Integrative Catholic Coaching
Integrative Catholic Coaching offers two pathways— individualized coaching or the Fully Alive Coaching Program rooted in the Spirit-led Inner Child work model.
Depending on your unique needs, temperament, and capacity, it is recommended to complete a free 15-minute consultation to explore what option will be best for you! The information below captures the difference between the program and the individualized coaching to support your discernment further.
Fully Alive Coaching Program
The Fully Alive Coaching Program is an intensive 12-week coaching initiative designed to assist individuals dealing with attachment injuries, complex grief, trauma, and deep emotional wounding. This program emphasizes the importance of healing through a time-sensitive, more psycho-educational approach. Participants will engage in a thoughtfully structured curriculum, benefiting from ongoing support and learning alongside a dedicated coach, as well as thoroughly guided modules. Throughout this enriching journey, you’ll have the opportunity to deepen your understanding of yourself and the various aspects that make you who you are, all while fostering an increased sense of self-compassion and experiencing God’s tender mercy in profound ways.
“Engaging in inner child work has been a transformative experience for me. This process allowed me to reconnect with my inner child, adolescent self, and adult self, uncovering deep-seated emotions and memories that I had long buried. Through guided exercises and self-reflection, I learned to address and heal past traumas, significantly improving my emotional well-being. By acknowledging the fears and insecurities of my younger self, I was able to release negative patterns and beliefs that were holding me back. This framework provides the tools to be successful and apply the meditations and exercises on your own. It's life-changing!”
-Fully Alive Coaching Program client
Integrative Catholic Coaching
Inspired by the Fully Alive coaching program, Integrative Catholic Coaching utilizes the comprehensive curriculum, structured guidance, and the Spirit-led Inner Child work model to facilitate deeply individualized support. However, unlike the traditional coaching program, Integrative Catholic Coaching is not constrained by time sensitivities. Instead, it offers a unique approach of intuitive guidance based on what the client truly needs at any given moment. This allows it to adapt the program seamlessly to meet the client’s present feelings, emotional capacity, and personal healing process, ensuring that the support provided is both relevant and meaningful.
“Truly I tell you unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
-Matthew 18:3
The Spirit-Led Inner Child Process helps you to become like a child again.
The Fully Alive Coaching Program and Integrative Catholic Coaching presents to you Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Brya Hanan’s, “Spirit-Led Inner Child Process.”
The “Spirit-Led Inner Child Model” transforms secular inner child work and integrates the truth of Catholic doctrine and spirituality. Through the incorporation of Jesus’s command to become like little children, you will learn how to become like a little child again and also understand what stands in the way of it through the exploration of the different Inner Child parts.
By embarking on a guided and trauma-informed process, you will gently and slowly explore who these Inner Child parts are and learn how to reclaim childlikeness and heal childishness.
You will draw closer to authentic core, God and all the good within and outside of you, including your hopes, dreams, strengths, needs, passions, hobbies, interests, and the good in your relationships, community, and supports.
You will also learn how to be tender and self-compassionate in the face of your struggles, wounds, pain, and self-protection and “suffer with,” as we see with Jesus and the people He encounters in Scripture.
As you learn how to be more Christ-like in the way you show up with your own self, your Inner Child will be more integrated in your adult life, and help you to be a whole and fully functioning and ALIVE person!
The 5 A’s: anchoring, acknowledging, attuning, asking, and acting- THE KEY TO HEALING.
After exploring your Inner Child and the different parts of your Inner Child you will have the opportunity to explore Brya Hanan’s 5 A Imaginative Prayer Method to bring order and healing to your child-parts. This is done through the structured coaching program and individualized coaching.
An experiential and integrated experience.
As you engage with an Integrative Catholic Coach through the program or individualized coaching, you will have the opportunity to not only practice new tools to care for yourself but you’ll receive the gift of authentic witnessing.
Your Integrative Catholic Coach will help you grow in safety and security, by helping you feel seen, heard, and known. They will reflect back what they’re hearing and bear witness with you to all the different parts of you, including their joys, hopes, sorrows, grief, anger, and fear.
They will help you name and identify what Inner Child-parts are coming up and create space for what they hold, and what they need. They will also support you in bringing you closer to your identity as God’s child and prayerfully bring you back to your Healer.
I have personally and professionally seen the positive effects of inner child work.
I, Brya Hanan, started engaging in “Inner Child work” in my personal therapy when I was in graduate school. When I started to identify my Inner Child and experience her, I felt awakened to a whole new approach to better understand my story and love the woman whom God made me to be.
After years of struggling with self-sabotage, self-criticism, and self-abandonment, I felt like I finally discovered the secret to changing the way my mind thinks and becoming a better friend and parent to myself.
When I started my work as a Psychotherapist I started learning more about Inner Child work and discovered ways to integrate it with my faith. I then began bringing my newfound knowledge to my clients. Within just one session of Inner Child work, I could see my clients eyes begin to open wider. They could see things they couldn’t see before, and all of their negative behaviors and distressing emotions were starting to make more sense.
