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EMOTIONAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER
Practice Builder I 22 Weeks
Gain practical emotional health care skills and a foundation in Neural Network Therapy®.
Next program starts: Sept 23, 2026
Reserve your spot today.
Advance your emotional health care skills.
Invest in Your Professional Growth
Are you looking to establish or enhance a private practice or consultation work?
This live-online Emotional Health Practitioner Trent University Micro-credential program provides foundational training in Neural Network Therapy® and support in marketing, session delivery and client engagement.
22 live 1 hour online classes
September - April
Wednesday evenings
6 pm - 7 pm Eastern Time
(7 pm - 8 pm By demand)
The Practice Builder is designed for those eager to build or enhance their own coaching, educational, or wellness-based private practice. Learn how to structure sessions, manage time effectively, establish healthy boundaries, and understand the limits of confidentiality. Build tools for client engagement and motivation, explore the initial steps in marketing and Jane App (specific to online practice), and gain insight into billing and charting. Discover ways to share your specialized skills within your community to promote emotional health awareness and grow your professional practice.
Advance Your Emotional Health Care Skills.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY. Next course starts: Sept 23, 2026
Develop skills that make a difference.
Course Objectives:
Build a foundation of knowledge in Neural Network Therapy® (NNT).
Apply a practical, neuroscience-based approach to support emotional well-being.
Learn to engage participants in an active, “doing” approach to personal growth.
Maximize your investment by applying lessons and new skills within a developing coaching, teaching, and wellness landscape.
Strengthen interpersonal skills, including assertiveness, conflict resolution, and creative problem-solving.
Explore applications of NNT principles to areas such as emotional regulation, focus, communication, relationships, grief, parenting, and more.
Develop skills that last well beyond the learning experience—because you can’t unlearn the science of well-being.
Acquire practical resources to support the teaching and application of this model.
Lessons:
Includes full curriculum from the foundational Emotional Health Practitioner Program, plus:
NNT® Counselling Session Structure
Jane App Setup
Live Google Ads Setup
Suicidal Ideation & Safety Contracts
Client Engagement Strategies
Growing Your Counselling Business
Financial Do's & Don'ts in Building a Successful Practice
Self-Care & Recognizing Burnout
Clinical Supervision
Course Details:
Emotional Health Practitioner Asynchronous program included
2 Trent University Micro-credentials + CFHC Registration Number
No prerequisites
22 live 1 hour online classes September - April Wednesday evenings 6pm - 7pm ET
Start Date: Sept 23 2026
Clinical Supervision (optional)
Explore session structure and delivery, client retention, record-keeping, establishing healthy boundaries, self-care for professionals, private practice development, and community engagement, Google Adwords, and Jane App
Feature your bio on the Canadian Family Health Counselling website directory with links to your website or online booking site (new!)
Digital textbook
OSAP eligible (Confirm OSAP eligibility here)
Registration Options
Asynchronous
$1595.00
Are you looking to develop skills and build resources in the field of emotional health care? Looking to enhance your well-being tool kit and monetize your skill-set?
Trent University Micro-credential
Start any time, study anywhere
No prerequisites
Complete within 11 weeks at your own pace (extensions available at an additional fee)
Ongoing access to video lessons
One-hour video or telephone conference support available
Unlimited email support
Digital textbook
You must have registered or completed the Asynch EHP program separately
Practice Builder Only
$2997.00
Are you looking to establish or enhance a private practice or consultation work? This program provides a foundational training in Neural Network Therapy® and support in marketing, session delivery and client engagement.
Emotional Health Practitioner Asynchronous program included
2 Trent University Micro-credentials +
CFHC Registration NumberNo prerequisites
22 live 1 hour online classes September - April Wednesday evenings (6pm or 7pm ET)
Clinical Supervision
Explore session structure and delivery, client retention, record-keeping, establishing healthy boundaries, self-care for professionals, private practice development, Google Adwords and Jane App
Digital textbook
Small class sizes, limited spots available
You must have registered or completed the Asynch EHP program separately
Asynch + Practice Builder
$3997.00
Are you looking to establish or enhance a private practice or consultation work? This program provides a foundational training in Neural Network Therapy® and support in marketing, session delivery and client engagement.
