Amazing! You’ve already done so much work on your healing. 

You’ve likely built a foundation of mindset work and maybe even prayer.

But if you still don’t feel safe or emotionally regulated right now because of chronic stressors, unresolved painful or traumatic past experiences, or current situations that feel threatening, the nervous system and subcortical brain will override the cognitive work.

It’s very different than psychotherapy because they most often only use a top-down approach (because the cognitive brain is their wheelhouse, and ours is your physiology and nervous system and the subsequent impact on the brain). We go into detail on this in our main programs page referring to the 3 phases of healing.

We focus on bringing your nervous system into regulation, because your nervous system is where the trauma is stuck and stored. It is what is creating the reflexive behaviors that make you feel stuck in cycles where you logically know what’s wrong but can’t seem to change anything. It is also what is driving the thoughts and beliefs that make up your mental health.

Most everyone we work with has been in traditional talk therapy, counseling or coaching before… and didn’t see the results they were hoping for.

The reason for this is likely because those modalities are not trauma informed or effective for healing trauma. They are primarily focused on working with the cognitive part of your brain (your beliefs) and/or changing your behavior, without discovering and healing the root cause.

We are trauma informed, which means we don't believe anything is wrong with you (and therefore won't pathologize, diagnose you or give you a label).  We believe something happened to you that may be causing dysregulation to your nervous system. Once we help you heal the unresolved trauma or pain your symptoms will subside.

If traditional talk therapy just felt like venting, this will feel very different because it is more experiential and body-oriented.  For instance, when you bring up a life event, while we are deeply interested in hearing what happened to you, one of our priorities is to discover what you might be experiencing in your body (lump in throat, tightness in chest, put in stomach) when you think of the distressing event. 

Check out the other FAQ "What is Somatic Experiencing?" for more on this.

Other differences are:

We do not treat, diagnose or assess mental health.

We do not give advice or prescribe medication. 

We do not work with clients who are at risk of self harm or harming others.

Pyschotherapists work under a medical model of care. Coaches work under a support model.

It can be hard to create “me” time or invest in yourself as a woman these days, am I right?

Your boss, your children, your partner, your family, and your in-laws all need something, so it’s easy to forget to do things for yourself. It’s hard.

We may be biased, but yes, this time is so worth it (peep what our resilient clients say!).

What we teach is backed by evidence-based research to make your healing journey one of the most fulfilling things you’ll do for yourself. (Have you seen testimonials from our clients?)

Not to mention the transforming ripple effects that investing in yourself through this program will have on your relationships with your partner and your children.

But you have to do the healing work or the pain and dysfunction will repeat like it has for all the generations before you.

There is so much that you can spend your time doing. If the results weren’t deeply rewarding with far-reaching results, we wouldn’t be passionate about inviting you to consider this journey.

Plus, you don’t need to attend each call live or consume every resource to make this the best investment you’ve made all year. 

You just need to show up with a strong intent to build a stronger emotional foundation that introduces more safety and compassion than all the other things you’ve tried before.

What we use in our approach is a “bottom up” modality called Somatic Experiencing®.  It’s a unique, body-oriented approach to trauma-informed care that unlocks lasting healing. Designed to pinpoint where trauma happened in the stress response cycle, you will discover how to complete that cycle and truly bring healing to trauma. Somatic Experiencing® is the life work of Dr. Peter Levine.

Learn more about Somatic Experiencing ® here.

The stress response cycle is when your body perceives some sort of threat in your environment and initiates the sympathetic nervous system to increase blood pressure and increase heart rate, so that you can fight or flee the situation. It creates a lot of survival energy, so that you can have what you need to get to safety. Once you get to safety, the body will then discharge that stuck and stored energy and bring you back to a state of homeostasis where your blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones will drop and you feel safe again. 

But if something was interrupted in that cycle, maybe it wasn’t safe for you to flee or fight your way out of that threat, and the threat remains. Your body never actually thinks you’re back to safety, that’s what trauma is. That sympathetic, survival energy is stuck in your body with nowhere to go, and it creates dysregulation in your nervous system. Behaviors that drive you crazy keep repeating, because the body thinks it’s not safe and that it’s back in that situation. 

