The Healing Embodied
Practitioner Training Program

A 12-Month Accredited Somatic Coaching Certification

Learn to support the whole person in your coaching or therapy practice with proven embodiment and somatic techniques.

The accredited embodiment coach certification program with heart.

Facilitated by celebrated embodiment coaches 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 body for deeper,
more integrative healing and self-integration.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  • Accredited by the Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association

  • Small cohorts — only 25 students trained per year

  • 12 months of curriculum and experiential learning

  • Direct supervision and feedback from facilitators

  • In-person instruction and training opportunities

  • Facilitated by Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists

Do you long to help others heal trauma, embody wholeness, and step into their power?

Are you ready to take your coaching or therapy practice deeper by learning to support each of your clients holistically?

Are you looking for hands-on, experiential learning that a three-day “trauma-informed” training or weekend webinar just can’t offer?

The Healing Embodied Practitioner
Training Program is for you.

Next cohort begins February 2025

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Apply by January 10th, 2025

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Next cohort begins February 2025 〰️ Apply by January 10th, 2025 〰️


Through this one-of-a-kind program, you will…

  • Professionally master somatic techniques for applied embodiment coaching

  • Learn to confidently guide clients through embodiment practices for self-exploration, creative expression, and healing

  • Gain the skills, knowledge, and embodied experience you need to nurture a thriving career as an embodiment coach or somatic practitioner

The Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is holistic and embodied.

In this program, you will experience and embody the healing and self-integration 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 more 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 coach
through the Healing Embodied
Practitioner Training Program.

Deadline to Apply: January 10th, 2025
Early Enrollment Deadline: November 15th, 2024

Want to learn more
before diving in?

Schedule a free
Career Vision Call
with one of our instructors.

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. Helping others does not have to cost you your health and well-being.

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 for your clients. 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.

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

PERSONAL

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.

Our Curriculum

Each module represents one month of program curriculum.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 maintain healthy and sustainable work/life boundaries. This is absolutely essential, and most other practitioner programs leave this out.

Your Facilitators

Chelsea Joy Horton, BC-DMT
Founder + CEO of Healing Embodied

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 Body/Mind Integration Expert 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-facilitator, Sarah Rot.

Sarah Rot, BC-DMT, LCPC
Embodiment Specialist at Healing Embodied

Sarah is Board-Certified in Dance/Movement Therapy and licensed as a clinical professional counselor. She also has an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling.

At Healing Embodied, she serves as the Director of Service Delivery, facilitating 1:1 sessions and groups for individuals struggling with anxiety, life transitions, trauma, OCD, and all of life’s challenges. As a relationship-focused somatic coach, Sarah holds empathic space for clients exploring the roots of their fears in relationships.

Alongside Chelsea Joy Horton, Sarah has helped design and develop the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program, through which she now helps train other practitioners in the Healing Embodied Method of somatics and transformative expression.

Program Structure

  • 130 hours of training and instruction over 12 months

  • 3 live classes per month (2 hours per class; 6 hours of live instruction per month)

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.

  • 4-day Integration Immersion with program facilitators (optional)

    While this program can be done entirely online, we highly recommend you sign up for our annual 4-day Integration Immersion retreat in Crestline, CA, 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 Healing Embodied Practitioner (HEP) through the Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association.

Tuition

12-month online training program: $18,000 USD

This fee includes everything outlined above, excluding the 4-day Integration Immersion.

12-month online training, plus in-person Integration Immersion retreat: $20,000 USD

This option includes everything outlined above, including the 4-day Integration Immersion 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.

Payment plans and financing options are available for all tuition options.

Early Enrollment Rates

If you register before November 15th, 2024, tuition rates are as follows:

  • Online training: $15,000 USD

  • Online training, plus Immersion Integration: $18,000 USD


Payment plans and financing are also available.

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