Your Somatica Certification Path

Step 1: Life-Changing Personal Transformation

Taking the Somatica Training will offer you tremendous personal transformation and will offer you a new outlook and powerful tools for your own growth and for your relationships. It will also put you on your path towards becoming a masterful coach. If you are taking the training to be a professional certified Somatica coach, you will also complete the following requirements:

1. Attend the full online training, which includes 105 hours of interactive training, plus home-study assignments, practice sessions, and assigned readings to start your journey of personal transformation, self-awareness, and confidence.
2. While you are in the Somatica Training, engage in 12 experiential practice sessions with other students, clients, colleagues, friends, and/or partners outside of class. In these sessions, you begin to embody the role of coach and practice your coaching leadership skills.
3. During the training, complete 2-4 hours of weekly reading to enhance your understanding of intimacy, arousal, trauma, repair, attachment and so much more. We’ve chosen books that will give you a great overview of resources in the field, we encourage you to explore additional books on additional topics or topics that you want to understand more deeply.
4. Engage in 1-2 hours of thought-provoking home-study assignments. These assignments will help you see how the material relates to you personally and help you start to think like a Somatica coach.

Once you complete the 7 modules, we encourage you to start seeing clients as a sex and relationship coach. This will allow you to keep developing your skills and getting feedback on them as you are going through certification. You will also be added to the Somatica Alumni group, where you can connect with everyone who has ever graduated from the Somatica Training.

Step 2: Become a Certified Somatica Practitioner

Take the next step to have the career you’ve always dreamed of! Once you complete the following requirements, you will benefit from all the privileges of the Somatica Certification. This includes certification by the American College of Sexologists International, the option of a listing on our website and receiving client referrals, and access to the Mastery Courses.

1. Take the Somatica Training as an Advanced Student. Dr. Danielle Harel, Celeste Hirschman, M.A., and your group leader will continue to give you personalized feedback. You will also get ample support on your growing edges as a professional.
2. Attend four group supervision sessions with Dr. Danielle Harel or Celeste Hirschman, M.A. You will get personalized attention and feedback and have the opportunity to practice for your final exam.
3. Attend a business development seminar where you create a business plan and learn how to launch your practice.
4. Bonus – participate in optional Bi-Monthly Marketing Meetings with Celeste Hirschman, M.A. to keep you on track with your business goals. Having time set aside to work as a group will keep you on track to achieve your business goals. Each meeting you will pick a goal and work on it during the meeting.

STEP 3:  Demonstrate Your Expertise

In the hour-long final exam* for your Somatica Certification, you will offer either Danielle or Celeste (who will act as your practice client) a coaching session. This will ensure you are able to demonstrate a certification-level capability around:

1. 1. Attunement
   2. Empathy
   3. Deshamifying
   4. Identifying a growing edge
   5. Creating an interpersonal experience between you and the client that helps them work on their growing edge
   6. Wrap-up where you help your client understand and integrate what they are taking from the session and where you might go next

* If you do not pass the Certification Exam the first time, you are eligible to take it again as many times as you need to. The cost of the exam is $320 (you will be responsible to pay for each additional exam).