You’ve reached a point in your life and career as a
mental health professional where you can’t ignore this inkling
that keeps nudging you….
The body seems to have a pretty big role to play when it comes to emotional health and healing...
..You’ve intuited it during your regular yoga practice.
...You’ve noticed it when working with your clients.
...And you feel it in your own body.
You know that going beyond the mind, and incorporating the physical body could be a defining tool to add to your kit of treating anxiety, depression and trauma in your clients
The thought of this lights you up — it fuels your vision for a career that truly delivers on what you set out to do in the first place: to deeply impact the lives of your clients.
You think to yourself, It would be so powerful to integrate these things in a seamless and intelligent way
Program Presenter
Kate Graham, LMHC, SEP
Hi there! I’m Kate.
Yoga therapist, licensed mental health clinician, and founder of the Soulful Yoga Therapy Methodology and Framework for Emotional Health and Healing (oh, and...Schitt’s Creek superfan).
I passionately believe in a full-body approach to health and wellness. For the last decade, I’ve explored the intersection of mind and body therapies and found that the 'top down' approach of psychotherapy combined with the 'bottom up' approach of yoga results in the most effective, lasting and meaningful transformation in the treatment of anxiety, depression and trauma.
Back when I began this work, I’d intuited this powerful relationship existed between what I experienced in my yoga practice, and what I knew from my clinical work as a mental health counselor.
But here’s the moment I actually understood (or at least got a mighty good glimpse of) the magnitude of this impact:
I was working at the Trauma Center in Brookline with Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score), teaching women's yoga in one of the first yoga-for-trauma programs in the field, and completing a research project on the outcomes.
I remember thinking, ‘OMG — this is gonna change my life.’ I could clearly see how clients I’d been working with long-term began to experience real transformation in their life and overcome trauma.
I’ve since been grandfathered as a certified yoga therapist (there were no schools for becoming a yoga therapist when I started sharing this work).
But what really lights me up about this field is the honor of sitting with someone and seeing their nervous system, their emotional capacity, their self-support and self-care change in the most radical way. It’s a true gift to witness.
The other part of my work that I get to be really pumped about? Seeing my Yoga Therapy Training clients get to ‘the other side’.
It’s deeply exciting to watch their vision for their work in the embodied-therapy field manifest.
They’re the trailblazers, the modern leaders who are shifting the medical model to include the body.
They’re teaching these skills across hugely varied organizations and practices.
They’re making transformative changes from within.
This deeply impactful work is waiting for you too.
It’s why I’ve created the very program that will take you from where you are now in your professional career, to where you truly want to be.
Online Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing
An online program to confidently integrate yoga therapy into your clinical practice and create lasting breakthroughs for clients with anxiety, depression and trauma
This training equips you with the Soulful Yoga Therapy Methodology: the framework and practical skills for you to support individual clients and small groups through yoga therapy whilst owning your unique vision as a therapist.
It’s the seamless integration and application of embodied healing that you’ve been missing.
The one that will give you the confidence to facilitate meaningful change with any client, no matter how complex their trauma.
By the end of the program, you’ll be able to...
Understand how to honor the holistic nature of the physical body, emotional body, mind body and spiritual body to effectively provide trauma-informed yoga therapy
Learning objectives:
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Confidently share embodied techniques and practices for clients experiencing anxiety, depression and trauma (no more feeling ‘stuck’ in treatment progress)
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Intentionally tap into the nervous system of your client to promote nervous system regulation and balance
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Identify and support the optimal state of healing for each individual client
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Integrate the yoga therapy modality into your authentic expression as a therapist
Here’s the pathway between knowing the benefits of embodied therapeutic practice, to confidently integrating yoga therapy with your clients….
Program Overview
Module 1 - Yoga Therapy Framework
Module 2 - Cultivating Upliftment
Module 3 - Calming and Grounding
Module 4 - Understanding the Nervous System
Module 5 - The Optimal State of Healing
Module 6 - Creating Trauma Informed Spaces and Practices
Module 7 - The Art and Science of Yoga Therapy
Module 8 - Being an Embodied Therapist
Module 9 - The Business of Yoga Therapy
Module 10 - Subtle Body
And here’s how we’ll move through the training together...
Each module contains brand new training content in the form of lectures and recorded yoga practice sessions centered on clinical application. Every piece of content is designed to provide you with an in-depth understanding of how to apply yoga therapy in your clinical practice.
You can choose to block out a weekend and watch it all Netflix style or break it down into weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly chunks to work through it at a pace that fits around your schedule.
You’ll be able to use the private discussion community to share your reflections or ask any questions that come up.
When you join Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing program you will also get…
Video lectures, broken into easy-to-digest segments. You will receive access to 58 total mini lectures. These lectures walk you through the Soulful Yoga Therapy framework and methodology so you can seamlessly integrate it into your work with clients.
Mini yoga therapy practices. You will receive access to 43 total mini practices. These practices give you the chance to explore and feel (from the inside out) the subtle yet powerful art of yoga therapy techniques and practices for emotional health and healing.
Program Manual, this comprehensive 100+ page guide will walk you through the entire program. It is also a great reference guide as you being to implement an embodied approach to healing with your clients.
Sample Sequences - Five bonus yoga therapy sample sequences
And you’ll have unlimited access to it all for an entire year.
Online Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing
475
USD
Emily Natale, Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Kate's program was one of the best trainings I've ever taken. The program is thoughtfully designed. It's integrative, experiential, challenging, and builds one's knowledge in a gentle way. She also brings in other domain experts, which I really appreciated. I walked away from her training feeling more confident in myself. I learned tactical skills and interventions that I can implement immediately with my clients, and other ways to support my own health and healing. Kate is also a gem of a human! She is very kind, welcoming and supportive. She was able to attract and facilitate a community that I really enjoyed being a part of. It was such a wonderful experience!
Approved Continuing Education Provider
Soulful Yoga Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7186. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Soulful Yoga Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
How to Take a Course
In order to receive a certificate of completion reflecting the associated NBCC credit hours you must enroll in the course, complete 100% of the online home study program, achieve a passing grade on all of the assessments in the program (you must earn a score of at least 80%; you are able to re-test) and complete the required course evaluation.
Course Format
The course will be offered as a home study program that can be taken at your own pace. Shortly after enrollment you will be able to set up your Soulful Yoga Therapy account access in order to access and complete the program. At the end of the program you will be required to complete a program evaluation and receive your program certificate. You will have 365 days to complete the program.
Target Audience and Instruction Level
This course is intended for psychologists, therapists, social workers, clinical counselors, and addiction counselors. Instructional level: Introductory & Intermediate
Special Needs or Accommodations
If you have special needs or need accommodations, please email [email protected] and we will do our best to assist you.
Contact Information
Joanna Barrett, Masters Level Clinician & Yoga Teacher
Taking part in Kate Graham's program was one of the best decisions I've made to develop my calling as a therapist. Kate is a knowledgeable and capable teacher in the areas of trauma-informed yoga and yoga for mood disorders. She also has an exceptional ability to connect with her students on a deeply personal level.
In addition to providing us with the benefit of her crystal-clear communication skills, Kate created a safe space for us to learn. She inspired me to think in new ways, ask questions, and teach authentic sequences. Each session was filled with experiential learning, in-depth discussions, and the study of yogic philosophy and wisdom. All of these were indispensable to the learning process and to my resulting growth as a therapist.
I am so grateful to Kate for creating this unique offering. The Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing Program provided me with valuable tools, feedback, and support. Above all, I received encouragement to follow my heart’s work. All of this has prepared me to carry my personal vision of yoga therapy out into the world.
