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The Healing Fields Model™ prepares you for a role.
Master a complete five-field framework for facilitating transformative healing experiences in immersive, nature-based, retreat, and clinical settings.
18.5 CE Hours • Self-Paced Online
A Five-Field Framework for Embodied, Transformative Healing
The Healing Fields Model™
The Healing Fields Model™ is a clinically rigorous, integrative methodology for facilitating Corrective Emotional Experiences (CEEs) that repair the Social Engagement System and create lasting nervous-system-level change.
Rooted in Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges), Interpersonal Neurobiology (Dan Siegel), somatic psychology, and person-centered principles, the model uses a complete five-field therapeutic framework to create the precise conditions of safety, co-regulation, and neuroception of safety required for deep, embodied healing.
The Five Fields Framework
1. Internal Field The client’s inner landscape — interoception, somatic awareness, emotional tone, autonomic nervous system states, and window of tolerance. This field helps clients locate themselves in their bodies, recognize present-moment internal cues, and build self-regulation capacity.
2. Relational Field The living interpersonal field between therapist and client (or group). It includes therapeutic alliance, attuned presence, co-regulation, rupture-and-repair, and person-centered principles. Relational injuries are healed in relationship here.
3. Ecological Field Nature and environment as active co-therapist. Sensory grounding, soft fascination, ecological metaphors, rhythmic movement, and natural ventral vagal cues in outdoor and immersive settings. Nature expands the window of tolerance and supports regulation.
4. Integrative Field The dynamic field of synthesis and meaning-making where Internal, Relational, and Ecological experiences are woven together. This field activates neuroplasticity, conscious integration of corrective experiences, emotional resilience, and the translation of session insights into lasting life change, moving clients from fragmentation to coherent, embodied wholeness.
5. Therapeutic Field The overarching structured therapeutic container and process. It encompasses the therapist’s internal readiness, ethical boundaries, the 5-Phase Session Process, co-facilitation skills, crisis management, and the intentional creation of safety across all other fields. The Therapeutic Field makes the entire model operational, replicable, and ethically sound.
How the Five Fields Work Together
The Internal, Relational, and Ecological Fields supply the raw material of healing. The Integrative Field synthesizes them into coherent transformation. The Therapeutic Field provides the skilled structure, presence, and ethical container that allows all fields to activate safely and powerfully — even in complex immersive environments.
Corrective Emotional Experiences (CEEs)
When the five fields converge, they create the conditions for deep Corrective Emotional Experiences. Clients move through Preparation → Reliving with Repair → Integration, shifting from defensive autonomic states into ventral vagal connection and producing lasting emotional resilience, relational growth, and expanded self-regulation.
Who It’s For
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs who want to bring nervous-system-informed, nature-based, and immersive therapeutic work into their practice with greater clinical precision.
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
Emerging clinicians and supervisors who want a formalized methodology for Corrective Emotional Experiences, co-regulation, and outdoor/immersive work before (or while) building their independent practice.
Outdoor & Experiential Program Operators
Associates, Graduate Trainees & Clinical Supervisors
Outdoor & Experiential Program Operators
Professionals who facilitate or co-facilitate transformative experiences in retreats, outdoor programs, adventure therapy, community-based settings, or other immersive therapeutic environments and want a clinically sound framework to guide their work.
Organizations & Nonprofits
Especially Valuable For Healing Providers Working With
Outdoor & Experiential Program Operators
Teams and agencies seeking to train staff in trauma-informed co-facilitation, nervous system regulation, and ethical collaboration between clinicians and program operators.
Especially Valuable For Healing Providers Working With
Especially Valuable For Healing Providers Working With
Especially Valuable For Healing Providers Working With
- Complex and developmental trauma
- Attachment injuries and relational wounds
- Military, veteran, and first-responder populations (and their families)
- Children and adolescents
- Clients whose nervous systems remain in defensive states despite traditional talk therapy
About US
Our Founder and Course Instructor
Our Founder and Course Instructor
Our Founder and Course Instructor
Christin Frederick, MA, LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Atascadero, California. Founder of Adventure Therapy Associates (nonprofit) and Joya Sagrada Family Therapy. Originator of The Healing Fields Model™. U.S. Marine Corps veteran, clinical supervisor, and specialist in Polyvagal-informed, somatic, and eco-therapeutic approaches.
The Healing Fields Foundation
Our Founder and Course Instructor
Our Founder and Course Instructor
Adventure Therapy Associates (doing business as Healing Fields Foundation) is a California nonprofit training organization based in Atascadero, California, dedicated to developing and disseminating clinically grounded frameworks for nature-based and immersive therapeutic work.
Founded by Christin Frederick, LMFT, the organization creates structured professional trainings—including The Healing Fields Model™—that equip mental health clinicians and experiential leaders to facilitate deep, nervous-system-informed healing in retreat, outdoor, adventure, and community-based settings.
Training Program Enrollment
What’s Included • Complete self-paced online course (18.5 CE hours) • Downloadable Module Handbooks & full Course Workbook • All video lessons, knowledge checks, and final assessment • Certificate of completion upon meeting all requirements • Lifetime access to all materials
Refund Policy Full refund within 7 days of purchase if no modules have been accessed. After 7 days or once content access begins, refunds are not available (exceptions considered case-by-case).
The Healing Fields Foundation
7305 Morro Rd, Suite 203, Atascadero, CA 93422