Over time, these clients started to heal. They started becoming more compassionate towards themselves and had more courage to change behavior that was no longer helping them to survive. I had never seen such powerful results with other psychotherapy modalities and treatments.
I began formalizing what I had put into practice through a coaching program. The past couple of years, before the launch of my book, “Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness” I led clients through what I now call, “Spirit-Led Inner Child Work” and noticed that clients benefited from a more formalized approach.
Then, with the success of my book and advertisement on social media, the word of my process has spread, creating a need to get this work out to others.
As a participant of this program, you are receiving the gift of the Lord’s healing in my life through this process and what I have seen in the healing work I have been able to accomplish with clients.
Here’s what you are going to get if you participate in the Fully Alive Coaching Program:
Seven 60-90 minute 1x1 Telehealth sessions led by trained Integrative Catholic Coaches.
12 modules + Homework Assignments
Throughout the program you will have “befriending work” or homework, to help you explore your child-parts, reflect and practice what you are learning.
You are receiving the gift of the Lord’s power to transform our pain into God’s promise.
“I've loved getting to know and understanding the different parts of my inner child and how they come up in my daily life. It's given me tools to work on my relationships, most importantly with myself and God.”
-Coaching Client
What you will learn through Integrative Catholic Coaching:
How to provide become a secure base for your Inner Child parts.
How to be more compassionate with yourself.
How to anchor, acknowledge, attune, ask, and act in the face of dysregulation, triggers, or complex feelings, relationship dynamics, and thoughts.
How to identify and help your Inner Child get their unmet needs met.
How to integrate your faith into Inner Child work and psychological healing.
How to let God acknowledge and attune to you, and provide you safety, security, and healing.
And much more!
Integrative Catholic Coaching is for you if you experience any of the following…
Childhood trauma
Unprocessed experiences from childhood
Poor boundaries
Poor self-esteem
Chronic dysregulation
Chronic stress
Intrusive negative thoughts
Unhealthy relationships with others
Unhealthy coping skills
Poor relationship with a parent(s)
Lack of confidence in decision-making
Psychological self-abandonment
Values don’t align with behaviors
Feeling polarized or fragmented
Difficulty naming and getting your needs met
Disconnection from Self, God, and others
Struggles understanding yourself
Meet the Integrative Catholic Coaches
The Integrative Catholic Coaches are all trained in Integrative Catholic Coaching and my Spirit-Led Inner Child work model. They can accompany you in the Fully Alive Coaching program or provide Integrative Catholic coaching. Read their bio’s carefully and prayerfully. The success you have in the program and through coaching is largely based on how safe, comfortable and connected you feel with your Integrative Catholic Coach.
Stephanie Gray is a trauma-informed licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, certified Integrative Catholic Coach, wife, and mother of three children. Stephanie believes that every individual is worthy of respect and the dignity of their life should be upheld and protected. She works diligently to create an environment where you will feel safe, seen, heard, understood, and loved. Stephanie’s love for the faith and Christ is entwined with how she views and approaches her work.
Ross Olson is a blessed husband and father of five wonderful children and a certified Integrative Catholic Coach. By trade, he works as a registered nurse but has a special vocation and passion for inner healing and has been involved in inner healing ministry the past four years. Inspired by encounters with the love and mercy of Christ in the deepest places of suffering and woundedness, Ross has followed a call to accompany others on the journey of healing while allowing the Lord to continually draw him deeper to the more tender places of his own heart.
Maria Ortega is a Mexican-American and Catholic therapist and a certified Integrative Catholic Coach. Maria began her career as a social worker working with immigrant families. Maria has used her background to offer deep empathy and help break cultural barriers so that those on the margins can get the support they need. Maria hopes to use her background and therapeutic skills to accompany people on their journey as they learn to integrate the different parts of themselves. Maria's faith in God has led her to believe that she is the vessel and her job is to make space for God to repair the wounds that no human power can repair.
Isabella Bryant is a certified Trauma and Resiliency Life Coach and certified Integrative Catholic Coach. Isabella is trained in treating the effects of childhood sexual abuse and incest from the Arizona Trauma Institute. Isabella is gentle and non-judgmental while still being energetic and honest with her clients. She uses a trauma-informed coaching model and is trained in somatic body-based practices. Isabella desires to create a safe environment for her clients where they feel seen and heard. She currently works with Witness to Love Family Counseling Services in Phoenix, Arizona.
Michelle Miller is a, Licensed Professional Counselor and owner and founder of Luz de Luz Counseling. She provides a safe and non-judgmental space where you can explore your internal world, struggles and wounds, and reconnect with your God given gifts. Committed to breaking generational cycles and cultural barriers, Michelle offers authenticity, faith, and trauma-informed skills to support you, body and soul. Michelle, operates independently and no longer facilities the Fully Alive Coaching program but if you're in Texas and would love to experience the Spirit-led Inner Child work model, Michelle can support you!
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