While previous trainings will indeed support and enhance your learning experience and give you a foundation from which to build upon, this training is designed to be of great value as a stand-alone program and provide you will the skillset to effectively interpret and implement the HTMA through the lens of psychoneuroimmunology. 

We haven’t taken all the HTMA trainings available but between us we’ve taken several.    

While they did indeed teach the ins and outs of working with HTMA and provide value, we didn’t feel they were holistic enough nor provide us with enough knowledge, tools, and skills to work with clients effectively at the trauma-informed, whole-person, and whole-system level that we’ve come to realize is essential for good client outcomes.

And this is not just our perspective. We’ve heard this from many others throughout the health wellness industry.  

Considering this, we’ve taken everything we learned and synthesized it into creating the course we wish we had when learning HTMA. 

We don't embrace or teach any specific philosophy or school of thought. We are anti dogma and anti  "standard" approaches or protocols. Rather we pull from various ones and teach a very well-rounded, whole-system, whole-person approach that emphasizes critical thinking, working with the client in front of you, and embracing bioindividuality -- theirs and YOURS! :)

Healing from chronic health conditions and the resulting life stress is a multifaceted process and therefore there is no such thing as a stand-alone tool to meet all needs. The HTMA, because of the vast amount of data it provides is an incredible tool to place in one's toolkit for a whole-person, whole system approach.  

Building a business purely around the HTMA can be successfully done as long as one is clear about that in their marketing, one is highly skilled at coaching their clients on the many stressors that the lab uncovers, and understands the limitations that come with a mono-focus.

Once again, we see it as a highly valuable component of a comprehensive, holistic approach, versus the entire approach.

Yes! Though this program is a practitioner-level training, it will absolutely benefit motivated, self-starting non-practitioners seeking to learn holistic and trauma-informed interpretation and implementation of the HTMA to support their personal healing journeys. 

It's important to understand that all chronic dis-ease, regardless of the label, is caused by the same underlying body, mind, and spirit stressors. The degree to which specific stressors are an issue and how they manifest will vary from person to person based one's unique life experiences, environmental exposures, and underlying predispositions.

Healing and building sustainable wellness is all about removing stressors and creating the correct environment inside and outside the body so that health can follow.

The HTMA is a dynamic investigative tool that supports this process by providing a big picture look into how the different body systems are functioning at the cellular level, toxic burden and detox capacity, and the impact of trauma and the mental and emotional body.

The data can then be used to help guide the co-creation of bio-individual, whole-person, and whole-system self-healing plans.

Outside of  what’s listed in the curriculum on the landing page, here’s just a sneak peek of some of the specific topics we’ll cover:
 
•Psychoneuroimmunology, Resilience, and Neural Rewiring  
•The Stress-Trauma-Pain-Illness Connection  
•The Bidirectional Relationship of Physiology and Psychology
•What to Know About Trauma
•Classic Signs of Trauma to Look for in Clients
•What is HTMA? Why Minerals? Why HTMA?
•The Stress Cascade and Chronic Cell Danger Response Mode
•How Chronic Dis-ease Unfolds & What’s Truly Needed to Heal From it
•Metabolic Types
•Gut Health Foundations, Eating to Reduce Inflammation, Blood Sugar 101
•Mineral Patterns Up Close (Physiological & Psychological Connections)
•Iodine, Copper, and Iron Issues
•Nervous System Fundamentals and Balancing
•Increasing Emotional Intelligence and Moving Beyond Mental/Emotional Blocks
•Transformational Coaching Tools, Techniques, & Strategies
•And SO much more! 

While live participation is ideal and encouraged for optimal learning, we understand that life happens and that there are circumstances such as time zone conflicts that may stand in the way. Considering this, this is why all sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the student portal within 24 hours for review on one’s own time.

Yes, all students will have access to the student portal and course materials for the life of the program.

Outside of the weekly live sessions that are 2-3 hours in length, the content consists of PDFs, resource guides, done-for-you coaching materials that you'll want to review as much as you feel a need to, and a few very short ancillary videos on some of the modules that are between 1.5 minutes and 12 minutes in length.

Certification is based on:

•Mindful and focused consumption of all program content
 
•Active participation in the live sessions as often as possible (see note below)
 
•Professional and respectful conduct at all times

•Post your top 3 takeaways for each module (each week) inside the Wellness Code Academy Community.  NOTE: These don't need to be extensive; they can be 1-2 sentences each in bullet-point format if you choose. They just need to depict your focus on and mindful engagement with the material and ability to put thoughts in your own words, not simply copying verbiage from the PPT presentation or other learning materials.

•Completion of 3 practice HTMA case studies.
 
 •Completion of all module quizzes/comprehension checks (multiple-choice format/10 questions each). These are self-check using an answer key provided. NOTE: These quizzes are intended to support your learning and help you prepare for the final certification exam.
 
