ADVANCED SHADOW COACH TRAINING
A sacred immersion for therapists, coaches and healers who feel called to go deeper.
There comes a pivotal moment in every practitioner’s journey when surface-level techniques are no longer enough—when you recognize that true transformation requires moving beyond quick fixes and addressing the root causes hidden beneath patterns, stories, and personas.
This is the threshold where real change begins.
The 6-Month Advanced Shadow Coach Training is a comprehensive, immersive program designed for experienced coaches, healers, and therapists who are ready to expand their depth and impact. By integrating multiple modalities—such as Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychodrama, and more—you’ll learn to facilitate breakthrough experiences that dissolve resistance, awaken authentic truth, and create lasting transformation.
With this advanced skillset, you’ll increase your capacity to hold space for profound healing, elevate your professional practice, and support clients in achieving sustainable change.
Which Healer Archetype Lives Within You?
There’s a sacred gift within you—a presence that uplifts, transforms, and brings others back to what’s true. The way you serve is powerful, intuitive, and deeply needed in this world. And now, it’s time to understand just how uniquely your magic works.
This quiz will reveal your core Healer Archetype—the soul essence behind how you support, love, and lead others on their journey. Whether your medicine is fierce and activating, soft and soul-soothing, or grounded in sacred truth, your path is unlike anyone else’s.
Through this quiz, you’ll receive a sacred blueprint—a map to the unique way you heal, serve, and uplift the world, aligned with the deepest truth of your soul’s journey.
Let’s discover the gifts you were born to embody—and the healing only you can bring to the world.
Shadow work isn’t just a modality—it’s a reclamation.
It takes courage to meet what’s been hidden, and skill to guide others into that space with precision, safety, and soul.
This is your invitation to step into a higher level of practice—where your presence itself becomes a catalyst for truth to emerge. To refine your mastery. To distinguish your work from the noise. To design transformational experiences that don’t simply ignite change, but anchor it in lasting, embodied results.
If you are ready to advance your practice, broaden your impact, and guide both yourself and others into deeper freedom, this is the path forward.
Because when you choose to go beyond the surface, what you uncover will not only transform the lives of your clients—it will profoundly expand your own.
We are now taking inquiries for our 2025/26 Cohort!!
Natalie Gentry- Body-Centered Practitioner and Coach
I enrolled in the Shadow Coaching certification program because I found that my clients had issues that went beyond the physical paradigm; I wanted tools to support them and I wanted a skill set that would help me to shift my business to include coaching the shadow elements that clients rarely explore. What I’ve discovered was so much more. This program is also helping me to unravel challenges I’ve struggled with as well. Bottom line: the better I’m able to understand and work through my challenges and roadblocks, the better able I am to serve others. This is a wonderful program…I highly recommend it!
New to Shadow Work and want to become Certified?
If you feel called to this deep work and want to become certified then explore the Foundational Shadow Coach Certification. This 8-month comprehensive training is designed to ground you in the core theory, tools, and principles of shadow work—giving you the confidence and mastery to work powerfully with clients. This program complies with national standards for therapeutic coaching.
Many practitioners choose to enroll in both the Foundational and Advanced trainings for a truly immersive experience that transforms both your practice and your path.
If you sign up for both programs then you can receive a huge discount and
pay only $9,995.
( They must be completed within two consecutive years)
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Advanced Shadow Coach Training: Take Your Practice Deeper
Do you feel called to guide others into deeper transformation—the kind that transcends mindset shifts and reaches the very core of true healing? Are you ready to hold space not only for change, but for liberation?
If you are a psychotherapist, coach, healer, or graduate of the Wilderness Walk Foundational Shadow Coach Certification—or another seasoned practitioner—you already know that surface-level tools have their limits. Clients today are seeking something more: a path inward, a way home.
Therapeutic Shadow Coaching is rapidly becoming one of the most impactful and in-demand modalities for addressing emotional pain, unconscious patterns, and unintegrated trauma. The Advanced Shadow Coach Training represents a profound evolution of this work, integrating somatic healing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodrama, shamanic practices, and creative expression to foster lasting, embodied transformation.
This training goes beyond the one-to-one context. You will expand your capacity to design and facilitate transformational groups, retreats, events, and even corporate programs—equipping you to meet each setting with presence, precision, and confidence. Whether guiding an individual or leading a room, you will learn to navigate complex dynamics with depth and clarity.
A Shadow Coach does not simply guide from theory—they lead from lived experience. They are the practitioners who have traversed their own darkness and emerged carrying light. They know how to hold space in the breaking-open, to walk alongside others in their reclamation, and to illuminate the path toward wholeness.
If that’s who you’re becoming—this is the training that will take you there.
Ready to take that first step?
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COACH TRAININGS
SOME BENEFITS FROM DOING SHADOW WORK
Cultivates emotional resilience, self-acceptance, and inner peace by helping one understand their wounds, regulate their emotions, and release guilt, fear, shame, and suppressed pain.
