IC™: Certification 2
Relational Intelligence™ Practitioner Training
Most relationships fail because they treat conflict as a thinking problem. This 5-month certification trains you to work where relationships actually live: in the nervous system. Learn to support relationships as they transform challenges into meaningful growth.
6 credits toward our MA, Integrative Psychology.
Next Cohort Starts: September 1, 2026
➳ International Certification: Relational Intelligence Practitioner
➳ Live session options for US & Asia Timezones
➳ 5-7 Hours Weekly, Asynchronous + Live Mentor Sessions
➳ Cohort Sizes: 50-70, 1,000+ Graduates
What is an RI™ Practitioner?
The RI™ practitioners are intimate guides for couples and individuals as they seek greater harmony and growth in their relationships, using tools from holistic psychology to transform conflict into meaningful growth.
Learn An Integrative Method of Relationship Support Focused on
Co-Regulation, Conflict Resolution,
and Growth Orientation
Have you ever watched two people you care about — a couple, friends, family members — locked in a painful cycle they can't seem to break? You can feel the love underneath the conflict, but you don't have the tools to help them find their way back to each other.
These moments hold enormous potential. When met with the right skills, relational pain can become the doorway to deeper intimacy, self-understanding, and lasting connection.
Maybe you're the person people already come to when their relationships are struggling. The one friends call after the fight, the one who can hold space for both sides without choosing. But holding that space without professional training is draining — and you know you're only scratching the surface of what's possible. Or maybe you're already working with clients and you can feel the relational tension underneath their individual struggles. You sense that the breakthrough they need isn't more insight about themselves — it's a shift in how their nervous system meets another person's.
Most approaches to relationship help make the same mistake: they treat communication problems as thinking problems. Learn these phrases, follow these steps, negotiate more fairly. But when two nervous systems are activated, no script in the world can land. The real work happens below language — in the co-regulation, the rupture, and the repair.
The Relational Intelligence Practitioner Training teaches you to work where relationships actually live — in the body, in the nervous system, in the space between two people. You'll learn evidence-based tools drawn from the leading research on what makes relationships thrive, including:
Co-regulation and nervous system attunement
Rupture-repair cycles (from Tronick's research through Gottman's)
Somatic awareness in conflict
The Four Principles of Conscious Loving
Gottman's predictors of relationship success and failure
Nonviolent Communication as a relational practice
This training asks you to first run this material through your own relationships — to develop your own relational intelligence from the inside out — before learning to facilitate transformation for others under experienced supervision.
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Weekly Info Call: Professional Certifications
Learn about our professional certifications on our weekly info call.
Mentor-Focused Education
Most of our students come to us with a variety of existing training, seeking the context and clarity to turn their skills into something real they can use with clients.
Unlike theory-driven conventional education, our trainings are mentor driven. We maximize the amount of time you spend with mentors who do this work every day to help you feel what it’s like to build a real career around this work.
Program Overview:
Certification: Relational Intelligence Practitioner™
5 months total. 4-5 hours weekly
Online Training with self-paced & live Zoom session.
Option for in-person retreat in Arizona (first week of June or December).
All live sessions have multiple time options (Saturday, 10 am PST, Thursday, 5PM PST).
For the full curriculum outline and live session schedule, request more info to receive our PDF
Key Considerations:
$3,950 total. Payment plans available ($750 / month)
All credit hours ($3,125) apply towards our degree programs.
Integrative Psychology is an approved secondary education provider with the Integrative Therapists Association™ (ITA). ITA is an independent credentialing body that approves standards for mental health practitioners and educators in somatic, body-based, and alternative mental health practice. Integrative Psychology has been approved to provide up to 400 hours of professional training, meeting the secondary education requirements for the Certified Integrative Therapist (CIT) credential.
For more information, visit itatherapy.org.
4-day in-person intensive retreat
Come learn with us in person twice a year in Scottsdale, Arizona. All students receive access to our in-person immersions, where we prepare to launch group somatic healing containers.
In-Person Immersion Module
June 3-7, 2026 | Scottsdale, AZ
December 2-6, 2026 | Scottsdale, AZ
Course Instructors & Mentors
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Stephanie Scarminach
Somatic Therapist
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Niki Wikstrom
Integrative Therapist
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Iona Singleton
Integrative Psychologist
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Enrollment Includes:
Asynchronous content, practice library, and 16 live sessions over 5 months.
Professional Certification as a Relational Intelligence Practitioner™
6 credit hours ($3,120) towards our MA Degree.
Option 1: Pay in full
$3,950
$550 Discount
Payment Plan: 3 Months
$1,400 x 3
$4,200 total
Payment Plan: 6 Months
$750 x 6
$4,500 total
FAQs: Professional Certifications
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The psychosomatic training trains practitioners in a non-diagnosis, integrative paradigm of supplementary mental health support. A license is not required as a prerequisite.
While there are no strict prerequisites for this training, experience in coaching or spaceholding is encouraged..
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Yes, this is a primarily online program with asynchronous materials and live mentoring sessions.
Students also have the option to attend our in-person immersion weekends held in June and December every year in Phoenix, Arizona. Please note this is encouraged but optional for certification.
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No, all live courses are recorded for flexible schedules. During Level 2 trainings, you are required to attend at least 1 facilitation practice session a week. Each training has multiple time options for practice groups.
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All professional courses are about 4-6 hours of coursework a week, although many students complete it faster.
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Integrative Psychology is an approved secondary education provider with the Integrative Therapists Association™ (ITA). ITA is an independent credentialing body that approves standards for mental health practitioners and educators in somatic, body-based, and alternative mental health practice. Integrative Psychology has been approved to provide up to 400 hours of professional training, meeting the secondary education requirements for the Certified Integrative Therapist (CIT) credential.
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Credit transfer happens seamlessly. After completing the training and assessment, the credit will be applied to your student account and apply the discount towards your MA Degree.
Yes, every credit hour you complete through our professional certifications does reduce the cost of the MA degree.
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Yes. If you take two of our professional certification courses (both levels) you will receive a $500 discount. If you take 3 professional certifications (both levels) you will receive a $1,500 discount.
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Students of this training learn one of the four frames of inquiry involved in the integrative coherence technique.
Somatics and nervous system regulation is the foundation for all of our work in integrative psychology, and this is an appropriate starting point for new students, or existing practitioners looking for retraining.