The Certified Healing Embodied
Practitioner Training Program
A 12-Month Accredited Somatic Certification and Purpose-Led Career Mentorship
Become an artist of healing so you can do one-of-a-kind work that blows your clients’ minds as you build a career you’re obsessed with.
Now enrolling for our upcoming cohort.
"The Healing Embodied Methodology has allowed me to think and live outside of the box when it comes to my career. I see new possibilities that I can create where before I saw closed systems that I would have to be accepted into. I’ve learned to carve out my career path from the inside out – leading with my creative visions, desires, and intuitive wisdom. This feels so good!"
-Jemima (PhD Candidate, Certified Healing Embodied Practitioner)
The only accredited somatic certification that trains you to facilitate deep, lasting transformation AND build a one-of-a-kind practice that sees you earn what you deserve.
The accredited embodiment coaching certification program with heart.
Facilitated by Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists, Chelsea Joy Horton and Sarah Rot, The Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program will empower you to help your clients move beyond the mind and into the creative wisdom of the bodyfor liberation and life-changing transformation.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Accredited by the ComplementaryTherapistsAccreditationAssociation
Small cohorts for personalized learning
12monthsofcurriculum, experiential learning, and mentorship
Direct and consistent supervisionandfeedback from facilitators
In-person instruction and training opportunities
Facilitated by Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists
ProfessionalMembershipprogram for ongoing career mentorship
Learn to support the whole person
in your coaching or therapy practice
with proven embodiment and somatic techniques.
FEATURED BY
“When the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program showed up on my Instagram feed, I was struggling to stay in the work I not only loved but also relied on to pay the bills. As a mental health clinician, I was fast approaching burnout. As I learned more about the program, I realized that Healing Embodied was teaching exactly what my body instinctively knew I needed — the key to working sustainably without sacrificing myself.
Through this experience, I’ve learned to trust ME. I now embrace and celebrate being human in my work with clients, and in turn, my entire approach has transformed — so have my clients’ experiences. Chelsea and Sarah have created the safest space for me to learn, grow, and rest in my own embodiment skills and somatic wisdom. That, in itself, has been priceless.”
— Andrea C.M., Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Counselor
Meet your instructors and learn more about the program in this short video.
Do you long to help others heal trauma, embody wholeness, and step into their power?
Are you ready to create a body of work that creates a powerful impact in people’s lives?
Are you looking for hands-on, experiential learning that a three-month trauma-informed training or weekend webinar just can’t offer?
The Certified Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is for you.
Next cohort begins February 2027
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Next cohort begins February 2027 〰️
Through this one-of-a-kind program, you will…
Learn to confidently guide clients through embodiment practices for self-exploration, emotional expression, and healing so they can shift patterns they’ve been holding for decades.
Gain the skills, knowledge, and embodied experience you need to create a thriving career as an embodiment coach or somatic practitioner.
Unlock your unique gifts that make you an industry of one so that you can confidently charge for the value of your work.
The Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program isn’t just about learning facilitation skills. It’s about becoming the embodied representation of the transformation you provide.
In this program, you will experience and embody the healing and techniques we teach you how to use with clients, because the healing work we help others do is only as powerful as our own willingness to transform and grow.
Are you ready to expand your skills, grow your career, and become a highly effective practitioner for your clients?
If you want to learn how to seamlessly integrate somatics, parts work, and trauma healing with creativity and expression, the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is for you.
Become an embodiment practitioner
through the Healing Embodied
Practitioner Training Program.
NOW ENROLLING:
Next cohort begins February 2027
Enroll now and get instant access to the Embodied Leader Mastermind (normally $3,000) and Wholly Human (normally $1,111) at no extra cost.
Spots are limited to 10 students
Want to learn more before diving in?
Watch this short info session:
Our Program Values
What makes the Healing Embodied Practitioner Program one of a kind:
Creative Expression
Unlike other certification programs, this program teaches you how to move beyond basic somatic work to help your clients channel their emotional experiences into creativity and personal expression. We are the only somatic certification program with a strong emphasis on creative expression, empowering you and your clients to transmute trauma and difficult emotions into vital energy through creative movement.
Service Without Self-Sacrifice
Our certification program is rooted in the belief that those working in healing professions should not have to sacrifice their well-being to serve others. But most other certification programs don’t adequately address things like burnout, people-pleasing, martyrdom, and co-dependence in the practitioner-client relationship. In our program, you will learn to serve your clients sustainably without abandoning your needs and desires. Create a career that fuels you and lights you up, rather than drains you.
Personal Embodiment
We believe our personal embodiment and transformation work as practitioners makes us more effective and confident guides for our clients. This is why we focus on you and your unique identity as a practitioner and how it impacts your work. You simply cannot take your clients somewhere you are not willing to go yourself, and this program will serve as a container for you to explore your own relationship to somatic work and embodiment.
