For practitioners
You teach slow-paced breathing, extended-exhale, grounding, somatic movement. You already know it lands — you can see it in the room. What you don't have is a way to show your clients, in their own physiology, that the work is doing what you say it does.
Somatic is the measurement tool that sits inside your practice. Your clients use it between sessions. You see the data. Conversations stop being about whether the work is working, and start being about what to do next.
What Somatic is
It runs on the client's phone. It uses the camera to capture quality-gated HRV readings — pre and post every short practice — and re-administers PSS-10 and GAD-7 on a rolling weekly schedule. Every reading is shown against the client's own rolling baseline. No verdicts. No population norms. No "you're in dorsal."
What it gives you, with your client's consent:
It does not diagnose. It does not coach. It does not replace the human work you do in session. It measures, and it gives you and your client a shared evidence base to work from.
How it fits into your practice
A 90-second morning capture, a 3–5 minute matched practice, a 30-second evening check-in. The library is anchored on the modalities you already teach: slow-paced breathing at resonance frequency, HRV biofeedback, physiological sighs, extended-exhale patterns, grounding, gentle somatic movement.
A 20-second scan before, a 20-second scan after. Your client sees the delta in real time. They learn — through their own data — which practices their body actually responds to.
Their pre/post deltas across the week. Their adherence. Their PSS-10 and GAD-7 line over the last 30 days. You walk into session with the data already in hand.
Instead of "how has the breathwork been going?" you can ask "your extended-exhale sessions are moving your RMSSD an average of 14% — but your sighs aren't. Let's talk about why." The session shifts from check-in to interpretation. Your skill compounds against real data.
Why this matters for your practice
This is the part that's worth being explicit about.
The measurement loop is the engagement loop. They open the app because they want to see whether last night's practice worked. That's not gamification — it's intrinsic motivation backed by their own physiology. Engaged clients show up to more sessions, do more between-session work, and get better outcomes.
When clients can show their partners, their friends, their doctor a PSS-10 score that dropped six points over a month, that's a referral conversation that almost writes itself. Measurable outcomes turn satisfied clients into the most credible top-of-funnel a practice has.
The most exhausting part of this work is holding faith on behalf of a client who can't yet feel the change. Somatic externalizes that. The trend line carries the proof so you don't have to.
Every client session generates a data trace. Over months you start to see which of your interventions, with which client profiles, produce the biggest deltas. The data sharpens your judgement, not the other way around.
The app does the measurement. You do the work.
The certification (first cohort)
We're launching a small, hand-selected first cohort of practitioners certified in evidence-based regulation coaching with real outcome tracking.
Cohort 1 details — dates, format, pricing — are being finalized. We're keeping the first cohort small on purpose. If this is the direction you've been waiting for, join the waitlist and we'll send details directly.
How it's different from other certifications
We're not going to disparage anyone. The category is what it is. Here's what we do differently, factually.
Other certifications teach you a method and stop there. Ours assumes from the first day that you'll be tracking PSS-10 / GAD-7 deltas across your client base. The measurement is integrated into how you're taught to work.
HRV is shown as a trend, not a verdict. Bad scans are rejected, not silently smoothed. Every protocol carries an explicit evidence tier (Tier 1: meta-analytic, Tier 2: good evidence, Tier 3: preliminary — caveated). You can stand behind every claim the platform makes, because the platform doesn't make claims it can't back.
Unlike certifications built on contested polyvagal framing, ours is anchored on the interventions with the strongest evidence base: slow-paced breathing, HRV biofeedback, extended-exhale, grounding. You'll teach what works, and you'll be able to point to the literature.
No "rewire your nervous system." No "vagus nerve stimulation" branding on humming. The honesty is the brand. It's also a meaningful protection — for your scope, your reputation, and your clients.
What Somatic is not
To be unambiguous, because this matters for scope:
This is the measurement layer in your practice. You remain the practitioner.
What we're looking for in cohort 1
We're being deliberate about who we bring into the first cohort. Strong fits include:
If you already do this work and you've been waiting for the measurement layer to catch up — this is for you.
Two ways to stay in the loop
Somatic is built on the principle that the work you do is real, the modalities you teach have evidence behind them, and your clients deserve to see — in their own data — that the practice is moving the needle. We're building the measurement layer for that. We'd like you to help shape it.