Awaken Consulting Services

05/03/2026

5-Day Brainspotting Intensive 🌿

📍 Minnetonka
📅 June 8–13, 2026
✨ + An additional evening to open the circle together

Join us for a powerful 5-day, deep inner experience designed to move you from knowing the Brainspotting model to truly embodying and living it.

Together, we’ll explore the depth and expansiveness of Brainspotting and its applications, evolving your practice from technique into artform. We’ll weave in decolonized practices, relational presence, and a renewed connection to land and community.

✔ 36 NBCC credit hours through National Board for Certified Counselors
✔ Experiential, relational, and clinically precise
✔ Counts toward Brainspotting certification (in place of 6 consultation hours)

Spots are limited and tend to fill quickly.
Registration closes June 1, 2026.

Register at: https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/events/brainspottingintensive-june2026

05/03/2026

Brainspotting and Ketamine Specialty Workshop ✨

📍 Minnetonka
📅 April 25–26, 2026 | 9:00am–6:30pm

If you’re feeling the call to deepen your clinical precision and expand your capacity in this evolving field, we’d love to welcome you to this 2-day immersive training.

Brainspotting therapists (Phase 1 required, Phase 2 recommended) who are ready to ethically integrate low-dose ketamine work into their clinical practice will explore:

• Screening, safety + pharmacology foundations
• Ethical, legal & social justice considerations
• Ketamine’s impact on the nervous system + trauma processing
• Preparation & integration (including transpersonal experiences)
• Resource + dissociation work through a Brainspotting lens
• Live demo + practicum experience

✔ 15 NBCC credits through National Board for Certified Counselors (2 Ethics CEs included)
✔ Limited to 14 clinicians — 9 spots remaining
✔ $1,100 investment (includes medical screening + experiential component)

Register here: https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/events/brainspotting-ketamine-workshop-april2026

05/03/2026

It’s been a long time coming—and the time finally came together for this conversation!

This was a beautiful dive with Dr. Mark Grixti on the Awe in Trauma podcast. A discussion about human spaces needing a shift of consciousness and transition into more kinship, world-like views, and our relationship with one of the wisest teachers—plants. Reagranging forms of healing that go beyond rigid, cold, individualistic care and into a blend of mystics, somatics, and science. It is a reflection on the remembrance and connection we all share, while being still and silent enough to allow being in our own form. 

Take a listen 🎙️

03/03/2026

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Remote Marketing Manager

My company, Awaken Consulting Services, is in its 6th year and expanding. We are searching for the perfect candidate to step into our part-time Remote Marketing Manager role and support our growth via marketing strategy, visibility, and social media/launch management. The ideal candidate will be an organized systems thinker, a creative, and someone who has a strong understanding of mental-health, trauma, social justice and ethical marketing.

$30-40/hr
5-10 hours a week
Remote
Work with an amazing, passionate, heart-centered team

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26/02/2026

Brainspotting & Ketamine Specialty Workshop ✨

📍 Minnetonka, Minnesota
📅 April 25–26, 2026 | 9:00am–6:30pm

This 2-day immersive training is designed for Brainspotting therapists (Phase 1 required, Phase 2 recommended) who want to ethically and skillfully integrate low-dose ketamine work with the Brainspotting model.

We’ll explore:
• Screening, safety, and pharmacology
• Ethical, legal, and social justice considerations
• Ketamine’s impact on the nervous system & trauma processing
• Preparation, integration, and transpersonal journeys
• Resource & dissociation work through a Brainspotting lens
• Live demo + practicum experience

✔ 15 NBCC credits, including 2 Ethics CEs
✔ Limited to 14 participants—9️⃣ spots remaining
✔ $1100 investment, which includes medical screening and experiential component

If you’re ready to deepen your clinical precision and expand your capacity in this evolving field, We’d love to have you 🙏🏾

Learn more & register at https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/events/brainspotting-ketamine-workshop-april2026

26/02/2026

Join us for the 5-Day Brainspotting Intensive in Minnetonka, Minnesota | June 8–13, 2026. **One additional evening for opening the circle is also a part of this intensive.**

This 5-day Brainspotting Intensive in Minnetonka, MN is a deep inner journey from “knowing the model” of Brainspotting to “embodying and living” Brainspotting. Together, we will explore the vastness of Brainspotting and its applications, taking your practice from technique to artform, while expanding into decolonized practices and reconnecting with our relationship to the land.

