Beta program starts early 2026
12 Month Training Program
The Inner Compass
A Year of Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Practice
A year-long journey into Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Facilitation
For guides who want to walk this path with skill, humility and heart
What’s Included in the Year-Long Course
What’s Included: Monthly Live Sessions (4x per month)
♥ Core Teaching (90 min): Grounded, actionable training on trauma-informed skills.
♥ Guest Expert Session: Insight from leading voices in the field.
♥ “Focus on You” Case Study: Live peer consultation on real client challenges.
♥ Live Q&A: Bring your questions, doubts, and edge cases—we’ll meet them together.
♥ Peer Working Sessions: Connect monthly with a study partner to integrate material, apply concepts, and stay accountable.
This 12-month certification program is a deep initiation into the ethics, nuance, and nervous system wisdom needed to responsibly hold space in altered states.
Whether you’re a new or aspiring facilitator—or already holding space and craving stronger foundations—this program helps you lead with integrity, protect your clients (and yourself), and cultivate a practice that’s safe, ethical, and soul-aligned.
Certification in Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Practice
Abbreviated & Reduced!
12 week Beta program starts early 2026
A Closer Look at the Certificate Program
╬ Part 1: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care Understand how trauma lives in the body and how to build safety from first contact. Learn how TIC can impact psychedelic work and protect the practitioner against vicarious trauma.
╬ Part 2: Recognizing and Preventing Harm Avoid the common missteps that retraumatize clients in altered states.
╬ Part 3: Boundaries, Consent, and Power Dynamics Learn to lead with clarity, navigate projection, and stay in right relationship.
╬ Part 4: Cult and Narcissistic Dynamics in Psychedelic Work Spot coercive patterns early. Protect your clients and your own energy. Understand the role of “undue influence” in your interactions with clients
╬ Part 5: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue: More than Self-Care Learn how to tend to your nervous system as you hold space for others.
╬ Part 6: Mapping the Past, Guiding the Present: Using Genograms & Healing Modalities to Support Client Transformation Helps explore patterns, uncover transgenerational trauma and unconscious patterns in your clients’ lives.
╬ Part 7: The Role of the Body in Trauma and Healing Explore how trauma shows up in the body—and how to gently support release.
╬ Part 8: Navigating Trauma Responses in Ceremony Skillfully respond to freeze, fawn, flight, or fight in real time.
╬ Part 9: Cultural Humility & Collective Trauma Understand the impact of cultural, racial, and historical trauma, and learn to facilitate with greater awareness, inclusivity, and humility.
╬ Part 10: The Limits of Your Scope & When to Refer Understand your limits, when to refer out, and how to build your referral ecosystem.
Plus
Tending the Inner Garden (SoulCollage®, art process for prep & integration)
🕊 Walking the Sacred Path (Living Ethics & Spiritual Discernment)
What You’ll Receive
Sacred Tools for Holding Space with Integrity and Grace
Wisdom-Based Practices – Guided tools for preparation, ceremony, and integration rooted in compassion, presence, and deep listening
Rituals of Safety – Protocols to create safe energetic and relational containers for every phase of the journey
Grounding & Regulation Techniques – Embodied practices to anchor yourself and your clients in moments of intensity or emotional overwhelm
Guides for Ethical Preparation – Spiritually attuned methods for readying clients—mind, body, and soul—for expanded states of consciousness
Spiritual Discernment Tools – Clarity practices to help you recognize coercive dynamics, misuse of power, or energetic entanglement
Integration Templates – Soul-centered reflection practices to help clients find meaning, direction, and healing after their journey
Language of Boundaries – Caring, yet firm communication tools that preserve mutual respect and autonomy
Living Ethics Framework – A sacred, trauma-informed code of conduct that keeps you aligned with humility, transparency, and care
Teachings on Right Relationship – Deep inquiry into the roles we play, the energies we carry, and how to walk this path without causing harm
Support Along the Way – A community of practice, live teachings, and spiritual companionship as you deepen your service
Monthly Membership
$220/mo
Includes access to all live sessions, recordings, resources, peer support, and optional discounted 1:1 coaching.
Recommended Options
Annual Membership
$2420/year (includes a free month)
Includes everything above + one free month + a copy of Cathy’s book,
$777 for 12 week Beta program: includes 12 core workshops and workbooks for each
*May be purchased with two payments of $420