reflect who you really are.
Power Within is about aligning your body, mind, heart, and spirit so your life and goals have the full power and energy they need to create the relationships, community, and life you want.
What Becomes Possible
- Clarity about what you truly want
- Greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-trust
- Freedom from feeling stuck or blocked
- Lasting, sustainable change
- More authentic, fulfilling relationships
- Stronger inner authority and confidence
Your Next Step
If you’re ready to move forward with clarity and a deeper connection to yourself, I’d love to hear from you. Whether through individual sessions, workshops, or classes, Power Within offers many ways to support you on this path.
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About Janice
I began working with the body at a very young age. Starting around fifth grade, I massaged my parents before and after their long days running our family restaurant. Looking back, this early experience naturally led me to become a licensed massage therapist while in college, to support myself through school. I later served on the Washington State Board of Massage.
Through massage, I began to see how stress, emotions, and trauma are often held deep within the tissues of the body. Wanting to heal clients at a deeper level, I expanded into additional modalities that work not only with the body, but also with the heart, the conscious and unconscious mind, the energetic system, and the spirit. I earned a degree in Applied Behavioral Science, became a certified counselor, and later pursued studies in substance use disorders.
In 1998, I discovered Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. This work profoundly changed my life. I came to understand how the quality of our communication shapes the quality of our lives and relationships, and it gave me practical tools to connect more deeply with myself and others.
Inspired by its impact, I co-founded two organizations rooted in this work: Northwest Compassionate Communication and Freedom Project. For over a decade, I facilitated workshops inside Washington State prisons. During this time, I witnessed something powerful. Freedom is truly an inside job. I met prisoners who were internally free, and individuals who, though living in the outside world, were imprisoned by their own thoughts and beliefs.
In 2018, I discovered InterPlay (also known as Body Wisdom), created by Cynthia Wynton-Henry and Phil Porter. Through movement, voice, storytelling, and playful theater-based practices, this work supports creativity, spontaneity, and access to the body’s wisdom. I became a facilitator and also served on the organization’s Racial Equity Team.
Over the years, I’ve gathered a diverse set of tools to support healing and wholeness. I continue to learn and evolve, guided by a deep passion for helping people reconnect with themselves and create meaningful change.
I invite you to experience this work through a session or workshop.
Offerings
Every healing journey is different. These are multiple doorways into the same work: aligning body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Individual Sessions
Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU)℠. Through guided inquiry, often backed with muscle testing, I help you clarify your highest-priority goals and uncover the underlying blocks that may be holding you back.
Together, we identify the most effective ways to release these blocks and bring your body, heart, spirit, conscious and unconscious mind into alignment. When in alignment, you have greater access to your full power, in order to achieve your goals and create lasting change.
We draw from a range of modalities, including Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnosis, Enneagram, and energy psychology techniques such as TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
Nonviolent Communication
NVC / Compassionate Communication. The quality of our lives and of our relationships is often determined by the quality of our communication. Developed by Marshall Rosenberg, NVC is a framework for speaking and listening from the heart. NVC supports clarity, authenticity, and deepening of connection with oneself, in relationships, and in organizations.
NVC gives tools to honestly share what is going on for oneself without blame, to ask for what you want in ways that invite, and to listen for understanding without getting defensive. It can also help to give feedback and resolve conflict in ways that are more likely to deepen connection and motivation.
Workshops, classes, practice groups, and individual sessions to help resolve conflict.
InterPlay
Creative Body-Based Practice. InterPlay is a fun practice developed by Cynthia Wynton-Henry and Phil Porter. It uses movement, stillness, storytelling, voice, and play to awaken the spirit and unlock the body’s wisdom. We are bodies in motion, bodies in relationship, and bodies in community, and InterPlay is a creative, un-intrusive, and affirming way to process and explore what is true for oneself.
Workshops and individual sessions.
What Clients Say
"Working with Janice helped me access parts of myself I didn't know were blocked. The HBLU work was unlike anything I'd experienced in years of traditional therapy - I finally felt things shift at a deep level."- Client, Seattle
"Janice creates such a safe, warm space. Her combination of EFT and compassionate communication gave me tools I use every day. I went from constant anxiety to actually trusting myself again."- Client, Recovery Program
"I was skeptical about body-based healing, but Janice met me where I was. She's deeply knowledgeable and genuinely caring. I recommend her to anyone who feels stuck despite doing 'all the right things.'"- Client, Bellevue
Upcoming Workshops
Introductory workshops exploring internal authority and personal power for Asian Americans.
Two-Session Workshop Series
Each session focuses on a different dimension of the experience. Register for one or both.
Session 1 - Sunday, May 17, 2026
1:00 – 2:30 PM • $30
For All Asian Americans
We will examine limiting beliefs and expectations shaped by social conditioning, and learn tools to come to true choice. You will also learn to release others' expectations with compassion, honoring oneself while still honoring your culture, and how to gain the clarity and courage to make decisions that are right for you.
Register for Session 1Session 2 - Sunday, July 19, 2026
1:00 – 2:30 PM • $30
For Those Who Identify as Asian American Women
Asian women navigate layers of stereotypes shaped by the intersection of race and gender - often seen as quiet and accommodating, the dutiful worker bee, or even as aggressive when speaking up as others do. Stereotypes obscure the complexity of AAPI women, can diminish their leadership and visibility, and disconnect them from their authentic selves. We will explore the interplay of cultural expectations and ways we may unconsciously collude with our own erasure. We will learn tools to reconnect with our own voice, to express more fully, and to cultivate unapologetic self-trust.
Register for Session 2Your Facilitators
Your workshop facilitators, Akiko Sakai-Kinney and Janice Eng, are mental health professionals and communication coaches whose expertise is in empowering individuals to trust their own voice, wisdom, values, and freedom. Both have taught Nonviolent Communication in public and in Washington State prisons for many years.
Akiko came to the US alone at age 16 from Japan and became a US citizen in 2012. After obtaining a master's degree in piano performance, she struggled with the idea of "performance," and pursued what is genuine, which led her to become a Jungian psychotherapist.
Janice is a second-generation Chinese American with specialization in body/mind healing practices, Nonviolent Communication, and addiction disorders.
Photo: David Yamaguchi
Contact
Ready to reconnect with the power within? I would love to hear from you. Let's discuss your needs and explore how aligning body, mind, heart, and spirit can support your path to lasting healing.