This program is designed for those seeking to explore a truly holistic, whole-person, trauma-informed, and comprehensive approach to mineral balancing, healing and wellness.

It's not suitable for those who seek to learn how to interpret and implement the HTMA through a strictly biochemical lens, with linear, prescriptive protocols for addressing mineral imbalances.

We’ve recognized that simply substituting conventional labs and medications with functional labs and supplement protocols is not a functional or holistic approach. We feel it’s imperative that we shift away from this expert-based, outdated and ineffective paradigm prevalent in the functional health and wellness spaces.

What clients truly need is to empower themselves as self-healers. This program equips coaches and practitioners with the knowledge, strategies, tools, and resources to become guides and catalysts for change, assisting clients in this transformation.

In line with this philosophy, this program goes way beyond the biochemical aspect and embraces an out-of-the-box, whole-system, whole-person perspective, using the HTMA as a foundational investigative and therapeutic tool.

The program also emphasizes the development of interdependent, critical thinking skills and the integration of physiological and psychological concepts into one's unique approach.

Engaging in this type of program and educational style will likely challenge existing belief systems and approaches to healing and wellness. It may prompt individuals to make shifts in their personal wellness and coaching businesses.

This process can bring about discomfort and resistance to change, but it also offers opportunities for significant breakthroughs and personal and professional growth.

Sarah Chauvin, a graduate of the Holistic HTMA Pro program, encapsulates the essence of this program by stating…

"This program is for you if you are aligned with a deeper level of healing and learning how to un-learn a biochemical-ONLY approach to healing using the HTMA."

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. 

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 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, they can! 

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!

You can also download a PDF of the full curriculum in section labeled " The Program Curriculum At-A-Glance" above, on this page.

Nope! Though we highly suggest setting a goal to finish the program within 16 weeks, which the length of time you'll have access to the Community, this program has no time limit for finishing it and therefore you can work at your own pace.

After 16 weeks from the date of your enrollment, you'll have the option to the join the WCA Professional Membership, which includes continued Community access as well as bi-monthly live sessions for case-studies and clinical, coaching skills, and business and marketing development as well as and quarterly special presentations with guest speakers.

The membership is fully explained inside the program curriculum. 

Yes, all students will have access to the student portal and course materials for the life of the program. In other words, as long as the program you enrolled in is running, you'll have access to it.

This depends on what type of a learner you are, how you work best, and the time frame in which you'd like to finish the program.

To finish the program within the 16 weeks that you have access to support in the Community, we suggest setting aside 30 minutes to an hour or more per day or perhaps a few hours two or three days week to dedicate to the program.

Whatever schedule you choose, it's important to commit to it as success at anything in life commands taking consistent action. 

Certification is based on:

•Mindful and focused consumption of all program content

•Professional and respectful conduct at all times
 
•Post your top 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS for each module as you complete it 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 presentations or other learning materials.

•Successful completion (90% or better) of all the online module quizzes/comprehension checks (multiple-choice format/ten questions each). You can take quizzes 3x.

•Completion of 2 practice HTMA case studies
 
•120-question, open-note, multiple-choice/true-false/matching format final exam, where 100 questions will be the same from the module quizzes, and the other 20 will come from the module materials. For this reason, we highly recommend printing off a hard copy of the PDF versions of the quizzes and keeping track of the correct answers after completing the online versions. You can take the exam 3x.

•Final personal reflection and feedback assignment

You can ask questions on each lesson, and also inside of the Community, which you get access to for 16 weeks. After 16 weeks, for continued Community access, you can opt to join the WCA Professional Membership.

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 an EIN (employee identification number), which one gets when they form a business entity of some kind such as an LLC

•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 a 1:1 HTMA Results Session after module 6. It's after module 6 because the purpose of this 1:1 session is not for us to provide you with personalized health coaching services but rather to support and deepen your learning of mineral balancing. There is no better way to learn mineral balancing than to do it for ourselves. 

Additionally, this option is for you only, it cannot be used for family members or anybody else. 

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.

You can also request us to send you a Pay Pal invoice and they offer 6 months FREE financing to those that quality.