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:
EMBER Pilot Study
A 6-month training and pilot study exploring how therapist capacity shapes client outcomes.
Join the founding cohort
✔ Free enrollment
✔ 30 CAMFT-approved CE credits
✔ Contribute to advancing clinical practice
HOW IT WORKS
12-Week Active Phase
Focused, structured data collection
- Weekly therapist check-ins (2–3 minutes)
- Weekly client outcome tracking (1–2 minutes per session)
- Monthly standardized assessments (PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL)
- Therapist capacity assessments at key timepoints
Continuation Phase (Months 4–6)
Reduced tracking for sustainability
- Monthly check-ins
- Ongoing integration of practices
- Observation of longer-term trends
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
The EMBER program focuses on developing therapist capacity across key domains:
- Physiological regulation
- Emotional and relational presence
- Cognitive flexibility
- Clinical judgment and pacing
You’ll learn how to:
- recognize early signs of dysregulation in yourself
- regulate in real-time during sessions
- match interventions to client capacity
- integrate breathwork safely and effectively
CAPACITY-BUILDING PRACTICE
Participants will engage in brief daily breathwork practices (5–10 minutes) designed to:
- improve nervous system regulation
- increase resilience and stability
- support sustained therapeutic presence
These practices are integrated into both personal use and clinical application.
WHAT YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE TO
As part of this pilot study, you will help generate data examining:
- changes in therapist capacity over time
- relationships between therapist capacity and client outcomes
- the impact of structured regulation practices on clinical work
All data is de-identified and used to inform future research and training development.
TIME COMMITMENT
Designed to be practical and sustainable:
- Daily: 5–10 minutes (breathwork)
- Weekly (Weeks 1–12): ~5 minutes (check-ins)
- Monthly: brief client assessments
Data collection is concentrated in the first 12 weeks, with reduced requirements thereafter.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Licensed therapists (LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, Educational Psychologists) who are:
- interested in nervous system-informed practice
- open to experiential and reflective learning
- curious about the role of therapist capacity in outcomes
- willing to participate in a structured pilot study
ETHICS &CONFIDENTIALITY
- All data is de-identified
- Client participation is voluntary
- No identifying information is collected
- Participation does not impact clinical care
WHY JOIN THE FOUNDING COHORT
- Be part of shaping a new framework in clinical practice
- Gain practical tools for regulation and capacity-building
- Earn 30 CAMFT-approved CE credits
- Participate in a meaningful, structured research initiative
APPLY TO PARTICIPATE
Spots in the founding cohort are limited.
QUESTIONS?
Feel free to reach out:
soni@embtherapy.net
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
- Develop foundational nervous-system literacy and understand therapist regulation as a core clinical variable influencing pacing, attunement, safety, and therapeutic effectiveness.
- Recognize signs of therapist and client dysregulation while applying practical regulation and capacity-based pacing strategies in session.
Month 2
State and Severity Discernment
- Assess client nervous system states, readiness, and capacity in real time to guide ethical and clinically appropriate treatment decisions.
- Differentiate severity from capacity and identify contraindications, scope limitations, and risks associated with over-activation or intensified interventions.
Month 3
Activation and Facilitation Capacity
- Understand the clinical role of Conscious Connected Circular Breathwork (CCCB) as an optional, supportive intervention grounded in safety, pacing, and titration principles.
- Facilitate CCCB ethically through informed consent, therapist regulation, containment practices, and post-session integration strategies.
Month 4
Emotional and Relational Capacity
- Strengthen emotional presence, relational containment, and the ability to recognize and respond to overwhelm without fusion or collapse.
- Apply integration and meaning-making practices that support nervous system stabilization, clinical safety, and sustainable therapeutic processing.
Month 5
Complexity Capacity
- Integrate EMBER principles with structured modalities such as CBT, DBT, CPT, and EMDR to support regulation-informed pacing and intervention fidelity.
- Apply stabilization-first approaches when working with complex presentations, including addiction, dysregulation, and high-acuity clinical populations.
Month 6
Sustainability., Ethics and Real World Practice
- Examine therapist burnout, dysregulation, and impairment as clinical and ethical risk factors that impact judgment, pacing, documentation, and client safety.
- Develop sustainable, capacity-based clinical decision-making practices that support long-term ethical care, professional resilience, and effective treatment delivery.
Schedule — Live Session Calendar
Cohort Dates: June 1 – November 16, 2026
Live Session Length: 90 minutes
Delivery: Online (Zoom)
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 (participants will receive partial credit for sessions attended)
- 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
- Recorded sessions will be available
Participants must notify the program at soni@embtherapy.net if unable to attend.
Post-Test Policy
All 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:
EMBER Pilot Study
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.
