Begin your healing journey
The only coaching formation programs that bring Catholic Inner Child Work and Somatic Work together in a structured three-part journey.
We are here to help you heal trauma patterns, reconnect with your body and God, and live from your Spirit-led adult self.
Because you were made to become like a child and experience a kind of wholeness that makes you come alive.
A Catholic Approach to Interior Integration
Our coaching programs are rooted in Brya Hanan's Spirit-led Inner Child Work model—a Catholic approach to human and spiritual formation that helps individuals understand and integrate their interior world in the light of Christ.
Grounded in Catholic anthropology and the Church's understanding of the human person as created in the image and likeness of God (Imago Dei), this approach invites participants to prayerfully explore the different dimensions of their interior life with honesty, compassion, and hope. Rather than treating the self as the ultimate authority, the journey is oriented toward Christ. Healing unfolds through prayer, grace, the sacraments, sound psychological principles, and the gentle guidance of the Holy Spirit, who gradually restores greater unity within the person.
As participants come to understand the ways wounds, protective patterns, and God-given capacities have shaped their lives, they become increasingly free to live from their deepest identity as beloved sons and daughters of God. Our hope is not simply self-understanding. Our hope is an undivided heart—one that is increasingly integrated, transformed by grace, and united with the God who is One.
To learn more about the Catholic parts-work model we use, you can read Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness.
What you’ll receive:
Modules + Homework
No matter what coaching pathway you choose, you will receive access to:
12 Formation Modules
Guided Meditative Prayer
Reflection Questions
Designed to help you encounter your interior world and encounter Christ.
Direct Coaching
When you choose the Fully Alive Interior Pilgrimage or the Fully Alive Formation Program, a trained Integrative Catholic Coach walks alongside you—not to fix you, but to accompany you as you listen more deeply to God's movement within your story and grow in the freedom to live from your deepest identity as His beloved son or daughter.
All coaching integrates:
Nervous system regulation
Catholic Anthropology
The Spirit-led Inner Child Work Model
Prayer
Trauma-informed care
The Five A Process
The Five A Process provides a practical framework for cultivating greater interior freedom and integration. All coaches are trained to help you practice the 5 A’s and will use this process in sessions to help you connect with your child parts, regulate your emotions, work through triggers, and reduce physical, psychological, and emotional distress.
Three Intentional Phases of Inner Formation + Healing
Phase 1:
Understand Your Story
You will have the opportunity to:
Identify your patterns
Identify your unmet needs
Identify your parts
Identify your survival strategies
Put language to your experience
Learn your nervous system
Map your inner world
Build emotional and nervous system safety
Begin relational and spiritual healing
Phase 2:
Heal + Integrate
You will have the opportunity to:
Learn how to love your wounded and protective parts
Practice new ways of relating
Deepen embodiment and connection with Self and God
Step into your Spirit-led Adult Self
Practice living by healthy vows, agreements, and interior and exterior boundaries
Practice regulating your nervous system
Phase 3:
Live Fully Alive
You will have the opportunity to:
Bring together everything you have learned
Co-develop a plan moving forward
Understand what every part of you needs to continue healing and integrating
Discover your growth in the pilgrimage
Continue working with your coach to practice what you have learned
You’re not doing this alone
Our Integrative Catholic Coaches are here to accompany you. No matter which program you choose, our team of dedicated coaches will listen to your needs, meet the different parts of you with compassion, and help you begin integrating and living more fully alive. When you book a consult, you can choose the coach that you’re most interested in working with. Sr. Mary Stephen is an additional support when you sign up for our Interior Pilgrimage Program.
Michelle Phinizy
Integrative Catholic Coach
Maria Ortega
Integrative Catholic Coach
Ross Olson
Integrative Catholic Coach
Briana Johnson (Bree)
Integrative Catholic Coach
Sr. Mary Stephen, Somatic Practitioner
Bella Bryant
Integrative Catholic Coach
A five-month interior pilgrimage for those already being accompanied by a therapist, coach, spiritual director, or priest.
A gentle introduction to Spirit-led Inner Child Work and the journey toward healing and wholeness.
A transformative, five-month journey toward deeper healing, integration, and wholeness in Christ.