Emotional Health Practitioner Asynchronous program included
2 Trent University Micro-credentials +
CFHC Registration NumberNo prerequisites
22 live 1 hour online classes September - April Wednesday evenings (6pm or 7pm ET)
Clinical Supervision
Explore session structure and delivery, client retention, record-keeping, establishing healthy boundaries, self-care for professionals, private practice development, Google Adwords and Jane App
Digital textbook
Small class sizes, limited spots available
Deposit for Practice Builder
$1000.00
DEPOSIT
Pay a deposit for the Practice Builder only.
You must have registered or completed the Asynch EHP program separately
OSAP Eligable
Course Curriculum
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Welcome to the course!
Welcome from Kim Sargent, Clinical Director
Core Lesson 1: Playdough Brain
Gain an understanding of neuroplasticity.
Core Lesson 2: Volcano
Discover the signs and symptoms of emotional overload.
Core Lesson 3: Rolodex
Explore the storage of our emotions, past and present.
Core Lesson 4: Energy of Emotion
Connect emotions to the very cells of our body.
Core Lesson 5: Crocodile
Learn about intensity and the reptilian brain.
Core Lesson 6: Telephone Poles
Understand brain development and why old habits die hard.
Core Lesson 7: Etch A Sketch
Set the stage for change by maximizing creativity.
Core Lesson 8: Double Vision
Understand emotional alignment as a currency for health and vitality.
Core Lesson 9: Assertiveness Training
Explore passive, aggressive, and assertive communication styles.
Core Lesson 10: Pre and Post Manifestation
Explore how emotion acts as a tuning fork in our reality.
“I appreciate the way the course is set up with the flipped classroom, allowing us as much time as we need each week to learn and review the material and then the opportunity to ask any outstanding questions and get various perspectives and interpretations of the lessons. I also find the breaks timely, giving us an opportunity to dig into the lessons a bit more and to prepare for assignments.”
- Leah F, Synchronous Graduate
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Learn More Abut The EHP Program
The Volcano
Neural Network Therapy® exercises are short and sweet, intended to nab the attention of your client in a compelling storytelling that explores the brain, our habits in thinking and behaviour, and the ways in which our biology impacts our choices.
Emotional Health Practitioners deliver bite-sized lessons in each and every session. It’s important to both engage clients and expand their perspective, in order to boost motivation for change. We’ve done the math for you in this robust ready-made series of exercises for your clinical practice.
Plus, Over 25 Additional Lessons
Footsteps and Frustrations
Ego Grid
The Grieving Shrine
Memory Moving Box
Porta Meta
Trauma Treatment
Family Faces
Relationships 101
Playful Parenting
Mother Duck Parenting
Love-In Parenting
Wild Cards
Great Do-Nothing Day
Ice Cream Sundae
Not Fit For Human Company
Pity Party
Sleep Hygiene
The Balance
Introduction
Portable Pharmacy
Climbing Expedition
Flooding Feel-Goods
The Pillow Family
Ghosts of Relationships Past
Introvert Extrovert
Your Mental Diet
Bubble Me
Plant It Forward
Meet Your Live Instructors
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Aurrora De Monte
Aurrora resides in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough) with her family. She completed her BA is Child and Youth Care from the University of Victoria, MSc of Child and Youth Care Studies (CYCS) from the University of Strathclyde and is pursuing a PhD in Social Work and Social Policy from the University of Strathclyde.
Aurrora has taught at Fleming College for over 10 years and also teaches part time within the MSc of CYCS at Strathclyde. Aurrora has practiced in a variety of settings supporting young people and families and continues to do so through private practice and consultation. Aurrora enjoys spending time with her children, being outdoors, gardening, hiking and reading.
Sarah Anich Mansfield
Sarah Anich Mansfield is an Emotional Health Practitioner and Ontario Certified Teacher. She holds a BA (Honours) from Laurentian University, a B.Ed from Nipissing University, and a Montessori teaching certification. Additionally, she has qualifications in special education, learning disabilities, and behaviour.
