Continuing Education Program for Mental Health Clinicians.
Strengthen therapist nervous system regulation, clinical presence, and sustainable capacity in trauma-informed psychotherapy. Soni Dani is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for licensed clinicians. Soni Dani maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- Founding Cohort: June 1 – November 16, 2026
- Live Session Dates: See schedule below
- Live Session Length: 90 minutes each
- Total CE Credit: 30 hours
Tuition
- Founding cohort tuition:
ACH / Bank Transfer
$1,297
Recommended
Credit Card
$1,336
Payment Plan
3 × $449
Interested in a payment plan, reach out to Soni at soni@embtherapy.net
The Clinical Reality
Most therapists are trained in modalities—but not in the nervous system capacity required to deliver them sustainably across years of trauma work.
Over time clinicians may experience:
- Cumulative emotional load
- Fatigue after sessions
- Efforting presence
- Subtle boundary erosion
- Strain or depletion
- These are not signs of poor skill.
They reflect an often-unaddressed clinical variable: the therapist’s own nervous system state.
What Is EMBER
EMBER is a six-month clinician training that strengthens therapist nervous system regulation, containment, and capacity matching so evidence-based modalities can be delivered with greater steadiness, ethics, and effectiveness.
EMBER does not teach a new therapy model.
It strengthens therapist capacity that supports CBT, DBT, CPT, EMDR, IFS, and other established approaches.
The core of EMBER is experiential training in functional breathwork and Conscious Connected Circular Breathing (CCCB) adapted specifically for clinicians. These methods build therapist regulation range, state stability, and recovery capacity in the context of clinical work.
Clinicians also learn to apply breath-based regulation strategies appropriately with clients to support stabilization, grounding, and affect tolerance within psychotherapy sessions.
Through structured practice and clinical integration, participants learn to:
- Regulate autonomic activation before and during sessions
- Recover efficiently after demanding clinical encounters
- Recognize early signs of therapist strain and intervene somatically
- Introduce breath pacing safely within scope of psychotherapy practice
- Expand tolerance for affect intensity and relational load
- Maintain grounded presence without over-efforting
- Apply functional breathwork with clients for stabilization and regulation
- Match breath-based interventions to client state and readiness
Functional breathwork supports moment-to-moment autonomic regulation and pacing in therapy for both therapist and client.
CCCB develops deeper nervous system flexibility, integration, and resilience across repeated exposure to emotional intensity in clinicians.
Together these approaches strengthen the therapist’s physiological capacity to remain present, responsive, and ethically attuned across complex clinical conditions while expanding clinically appropriate regulation tools available in treatment.
EMBER integrates these practices with clinical application so regulation skills transfer directly into psychotherapy sessions and long-term professional sustainability.
Who This Training Is For
Licensed mental health clinicians and associates under supervision who:
- Work with trauma or emotionally complex clients
- Want sustainable presence in therapy
- Notice cumulative clinical strain
- Value experiential clinician training
Eligible disciplines include LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, Psychologists, and other CEPA-eligible license types.
Program Structure
Six-month cohort training combining live instruction and structured online modules.
- 12 live cohort sessions
- Asynchronous learning modules
- Integration practices
- Reflection exercises
- CE certificate upon completion
Total CE hours: 30
Curriculum Overview
Month 1
Foundations of Therapist Capacity
- Therapist nervous system as clinical variable
- State awareness and containment
Month 2
Regulation Skills in Clinical Work
- Bottom-up and top-down regulation
- Tracking activation and therapeutic range
Month 3
Capacity Matching in Trauma Therapy
- Matching therapist capacity to demand
- Preventing over-functioning and drift
Month 4
Working With Complex Presentations
- Staying regulated with high affect and dissociation
- Repair and therapist state recovery
Month 5
Ethics, Burnout, and Sustainability
- Ethical pacing and boundaries
- Burnout prevention and repair
Month 6
Integration and Longevity
- Applying EMBER across modalities
- Sustainable presence planning
Schedule — Live Session Calendar
Cohort Dates: June 1 – November 16, 2026
Live Session Length: 90 minutes
Delivery: Online (Teams)
CE Credit and Completion Requirements
Provider: Soni Dani, LMFT
CEPA Provider Number: 105542
Total CE Hours: 30
To receive CE credit participants must:
- attend at least 10 of 12 live sessions (attendance threshold)
- complete required course components
- pass post-tests where applicable
Certificates are issued after completion verification and delivered via email within 7–10 business days.
Attendance and Missed Session Policy
Attendance is monitored via Teams participation logs.
If a participant misses a session:
- partial CE credit is awarded for sessions attended
- CE hours reflect completed training time
- one make-up option may be available via recording + quiz completion when feasible
Participants must notify the program at soni@embtherapy.net if unable to attend.
Post-Test Policy
Some modules include knowledge checks.
Passing score: 80%
Participants may retake post-tests up to three attempts.
If the passing score is not achieved, CE credit for that module may not be awarded.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
- Participants may cancel within 7 days of enrollment for a full refund minus processing fees.
- Cancellations after 7 days and before June 1 receive a 50% refund.
- No refunds are issued after the program start date due to cohort structure and CE requirements.
- If EMBER must cancel, participants may choose a full refund or transfer to a future cohort.
Tuition and Payment
- Founding cohort tuition:
Payment Plan
3 × $449
ACH payments are recommended to avoid processing fees. Credit card pricing reflects processing costs and does not exceed merchant fees.
Instructor
Soni Dani, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15 years of clinical experience out of which 9 years are as a licensed clinician in trauma-informed psychotherapy, crisis response, and integrative mind-body treatment.
Developer of the EMBER Therapist Capacity framework integrating nervous system regulation with established evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, CPT, and somatic approaches.
EMBER is a continuing education program of Empowered Mind-Body Therapy Inc.
Why EMBER
The most powerful clinical instrument in psychotherapy
is not the intervention — it is the regulated therapist.
EMBER strengthens this instrument.
Enrollment
The EMBER founding cohort runs June 1 – November 16, 2026.
Enrollment is limited to maintain cohort depth.
Tuition: $1,297 (ACH) • $1,336 (card)
Questions: soni@embtherapy.net
EMBER is a continuing education program of Empowered Mind-Body Therapy Inc.
Provider: Soni Dani, LMFT (CEPA 105542).
CE credit is awarded upon completion of program requirements.
This training is for mental health professionals and does not provide psychotherapy or crisis services.
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