The Professional Certification Program in Interactive Guided Imagery℠ is an in-depth, comprehensive training track that includes everything in Basic Training and prepares you to serve clients with a wide spectrum imagery techniques. This certification includes a sequence of advanced courses: FIGI, ATS 1A/BATS 2A/B, ATS 3A/B, ATS 4A/B.
This program is designed for practitioners who want to master the deepest and most powerful imagery modalities within a safe, ethical, clinically-informed framework.

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✦ What You’ll Learn

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• Parts Work & Inner Conflict Resolution (ATS-2A/B): Learn to work with inner “parts,” subpersonalities, resistance, ego states, and internal conflicts. You’ll gain tools to help clients recognize, dialogue with, and integrate conflicting inner parts. This is especially useful for clients dealing with addictions, habits, self-sabotage, recurring trauma responses, and internal ambivalence.
• Regression & Inner Child / Life Purpose Imagery: Through imagery techniques you’ll learn to guide clients into regression processes that can access early memories, emotional roots, and core parts of the psyche — including inner-child work, healing of developmental wounds, and exploration of life’s deeper purpose. This helps clients uncover limiting patterns, resolve unresolved emotional material, and reconnect with their inner wisdom. (While the ACADGI course descriptions emphasize inner-child work especially for childhood-trauma survivors under ATS 3B, the broader certification framework supports regression-related, transformational, and symbolic imagery work.)
• Trauma, Developmental & Lifespan Work (ATS-3A/B): The curriculum includes training for working with children and adolescents — addressing developmental issues, behavioral challenges, stress or medical anxiety, and grief/trauma — as well as working with adult survivors of childhood trauma. You’ll learn how to adapt imagery approaches to different ages and developmental stages, and manage complex emotional or trauma-related issues with care.
• Imagery for Chronic Illness, Pain, Life-Threatening Conditions & Transformation (ATS-4A/B): You’ll gain skills for guiding clients through imagery for physical illness, pain management, chronic health issues, life-threatening diseases, and also through life- and death-transitions including grief, loss, end-of-life, and major transformation. This aims to help clients navigate physical and existential crises with mind-body support, resilience, and inner resources.

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✦ How You’ll Learn

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• The Professional Certification path includes basic training (FIGI + ATS 1A/B + Preceptorship I), then continues building through ATS 2A/B, ATS 3A/B, and ATS 4A/B, including 2 live online “preceptorships” (practicums), 9 self-study modules, supervised practice, exams, and guided mentorship under experienced faculty.
• Graduates of the full certification are equipped to practice as fully certified imagery guides — with the knowledge and skills to support clients through everything from basic stress relief to deep trauma healing, life transitions, serious illness, grief, and transformational self-work.

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✦ Why It Matters

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This program is ideal for mental-health professionals, coaches, counselors, nurses, holistic practitioners, wellness professionals, and anyone committed to supporting clients through deep healing, mind-body integration, trauma recovery, grief and loss, chronic illness, or life transitions.

By mastering advanced imagery techniques like Parts Work, Regression, Inner Child work, and transformational life-purpose imagery, you become capable of guiding clients through profound inner work — helping them resolve inner conflicts, heal past wounds, reconnect to purpose, and navigate physical or existential challenges with inner wisdom, resilience, and empowerment.

This certification not only expands your clinical toolbox — it transforms how you show up as a guide: confident, ethically grounded, versatile, and deeply effective across a broad range of client needs.

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