Advanced
Practitioner
Academy
A 12-month, in-person pathway. Work confidently with complex cases, apply emerging nervous system science, and grow a more visible practice.
Enrollment Opens October 1
ADVANCED NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
Here's what NSCC students and graduates are ready for.
Confidence with Complex Cases
Learn to bring nervous system regulation to chronic pain, neuroinflammation, connective tissue disorders, POTS, chronic fatigue and the cases that don't respond to a one-size-fits-all.
Neuromodulation and Technology
Bring vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) and HRV biofeedback into your practice. Learn the research, the mechanism, and how to screen, dose and track the response in sensitive systems.
Visibility as the Expert
Being sought out for what you know, not just qualified to offer it.
Community at Your Level
Peer community, meeting in real life, and business practitioner and business mentorship, that help you grow.
Three In-Person Immersions
APRIL 17–18 2027 | SAN DIEGO
Visibility & the Nervous System
2-Day Regulated Practice Lab
Two days can hold a year's worth of growth. This is where we focus on your business and your brand, so the advanced work you're learning reaches the people who need it most. You'll work on:
1. Refining who you want to work with, and how you want to work with them
2. Clarifying your message, so how you talk about your work actually lands
3. Finding those people, through visibility, pitching and partnerships with companies and institutes
4. Planning your growth, beyond a practice that depends entirely on you being in the room
Working alongside my team
You'll work directly with my team who've helped me build a global audience. Together, we'll look at:
-Your business: how you structure your offers and grow sustainably
-Your brand: how you show up, and what you want to be known for
-Your systems: the processes that let your practice run without burning you out
-Your vision + values: where you want your work to be in three to five years
This lab only exists inside the Academy and isn't sold separately. Seats are intentionally limited, so the mentoring stays personal.
JULY 25-29 2027 | MASSACHUSETTS
Neuromodulation for Regulation
5-Day Training Immersion: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
You'll train on vagal stimulation and learn exactly what the evidence does and doesn't yet show, so you can speak to it with real authority.
Used by clinicians and coaches, each within their own scope, you'll learn the evidence base, the mechanism, the specific parameters, and how to sequence it inside the Nervous System-Sensitive Sequencing Framework™.
You'll train with a device that has:
1. Set parameters that align with the research
2. A portal for the Academy's specific parameters
3. HRV integration, so you can see the response
4. Automatic session logs
Take home your own device with exclusive Academy pricing.
We'll also add inspiratory muscle training as a structured, evidence-based tool, going further than the breathing work in the NSCC.
The fifth day is an extended training on being seen and promoting your work, exclusive to the Academy.
OCT 31-NOV 4 2027 | MASSACHUSETTS
The Neuroimmune System
5-Day Training Immersion: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
You already know how much stress shapes what shows up in the body. This immersion takes you into the neuroimmune system: what the nervous system is doing when it drives inflammation, fatigue and the symptoms your clients bring to you again and again.
You'll learn:
1. How neuroinflammation works, and its role in chronic pain, chronic illness and depression
2. How to recognize when immune load is part of your client's picture
3. What changes in practice: go slower, expect a lag, and track the response 12 to 72 hours later
This time applying vagus nerve stimulation through the inflammatory reflex. You'll learn to:
-Choose specific parameters for sensitive, immune-driven presentations
-Dose gently for EDS, POTS, MCAS and long COVID
-Use HRV and session logs to track the delayed response
-Build flare-day plans clients can follow at home
The fifth day is an extended training on promoting your work, exclusive to the Academy.
By the end of the year, you'll be able to:
☑︎ Apply or eductate on tVNS with specific parameters, safely and within your scope
☑︎ Use HRV to track change you and your clients can see
☑︎ Work confidently with EDS, POTS, MCAS, long COVID, chronic fatigue, burnout and perimenopause
☑︎ Recognize when immune load is part of your client's picture, and sequence your work accordingly
☑︎ Build flare plans and pacing your clients can follow at home
☑︎ Grow a more visible practice, and reach the people you most want to help
What's included in the Academy.