Somatic Experiencing ® is different from other somatic based modalities that only help you to discharge that stuck survival energy. You can make progress by discharging that energy, but the body will still be stuck where the stress response cycle didn’t get to complete in the past. That’s probably where you are stuck and what drives those unwanted behaviors. Somatic Experiencing® takes the healing a step further: it enables you to determine where that trauma happened in the stress response cycle, and equips you to complete that cycle. 

We have been in the trauma-informed space since 2015 and have seen thousands of lives impacted. In 2019, we began to focus on individual coaching and have worked with hundreds of women to see lasting life-change.

The foundation of our work is Somatic Experiencing®.

Cortney is listed in the directory of Somatic Experiencing Practitioners (SEP) at traumahealing.org and she not only has her Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Certificate that requires an extensive 3 years of training, but is also a Somatic Experiencing Assistant to Trainings at the Institute.

Each of our practitioners is currently enrolled in Dr. Peter Levine’s 3-year Somatic Experiencing Professional Training program.

Our team also has hundreds of hours of experience in internal family systems, somatic attachment, somatic experiencing, and polyvagal theory.

Learn more about our team members here.

We do not take insurance because we have a trauma-informed approach and therefore do not think anything is wrong with our clients to warrant a diagnosis or label, which is required by insurance for billing. 

Because we are trauma-informed, we believe your symptoms are a result of unresolved trauma which creates a dysregulated nervous system.  We believe (and there's lots of scientific evidence to prove) that once you heal the unresolved trauma bound in the nervous system and body (your physiology), your symptoms (like anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc) will subside.  

Since we are trauma-informed, we believe something happened to you, not that something is wrong with you so you do not need a label or diagnosis to heal.

With that being said, a few of our clients have successfully been reimbursed for our services through their HSA (others have been denied this).  It is your responsibility to obtain approval from your HSA provider for reimbursement prior to using our services.  You are still responsible for payments if your HSA request is denied. We are not liable for the denial of your HSA.

The class is capped at 20. We will be meeting for a 2 hour call every week for 8 weeks. All calls will be recorded if you can’t make them live. Typically the first hour is the teaching lesson, the remaining time is for Q&A and coaching.  You are welcome to leave the call at any point (ex: if you don’t want to stay on for the coaching). 

No. You always have agency. I will never call directly on you unless you ask me to. There is a hot seat coaching component on the call but it is completely voluntary.  If you have specific questions or want help with a challenge or specific situation, this would be the place to ask. You can also ask anonymously through the zoom chat or send an email before the call. 

There are no 1:1 calls included in the Healing Foundations Class.  However, additional 1:1 sessions or the sequel 12-week 1:1 Transformation program is available for purchase before or after the Healing Foundations Class. 

You are welcome to enroll in the Transformation Bundle before you enroll in the Healing Foundations Class, which will secure your spot with one of our practitioners for the Somatic Integration 1:1 work.

Please keep in mind that the purpose of the class will be to provide a foundation of tools, skills and context.  We will not be working on your individual challenges or past in the class unless you ask questions in the hot seat portion of the call or purchase additional one on one calls. Many of the challenges you present with will be resolved with the tools provided but the class should not be expected to resolve them all. 

All of our practitioners are believers, however we intentionally do not include a faith component in the class because we want this program to be available to anyone who is interested.  Cortney prays at the beginning of each group call, but you are welcome to join a few minutes late to miss it, mute her or ignore her.  For my clients who are believers, we can incorporate faith into any one-on-one sessions if you want as it can be a powerful resource in the one-on-one setting.  In your onboarding survey you can let us know if you want faith included or not and we will respect that on one-on-one calls. 

It is not our goal to heal decades of trauma in 8 weeks, but you will get started in the right direction. We only ever need to take the next right step. Thinking about everything you may ever need to do will only overwhelm your system and put you in shutdown.  We got you covered on next steps.  Let's just start with the right foundation. 

Yes, we will mail you a hard copy workbook that is exclusively for this program. It is 100+ pages of resources, tools and prompts to help you integrate what you are learning in the class.  We will also send out a progress tracker questionnaire before the class starts that you will complete again at the end of the program to tangibly determine how much progress you have made in just a couple of months. You are going to be blown away when you see the results!

