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Emotional Processing & Nervous System Regulation Practitioner Certification

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Duration

6 months provided

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100 CPD specialist training

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Learn the nervous system-informed sequence to heal chronic stress and process emotions safely

Take a deep dive into your emotional world and better navigate your mental health through this comprehensive, evidence-based nervous system and trauma-informed specialised somatic education.

Learn about the neurobiology of emotions and trauma, what regulation truly means, and the evidence-based practices from a bio-psycho-social brain framework. This training is designed to guide you in deeply supporting yourself and clients to integrate your cerebral cortex (thinking brain) and your emotional centre (feeling brain) with the wisdom of the body (fascia).

"I thought this course was amazing. I loved how the modules were set out, their content, and how they progressed, increasing my knowledge and skill set as I went. I watched all the embedded videos - which I thought were wonderful, very helpful, and informative. I loved all the tools and techniques offered in this course - it's like a one-stop shop to support the nervous system and help with emotional regulation. I hope to do more courses with MindBodyFood Institute, as I am so impressed by the content of this course. I highly recommend this to other therapists wishing to increase their knowledge and toolkits to support clients. I'm excited to download the Tool Kit - I know it will be a go-to resource in my holistic counselling practice."

Samantha Mackenzie - Queensland Graduate
Holistic Counsellor

Learn the skills to understand and identify chronic and traumatic stress patterns in the body and nervous system

Befriend your Emotions, Understand your Nervous System States, and build Resilience to Support yourself during stress.

All humans have emotions and built-in survival responses, but sadly we don't all possess the essential life skills to process emotions and regulate the nervous system when emotions run high or stress spills over. Daily life events might trigger unhelpful patterns of chronic stress and protective behaviours that, while once helping us cope, might now only keep us stuck, frustrated, and overwhelmed. Somatic education brings awareness, insight, and science-based practices to life.

Learn the neurobiology of how emotions are made and how unresolved traumatic experiences live in the body as protective patterns. Gain insight into your own neurodevelopment and uncover the unique mental narratives fuelling your negative thoughts, reactive behaviours, and stress responses.

Develop the awareness to recognise and acknowledge your emotions as they arise. Practice the skills to attend to your emotions with a variety of evidence-based tools, practices, and exercises.

Learn the theoretical foundations to explain and utilise these approaches for yourself and clients. Gain the skills to create a safe and supportive space for 'feeling and healing', and learn to respect the pace of the body.

Through personal application, you'll experience a huge selection of evidence-based emotional processing skills and nervous system practices that help acknowledge and release emotional stress, calm your system, strengthen resilience, and increase emotional agility.
You'll learn simple ways to develop interoception and notice your own felt sense. You'll practice embodied presence as you explore your inner sensations with compassionate awareness. You'll also expand your emotional literacy and put a name to a range of emotions that you may have forgotten exist.

Through a science-based brain framework, you'll learn a variety of top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in approaches and tools to support better brain health and overall well-being.

You'll learn to support yourself, clients, and others in navigating the often complex landscape of your emotional, physical, and energetic world with greater understanding and deeper compassion.

Through these fascinating topics, you'll be introduced to a wide range of cognitive, somatic, and energy-based practices used to release emotional stress and gently increase your window of tolerance to better meet life's challenges.

Emotions can be messy, painful, isolating and hard... but they can also be beautiful messengers, soothing, energising and peaceful.

“The course gave me a solid foundation for understanding my own patterns and how they show up in clients. Modules like the polyvagal theory, somatic tracking, and cognitive patterns made it easy to recognize how emotional responses are linked to body states. The mix of science, reflection exercises, and practical tools helped everything really sink in. It's already enhanced the way I approach emotional processing. Loved it. Thank you.”
Lisa Brierley - UK Graduate
Emotional Processing & Nervous System Regulation

Nervous System Regulation

Emotions can cause such a strong grip on our actions
and reactions...

Are your emotional responses serving you, OR, are they unpredictable, out of proportion to the situation, and impacting your relationships, working environment, physical pain, or mental health?

What IS Emotional Processing &
Nervous System Regulation?

Emotional Processing involves consciously attending to our emotional experiences, both positive and negative, in ways that are adaptive, insightful, and aligned with our core values. This skill enables us to not merely react to our emotions, but to attend to, support, integrate, and learn from them.

Emotional Regulation refers to our ability to understand, manage, and respond to emotional experiences in ways that are socially and personally appropriate.

Autonomic Nervous System regulation focuses on the body's innate ability to shift between states of activation and restoration. Learn how our nervous system responds to stress, traumatic experiences, and emotional triggers, and integrate powerful tools to self-regulate and enhance your capacity for inner peace, stability, and recovery.

In this transformative course, you'll experience the profound benefits of body-oriented somatic training. You'll learn to harness the inherent wisdom of your body to effectively heal stored trauma, recalibrate the nervous system, and nurture lasting emotional and physiological well-being.

Whether for professional development, personal growth, or self-healing, everyone can benefit from learning these essential skills to support emotional balance and nervous system health.