Shadow work deepens relationships by helping one set healthy boundaries, show up authentically, release projections, and cultivate compassion—for themselves and others.
Shadow work empowers visionary leadership and bold creativity by aligning one with their truth, dissolving fear-based blocks, and unlocking the confidence to lead, create, and innovate with purpose.
Shadow work fuels personal growth by revealing the roots of self-sabotage, awakening the courage to change, and empowering one to live with purpose and intention.
THE WILDERNESS WALK ADVANCED SHADOW COACH TRAINING OVERVIEW
We will use some of the most effective healing modalities to work with the shadow including: Somatic Healing, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, Shamanic Practices, and Creative Expression.
Effective Shadow Work
Tools and Practices
During the program you will have six virtual intensives. Each intensive will be 2 half days and will include small breakout room practices, experiential exercises and powerful discussions. These intensives will be highly interactive and experiential, allowing you to gain a sense of mastery over the tools and your own personal shadow.
Six Mind Blowing Intensives
You will attend a live virtual retreat at the beginning of your process. The training will end with an in-person four night retreat as a way to complete and integrate the process.
Virtual and Live Retreat
There will be a series of 12 video trainings that will teach you the foundation of the practices and how to specifically use them with the shadow.
Video Training
The online learning space houses all your curriculum—videos, audios, and documents. It’s also where you’ll find your interactive class discussion forums, where you can interact with instructors, and where you get to know other coaches.
Online Learning Space
You will be assigned a mentor who will support your process throughout the program, and you will receive some personal shadow work coaching.
Mentoring and Personal Shadow Coaching
Lori Kaufman- Creativity Coach
If you are looking to expand your ability to support yourself and your clients as they transverse their healing journey, the Shadow Coaching Certification is for you! Suzanne and George come together to bring their expertise and passion for exploring the shadow. They provide an extensive framework for understanding and working with the shadow along with mentorship, community, and a vast library of excellent coaching tools to support your practice and strengthen your capacity to support your clients safely and with integrity.
LEARNING MODULES AND INTENSIVES
The following modalities are loaded with tools that can be used in working with the shadow. We are using bits and pieces of each of these powerful modalities so that you can build a life-changing experience for your clients.
The body holds what the mind forgets. Somatic work invites us to listen—not just with our thoughts, but with our whole being. It recognizes that trauma, stress, and emotional residue are not just psychological—they live in the tissues, the breath, the nervous system. This is why somatic work is a vital companion to shadow work.
The shadow doesn’t live in logic—it lives in sensation, impulse, contraction, and silence. To truly meet and integrate the unconscious, we must include the body. In this training, we explore how to work with the language of the body: the subtle cues, the held patterns, the wisdom stored deep within. When we bring awareness to what the body is showing us, we gain access to deeper truth, fuller integration, and more lasting transformation.
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING AND THE SHADOW
Psychodrama is a powerful, experiential modality that brings the unseen into the light—through movement, role-play, and embodied storytelling. Rather than simply talking about a memory or pattern, we step into it, giving form and voice to the parts of us that have been silenced, stuck, or frozen in time. This process allows us to not only witness but to rehearse transformation—to reclaim agency, express what was never said, and shift the narrative from within.
Because the shadow lives in the unconscious, beyond words and logic, we need embodied, action-based tools to access what’s been hidden. Psychodrama opens a doorway into deeper layers of healing by engaging the body, imagination, and nervous system—all of which hold clues to our unresolved experiences.
PSYCHODRAMA AND THE SHADOW
Within each of us lives a whole inner ecosystem—different parts, voices, and energies that carry their own stories, emotions, and roles. Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a profound way to meet these inner parts with compassion and curiosity. Some are protectors, working hard to keep us safe. Others hold pain, shame, anger, or fear—parts of us we’ve pushed aside or learned to hide.
Shadow work invites us to turn toward these parts instead of away from them. To listen. To understand. To see which parts are leading the way—and which ones are longing to be heard, healed, or integrated. Often, these parts are in conflict with the deeper wisdom of our higher self, creating tension, resistance, and misalignment in our lives.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS AND THE SHADOW
Rooted in earth-based wisdom and ancient spiritual traditions, shamanic principles offer a path of remembrance—of our connection to nature, spirit, and the deeper intelligence that lives within and around us. In many indigenous cultures, shamanic practice is not separate from life—it is life. It teaches that healing is relational: with self, with others, with the land, and with the unseen world.
The shadow, by nature, creates a sense of separation—from our essence, our intuition, and our spirit. Shamanic work helps bridge that gap. Through the use of ritual, ceremony, imagery, and metaphor, we enter into the symbolic realms of the unconscious—the places where language falters, but deep truth speaks. These practices open portals to healing that are embodied, spiritual, and sacred, helping us to remember who we are beneath the layers we’ve hidden or forgotten.