You can continue 1:1 work after this program is over. In fact, 80% of our clients choose to do this! 

Most of our clients continue with our next program: The Transformation. 

The Transformation includes 12 on-on-one sessions, continued direct talk and text access to your Somatic Integration Practitioner, exclusive access to our Alumni Call, and a Financial Breakthrough Course and related ebook and journal prompts.

We send out monthly email newsletters, providing resources and encouragement on your healing journey. If you’re not hearing about class openings, you may only be subscribed to this newsletter list! Make sure you are signed up to the Waitlist, which is a separate subscription, by signing up here for the women’s class waitlist, or here for the men’s waitlist.  

Email us at [email protected] with any questions you have!

The biggest differences:

1) Method of Healing

The Healing Foundations Class lays the Top Down (logical brain → body) foundation for healing: through equipping our cognitive brain (responsible for logic and reasoning, called the cortex) – with things like education, tools, resources, etc – to direct our actions in order to bring us into the present (aka regulation). 

The Healing Foundations Class is only the first part of the healing journey with us.

For the lasting change and transformation you’ll also need the integration and embodiment provided by a bottom-up approach (body → logical brain) which is included in our other offerings, the 12 week Transformation add-on and the Exclusive Program. 

Most of our past Healing Foundations Clients joined us in our sequel program, The Transformation after completing the class.  

Therefore, for the first time ever, we are now offering both programs in a Bundle, to save you money and give you TWO extra sessions. 

The Transformation Bundle combines both our flagship program, the Healing Foundations Class and the life-changing integration and embodiment of healing of our sequel program, The Transformation. 

The Healing Foundations Class provides the phase II top down foundational education, awareness and regulation as well as the safest community of women you can find on the planet so you don’t have to feel lonely or isolated on your healing journey. 

It’s like the best of both worlds! 

Healing Foundations is only the first step to lay the foundation so the lasting transformation can happen. 

We recommend purchasing the Transformation Bundle, because you’ll get the Healing Foundations Class AND the 12-week sequel, The Transformation–and get two additional 1:1 sessions and immediate access to the Monthly Alumni Calls.

2) Type of Container (Group vs one-on-one)

• The Healing Foundations Class is a group program only
• The Transformation Bundle combines group sessions and one-on-one sessions

3) Program Duration

Because it includes the sessions for integration and embodiment, The Transformation Bundle is a 5 month program compared to the Healing Foundations Class which is only 8 weeks long. 

The Transformation Bundle  and the Exclusive Program are the same length of time - 20 weeks long. They essentially cover the same material, and will take you through both Phase II and Phase III of healing. However, choosing the Transformation Bundle means you get the Healing Foundations curriculum in a group setting. This intimate, exclusive community allows you the support you deserve to remind you that you’re not alone, and you can reach out to them as often between our weekly calls as you need to. Many of our clients have found the community the most valuable part of the class and have even found lifelong friendships. 

Additionally the Transformation Bundle is the only current offer that includes access to our infamous Alumni Call (and you get to join immediately!) and Financial Breakthrough course, workbook and journal prompts.

The Exclusive Program takes place completely in a one-on-one setting with a Somatic Integration Practitioner, lacking the community element of the group setting. 

The following items are ONLY included if you purchase the Transformation Bundle before you enroll in the Healing Foundations Class

• Discount of $400 on Transformation Bundle ($400 Value) 
• 2 additional 1:1 sessions with your Somatic Integration Practitioner ($500 value)
• Access to a Bonus 9th Group Q&A Call with Cortney ($300 value)
• Instant Access to Monthly Alumni Calls (so you can join during The Healing Foundations Class) 
• 1:1 Text and Voice Connection to Cortney for 20 weeks (Dare we say, PRICELESS!)

In other words, it will save you $1,200+ to purchase the Transformation Bundle NOW instead of waiting until after you have completed The Healing Foundations Class.

We know it can feel intimidating to ask a question in a group. You do not ever have to share or ask anything in front of others unless you want to.

We value agency and choice and think you should always have both. 

We want to promote safety. If you don't feel safe asking questions within the group, you do not have to!

That’s why we’re offering 1:1 voice and text support so that you’ll never have to feel like you can’t ask your question privately.