Learn Effective and Proven approaches to support Mind-Body Healing

Emotional Regulation is an essential life skill for forming healthy relationships, managing chronic stress, and supporting mental health throughout life stages

Mental Health Matters

Emotional Regulation

Emotions are merely reflections of our inner thoughts and feelings wanting to be acknowledged.

But without learning the essential sills to self-regulate as children and not be afraid to showing, sharing or feeling our feelings, we carry this inability to sit with our emotions into adulthood and our relationships suffer.

We develop unhealthy coping behaviours to distract, avoid, numb out, suppress and escape the discomfort of feeling our very real emotions.

Emotions Impact our Thinking, Decision-making, Actions, Physical Health, Learning and Memory...
but we don't learn anything about them at school and often endlessly struggle to navigate them!

​Learning these skills supports your health and wellbeing in several ways:

  1. Emotional regulation is key to preventing mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression. Looking after our mental 'health' allows us to stay focused, make rational decisions and reduce the risk of mental health struggles due to overwhelm, chronic stress and burnout.
  2. Implicit memory keeps trauma & chronic stress patterns stuck in the body. Tuning into our ‘felt sense’ and strengthening our awareness helps to release and rewire chronic stress conditioning and support the autonomic nervous system with greater resiliency and adaptability to handle life's stressors.
  3. Conscious and attentive emotional awareness helps us to strengthen relationships and interact with others in a healthy and effective way. It reduces relational conflicts and promotes more patience, understanding, and empathy in how we choose to communicate with others.
  4. Noticing our Nervous System states helps us balance our professional lives and personal pursuits. Daily nervous system care helps us navigate challenges and workplace pressure with composure, better self-management skills, and clear boundaries in place.

Develop Deep Self-Awareness & Embodied Presence to Experience Emotional Discomfort with Greater Self-compassion

Learn Emotional Regulation Skills and Somatic Practices to support Autonomic Nervous System Health and Resiliency for Life!

Whether for personal growth or self-healing, we can ALL benefit from learning healthy emotional processing skills & somatic nervous system support practices

Gain access to a large selection of Bonus Resources, including:

  • A comprehensive Professional Toolkit with visual aids, client handouts, charts, evidence-based techniques and practical exercises for use with clients and self.


  • Step-by-step approach for developing emotional awareness, expanding emotional literacy, regulating the nervous system, and a large variety of top-down, body-up, somatic and energy release practices!


  • Various visual resources, exercises and tools for identifying, processing and releasing emotions such as a Sensations Chart and a Feelings Wheel.


  • Practitioner protocol and guidelines to support professionals to incorporate this knowledge ethically and within their scope of practice.


  • Bonus PDF handouts on understanding Attachment Styles and considerations for working with Neurodivergent, Highly Sensitive, and Empath Neuro-types.

COMPREHENSIVE MODULES CONTAIN BOTH
THEORY AND VIDEOS

The EPNSR somatic education course can be completed within 10 weeks however it is a self-paced structured program and we provide a generous 6 months to complete all integration and competency requirements for certification.

1. What are Emotions?

  • How to Conduct Yourself as a Practitioner
  • Practitioner Protocol,
  • Ethical Considerations & Boundaries
  • Disclaimer
  • Introduction
  • What Are Emotions?
  • Key Differences Between Emotions, Feelings & Moods
  • Neurobiology of Emotions
  • Ways Symptoms Manifest
  • Identifying Coping Strategies
  • Healing Is a Process

2. Meet Your Emotions

  • Memory & Emotions
  • Fascia - Your Connective Tissue
  • How Emotions Manifest in the Body
  • Meet Your Emotions
  • Emotions & Stress
  • Emotions & Pain
  • Unresolved Emotions
  • Patterns of Repressed Emotions

3. The Nervous System & Chronic Stress

  • The Nervous System
  • Stress & the Autonomic Nervous System
  • The Vagus Nerve
  • The Vagal Braking System
  • ​Heart Rate Variability
  • Five-Point Check-In Process

4. Polyvagal Theory & Trauma

  • Polyvagal Theory
  • The Vagal Pathways
  • The Autonomic Ladder
  • The Impact on our Emotional States
  • The Key Difference Between Regulating Emotions and Regulating the Nervous System
  • Regulation and Dysregulation
  • Window of Capacity
  • Factors Contributing to Nervous System Dysregulation
  • Trauma and Its Impact on the Nervous System
  • Establishing Emotional Safety
  • Ways to Regulate and Calm the Nervous System

5. Emotional Intelligence EQ

  • Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
  • Emotional Agility
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Psychological Flexibility
  • 6 Ways to Develop Psychological Flexibility
  • Thinking Errors
  • 10 Common Thinking Errors
  • Irrational Versus Rational Beliefs
  • Cognitive Restructuring
  • S.T.O.P Technique
  • The “ABCDE” Method
  • Emotional Literacy
  • The Feelings Wheel
  • Emotions and Needs
  • Emotional Triggers Inventory
  • Reflective Inquiry
  • Journalling Prompts

