SHADOW COACHING INSTITUTE
FOUNDATIONAL CERTIFICATION
This training is for therapists, coaches, and healing practitioners ready to work at the edge that only shadow work reaches — the unconscious, the nervous system, and the disowned parts of the psyche that insight alone was never built to reach.
Next Cohort begins September 2026
An Invitation Into Depth
If you're reading this, you already know something.
The frameworks that used to feel like enough don't anymore. You can see exactly what's happening in the room with a client, and you still don't always know what to do next. That's not a failure. That's the edge insight alone was never built to reach.
This work isn't a job you clock into. It's a path. The people drawn to it are the ones who already listen past the words, who can feel the body holding what the mind hasn't caught up to yet. You already know healing isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about welcoming back what got disowned along the way.
In this training, you'll learn to work with the unconscious, the nervous system, and the relational field with real skill. You'll learn to meet protection with respect instead of pushing past it, meet pain with precision instead of flinching from it, and hold transformation with integrity instead of rushing it.
This is a beginning. Not another certificate to stack on the pile, but a chance to integrate everything you've already learned and finally stand fully in who you are.
We're honored to walk this with you.
Is Therapeutic Shadow Coaching the Right Path for You?
This isn't about quick fixes. It's a depth-oriented discipline for practitioners who want to work at the roots of behavior, emotion, and identity, not just the surface of it.
Shadow Coaching isn't a role you step into. It's a path you commit to, in yourself first. Practitioners trained this way learn to stay steady in uncertainty and paradox, without collapsing into fixing or bypassing.
This training holds up across private practice, coaching, education, and the healing arts. If you're already working with clients at the edge of what your current toolkit can hold, this gives you the framework to meet that edge with skill instead of guesswork.
You'll learn to assess, hold, and guide transformational work with real clarity and ethics, not just intuition. Our graduates include therapists, coaches, educators, and spiritual leaders, all building the same capacity: to work with depth and stay grounded while they're in it.
This Training Is For You If You Are:
A therapist, coach, or healing practitioner
You're already working with clients and noticing the limits of cognitive or solution-focused approaches — patterns repeat despite insight. You want tools to work more effectively with emotional protection, dissociation, shame, and relational wounds, without overstepping scope or overwhelming the nervous system.
A person committed to their own inner work first
This training asks you to engage your own patterns and shadow material, not just learn techniques for others. You're approaching it with humility, curiosity, and a real commitment to your own growth.
An emerging practitioner or coach
You're early in your professional path and drawn to depth work and embodiment. You want a rigorous foundation — presence, discernment, and inner authority — before you specialize.
A professional integrating shadow work into an existing role
As an educator, leader, facilitator, or creative, you're not seeking a new title — you want greater capacity to work with emotional complexity and unconscious dynamics in groups, organizations, or communities.
This Training May Not Be the Right Fit If:
You are looking for quick tools, scripted techniques, or a purely intellectual framework
You are unwilling to engage in your own inner work
You prefer highly directive, outcome-driven methods without relational depth
You are seeking certification without commitment to embodiment and integration
Shadow work requires patience, discernment, and respect for the pace of the human nervous system. This training prioritizes depth and integrity over speed.
Foundations of Shadow Integration
Our training prepares practitioners to recognize and engage shadow material as it appears across developmental, relational, emotional, and symbolic domains. Through this framework, practitioners learn to work with origin stories and adaptations, trauma and protective patterns, relational and family dynamics, emotional intelligence, archetypal forces, and both the wounded and gifted aspects of the psyche. This integrated approach allows practitioners to meet complexity with clarity—supporting deep integration, resilience, and internal freedom.
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Training Overview
Facilitators will teach you the powerful tools and concepts of shadow work methods and how to implement them in your life and business, while developing your capacity to work with complexity, resistance, and unconscious patterns in a grounded, trauma-informed way.
Foundations of Shadow Work
Mentoring and Integration Labs
Mentoring and study/support groups are a core component of the program, offering structured guidance, community learning, and practical support. These spaces help bridge theory and practice while fostering accountability and confidence.
Our live classes use a video conferencing platform. During the program you’ll have monthly classes as well as small breakout room practices, discussions and instruction. These classes will be highly interactive and give you ample time to ask questions, practice techniques, and go deeper into your own healing and learning.
Virtual Classes
You will attend a virtual live retreat at the beginning and end of the program. The opening retreat is designed to orient and acclimate you to the structure, depth, and expectations of the training, while the closing retreat supports integration—helping you consolidate learning, embodiment, and insight as you complete the process.
Virtual Retreats
Coaching Labs
These will be used for hands-on practice as well as an opportunity to integrate the material in a more visceral way. This space will provide you the answers to your questions and give you deeper clarity of how impactful this work can be.
The online learning space houses all your curriculum—videos, audios, and documents. It’s also where you’ll find your interactive class discussion forums, where you can interact with instructors, and where you get to know other coaches.
Online Learning Space
Program Details
(8) Monthly Modules
(32) Pre-Recorded Video/Audio Trainings with accompanying PDF’s and Tools
(8) Monthly Coaching Labs
(8) Monthly Facilitation Calls
(4) 45-60 minute Study Groups with Master Coach Instruction
(4) 45-60 minute Support Groups with one of the Mentors
(4) Private Mentor Sessions for ongoing support
(3) Private Shadow Coaching Sessions for Personal Development
Dedicated Mentor Coach throughout Training
Coaching Toolkit with Exercises, Worksheets, and Business Tools
Business Learning Modules & PDF’s to Support Your Business
Private Student Forum with 24-7 Access to the Group
2 Virtual Retreats
Access to Graduate Community after Completion of Program
September Cohort Training Calendar
Live sessions run monthly from September 2026 through April 2026, with two virtual retreats and two exam windows. Most months include one Core Training, one Coaching Lab, and one Integration Lab — roughly 4–6 hours of live time per month, plus self-paced material.
Pricing
The Foundational Certification is an investment in becoming the practitioner your clients already sense you're capable of being. Below are your options — pay in full or choose a payment plan that works for you.
Price Includes:
✓ Certificate of certification.
✓ Access to the Certified Coaches Graduate Community and Trainings.
✓ Ongoing access to all materials and resources.
✓ Access to free ongoing training when available.
✓ Highlighted as a Shadow Coach on our website.
✓ Certified Shadow Coach logo to place on marketing materials and website.
Pay in Full
$5,495
save up to $200
payment plan:
3 Months
$1,850/mo
$5,550 total
payment plan:
6 Months
$930/mo
$5,580 total
payment plan:
8 Months
$700/mo
$5,600 total
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, we are currently apply for CE accreditation.
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Yes, as long as you are able to carve out the time for our live calls. Everything else is self study and can be done at your convenience. We suggest carving out 3 hours per week to deeply engage with the material.
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That is totally fine. For the foundational program you do not need any previous training.
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Everything is recorded. We just ask that you try and make 80% of the calls live.
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We offer full refunds up to 30 days before we begin. After that, there are no cancellations but for emergencies we do offer that you can do the training at a later date.