Authenticity
At Healing Embodied, we think your uniqueness is at the core of what makes you a powerful practitioner. We don’t want you to feel like a carbon copy of your fellow students or to think you have to fit your unique magic into the rigid boxes most professional certification programs require. We want your career to honor your purpose, humanity, and genuine self-expression. This is not a paint-by-numbers program. Instead, we see you as the artist. This is how you create a unique body of work that stands out.
Program Outcomes
What you will gain from this program, professionally and beyond:
Transform your relationship with your career.
Create an embodied career that lights your soul on fire and utilizes your unique gifts without driving you toward burnout and compassion fatigue or forcing you to sacrifice your health, income, or work/life balance.
Get clear on who you want to serve and the type of transformation you want to facilitate with your dream clients. Having a clear vision of what you want will allow you to fall in love with your work and feel rooted in your purpose.
Uncap your income capacity as you own your expertise, call in your ideal clients who value your work, and unravel the guilt of desiring more financial abundance.
PROFESSIONAL
Empower your relationship to your clients.
Help your clients transform their relationships with themselves and their emotions through a robust approach that combines creativity and embodied expression.
Learn to hold safe, empowering, and transformative space for clients’ experiences and emotions without absorbing trauma or becoming a “rescuer.” Remain anchored to yourself and your body as you guide clients through difficult emotions.
Achieve real results in your practice by helping your clients shift stuck patterns and release trauma. By integrating somatic work into your practice, you will see radical change in your client work.
RELATIONAL
Deepen your relationship with yourself.
Experience and embody the same transformative somatic work you will guide your clients through. Master your own mind-body connection so that you can offer embodied guidance with ease.
Break free from traditionally stiff clinical roles, and embody your unique voice as you learn to be guided by your unique vision in your work.
Bring your humanness and personality into your work. This program encourages you to leverage your personality traits in your practice so you can humanize the healing journey for your dream clients.
Through this program, you will experience deeper self-integration and fulfillment as you embody your purpose.
PERSONAL
Our Curriculum
Each module represents one month of program curriculum.
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Understand, regulate, and shift your own nervous system responses to create a container of safety, co-regulation, and non-judgment with clients as you guide them into their bodies. Finely attune to your clients somatic experience of trauma and safety so you can better understand how to support them.
You’ll learn about the work of Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, and more.
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Learn to discern between what is happening in the body versus the mind, so that you can highlight for clients where the mind is distracting them from their somatic experience, and gently guide them back to the body. Feel safe and comfortable to be with clients in uncomfortable emotional experiences, and remain grounded in the midst of emotional processing to facilitate effective interventions.
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Cultivate the ability to feel safe in the embodied expression of your own emotions so that you can confidently facilitate this with clients. Understand the importance of creative emotional expression as a way of helping your clients feel more empowered in relationship to their emotions.
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Recognize how the patterns in the client’s outer world are a mirror of the inner world, and reflect this to them with understanding, compassion, and non-judgment. Learn to recognize how the patterns that arise for your clients in session are reflective of the patterns they have in their lives outside of session.
We pull from the work of Dr. Daniel Siegel and his theories on attachment and interpersonal neurobiology.
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Become skilled in utilizing Embodied Parts Work in your own life so that you can easily guide clients toward curiosity and compassion for the various Parts they encounter. Learn to utilize and help others utilize the body for expression and processing of these Parts.
We base this training on many of the foundational Internal Family Systems principles of Dr. Richard Schwartz.
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Feel comfortable in using the body to access stored experiences and memories of the Inner Child and Younger Self. Guide your clients through identifying the unmet needs of the Inner Child/Younger Self, and help them meet this need through “reparenting” practices. Access a sense of safety in your own body while supporting your clients in feeling and processing the pain and grief of the Inner Child.
We pull from the theories and principles of inner child work from Dr. Russell Kennedy.
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Understand the role of shame in hiding or repressing various Parts of yourself and your clients.
Learn to guide clients in recognizing the shame stories in their own lives and use embodiment to begin externalizing these stories and processing the emotions that live beneath the shame.Our framework on shame is largely inspired by the profound and revolutionary work of David Bedrick.
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Understand the role of Sacred Anger in overcoming shame, setting boundaries, and accessing self worth. Learn to guide clients into a healthy relationship with their anger and how to use it as a mobilizing energy for action and empowerment.
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Learn to feel safe to explore the Shadow Parts of yourself (the Parts that have been previously shamed and hidden), so you can begin to invite play and enhanced creativity into your relationship with these Parts. Learn to use play, humor, and sensual expression in your own relationship to your Shadow, so you can feel empowered and comfortable guiding clients in this process as well.
