FAQ

No, you don't.  We work with and welcome people of all faiths and backgrounds. We do feel it is beneficial to have a belief in a higher power. 

All kinds of people take our training from highly experienced practitioners to people brand new to energy work. Because we are accredited, many people choose our program to start their holistic health practice.

We have also trained many in the health field including psychotherapists, LPCs, social workers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, FNPs, MDs, nurses, nurse practitioners, Nutrition Response Practitioners, nutritionists, muscle testers, Physical Therapists, massage therapists, body workers, breath therapists, pharmacists, physician assistants, RDs, and more.

For Foundational Mind Body Spirit Release®, you need an open mind, a desire to grow and help others. There is a simple application process.

For the Holistic Wellness Approach™ course, prospective students need to have basic knowledge and training of anatomy and physiology. We do have an application process for HWA so we can assure you have proper training prior to taking the class. 

All classes are pre-recorded with reviewed homework followed by a live session to ask questions and receive additional clarification and instruction. The live review sessions are also recorded.

Yes, the academy is fully accredited through The American Association of Drugless Practitioners.

Yes, we require practitioners to certify in each level before practicing for compensation and maintain certification in order to practice Mind Body Spirit Release® for compensation. 

A year after initial certification, practitioners are required to participate in a 90-minute mentoring session, for a fee, with a Master Practitioner where they can demonstrate their skills and ask any questions they may have. This is low-pressure and our practitioners tend to enjoy and gain a lot from the experience.

After that first recertification session, practitioners are required to recertify every 2 years through their choice of the purchase of a continuing education module or another mentoring session.

In the Foundational Training, we have included a 7th module called The Practical Practitioner where we give vast information about how to incorporate or build your practice around The MBSR Method™. We provide touch points for business essentials and helpful tools to use in your business (resources for legal support, insurance, practice management software)

The majority of our practitioners practice remotely, but many also have a clinical setting. The method is very adaptable to both approaches.

I am an integrative practitioner, Licensed Professional Counselor, Holistic Health Practitioner, and Mind Body Spirit Release® Practitioner. My practice, Hotze Health Collective, in Houston, Texas, is a space for females in all seasons of life to empower and inspire mental health and wellness holistically: teens/adolescents, college, twentysomethings, adults, preconception, expecting, and postpartum mothers, and the seasons in between. Along my path to becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor and opening my practice, my personal experience guided me to Mind Body Spirit Release® with my practitioner, Dr. Tracy Southwick. Mind Body Spirit Release® is an energetic modality that reveals, releases, and renews the subconscious mind and nervous system on the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental planes. I found this to be such a compliment to traditional therapy and pivoted my path to merge the two healing modalities together.

Mental health from a glance suggests that it is of the mind, and to many opinions, refers to the conscious mind. However, mental health is an extension of whole-body health and wellness, an integration of the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects that construct the whole person. Traditional talk therapy accesses the conscious mind, which is responsible for ~5% of our day-to-day functioning. This is referred to as a top-down approach because the conscious mind is the integration point between external experience and internal functioning. The conscious mind is largely comprised of awareness, logical and intellectual processes, and rationalizing. To access the conscious mind in an open flow state, our nervous system and subconscious mind must be regulated, suggestable, and influenceable.

The subconscious mind exists as the other 95% of our actions and reactions to life. The subconscious mind is ruled by emotions and imprints that influence important functional processes such as breathing, digestion, memory, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and intuition. These imprints are invisible strings, the presence of such is not always identifiable to the naked eye or conscious mind.

We have trained practitioners from all over the US, in Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Africa, Australia, Tasmania, Mexico, Singapore and Canada.

If you are outside of the US, you will be responsible for additional shipping charges for class materials. 

Once the class is over, students are given access to Kajabi, our teaching platform where all of the materials, videos and links are stored. When materials are updated, they are posted in Kajabi, as well.

We offer many types of support for our students both during class and afterwards. Kajabi, our learning platform, has a community board where you can connect with other students, ask questions of the teachers and trade services with other practitioners. It is a great way to continue to learn and grow as a practitioner.

All students are invited to a monthly support call on the first Monday of every month (except when a holiday falls on that date) at 12PM Central. The calls are recorded and archived in Kajabi.

Additionally, we send out a regular newsletter with updates, upcoming events and exciting news.

We also have meet-ups in areas where our teachers are located and at conferences we attend (such as ECO by CellCore, where we sponsor a yearly happy hour).

The typical hourly rate is $175-$225. Sessions typically last from 45-90 minutes, depending on the type of session.