This video explains about the 9 Levels of Integration
See the checklists from the 9 Modules for more information, this video is meant to give a general overview on the topic
Program Start Date
Professional Certification in Brain Health -- includes 16 live meetings from September 8, 2025, through May 11, 2026
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I'M HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AS YOU LEARN AND GROW THROUGH A FASCINATING ADVANCED YEAR BRAIN HEALTH JOURNEY. THE SECOND YEAR IS ABOUT MAKING THE CONTENT PERSONAL AND APPLICABLE TO YOU.
Of the 16 meetings, eight are Group Sessions where we review and discuss the prerecorded videos on the 9 Levels. These sessions also include breakout-room exercises and other interactive activities.
The remaining eight meetings are Peer Practice Sessions. During these sessions, you'll partner with one or more participants in breakout rooms, usually for longer periods than during Group Sessions.
No matter where you’re starting from, neuroscience practices help you quickly gain insights into the "United States of You" or guide others in doing the same.
With this information, you learn to navigate different states of being, recognizing when you or your clients are in different mental states (“Texas” or “Alaska”), and how to effectively move into your optimal state of "Home," where lasting well-being and balance thrive.
I'M HERE TO GUIDE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY.
Hi, I’m Heidi Crockett.
LCSW, MSW, CHC, CSE, CST, SEP*
I’m a licensed psychotherapist, interpersonal neurobiology educator, and clinical supervisor specializing in trauma and the relational nature of the brain.
Through a blend of neuroscience-based practices and compassionate guidance, I support clients to integrate their brain and train professionals to apply these principles with their own clients.
In this Professional Certification in Brain Health program, I will teach and coach you through a comprehensive model of interpersonal neurobiology (relational neuroscience) that is simplified, practical, alive and embodied.
- Develop greater brain health so you can become the best version of yourself
- Optimize your nervous system so you can upgrade your life with long-term dopamine
- Grow your self-compassion so you become happier and more present
Level 1 Consciousness
Module One takes a deeper look at the Plane of Possibility and explores how consciousness moves among peaks, plateaus, and the open plane. It also examines trauma as an indelible plateau: a fixed filter that can shape how present experience is perceived and interpreted.
Complete this module being able to:
- Use water and light imagery to explain peaks, plateaus, and the open plane of possibility
- Describe how a sweep-loop quality of attention can shift consciousness from the rim toward the spaciousness of the hub
- Explain why silent meditation can intensify distress when a person is experiencing awareness from inside a plateau of trauma
- Explore how mindful awareness practices and secure relationships are understood within IPNB as supporting differentiation, linkage, and access to the Plane of Possibility
- Use the SOCK model to explore how sensation, observation, conceptual knowing, and nonconceptual knowing shape conscious experience
Level 2 Bilateral Hemispheric Integration
Module Two explores the processing tendencies associated with the left and right hemispheres. The course uses the terms Narrator and Experiencer to make these two modes of processing easier to recognize. Although complex experiences involve both sides of the brain, each hemisphere may contribute differently to how an experience is processed.
Complete the module being able to:
- Evaluate evidence for hemispheric specialization without reducing people to "left-brained" or "right-brained" types
- Describe the Narrator and Experiencer as two complementary ways of being
- Recognize language, sequencing, and detail-focused processing alongside embodied, contextual, relational, and nonverbal processing
- Connect the Known and Knowing of the 1st Level with the Narrator and Experiencer of the 2nd Level
- Recognize when someone is relying heavily on one mode and what information may be receiving less attention
- Practice differentiating and linking the two modes to create a left-right mode of resonance
Level 3 Vertical Integration
Module Three explores vertical integration as the capacity to remain connected to the 9 skills of the wizard brain while experiencing emotional intensity. It examines how inhibitory control creates space between an automatic impulse and a more deliberate response.
