Choose Your Path

Free Course · Becoming 101

An invitation to walk our way of training.

Becoming 101 is a free, three-module course built by Dr. Joan Samuels-Dennis. It is a quiet, self-paced orientation to the Nurse Psychotherapist role — and to the way we hold the clinicians who choose our 12-Month Trauma Recovery Certificate.

Take it at your own pace. Stay only as long as it serves you. The information below is here to support your informed choice.

Begin the free course.

Three modules. Self-paced on Brightspace™. We will email you the course access details.

No cost Self-paced Certificate of completion

Three Modules

What you will walk through.

Becoming 101 is a foundation, not a credential. It is offered so you can feel the shape of our training before you choose anything further.

01

Understanding trauma and holistic responses

How trauma shapes body, mind and relationship — and how to meet it with awareness and presence.

Adverse childhood events. How early experience moves through physical, psychological, relational and spiritual life.
Normal and traumatic memory. How the body's protective responses carry the stories we have not yet spoken.
Self-healing practice for nurses. Guided reflection and embodied practice for your own ground.

02

Trauma-informed modalities, side by side

A quiet comparison of four therapeutic frameworks — so you can sense the fit before you commit.

Four core approaches. Narrative Exposure Therapy, Somatic Embodiment, Internal Family Systems, and the Becoming Method®.
What makes each one work. How they regulate the body, restore integration, and make meaning of difficulty.
Your therapeutic fit. The model that meets your values, your worldview, and your path forward.

03

Ethics, reflection and professional identity

A new paradigm for safety — built on reflection, accountability, and the considered use of self.

The use of self. How the practitioner's interior shapes safe, effective therapeutic work.
Scope and responsibility. Practical examples that clarify what nurse-led psychotherapy asks of you.
Your statement of readiness. A short, personal map of the next step toward advanced training and supervision.

What you will leave with

A clearer sense of your path.

A grounded grasp of trauma-informed, holistic care.

Clarity on the Nurse Psychotherapist role and the work it asks of you.

A felt sense of our way of teaching — before you decide on anything further.

A certificate of completion, and a clear next step into supervised training.

Before this program, I was on the verge of leaving nursing. I felt like I was constantly giving from an empty cup. The RN-Psychotherapist training gave me a new path forward — tools to heal myself while learning how to support the people in my care.

Sarah M. · Public Health Nurse · Course Graduate, 2025

Where this leads

The 12-Month Trauma Recovery Certificate.

Becoming 101 is the doorway. The 12-Month Trauma Recovery Certificate is our flagship clinical training year — structured, supervised, and built for nurses ready to practise as psychotherapists. There is no expectation that you walk through. The door is simply open.

Begin Becoming 101 → Download the syllabus Explore the certificate

The Becoming Method® is a registered framework of Becoming Institute Inc.

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