SHAMANIC PRINCIPLES AND THE SHADOW
We are all innately creative—yet so many of us have learned to silence, shrink, or separate from that truth. There is a collective shadow around creativity that tells us it's reserved for artists, dancers, musicians, or performers. And in response, many people carry an individual shadow marked by denial, dismissal, or even shame around their creative expression.
Shadow work invites us to reclaim what’s been exiled—including the natural, generative spark that lives in every human being. Creativity isn’t just about painting or performing—it shows up in business, strategy, cooking, parenting, storytelling, innovation, and how we shape the world around us. Whether it flows through art, spreadsheets, or software, creativity is a sacred impulse toward expression, connection, and life itself.
CREATIVITY AND THE SHADOW
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PROGRAM DETAILS
Can be taken from anywhere in the world!
Virtual Online Shadow Coach Training
Coaching toolkit
Private student forum with 24-7 access
Virtual and live in-person retreat
Access to educational librafry
Access to graduate program upon completion
(6) Monthly Modules
(12) Pre-recorded video-audio trainings with accompanying PDFs and tools
(6) 2 half-day intensives with founders and other trainers
(3) Private mentoring sessions for accountability and personal shadow coaching
Book a call to get started!
Beginning is EASY!
“Unless we do conscious work on it, the shadow is almost always projected: That is, it is neatly laid on someone or something else so we do not have to take responsibility for it.”
– Robert Johnson
FOUNDERS AND FACILITATORS
Suzanne Hanna
Founder
Suzanne Hanna is a psychotherapist, shadow coach, and author who doesn’t just guide others through transformation—she embodies it. After walking 1,000 miles across the country in a radical act of healing and reclamation, Suzanne emerged with a rare and sacred map: the path home to the truest self. Her journey—through heartbreak, betrayal, loss, and rebirth—infuses every step she takes with those she serves. Suzanne is not here to offer quick fixes or surface solutions. She is here to walk beside you through the invisible thresholds of your life—with reverence, precision, and unwavering devotion. To walk with her is to descend into the depths of your becoming. To stand beside her is to remember you were never lost—only buried beneath the weight of what was never truly yours. Suzanne’s work is a pilgrimage into the shadow, a homecoming to truth, and a reclamation of the radiant, untamed self that’s been there all along waiting.
George Herrick
Co-Founder
George Herrick is co-creator of the original Wilderness Walk, and since then has been a creative contributor as well as a powerful collaborator with Suzanne. George is the founder of SoulDeep Living, a coaching process that supports people in taking courageous action toward the life that matters most to them. His classes, retreats and coaching lead others through transformational experiences and creative expression to live inspired lives. A life and recovery coach, artist, initiated shamanic practitioner and ceremonialist, George works with people who want a deeper connection to their soul and express their personal, human divinity with compassion, wisdom and a sense of service to something greater than themselves. He is the author of the best-selling book, “STONE WARRIOR; Confronting Life’s Dark Challenges with Stone Art and Meditation,” about his journey through the shadows of recovery from cancer and addiction.
Andrea Arledge
Facilitator
Andrea Arledge is a former Registered Nurse turned Certified Master Shadow Coach and Soul Messaging Mentor for spiritual women, healers, and heart-led practitioners who are ready to stop hiding, embody their truth, and be seen—for who they really are. With one foot in the mystical and the other in the practical, Andrea blends shadow work, energy healing, intuitive development, and soul-aligned strategy to help you clarify your message, own your brilliance, and show up visibly in your business—without selling out your soul. She brings depth and direction to the table, holding space for the parts of you that have been silenced while helping you craft a message that actually resonates. A certified Reiki Master Teacher, holistic nutritionist, numerologist, yoga teacher, copywriter, and Master Shadow Coach, Andrea’s toolkit is vast—but it’s her presence that changes everything.
“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which is lurking beneath the surface no longer has power over us.”
― Aletheia Luna
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE ADVANCED TRAINING WILL RECEIVE:
✓ Certificate of completion
✓ Access to graduate community
✓ Ongoing access to material and resources
✓ Highlighted on our website
✓ Ongoing Supervision
✓ Access to an ever expanding library of educational videos.
(Payment Plans Available)
Investment
$4,995 USD
Carolyn Carlson-Intuitive Massage Therapist, Creative Healer & Shadow Coach
Having done Shadow work over the past 6 years in my personal journey work, I knew that I wanted to be able to bring it to others in my professional offerings. The information I am learning and the tangible tools that I am being given have helped me to feel comfortable in my coaching sessions with others. The material is provided in a multi-tiered approach so that all learning styles can engage and become enriched in the certification process. If you are seeking a quality, well-rounded Shadow Coaching Certification look no further.
To receive a certificate of completion for the advanced training participants must complete the following:
Completion of required self-study videos and objectives in the online learning space.
Attend a minimum of 80% of the intensives LIVE.
Schedule 3 personal development and mentorship calls with your assigned leader.
Record three 30-minute coaching sessions using the modalities taught to review with your mentor and coach.
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