Dear Friends,
Back in June 2020 in the middle of the pandemic, we launched the Academy of Therapy Wisdom with the inspiration to provide a platform for exceptional established experts like Janina Fisher, and emerging ones like Linda Thai and Jules Taylor Shore.
A few years ago, I was driving to visit my daughter in her home in the mountains, following Boulder Creek around a very winding road, listening to a podcast with John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods. He was talking about how he shaped his food store to be relentlessly customer-focused.
Somewhere on that mountain road, I had one of those aha moments.
The heroes are you.
The therapists sitting with clients day after day, holding things that are almost too heavy to hold. The practitioners doing their own healing work while helping others heal. The professionals investing their precious time and energy to keep learning and growing, even beyond the need for CEs.
Entrepreneurs talk endlessly about 10x impact. But what you offer your clients and communities is the real 10x. Maybe 100x.
That realization changed our whole company vision.
We shifted our focus from simply finding the best teachers and most relevant topics to asking a different question: How can we best serve you, the clinician?
That question has been our north star since.
We built a warmer, more connected learning community. We changed how we run webinars, prioritizing real interaction over passive online experiences. We worked with our presenters to be more intentional about building courses for lasting transformation, not just information delivery.
We deepened our commitment to somatic and body-based practices, because learning alone isn’t enough. We wanted to offer you moments to pause, to breathe, to replenish and to come back to yourself.
And as we watched private equity firms move into the mental health field, buying up practices and threatening the soul of this industry, we felt called to respond. That led us to create WisePractice, a HIPAA-compliant platform built to help therapists thrive without compromising their values.
Throughout all of it, one question has stayed at the center:
How can we be of greater benefit?
As we step into our seventh year, we’d genuinely love to hear from you.
How are we doing? What has been most valuable? Where are we falling short? What challenges are you facing that we might be able to help address?
Your response will be read and shared with our team.
We recognize that nothing is done alone and we are all highly interconnected. It takes a village to build something like this. Our team shows up every day with the mission of creating a world-class learning platform. The teachers have trusted us with their life’s work. And you, our community, have trusted us with your learning, your growth, and your time.
Thank you for six years of that trust. Thank you for staying with us.
With gratitude,
Brian
P.S. We do want to hear from you. If something in this letter landed, or if there’s something you wish we were doing differently, just hit reply. Or come share your thoughts inside the Therapy Wisdom Hub. That’s exactly the kind of conversation we’re trying to make room for. Thanks again.
What you´ll learn:
- Vestibular Engagement for Emotional Regulation
- Using the Eyes to Hack the Stress Response System
- Subtle Sounds to Release the Peri-Trauma Response
- Effective Self-Holding and Self-Swaddling Techniques
- How and When to Apply Bilateral Stimulation
- Integration and Completing the Stress Response Cycle
