The Helix Training Program
A transformative training experience that integrates psychological awareness, spiritual practice, and holistic healing modalities.
The Helix Training Program is a seedbed that fosters healing and transformation. Steeped in over 40 years of pioneering wellness traditions, it challenges the status quo of Western clinical modalities, blending psychotherapy and spiritual teachings. Our work is to train psychospiritual therapists from a foundation of holistic healing, as well as personal and professional development, empowering a lifelong dynamic learning process.
Helix will change your life.
Our vision is to empower people to liberate themselves from institutional and cultural conditioning so that they may forge a profound connection to both self and other while actively contributing to the well-being of the Earth.
As we hold this vision, we build a supportive community structure that nurtures personal and professional growth, supports radical wholeness, fosters deep connections, and provides an array of psychospiritual resources needed for individuals to flourish in all aspects of their lives.
Steeped in Tradition
Established in 1980, our unique training combines psychological awareness with spiritual practice, two pillars that support radical wholeness. Both of these endeavors engage the conflicts and skills, the struggles and strengths of the personality, using them as gateways to deeper awareness.
Helix is an immersive program with a unique teaching approach that diverges from conventional educational models.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The Helix Training Program’s comprehensive approach to holistic wellness—the integration of diverse healing modalities, commitment to accessible online education, dedication to fostering in-person connections and a deep relationship with the Earth—uniquely meets the rising demand, interest and need for personal growth and psychospiritual healing pioneered by our founders over four decades ago.
Your first year in Helix establishes a solid foundation for subsequent learning, introducing modules on theory, cosmologies, diverse philosophies, and healing traditions. A significant portion of your time during the initial year will be dedicated to becoming familiar with your internal patterns and engaging in a transformative process of “house cleaning.” This communal effort extends throughout the entire three-year experiential learning program.
During the second and third year, you’ll deepen your practical knowledge of meditation, ritual, consciousness, psychodynamics in therapeutic relationships, and their spiritual implications. We'll delve into the composition of the psyche across various systems, providing supervision and shared experiences to enhance your hands-on practice.
Early on each student embarks on practicing psychospiritual counseling sessions under supervision. By program completion, you will be experienced, resourced, and able to begin your own practice—if you decide to choose that path.
Our three-year program provides seekers and healing professionals a rigorous, hands-on applied practice in the therapeutic healing arts but our commitment doesn’t stop there. Upon completion of this restorative, metamorphic training, you will also be offered postgraduate integrative support clinic opportunities to practice these skills in the field. Your graduation from The Helix Training Program is simply a starting point—marking the beginning of your revolutionary life as a psychospiritual counselor.
Psychospiritual Healing and Therapy for Life
A 3-YEAR PATH FOR HOLISTIC PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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I highly recommend the Helix Training Program to anyone who may be embarking on a journey of learning and self-discovery.
—Alberto Villoldo, PhD, Medical Anthropologist, Psychologist and Founder of The Four Winds Society
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Helix transformed my life, both personally and professionally. I understand for the first time that I am a healer.
—Ione, Educator, Psychospiritual counselor and Author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color, and founder of Ministry of Maåt.
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As a practicing psychotherapist, I have found Helix invaluable. Exposure to a broad spectrum of essential theories of psychotherapy helps me respond to each individual client's particular needs.
Mary Levenstein, ND, PhD, Psychotherapist and Author of Everyday Cancer Risks and How To Avoid Them
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HELIX, from the double stranded helix found in DNA, truly represents our philosophy. Each strand interweaves two main principles. First, the liberating work of Healing, Spirituality, and the essential skills of Eastern and Western psychotherapy, and second, the balance of experiential and theoretical learning.
— Lynne Aston*, Barbara Crosby, Joan Poelvoorde, and Julie Winter, co-founders of The Helix Training Program
*[1941 - 2002]
Are you yearning to expand your expertise as a compassionate guide?
Is the prospect of a profoundly meaningful career change calling out to you?
Are you in search of a transformational journey tailored uniquely to your individuality?
Here's the empowering truth: you possess the capacity to rewrite your narrative, heal from within, and craft a life resonating with love and fulfillment.
REMEMBER, YOU'RE NOT ALONE ON THIS JOURNEY
As a community, we are engaged in becoming the peace we wish to see manifested in the world.
Embody your medicine.
The Helix Training Program provides the tools to develop your skills, honor your personal path, and share your gifts with a world in crisis.
Julie Winter, Helix co-founder