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.

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:

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:

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:

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.

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)

June 15
June 29
July 13
July 27
August 17
August 31
September 14
September 28
October 12
October 26
November 2
November 16
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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

ACH / Check

$1,297

Recommended

Credit Card

$1,336

Includes processing fees

Payment Plan

3 × $449

Interested in a payment plan, reach out to Soni at soni@embtherapy.net

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)

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.