For Therapists, Coaches & Somatic Practitioners
The Attachment Healing Practitioner Certificate
Certification in the Attachment Healing Framework for licensed and unlicensed practitioners who want to bring nervous system science, attachment theory, and generational inheritance into their clinical and coaching work.
The certification trains therapists, coaches, and somatic practitioners to use the Attachment Healing Framework in clinical and coaching contexts. The framework integrates polyvagal theory (Porges), attachment science (Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main), epigenetics (Yehuda, Meaney), and somatic healing (Levine, Gendlin) into a unified clinical language. Certified practitioners can use the framework's concepts in session, in group work, and in client-facing materials.
The model follows the principle that therapy outcomes improve when both practitioner and client share a common language for what is happening in the nervous system and in the relational field. The framework gives that language. When a client can name their own neuroception, locate their attachment style in the body, and trace a relational pattern to its generational origin, the clinical work accelerates. The certification equips practitioners to facilitate that naming.
What the certification covers
Six modules, delivered as a self-paced digital program. Each module is designed to stand alone and to build sequentially.
The Nervous System as a Prediction Machine
Polyvagal theory, neuroception, and how the body stores predictions. The nervous system does not merely respond to experience; it anticipates it. This module builds the clinical foundation for understanding how early relational environments become somatic templates.
Friston, Barrett, Porges, van der Kolk
The Attachment Wound Map
Four attachment styles across the lifespan, earned security, and disorganized attachment patterns. The module traces how early attachment strategies persist into adult relational behavior, and how disorganized attachment creates the communication breakdowns that most challenge clinical work.
Bowlby, Main, Lyons-Ruth, Siegel
The Generational Inheritance Inventory
Epigenetic transmission, Bowen family systems, and the three-stream inheritance model. Practitioners learn to map what a client carries from their lineage across three streams: gifts, wounds, and neutrals. The inventory externalizes patterns the client has been treating as intrinsic to identity.
Yehuda, Meaney, Bowen
The Somatic Authority Threshold
When healing becomes permanent versus temporary, titrated activation, and completing incomplete survival responses. This module addresses the clinical question of why insight alone does not produce lasting change, and what somatic conditions make change stick.
Levine, Gendlin, Porges
The Polyvagal-Jyotish Bridge
An optional module for practitioners working with clients who use Vedic astrology as a self-understanding framework. The Jyotish planetary archetypes function here as a typology for nervous system organization and attachment wound flavor, giving practitioners a culturally expansive and non-pathologizing diagnostic lens.
Optional module
Integration Protocol in Practice
The 13-dimension reading framework applied to client case formulation. Practitioners learn to synthesize the preceding modules into a coherent clinical picture, move fluidly between somatic, attachment, and generational data, and write case formulations using the framework's shared language.
Applied synthesis module
Who this is for
The certification is designed for practitioners across three primary settings.
LCSW, MFT, LPC, Psychologists
Licensed Therapists
Adding a structured nervous system and attachment language to existing clinical work. The framework integrates with every major therapeutic modality and gives the clinical relationship a shared conceptual vocabulary that can accelerate the naming of what is happening in session.
Life, health, executive, relationship
Coaches
Seeking a research-grounded framework that exceeds typical coaching credentialing. The certification positions coaches to work with attachment and nervous system material in ways that are clearly differentiated from therapy, grounded in peer-reviewed science, and practically applicable to coaching contexts.
SE, EMDR, IFS, Focusing practitioners
Somatic Practitioners
Wanting a shared conceptual language connecting their somatic modality to Nikita's written frameworks. For practitioners whose work is already body-centered, the certification provides an attachment and generational layer that deepens the clinical picture without replacing the modality.
What practitioners receive
Included with every certification tier.
The Attachment Healing Framework manual (PDF, 80+ pages with clinical applications, case vignettes, and discussion questions)
A digital certificate of completion
Permission to reference the framework in client-facing materials, session notes, and marketing copy
Listing on the nikitadatar.com Certified Practitioners page (coming soon)
Wholesale pricing on books for client distribution (20% off standard retail)
Early access to new research papers and framework updates
Pricing
Three tiers. Pricing is available on request and structured to the size and context of your practice.
Individual
Contact for pricingFor single practitioners
Full framework access, the practitioner manual, the digital certificate, and all six modules. Includes practitioner listing and wholesale book pricing.
Group
Contact for pricingFor practices and group practices (3+ practitioners)
Group rates, a shared resource license, and coordinated onboarding for multi-practitioner settings. Suitable for group therapy practices, coaching collectives, and training cohorts.
Institutional
Contact for pricingFor hospitals, community mental health centers, training programs
Custom curriculum, co-branded materials, and continuing education credits pending. Designed for organizations that want to train multiple staff members and integrate the framework into institutional practice.
Apply for the certification program
Send a brief note about your practice, modality, and how you intend to use the framework. Inquiries from individual practitioners, group practices, and institutions are all welcome.
Apply for the certification programThe research foundation
The framework draws on four decades of peer-reviewed research across polyvagal neuroscience, attachment science, epigenetics, family systems theory, and somatic healing.
Stephen Porges
Polyvagal theory, neuroception
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
Attachment theory
Mary Main
Adult attachment interview, earned security
Karlen Lyons-Ruth
Disorganized attachment, communication breakdown
Rachel Yehuda
Epigenetic inheritance of trauma
Michael Meaney
DNA methylation and parenting behavior
Murray Bowen
Family systems theory, differentiation of self
Peter Levine
Somatic experiencing, somatic authority threshold
Eugene Gendlin
Focusing, the felt sense
Daniel Siegel
Interpersonal neurobiology, neural integration
This is a supplemental framework certification for licensed and unlicensed practitioners who wish to use this conceptual system in their work. It does not confer clinical licensure and does not replace supervised clinical training. It is intended for practitioners who want to add a structured nervous system and attachment language to existing practice, and who take full responsibility for the scope of their own clinical or coaching work.