Complete the module being able to:
- Define vertical integration and describe how inhibition supports the shift from reacting to responding
- Use the pilot, plane, and turbulence metaphor to explain how the width of a person’s window of tolerance affects their ability to remain steady during emotional intensity
- Identify the five areas in the course framework that the wizard brain monitors: the cortex, limbic regions, brainstem, body, and social world
- Use FDA to remember three key roles of the wizard brain: focusing attention, delaying response, and allocating resources
- Explore how shifting attention from what you do not want toward what you do want can support intention, direction, and meaning
- Examine how the capacity to choose a response contributes to identity and meaning-making
- Understand integration as an ongoing process rather than a fixed state
Level 4 Memory Integration
Module Four explores memory as an ongoing process through which past experiences influence present responses, rather than a fixed recording of what happened. Within the IPNB framework, it examines how differentiating and linking implicit and explicit memory can support intention, choice, and a more coherent personal narrative.
Complete this module knowing:
- Explain how implicit memory can shape sensations, emotions, perceptions, and behavior without feeling like a memory of the past
- Examine how the remembering self’s present mood, bodily state, and social context influence the remembered story
- Explore the course’s three tools for memory work: executive function capacities, imagination and abstract thought, and kindness as a mental representation of the compassionate other
- Use “trauma time” and SIFT (Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts) to explore one specific moment within a larger memory
- Use the “memory capsule” framework to distinguish collapse/submit and fight patterns, including their protective roles, bodily sensations, and associated beliefs
- Describe how a new or mismatching experience may support memory updating, and explore how new meaning can be woven into a person’s larger narrative
Level 5 Narrative and Level 6 State Integration
Module Five explores how mental time travel and mindsight help us make a coherent story. Module Six shifts attention from the storyline to the states influencing it, exploring how different parts of our experience can coexist without one state defining the whole self.
Complete these 2 modules being able to:
- Distinguish working with a particular memory at Level 4 from weaving memories into a larger life story at Level 5, with the present-day remembering self connecting the two
- Select one story within a recurring life theme, explore one element using ABCDE (Associations, Beliefs, Cognitions, Developmental phase, and Emotions), and link it back to the larger narrative
- Use subjective experience, awareness, and regulation as three, IPNB-informed lenses for understanding someone's capacity to integrate their story
- Distinguish intrastate integration (within one state), interstate integration (between states), and interpersonal state integration (integrating your own states as you interact with others)
- Explain the course’s distinction between cohesion, how experience fits together now, and coherence, how changing states and experiences fit together across time
- Use the “internal song” metaphor to explore how state influences story, and practice kind voice to address the state beneath the words rather than only changing the storyline
- Recognize rigidity and chaos, use response flexibility to work toward returning to the window of tolerance, and describe FACES flow: Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energized, and Stable
Level 7 Relationship Integration (Attachment)
Module Seven explores how to honor differences while remaining caringly connected. It examines attachment as both learned patterns and an ongoing relational process, with opportunities to practice holding different perspectives, communicating needs, and repairing disconnection.
Complete this module being able to:
- Distinguish learned attachment patterns from the ongoing process of responding more flexibly, staying connected, and repairing relational ruptures
- Examine how past relationships shape present expectations: whether closeness feels safe, needs will be met, and disconnection can be repaired
- Describe containment as holding multiple realities at once, including your experience and another’s, so emotional intensity does not require losing yourself, the connection, or the possibility of repair
- Apply mentalization and reflective function to consider both people’s inner worlds, and practice contingent communication by perceiving signals, making sense of them, and responding in ways that support connection and repair
- Deepening your exploration of attachment as a process that continues to evolve in adulthood, even as less secure childhood patterns cast “synaptic shadows” into the present. See Heidi’s blog post on using kind voice to support more secure attachment for slides from the 7th and 8th Levels.
Level 8 Time Integration
Module Eight covers what it looks like to live a meaningful life while facing what's called the "pain of living," (in other words this level is about possessing the skill of grieving, holding the fact that we all die one day and simultaneously finding purpose).
Complete this module knowing:
- What "practicing not knowing" or being in uncertainty looks and feels like (and what deficits in this look and feel like) for ourselves and our clients
- Techniques to support clients with this most difficult level (and what situations and types of people tend to have deficits in integrating this level)
- How to weave in spirituality and meaning starting with scientific terms then expanding to meet clients with the language and belief(s) that support them
Level 9 Identity Integration
This module examines all eight levels and how they deepen and expand into the ninth level.
