FOR PRACTICUM ALUMNI
The Postgraduate Year
A supervision-based year for yearlong practicum graduates working toward certification. Not a repeat of the curriculum. Not a parallel track. Its sole function is to bring practitioners who completed the practicum, but did not certify, to certification.
The yearlong practicum was originally designed as a two-year program. It was shortened to one year because most participants could not commit to a second year of curriculum delivery. Retention improved, but one year is not, on its own, sufficient for most participants to reach full clinical competency.
The postgraduate year is the answer to that gap — reconstituted not as more curriculum, but as supervision embedded directly in a participant's ongoing practice. It asks for a different kind of time commitment: lower density, built around the cases you are already working, rather than more instruction to sit through. It pivots through case selection designed to ensure that you receive training across categories of autonomic intervention that you are likely to encounter with regularity.
This year is for practitioners who are already practicing, or preparing to practice, the work with clients — and wishing to hone their skills further. This is not a track for those who may never seek certification.
PURPOSE
Why this year exists
WHAT THIS YEAR DEVELOPS
Four competencies, two targets
Efficacy in this work rests on four competencies. The postgraduate year focalizes the two primary clinical skill areas that are unlikely to fully develop in the yearlong practicum. →
The program borrows its structure from supervision-toward-licensure models — pre-licensure supervised practice, case consultation, and defined competency milestones — rather than a new pedagogical form.
Group case consultation is the primary container: small enough for depth per case, large enough for case variety.
Individual review happens at defined intervals, not as continuous supervision — bounded and predictable for everyone.
Certification is a judgment against observable behavior in tracking ability and pattern recognition — not a graduation for time served.
PEDAGOGICAL MODEL
Supervision towards certification
STRUCTURE
Cadence
WHY GROUP CADENCE STAYS FIXED
Group case consultation is the credentialing container. Keeping it identical for every participant — regardless of what else they choose to engage — protects the integrity of certification. No participant has greater access to the process that determines readiness than any other. For participants who desire additional supervisory time from our team, this can be purchased as an add-on, depending on our clinical availability.
CERTIFICATION
The Path to Certifying
Eligibility to attempt certification requires completion of the required supervision within the postgraduate year. Certification is not available by attending a training alone — the supervision year is the gate.
Once required supervision is complete, certification can be attempted two ways:
In the context of a training you're already attending— no additional fee.
Outside a training— a $1,000 certification fee applies.
INVESTMENT
Pricing
Monthly payment is the default. It is structured to keep your financial investment concurrent with your learning. Lump sum payment is available if there is a compelling reason to prefer it.
