TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING CERTIFICATION
with an Emphasis in Somatic Integration Therapy
Many of us were trained to understand the mind. Others were trained to understand the body.
The people we work with never arrive in pieces.
Our one-year certification prepares practitioners to accompany transformation.
Integrating depth psychology, somatic integration, attachment theory, affective neuroscience, and contemplative practice into one coherent approach.
Next cohort begins September 19, 2026.
Welcome to the next level of transformation and integration for practitioners who have reached the edge of their original training.
Transformational Coaching with an Emphasis in Somatic Integration Therapy is an immersive online certification program that teaches you how to work skillfully at the intersection of mind, body, and consciousness.
Grounded in depth psychology, somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, and contemplative traditions, this program offers a truly integrative pathway into the heart of transformational change.
Our trauma-informed approach supports both you and those you serve in cultivating:
deeper self-awareness
emotional regulation and resilience
clarity of intuition and inner guidance
embodied authenticity
attuned and ethical presence with clients
greater ease and coherence in the body
You will learn how to guide transformational processes safely, compassionately, and effectively—supporting clients through meaningful shifts that create long-term change.
Perhaps you’ve found yourself here…
Your training was in the body.
You know how to create space. You know how to guide movement, breath, meditation, or contemplative practice. You can feel when something important is happening.
Then a student stays behind after class, and what she tells you isn’t about her shoulder. What’s emerging asks more of you than your original training prepared you for.
Or your training was in the psyche.
Your clients gain remarkable insight. They recognize long-standing patterns and can often explain them with clarity.
And still: one of them has understood her pattern for three years. She can trace it to its origin, describe it more articulately than you can. She still can’t stop. Understanding alone doesn’t always lead to lasting change.
Either way…
The people who come to us don’t arrive in pieces.
Neither should the way we learn to accompany them.
Why this matters now
We are living through a time of profound psychological, cultural, and spiritual transition. Old models of healing—overly cognitive, disembodied, or symptom-focused—no longer meet the complexity of what clients are facing.
People are struggling with fragmentation, overwhelm, meaning crises, dysregulation, and wounds that live as much in the body as in the mind.
They are asking for guides who can hold depth, hold nuance, and hold them.
This program meets that need.
Because clients now require practitioners who can…
Understand the interplay of nervous system states, psyche, and consciousness
Work with trauma in a regulated, ethical, and somatically-informed way
Recognize archetypes, complexes, patterns, and the unconscious
Support integration, not just insight
Create belonging, safety, and coherence in a rapidly destabilizing world
Guide transformation that is embodied, not performative
Because healing is shifting from quick fixes to deep integration.
People are no longer looking only for strategies.
They want presence.
They want attunement.
They want a guide who can walk with them into the deeper layers of their experience and help them return with clarity, meaning, and self-trust.
Because the world needs practitioners who are grounded, compassionate, and skillfully awake.
This program trains coaches and helpers who can meet the moment and serve as anchors of integrity, insight, and embodied transformation. You're already meeting these people. This program is designed to help you meet them with greater confidence, depth, and discernment.
Who is this program for?
Whether you’re a therapist, coach, yoga teacher, bodyworker, or contemplative practitioner, this training is designed for those who have reached the edge of what their original discipline alone can offer.
You may have discovered that insight doesn’t always lead to change. Or that profound emotional material can emerge in spaces that were never intended to become therapeutic. Perhaps you’ve sensed there is a deeper intelligence in the body, the psyche, and the relational field than your original training fully prepared you to work with.
Our students come from many professional backgrounds, but they share something important: a commitment to meeting the whole person with greater skill, presence, and discernment.
This program welcomes:
Therapists, counselors, and social workers
Coaches and transformational practitioners
Yoga teachers and meditation instructors
Somatic practitioners and bodyworkers
Leaders, mentors, and facilitators
If you are beginning your professional path or deepening decades of experience, this training offers a rigorous, experiential, and deeply human approach to accompanying transformation.
Who This Program Is Not For
This training isn’t designed for everyone, and we’d rather be clear about that from the beginning.
This program may not be for you if:
You’re looking for a quick certification. This is a year-long training with twenty-four live teaching days, personal practice, and a final project.
Your primary goal is marketing or business growth. We do address building an ethical and sustainable practice, but the heart of this training is learning to accompany human transformation.
You’re looking for techniques without engaging your own transformational process. Throughout the year, you’ll be invited into your own transformational process. That isn’t separate from the training — it is the training.
You’re seeking a pathway to psychotherapy licensure. This certification does not qualify graduates to practice psychotherapy or replace clinical licensure requirements.
The schedule doesn’t fit your life. Twelve weekends across the year — Saturday and Sunday, 9:00am–3:00pm Pacific. This work asks for the time to engage fully.
What makes this program unique
1. A Truly Integrative Approach
This program weaves together depth psychology, somatic practices, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and contemplative traditions. You learn how mind, body, and consciousness interact, and how to work with all three in a grounded, ethical way.
2. Trauma-Informed + Transformation-Oriented
We teach transformation from a place of nervous system safety, not intensity. Students learn how to guide clients gently, effectively, and without retraumatization.
3. Embodiment First, Techniques Second
You don’t simply learn tools; you learn to embody them. This creates coaches who are attuned, present, and trustworthy guides in moments that matter.
4. Rooted in Depth & Soul
Drawing from Jungian psychology, yoga psychology, and integrative neuroscience, the program honors both the psychological and the sacred dimensions of healing.
5. Direct Access to Experienced Mentors
You train directly with Leanne and Shilah — the people who designed and continue to evolve the program — not assistants or pre-recorded modules. This intimate mentorship is part of what students value most.