Complete this module knowing:
- How to help clients raise their integration level whatever level they are at today
- The "mwe" concept which can help intensify differentiation and linkage of individual and collective identities
- A review of the 9 Levels and 9 Skills of the wizard brain
- A discussion on integration within yourself, as a brain health expert and coach, and in the world
- How we all possess a ceiling in our perceptions, and we are capable of neuroplasticity, such as strengthening the 9 Levels learned in this professional brain health certificate
- 35 hours of live meetings led by a Brain Health Expert (Replays available)
- Lifetime access to 25 hours of graduate level video lessons covering those 9 levels
- Access to an online learning platform where you can ask Heidi questions and network with your peers
- Deep understanding into what optimizes the brain and inherent your evolutionary birthright of excellent executive function
- Skills that change your sense of worth, melt shame, and change your baseline state of happiness
- A better understanding of why difficult people behave the way they do and how to use your wizard brain to expertly "allocate your resources"
The neuroscience methods inside this program have been tested and refined over the last decade through my work as a licensed psychotherapist and educator, along with hours teaching and training health professionals.
These techniques will transform your approach to brain health, helping you foster long-term emotional resilience, cognitive flexibility, and a deeper sense of well-being—in yourself or your client, no matter where you are starting.
If you put in the effort and follow the techniques taught through each certificate, you will see results.
Still, I understand you may want to experience the programming for yourself. That’s why I’m offering the Brain Health Promise, a 14-day money back guarantee.
Sign up for the program, watch the first lesson, and attend the live group teaching. After that, if you decide the program will not guide you towards a greater understanding of brain health, reach out to me without 14 days of the first lesson and we’ll refund your payment.
I’ve participated in a few of Heidi's group sessions and each time I have been surprised by the efficacy of her techniques. I recommend Heidi to anyone who feels they are not able to live their fully expressed, authentic life.
-MF
I get so much from the dynamics of sharing in a safe space, feeling that I am being heard, and hearing others stories.
-CA
- 35 hours of live meetings led by a Brain Health Expert (Replays available)
- Lifetime access to 25 hours of graduate level video lessons covering those 9 levels
- Access to an online learning platform where you can ask Heidi questions and network with your peers
- Deep understanding into what optimizes the brain and inherent your evolutionary birthright of excellent executive function
- Skills that change your sense of worth, melt shame, and change your baseline state of happiness
- A better understanding of why difficult people behave the way they do and how to use your wizard brain to expertly "allocate your resources"
Let’s find out.
THIS PROGRAM MAY BE A GREAT FIT IF:
- A first-year graduate, or have equivalent experience, and want to explore the 9 Levels of Integration in greater depth
- Ready to put concepts into practice through guided scripts, vivid metaphors, demonstrations, and experiential learning
- Eager to expand your compassion and intuition for yourself and others
- Looking for more precise ways to recognize where integration is needed and explain it to clients
- Interested in how memory, personal stories, emotional states, and attachment patterns shape your experience and relationships
- Seeking to bring kind voice into the moments you need it most while applying advanced IPNB concepts to emotional intensity, old patterns, and challenges in connection
Her uplifting energy and ability to be truly present is such a joy to be in relationship with.
-CC
Question #1 - I’m interested in your Professional Certification in Brain Health program but am not sure about prerequisites. Do I need a specific degree or training to attend?
Question #2 - What will it mean for me to have a Professional Certification in Brain Health?
Question #3 - Will I become a "Brain Health Coach" through this certificate?
Question #4 - What if I want to attend for learning and not as a professional? Is this program for me?
- 35 hours of live meetings led by a Brain Health Expert (Replays available)
- Lifetime access to 25 hours of graduate level video lessons covering those 9 levels
- Access to an online learning platform where you can ask Heidi questions and network with your peers
- Deep understanding into what optimizes the brain and inherent your evolutionary birthright of excellent executive function
- Skills that change your sense of worth, melt shame, and change your baseline state of happiness
- A better understanding of why difficult people behave the way they do and how to use your wizard brain to expertly "allocate your resources"