You’ll learn about Dr. Carolyn Elliott’s unique and playful approach to shadow work.
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Become skilled in the therapeutic aspects of group facilitation in order to effectively hold space for a group of individuals navigating deep emotions. Learn to feel comfortable guiding both large and small groups while balancing the unique needs of the individual with the needs of the group. This allows you to scale your practice beyond 1:1 work without sacrificing quality of service.
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Uncover your unique approach and voice as a practitioner and feel empowered to shake off the societal and systematic expectations of how you “should be” as a coach or somatic practitioner. Break free from rigid roles of people-pleasing and martyrdom, so that you can honor your needs and lead your clients from a place of empowerment. Become a powerful practitioner who embodies self-trust rather than self-doubt.
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Hone the necessary skills for creating your dream career. Learn to market yourself and your craft effectively, clearly articulate your expertise and skill set, and learn how to have your income reflect your impact. You’ll learn how to structure and price your services in alignment with your financial goals. This is absolutely essential, and most other practitioner programs leave this out.
Build a thriving career post-graduation through our Professional Membership Program
Professional consultation, mentorship, and career guidance
Monthly supervision from program facilitators
Exclusive workshops with industry voices like David Bedrick
Graduates of the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program can opt in to our Professional Membership Program to receive ongoing support after graduation. We are deeply committed to the success of our program graduates, and the support you receive from us doesn’t have to stop when the 12 months of curriculum are over. Those who become professional members get added to our website, which gives you immediate access to our massive audience.
Full details about the program are provided to Practitioner Training Program members prior to graduation. You can learn more about our current program members on our services page.
Your Facilitators
Chelsea Joy Horton, BC-DMT
Founder + CEO of Healing Embodied
Program Co-Founder
Chelsea is the CEO and founder of Healing Embodied and the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program. She is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Somatic Practitioner with an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling.
Through her work as an embodiment coach and facilitator, Chelsea has helped hundreds of individuals, couples, and groups navigate anxiety, trauma, fear, OCD, and other challenging experiences by tapping into the innate wisdom and alchemy of the body.
In addition to her work as an embodiment coach, Chelsea now teaches the Healing Embodied Method to her students through the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program, alongside her co-founder and co-facilitator, Sarah Rot.
Sarah Rot, BC-DMT, LCPC
Embodiment Specialist at Healing Embodied
Program Co-Founder
Sarah is the COO of Healing Embodied, a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, and licensed as a clinical professional counselor. She also has an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling.
At Healing Embodied, she serves clients through facilitating 1:1 sessions and groups for individuals struggling with anxiety, life transitions, trauma, OCD, and all of life’s challenges. As a somatic coach, Sarah holds empathic space for clients exploring the roots of their fears..
Alongside Chelsea Joy Horton, Sarah is a co-founder and co-facilitator of the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program, where she helps train other practitioners in the Healing Embodied Method of somatics and transformative expression.
Program Structure
150+ hours of training and instruction over 12 months
3 live virtual classes per month (2 hours per class; 6 hours of live instruction per month)
Receive live, interactive training so that you can get consistent feedback and support as you practice the skills you’re learning. Note: You must attend at least one live online practice class per month to receive your certification. Classes are highly interactive so we can ensure you receive the highest quality training.
4 1:1 evaluations with an instructor (30 minutes each)
These quarterly evaluations support you by reinforcing and deepening what you’ve learned, highlighting your unique strengths, and identifying areas for growth and potential.
4-5 hours of assigned practice per month
You will practice with peers outside of class to investigate and experience the skills you’re learning.
Community learning, integration, and discussion
Students get access to a private chat channel where they can post their reflections and questions outside of class, and receive encouragement, connection, and support from peers and facilitators.
4-day Integration Immersion with program facilitators
The highlight of the program! Our annual 4-day training retreat in Crestline, CA, is where you will train in person with your facilitators, Chelsea and Sarah. This opportunity is one of the key factors that makes our program so special and transformative.
International certification as an Embodiment Practitioner
Upon completing this program, you will be formally certified as a CertifiedHealing Embodied Practitioner (C-HEP) through the Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association.
Ongoing professional support through the Professional Membership Program (optional)
Graduates can opt in to our Professional Membership Program to receive ongoing career guidance, professional consultation, and more after graduation. Other benefits include monthly supervision from Sarah and Chelsea, ongoing education opportunities, and access to exclusive workshops with industry voices like David Bedrick. Full program details are provided to Practitioner Training Program members prior to graduation.
Tuition
$19,500 USD
This fee includes everything outlined above, including the 4-day training retreat with Chelsea and Sarah in the gorgeous mountain town of Crestline, CA. Food, activities, and accommodation are included, but students are responsible for their own travel to and from the retreat.