Sarah's diverse background spans from supporting toddlers to adults, including preschool, elementary, high school, and college settings. She is particularly passionate about helping young adults in post-secondary environments understand themselves and achieve their goals, as well as supporting parents in navigating the challenges of raising children, especially those with learning differences. Sarah has a particular interest in executive functions, neurodiversity, and ADHD.
In her free time, Sarah enjoys spending time with her dog and three cats, and attending live music and theatre performances.
Kristy Suckling
Kristy is specialized in stress management and mental health challenges. She is additionally trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Dialectal Behaviour Therapy in her 20+ year career as a mental health nurse and educator.
Kristy is a certified reflexologist and diabetic nurse. She understands the impact of living with chronic illness and can provide ways in which to cope with the stressors of long-term disease.
Kristy has spent many years striving to live an emotionally and physically healthy lifestyle. She owns and operates Yellow Brick Pottery Studio and is kind of a big deal in her craft. Kristy practices martial arts and has her 2nd degree black belt in Goju Ryu Karate, in addition to a passion for paddleboarding, hiking and the great outdoors.
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Program Testimonials
The EHP program provided me with valuable insight into how our brain works, especially in relation to our emotions, as well as exercises to use in session that bring these concepts home to clients. I regularly use the material I learned in the EHP program and find it applicable to a variety of client issues. I was also lucky enough to participate in practicum concurrent with my EHP studies. This was my first time counselling and I was provided with compassionate support while I grew my confidence in this field.
-Cathy Hooper, Emotional Health Practitioner graduate 2020,
Masters in Counselling Psychology (final practicum) CRPO
The concepts are presented in a simple and elegant way, but are underlied by complexity and key scientific principles - a perfect marriage.
-Kathryn Matheson, MA Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Holistic Nutritionist
The Emotional Health Practitioner Program is an excellent way for new graduates to gain a better understanding of the brain and neuroplasticity. The program provides practical information and activities paired with peer learning and supervision to help gain an understanding of how change happens. This program has not only assisted me in making healthier habits in my personal life, but my clients too. I highly recommend this program!
-Heather Vance, Emotional Health Practitioner Graduate 2017,
BA Social Work (in progress) Addictions and Mental Health Worker
Personally, and professionally, I have greatly benefited from the EHP program. The focus on education and using one’s strengths, along with doable, motivating, and even fun activities, lightens many heavy, complex, and real-life struggles that we face. Aurrora has incredible energy, passion and humour that ignites the inner child to get curious and active. The content and instruction offer a reconnection with self, others, and a reminder to trust in one’s inner guide. The visuals, hands-on practical exercises, along with the use of common understandable language is a valuable investment for self.
This amazing experience has provided me with a tool kit for life and a reminder that I am enough as a human-“being” instead of a human-“doer”.
- Emotional Health Practitioner graduate 2022,
Masters in Counselling Psychology (in progress) CRPO (in progress)
The Emotional Heath Practitioner Program has been the perfect adjunct to my current education and work experience that propelled me into the field of counselling.
Not only have I been able to learn skills practical for my own emotional well-being, I now have transferable skills and knowledge to help others with their own emotional health journey.
The learning environment has been comfortable and supportive in helping me feel confident with the material. I highly recommend the EHP program to anyone looking into counselling as a career.
-Kristy Suckling, Emotional Health Practitioner graduate 2022, RPN
The Emotional Health Practitioner program is unique because it focuses on brain health and the impact that has on our emotional well-being. The content is delivered energetically, using humour and imagery and lots of hands-on exercises. Kim and her team display such passion for the topic! The techniques I learned through the EHP program have helped me to guide my clients to self-discovery and awareness, learning to make healthy choices based on understanding the connection between their brain, their physical health and their emotional health. It has been the most rewarding professional development education I have ever encountered.
-Krissie Vanderburg, Emotional Health Practitioner graduate 2004, RPN