6. A Community That Feels Like Belonging
You are held inside a supportive, diverse cohort of practitioners committed to integrity, depth, compassion, and real inner work.
7. Time for Depth
With 144 live contact hours across twelve weekends, this training creates the time and continuity needed for meaningful learning, personal transformation, and the gradual development of skill.
Download the Complete Curriculum Guide
For a full overview of the program—including the curriculum, structure, schedule, pricing, and next steps—download our Complete Curriculum Guide here:
Earn your Transformational Coach, Somatic Integration Therapist, and Meditation and Breathwork Instructor certifications.
Our certifying board is the International Association of Coaches, Therapists and Mentors (IACTM), an organization whose standards and ethics align with our own.
Upon successful completion, you are eligible to register with the IACTM as a Transformational Coach and Somatic Integration Therapist. Your Meditation and Breathwork Instructor certification is issued directly by the Center for Transformation and Integration and Aspen Monarch Integrative Therapies.
Meet Your Instructors
Hi! We are Leanne and Shilah, and we will be your instructors throughout the year-long course.
This program was born out of a desire to create an offering that reflected the importance of both an academic and embodied educational experience. In our own roles in our respective professions, we have found that now is the time to bridge any gaps between mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual approaches. We are both explorers and Yogis at heart, and with our combined backgrounds we have sought to create something that sits at the intersection of science and spirituality and synthesizes the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the human experience.
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Leanne is a depth psychologist and transformational coach who specializes in the intersection of Western psychology and the Eastern liberatory and shamanic traditions.
She holds two degrees, a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and a Doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.
She is also a Certified Professional Coach, Certified Yoga Teacher and author of several academic papers and the book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali.
Learn more at https://leannewhitney.com/
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Shilah is a full time transformational coach, somatic integration therapist, mentor and educator. Over the last 2 decades she has acquired over 5000 classroom teaching hours and has led many national and international retreats for other seekers.
Shilah has completed over 2000 hours of teaching and extensive supervised training for the Yoga Alliance credentialing body. She has also earned the designation YACEP which allows her to be a recognized continuing education provider for Yoga Alliance.
Shilah is also a Registered Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, Registered Ayurvedic Herbalist, and Certified Professional Coach.
Learn more at https://www.aspenmonarch.com/
What the program includes
Through a fully online format, including live, experiential training, a capstone project, and an optional supervised mentorship track, you will learn the frameworks, tools, and methods necessary to support profound transformation in yourself and others.
This training gives you both theory and applied methodology, ensuring that you graduate with confidence, competence, and embodied understanding.
The following are some of the concepts, theories, and practices we cover in this training. Please note this is not the entire curriculum; it is meant to give an overview of the course by semester.
Semester 1
Education of Theory and Practices
Attachment Patterns and The Neurobiology of We
Jungian Concepts - Typology, Complexes, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Shadow work and Synchronicity
Depth Psychological Work including Inner Work, Dreamwork and Active Imagination
Transpersonal and Spiritual Psychology
Myth and Story
Biology including modules on: The Awakened Brain & the Achieving Brain, Affective Neuroscience, & Polyvagal Theory
Embodiment & Emotional Regulation
Trauma & Healing Through Somatic Processing & Integration
The Tools of Somatic Therapy
Internal Resourcing
Yogic Philosophy & Practice
Meditation & Pranayama
Ecopsychology
The Effects of Rites of Passage and Ritual
Whole-Hearted Living and Narratives of Integration
Ancestral Healing and Rituals
Semester 2
Applications of Education and Core Competencies
The Application of Depth Psychological Concepts in Coaching
The Application of Attachment Theory in Coaching
Core Competencies for Transformational Coaches
Core Competencies for Somatic Integration Therapists
Self Regulation as a Service Provider
Boundaries as a Service Provider
Transference and Countertransference
Leading Yoga Nidra
Creating and Leading Meditations
Building your Business
Creation
Curation
Ethical and Aligned Marketing and Growth
The step-by-step way to guide clients through the Center for Transformation and Integration’s The Somatic Integration Method
Semester 3
Final Project and Mentorship Evaluation and Credentialing
Each participant will submit a final project that demonstrates competency, creativity and integration of material learned.
The final project is self-paced with a 3-month window from initiation to submission and completion.
Optional Mentorship Track
Additional Mentorship Modules
Coaching The Person Not The Problem
Deeper Listening
Strengthening Your Skills Through Practical Application
The Styles of Learning and Their Applications in Coaching
Dealing with Challenging Clients and Situations
16 hours of Practice Coaching
Supervised Individual or Small Group Mentor Hours
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Registration
Our September 2026–September 2027 cohort begins September 19.
If you feel a quiet yes, a stirring of curiosity, or a sense that this work is calling you, we invite you to reach out. Please send us a message to indicate your interest and we will contact you shortly.
Tuition: $4,750 USD
Tuition is $250 off for enrollments through August 15. If you have been feeling the call, this may be a supportive moment to step in. This offer is not combinable with other discounts or coupon codes.
If you have a coupon code, please be sure to mention it when you reach out so we can apply it for you. Current and former clients or students are also welcome to inquire about available discounts.
We encourage early registration, as space is intentionally limited to preserve the depth and intimacy of the learning container.
Contact us
We want you to feel empowered and confident about taking the next step in your coaching journey by enrolling with us. To help you explore whether this program is the right fit for you, we invite you to book a complimentary exploratory call with our Director of Admissions.
We are also dedicated to making this program accessible, regardless of financial circumstances. Flexible payment plans and partial scholarships are available each year. For more details, please reach out to us at info@transformationandintegration.com.