Training and Immersions
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Two 5-day residential immersions at Kripalu: Neuromodulation for Regulation (July) and The Neuroimmune System (October). Value: $6,400
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A Practice Lab session at the end of each immersion, led by Jessica and her team. Value: $1,500
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The San Diego Regulated Practice Lab: two days on your business, brand, systems, vision and values, with Jessica's team. Academy-exclusive and not sold separately. Value: $1,500
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Hands-on tVNS training, with specific parameters designed for the Academy, HRV tracking and exclusive Academy pricing on your own device
Mentoring and Support
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A one-on-one mentoring session with Jessica, before the immersions begin. Value: $500
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Small-group meetups online throughout the year, so you're never working with complex clients alone
Community and Visibility
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A professional photography session at each immersion, for your own content and shared through our networks to promote your work. Value: $600
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A private dinner with fellow practitioners and faculty at each immersion and at the Practice Lab. Value: $600
Priority Access
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Preferential booking for retreat accommodation, secured before the general list. Accommodation isn't included and is booked separately with Kripalu.
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Priority referral status: Academt graduates are the first practitioners recommended when Jessica receives requests for a consultation.
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A Certificate of Completion from the Advanced Practitioner Academy
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October bonus: enroll in October and get instant access to the Nervous System Hub, a library of lectures, workshops and practical tools, all in one place.
Total value:$11,100
Earn Continuing Education Units
| Core Competencies: | 5.50 |
| Resource Development: | 5.50 |
Secure your place in the first
Advanced Practitioner
Academy cohort.
EARLY BIRD PRICING UNITIL OCT 31
Join The 2027 Academy
Continuing Education
Earn Continuing Education (CE) credits through this professional development.
Purposefully Impactful
The Advanced Practitioner Academy is opening for the first time, and the practitioners who join now will become the Class of 2027—the founding cohort of the Academy.
Every meaningful program begins with a group that helps shape what comes next. This is that group: the first practitioners to experience the Academy, build its community, and set the standard for future cohorts.
Enrollment is intentionally limited so the mentoring remains personal, the experience stays highly connected.
Once the founding cohort is full, you may join the waitlist for priority access to the next Academy.
STAY CONNECTED
Between In-Person Events
In addition to our three structured APA events, we're building in regular opportunities for you to stay connected with other practitioners throughout the year.
This includes mentorship touchpoints, where peers can connect one-on-one for guidance and perspective, as well as ongoing support to help address the real challenges of this work.
Many students experience isolation along the way, and our goal is to make sure no one has to navigate that alone. Whether it's a quick check-in or a deeper conversation, we want the relationships built at our events to continue to grow between them, because staying connected to one another is just as important as the work itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes the device you've chosen different?
Do you recommend any nerve stimulators on the market?
Is vagus nerve stimulation well tolerated?
Can coaches use tVNS, or is it just for clinicians?
Questions?
Speak with Jessica or one of her team to gain clarity on if this is the right next step for you.
START WITH A CLARITY CALL.
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FAST ACTION BONUS
Access to The Nervous System Hub
Sign up to the APA in October and you will get immediate access to a library of trainings. The following workshops are included:
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Grief and the Nervous System: Beyond the Five Stages: A neurobiollogical reframe of grief, and a guided practice for helping clients move through it.
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The Neurobiology of Calm Connections: The science of co-regulation and where it tips into codependency, how it maps to attachment styles.
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How the Nervous System Heals: How neuroplasticity and the vagus nerve help us shift between the three nervous system states.
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The Voice Is a Portal to Regulation: How speaking, singing, humming and even crying shift your nervous system state, and how to stay regulated in hard conversations.
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Allostatic Load: How chronic stress shows up in the gut, immune system and pain response.
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Freeze, Dissociation and Shutdown: How to tell freeze, shutdown and dissociation apart by their physiological markers.
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Why Proprioception Leads to Nervous System Regulation: How body-based sensory work can calm dysregulation faster than cognitive approaches, and how it engages the vagal brake.
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Is Polyvagal Theory Evidence-Based? What's well supported, what's contested, and how to talk about it credibly.
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Regulation in Connective Tissue Disorders: The nervous system in EDS, POTS and hypermobility, and what it means for regulation-based support.
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The Nervous System and Addiction: How interoception and predictive coding explain cravings, and what it takes to shift them.
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