The Certified Healing Embodied
Practitioner Training Program
A 12-Month Accredited Somatic Certification and Career Development Program
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.
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"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 (Certified Healing Embodied Practitioner)
You became a practitioner to help people heal.
But the career you imagined looks nothing like the one you're living.
Maybe you're still inside the therapy system watching your income stay capped, your creativity stay suppressed, and your clients talk about their struggles without really changing. The version of your career you actually want feels further away every year.
Maybe you've already stepped out, or you're seriously considering it, but you don't have the roadmap. You have the qualifications and incredible skills. What you don't have is a clear path from where you are now to the practice you actually want to build.
This is what we’ve experienced and seen in healing profession over and over again: a piece of paper doesn't build a career.
The gap between your qualifications and the business, income, and impact you actually want is real. And it's exactly what this program is designed to close.
The Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is the only accredited somatic certification that combines world-class embodiment training with the career development, methodology building, and business mentorship you need to create a practice that is distinctly, lucratively, unapologetically yours.
I (Chelsea) invested 6 years and 6 figures to become a dance/movement therapist and only 2 years into my career, I realized I needed to leave the mental health system. It did not give me the career I thought it would, and it wasn’t actually helping people heal.
I was overworked, underpaid, and uninspired. I felt like I couldn’t help people experience lasting transformation, because the System valued symptom management, diagnosis and pathologizing over embodiment, nervous system healing, and trauma resolution.
I didn’t know if I could have the career where I helped people transform, while also uncapping my income and being creatively expressed (I’m a theater kid and dancer for crying out loud!)
In 2019, I made the crazy decision to blaze my own trail, and started my own business called Healing Embodied, where I led as a creative somatic practitioner for those experiencing anxiety and overthinking in their loving relationships.
In 2020, Sarah (who had also burned out from working as a therapist) joined me and we had our first 6-figure year, doubling what we made working in community mental health while working half the hours…WHAT?!
By 2024, Healing Embodied crossed $1M in revenue, serving over 2,000 incredible people across the globe, empowering them to feel secure in their relationships.
Throughout all of this, we have led our work with creativity, humanity, and connection. Something that was severely lacking in the System.
Our clients got life-changing results over and over. Clients were inviting us to their weddings. Babies were being born. Marriages were being saved.
We created a body of work that was unique; it utilized our stories, our gifts, and our skills. And it all centered around healing beyond the mind.
This is what we want to help you create in your career: a unique, creative body of work that is powerful, effective, and one-of-a-kind.
The Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is where we lay it all on the table for you.
You’ll learn a somatic coaching methodology that is rooted in theory and effective practice, but also centers creativity, expression, and humanity.
You’ll learn to lead with your body and attune to your clients’ bodies to facilitate results that light you and your clients up.
You’ll learn how to weave your story, your gifts, and your humanness into your facilitation and your business, so that your work feels like an extension of who YOU are.
You’ll learn to develop an embodiment coaching methodology that can be uniquely applied to your specific career desires.
Like our graduate Laura, who went to a prestigious university to get her MA in clinical counseling only to realize it wasn’t the depth of work she actually wanted to be doing. Now, she has her own embodiment coaching company, doing work that she loves in a way that is truly unique to who she is.
Listen to her story here:
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 body for liberation and life-changing transformation
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create a thriving career beyond what you ever thought possible.
This program is for you if:
You're a practitioner, therapist, coach, or healer who knows the career you want doesn't exist inside the current system, and you've realized you're going to have to create it yourself.
You're tired of keeping your personality, your story, and your humanness out of your work. You don’t want to fit yourself into the rigid role of what a healer “should” be.
You're already in motion toward something different, maybe you've invested in other certifications or business programs, but you keep hitting walls you don't yet have the tools to break through.
You want your sessions, your voice, and your business to actually reflect who you are, because you know that's where your most powerful and profitable work lives.
What this program actually gives you:
A methodology that is yours
Not a replica of our training or a paint-by-numbers framework. A one-of-a-kind body of work built around your gifts, your story, and your approach, so you become an industry of one, not interchangeable with every other practitioner in your field. That’s why we keep cohorts small; so each student gets individualized training in how to bring their unique gifts forward.
The facilitation skill to lead results that stick
The embodiment, parts work, creative expression, and trauma-informed skill to help clients shift patterns they've carried for decades, not circle the same insights week after week. This is the foundation everything else is built on. You cannot sell what you cannot deliver, and you cannot deliver life-changing results without a methodology that actually works.
The embodied capacity to sell what you've built
A powerful methodology means nothing if you can't speak about it without shrinking. This program doesn't just teach you the work, it puts you through it. You'll face your own fear of being fully seen, in your own body, so that talking about your services, naming your rate, and standing behind your offer stops feeling like you’re in a stare-down with a tiger and starts feeling like simple truth-telling.
A business model that makes financial sense
Once you have an effective methodology and the embodied ability to speak about it confidently, pricing and structure stop being guesswork. You'll get clarity on who you serve, what you charge, and how you grow, built on top of something real, not layered over fluff.
An income with no ceiling on it
This is what results from the 4 things above, not a separate hope. When your methodology works, and you can talk about it without flinching, you stop trading hours for a capped hourly rate and start charging for outcomes, because you actually have outcomes to point to, and the nervous system capacity to hold a rate that reflects them.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Accredited by the Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association
Small cohorts for personalized learning
12 months of curriculum, experiential learning, and mentorship
Direct and consistent supervision and feedback from facilitators
In-person instruction at our annual 4-day retreat in Crestline, CA
Facilitated by Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists
Professional Membership program for ongoing career mentorship post-graduation
Become an artist of healing and do work that lights you up and changes your clients’ lives.
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 transform patterns, embody wholeness, and step into their power?
Are you ready to create a unique 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 $4,444) 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:
Now, let’s talk about the money…
You're considering a 5-figure investment. You deserve to know it's worth it.
Here's the honest math:
Inside the system, your income is decided for you. An average salary around $50K, or an hourly rate that caps you at however many sessions you can physically hold in a week without collapsing.
You can never out-earn the ceiling, because the ceiling is the entire point of the system.
A self-built practice with your own methodology doesn't work that way.
You set the fees. You sell transformation, not time.
You're not paid for the hour, you're paid for the experience and the outcomes.
We went from that $50K annual ceiling to $20K+ months doing exactly this.
This program is not a cost, it is an investment that has the potential for ten times return in the first two years alone.
How much longer can you afford to stay capped doing something you don’t truly love?
Our Program Values
What makes the Healing Embodied Practitioner Program one of a kind:
You are the Artist
We don't produce carbon copy practitioner. Your uniqueness isn't an obstacle to manage, it's the entire point and your most profitable business asset. The whole program is designed to draw out what makes you one-of-a-kind and build a career around it. You go from compliant practitioner to creator of your own body of work that people love.
Service Without Self-Sacrifice
You cannot build a sustainable career by running yourself into the ground. This program directly addresses burnout, people-pleasing, and the codependence that seeps into the practitioner-client relationship in the system, so you serve your clients well without abandoning yourself, your clients, or your income. 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.
Creativity is the Core
You will learn to help clients transmute patterns and difficult emotion into vital energy through creative movement, art, and expression. And you will build a body of work that reflects your creative vision, not a rigid institutional template of distant compliance. At Healing Embodied, we believe that healing is creating.
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 alchemize 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
Our in-house financing option is a 12-month payment plan: $5,000 as first monthly payment, followed by 11 monthly payments of $1,500.