6. Somatic Nervous System

  • Interoception
  • Embodiment
  • The Felt Sense
  • Sensations in Your Body
  • Mapping Your Emotions
  • Somatic Inquiry
  • Somatic Inquiry Questions
  • Mindfulness
  • Mindful Breathing Exercise
  • The Instant Calming Sequence
  • R.A.I.N Technique
  • Smiling, Crying & Laughing
  • Self-Compassion During Emotional Moments
  • Birdsong & Nature
  • Healing Presence of Pets
  • Music for the Brain
  • Sensory Modulation
  • Resourcing

7. Body-Based & Sensory Processing

  • Somatic-Based Emotional Processing
  • Breath (5 practices)
  • Sensory Breathing Exercise
  • Movement (8 practices)
  • Posture
  • Whole Brain Posture
  • Bilateral Stimulation
  • The Butterfly Hug
  • Lateral Eye Movements
  • Pressure & Self-Touch
  • Havening Techniques
  • Vocalisation (6 practices)
  • Conscious Dialogue
  • Ho’Oponopono
  • Introduction to Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
  • Lifestyle Support Practices

8. Energy-Based Processing

  • Protect Your Emotional Energy
  • HeartMath – Heart Coherence
  • 7 Ways Protect Your Emotional Energy as a Practitioner
  • Energy Medicine
  • Cross Crawl
  • Zip Up
  • Daily Energy Routine
  • Healing Head Hold
  • Chakra System
  • Chakra Balancing (4 Techniques)
  • Chakra Balancing Meditation
  • Emotional Regulation & Resources Kit


PLUS a large Emotional Processing & Nervous System Regulation Practitioner Toolkit!

Embrace the Art of Emotional & Nervous System Regulation

Unlock a World of Possibilities for yourself and those you can help!

COURSE DETAILS

This Accredited CPD & Certification Course Includes...

Includes

  • 100 hours of structured, self-paced study (released weekly),
  • 8 x downloadable PDF theory modules & Integration Activities
  • 8 module training videos + bonus explanatory videos & resources
  • 6 x competency quizzes, 2 x competency questionnaires
  • 1 x activity integration booklet to keep
  • Comprehensive Professional Resources Toolkit
  • Accredited CPD/Internationally Recognised Qualification

    • Benefits

  • Flexible Online Learning from anywhere, anytime
  • Self-Paced Weekly Modules
  • 1:1 Mentor Support
  • Live Training Calls
  • Personal Growth & Healing
  • Supportive Community of Coaches & Practitioners
  • Industry recognition with IICT, IPHM, CMA & ACCPH
  • Eligible for professional indemnity & public liability insurance to practice

    • Qualification

    Emotional Processing & Nervous System Regulation (EPNSR) Practitioner (Somatic Education).

    Prior Experience: a professional background in facilitating 1:1 client sessions is highly advantageous but not necessary.

    Professional Certification

    Continuing Professional Development: The EPNSR certificate also includes international CPD accreditation with the CPD Registry, which ensures your materials meet and exceed the required standards. The official CPD activity credits and logo are provided on your certificate.
    NOTE: This course is not a coaching course. If your aim is to become a qualified holistic (life or somatic) coach, we highly recommend our Somatic Life Coach & Nervous System Regulation Practitioner dual certification as the perfect all-in-one training!

    Learn Cognitive & Somatic Approaches to provide safe and
    co-regulated sessions and support clients with Emotional Processing
    & Nervous System Regulation

    Whether you aspire to enhance your own emotional wellbeing, add to your professional skill set, or simply learn skills to support yourself and your children, this course offers in-depth knowledge with practical skills and approaches to process emotions and support a healthy nervous system in a proactive and supportive way.

    If you’re already a professional coach, practitioner, bodyworker or therapist doing this course for continuing education or specialist training, incorporating neurobiological (brain and nervous system) tools and approaches into your existing work can help you provide more effective support and tailored treatment plans to improve overall health outcomes for your clients and patients.

    What our students say...

    “This course was absolutely brilliant! Viki is AMAZING at explaining topics and concepts so that they are easy to digest and understand. She is truly inspiring and really knows her stuff! I am SO happy I took this course. It has massively increased my skills and credibility as a coach. I love love looooved every minute of it! Thank you, Viki!"
    Umiko Laird - Canada Graduate 
    Yoga Instructor & Reiki Practitioner
    “This course beautifully complements the Holistic Life Coach and MindBody Practitioner certification. The material is super didactic, easy to follow, and all items are highly practical and relevant. Thank you Viki and team so much for addressing a major issue and a skill gap in society at large. I loved every minute of it!”
    Ana Alves de Silva - AUS Graduate
    Holistic Life Coach

    Meet Your Teacher

    —

    Viki Thondley

    Senior Lecturer
    FOUNDER & DIRECTOR of the MindBodyFood Institute: Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Somatic Practitioner (Trauma-Informed), Certified Life Coach, Meditation Therapist, Nutrition Coach, EFT & Mind-Body Practitioner.