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Holistic mental health & wellness (practitioner training, therapeutic support).

17/02/2026

Friends, have you received our brand-new *FREE* resource? 💻📋

Counselors, somatic practitioners, coaches - this is for you! Whether you’re newly qualified, building confidence with your first clients, or realising you never quite learned these basics explicitly, it is our hope that this free resource will offer you clarity and a practical tool you can use right away.

Join us on Friday, 20th Feb ’26 to dive deeper into:

* Essential client information - including the intake forms, consent, disclaimers, and information protection we always recommend regardless of your location or modality.
* Structuring and pacing an intake session, what to ask and what to leave for later, and how to establish clear professional boundaries and requirements from the outset.
* Bonus guidance on proven payment policies, handling cancellations and no-shows, and ethical, sustainable note-taking practices.

👉 If you work or are training to work one on one, head here: https://forms.gle/ZMc33tKsFBMZ24ZRA to book your spot!

Bonus: intake session checklist included for free for all bookings.

16/02/2026

When this week started, how did you feel?

A fulfilled practitioner is a great practitioner. We show up better. We prepare better. We *feel* so much better. 🤍 Knowing how fulfilled we are on our current career path is such an important step. From there we can start reflecting more deeply on what is draining us and what needs to shift + how.

If 0 = totally unfulfilled and 10 = totally fulfilled, how would you rate your start to the week? 👇 Share with us in the comments below.

There’s no shame here. 🤗

13/02/2026

Join us for a value-packed FREE webinar workshop on Friday 20th Feb, 2pm SAST to learn:

📋 Essential client information - including the intake forms, consent, disclaimers, and information protection we always recommend regardless of your location or modality.
📋 How to structure and pace an intake session, what to ask and what to leave for later, and how to establish clear professional boundaries and requirements from the outset.
📋 You’ll also receive bonus guidance on proven payment policies, handling cancellations and no-shows, and ethical, sustainable note-taking practices.

Limited spots. Ideally suited to mental health and wellness practitioners (counselors, somatic workers, wellness specialists, coaches - all welcome 🙂🫶).

👉 Booking link here: https://forms.gle/UVPrjfqDjkz9TKeJ8 Confidence really is born in clarity!

12/02/2026

It’s not if, but when, a client expresses suicidal thoughts to you. Take it from us, if you work anywhere near mental health and wellness, it will happen. How equipped do you feel to safely and compassionately respond?

We have just introduced a brand-new module to our short course in Practical Counseling: Managing suicidality with care. This is a bonus module and included, absolutely FREE when you join our Practical Counseling course!

We will support you in learning:

🫶 How to identify clients at risk for serious self-harm.
🫶 Responding in a grounded, and effective way.
🫶 What questions to ask to assess su***de risk and compassionately support the client.
🫶 Referral and means restriction processes that are critical next steps.
🫶 Resourcing for clients struggling with suicidal thoughts.
***Also included - our favourite (downloadable) tool for su***de risk screening that anyone can use.

Join us and step into mental health and wellness sessions clear on how to manage sucidality with care.

⏱️ NB! Our short course in Practical Counseling is currently on sale, and includes this module and all our other super practical modules to support your confidence and skill set with clients in sessions: intake and documentation, case formulation and development, ethical and reflective practice. 👉 Pop us a DM to request the detailed curriculum overview!

09/02/2026

Many of us have learnt from a young age that our true feelings are not ok. They’re bad. Or we’re bad for having them.

But here’s the thing… Feelings don’t just go away. Particularly those related to abuse, trauma, being taken advantage of or just simply not being validated and understood. Feelings don’t simply disappear - no matter how much someone has told us they should. They get turned inward and we desperately cling to other behaviour to help us regulate. Every behaviour serves a purpose, friend. Every, single, one.

Have a question about emotional regulation? Pop it in the comments below for us 🫶

05/02/2026

We see you. We’re here for you. 🫶

03/02/2026

Compassion > knowledge. Connection > ego. Shared humanity > labels.

Your gentle presence matters. Hugely.

30/01/2026

🤩 What a way to start 2026!

We are now accepting scholarship applications for our much-anticipated facilitator training - trauma sensitive yoga for children, teens and their families. Application form can be found via link in our bio.

🙌 Meet the faculty:

Our founder, Candice Clark
Mom, experienced licensed counselor, trainer and yoga therapist specialising in trauma and mental health. Special interest in developmental psychology.

Our colleague & friend, Michelle Fury
Licensed psychotherapist and highly experienced paediatric yoga therapist (Colorado Children’s Hospital). Author and acclaimed subject matter expert on yoga as a psychtherapeutic intervention.

👉 Apply for a full or part scholarship here: https://forms.gle/nYUuwHBi7UCwG9XU9
👉 Enrol at early-bird pricing here: https://candiceclark.co.za/tsy-child-teens-facilitator-training/

We are gearing up for our 7th March start and are SO excited to welcome you all in. NB: Early bird pricing expires on 31 Jan if you’re still wanting to book in normally. We’re almost full-up! We. Can’t. Hardly. Wait.

29/01/2026

Science has only recently caught up to some of what the ancient yogis have known for centuries.

Healing is possible.

26/01/2026

Spot a leader that may have needed trauma support as a child? 👀 Us too.

Can we break cycles? Can we raise a generation of kind, smart and attuned children? Yes, yes we can.

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👉 Starting soon! 20 hour professional training, trauma-sensitive yoga for children & teens.

👉 Pop us a DM or comment “count me in!” below and we will add you to our special launch community for this training.

23/01/2026

🫶 A heart for children. A heart for cycle-breaking. A heart for seeing the world changed through early intervention.

We’re looking for you!

Our 20-hour professional training in trauma-sensitive yoga for children, teens and families is open to you. Parents, educators, students, yoga teachers, somatic practitioners, mental health professionals and the simply curious are so welcome to join us. This is a lovingly-designed and expertly-crafted training, rooted in seeing less and less children grow up with unresolved trauma. Healed children become thriving adults, and thriving adults break cycles!

Ready to join hands with us? We can’t wait to welcome you in.

👉 Pop us a DM or comment “count me in!” below and we will add you to our special launch community.

👉 Tag & share this post with fellow cycle-breakers & other hearts that you know deeply care about children & their futures. 🫶

16/01/2026

New counselors, facilitators & practitioners, this post is for you 🫶

As a supervisor and experienced practitioner, I can’t tell you how many challenges can be resolved very early on. You don’t have to wait to feel confused. You don’t have to wait for an emergency. You don’t have to guess your way through it all on your own.

We have put together a super practical, integrated and value-packed 90-minute workshop on just this - the mastering of the intake process. We specifically designed this to help all practitioners (whether you’re a counselor, wellness specialist, yoga facilitator, somatic worker) - feel more confident, grounded and organised in the early stages of client work.

Together, we’ll be covering:

〰️ Essential client information - including the intake forms, consent, disclaimers, and information protection we always recommend regardless of your location or modality.
〰️ How to structure and pace an intake session, what to ask and what to leave for later, and how to establish clear professional boundaries and requirements from the outset.
〰️You’ll also receive bonus guidance on proven payment policies, handling cancellations and no-shows, and ethical, sustainable note-taking practices.

Let’s tame that imposter syndrome together! Friday, 23 Jan, 14pm - 15:30pm SAST.

👉 Very limited spots, more info & bookings here: https://forms.gle/oxBxyWzXTxTcaMEY7

Address

Online, And In-person (Sandton, South Africa)
Sandton
2060

Telephone

+27844191725

Website

https://candiceclark.co.za/

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