•Completion of a mid-term personal reflection assignment
 
•Completion of an open-note, online, auto-graded, 110-question final certification exam with a 90% or better. 100 questions of this exam are the exact ones from the module quizzes and the other ten will come from the module materials.  You can take the exam up to 3x.
 
•Completion of a final personal reflection assignment  
 
NOTE:
 
•As stated in a previous question, while all live sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the portal, participating in the LIVE sessions is preferred and will be best for optimal learning versus relying on recordings.
 
•Please make it a priority to do so while knowing that we also understand that life happens and we all gotta do what we gotta do to make things work, especially amidst significant time zone challenges.

We prefer, use, and recommend Trace Elements Lab but if for some reason an account with this lab is not available due to world location or some other circumstance, then our second go to would be Analytical Research Lab.

Here are the stipulations for establishing an account with Trace Elements Lab:

•Need a health practitioner/coach training certificate of some kind. It doesn't need to be HTMA-specific, so if you already have one you can proceed and if not, this program will count.
 
•New York and California or New York -- Due to restrictive laws, the lab cannot accept hair samples from NY or grant accounts to any practitioner that lives there. CA --ONLY licensed practitioners can get accounts (as of late 2022). The workaround is to order the lab for your clients through Sara for a small fee
 
•International practitioners need to contact Trace Elements Lab and ask them to give you the contact for a cooperating lab closest to you but will also need to establish a US account if you work with clients in the US.

The short answer is no.

But the longer answer is that each country and each state in the US has their own rules and regulations for working with clients in this capacity and providing guidance in terms of nutrition, supplements, and other life-style medicine-based healing interventions.  

It’s up to each practitioner to become informed of the laws where they live and ensure they work within their scope of practice per the legal parameters.  

Well, in the training we teach all about the dynamic interplay and bidirectional relationship between these factors.

Our personal and professional experience has shown us that we cannot heal one without the other and we’ve come to realize that our past health and wellness trainings greatly lacked in the realm of working with and healing psychology.  

In the spirit of this, this program gives equal attention to both as it takes participants deep into the realms of psychoneuroimmunology. 

As stated on the landing page and in a previous answer, this program teaches a trauma-informed, whole-person, whole system approach to mineral balancing.

And this model of healing and wellness there is no such thing as specific protocols.

Considering this, you’ll be provided with the knowledge, resources, skills, and tools to embrace bio-individuality, learn how to meet the needs of and work with the client sitting in front of you, and collaborate with them to co-create strategic and effective self-healing plans.

Yes, the training will cover the connection between clusters of beliefs and mental and emotional blocks associated with specific mineral patterns but it’s important to understand that there are many complexities and nuances to this that can’t be reduced to specific, concrete lists or ways of helping clients resolve them.

Once again, you’ll be provided with the knowledge, resources, skills, and tools to embrace bio-individuality, learn how to meet the needs of and work with the client sitting in front of you, and co-create strategic and effective self-healing plans -- including working with mental and emotional barriers. 

Considering that there is strong connection between minerals and gut health, YES, this program will cover the mineral derangement patterns most associated with digestive dysfunction and provide guidance and actionable steps for working with clients around healing the gut.

This said, however, this is a 12-week HTMA-specific training and not a gut-healing specific training. It’s not feasible to teach the HTMA in tandem with comprehensive education on how to heal the many different different digestive conditions, all the different ways of clearing parasites and other gut pathogens, and healing and sealing the gut in this program.

Additionally, it's important to understand that clearing parasites and other gut pathogens begins with foundations, optimizing detox pathways, clearing toxicity, optimizing nutrient status, eating to reduce inflammation, and creating the environment inside of the body and in one's life, so they're NOT conducive to parasites and other pathogens, which this course absolutely does, and MORE!

Covering everything one needs to know about addressing parasites and other gut pathogens would be an entire course all on its own.

This said,, we provide in-depth, comprehensive gut-healing education (including pathogen eradication) in our 1-year Wellness Code Holistic Healing, Wellness, and Life Optimization Practitioner Certification Program, 3 full modules. You can learn more HERE.  

We’ll be introducing it, discussing how it’s used in tandem with the HTMA, and providing a demonstration of it in action but again, this is a 12-week HTMA-specific training and not an energy-testing training.

If you’d like to learn this, it is part of the 1-year Wellness Code Holistic Healing, Wellness, and Life Optimization Practitioner Certification Program. You can learn more HERE.  

There's an option to purchase this upgrade at a discounted price from our regular coaching fees inside of the course. It's set as an optional lesson and you'll have the option of choose the session with either Jen or Sara. 

We've partnered with www.advancedcarecard.com, who offers various extended low monthly payment plan options for both heath care and health and wellness related training programs such as this one to residents of the United States that qualify. Simply visit their site and complete the application to start the process. Upon approval, funds are often available within days.