If you’ve been searching for a deeply held container to do your own inner work, elevate your Brainspotting practice, and encircle yourself with community, this space is for you.

The intensive is a pathway to certification (in place of 6 consultation hours), and so much more.

✔ 36 NBCC credit hours
✔ Experiential, relational, and clinically precise
✔ A powerful step toward Brainspotting certification

Spots are limited and fill quickly! Registration closes June 1, 2026.

Register at https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/events/brainspottingintensive-june2026

26/02/2026

Completed a Brainspotting training and want a solid refresher? The Integration Lab is a self-paced review of Phase 1 & 2 designed to help you reconnect with the core concepts, philosophy, and clinical frames.

Refine your skills, strengthen attunement, and build confidence through practical, digestible lessons and full demo videos with play-by-play captions so you can track the subcortical subtleties in real time 🧠

You’ll get lifetime access, making it a resource you can return to anytime you want to sharpen your precision and deepen your work.

Phase 1 & 2 options available. Payment plans offered.

✔NBCC CEs are available now too!

Learn more: www.awakenconsultingservices.com/webinars

23/02/2026

A warm welcome to our newest group of Brainspotting Phase 1 practitioners!

This group came ready to open their hearts and minds to this modality—learning together the power of how witnessing and attunement is the most powerful medicine. Thank you for sharing your openness and vulnerability with each other 🙏🏾

Big shoutout to the Assistant Team:  Erin Arnst, Kim Warner-Hudy, Bonnie Kimpling, Anna Kiseleva, Erin Provost, Alexis Skopos, Bethany Holton, Alison Hawkinson, Ashley Zellner, and Greg Payne. 

Endless thanks for your wonderful support!
Congratulations! ✨

18/02/2026

Brainspotting and medicine work is a powerful combination, and I’m excited to bring back the in-person Brainspotting and Ketamine workshop this April 25th and 26th in Minnesota! 

Join us for a two-day immersive workshop to learn how to add ketamine therapy at low doses into your Brainspotting sessions for added resourcing, access to unconscious material, and calming protector parts. Brainspotting Phase 1 completion is required, but no previous ketamine therapy experience is needed.
 
If you’re interested, check out the link below for details and registration. This workshop will be capped at 14 participants. 

https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/events/brainspotting-ketamine-workshop-april2026

Interested but can’t make it? Please fill out our interest form and we can get you on the list for future workshops! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvwQsIung-pkOnFgjN-K7f-QoX6h1daRcvsUf_Rj2TxPmHOg/viewform?usp=header

17/02/2026

Join my dear friend and colleague for her upcoming writing series, Write & Witness🫶🏾

About the Group
This 6-week Evening Pages container is a weekly invitation to wind down and write freely, together. Created with the current moment in mind, this group offers a grounded way to be in community without pressure to perform, analyze, or fix. The container is set. You only need to arrive.

All of you is welcome as we write, listen, and witness.

This group may be a good fit if you:
• Want a protected hour each week to write with gentle guidance

• Want low-pressure community

• Want a place to be witnessed and to witness others

• Want a steady ritual where nothing is required of you except presence

No writing experience is needed.

About the Facilitator
Bridget Martinson, M.A., LPCC, is a depth-oriented counselor devoted to helping people reconnect with their inner knowing. She believes writing is an accessible way to return to the Self and is passionate about creating intentional containers where people can slow down, be together, and meet themselves with honesty.
Her work is grounded in presence, witnessing, and in the belief that meaningful change often happens in shared spaces. Writing is a core part of her own reflective practice.

Registration closes March 4.
Space is limited to 8 participants.

Disclaimer
This group is not therapy and is not a substitute for individual therapy or crisis support. It is intended for those who feel resourced enough to engage in reflective group work.

04/02/2026

A warm congratulations to my friend and colleague, Susan Herrmann, on the launch of her new book, Breaking Up with the Patriarchy: Decolonizing Our Lives and Returning to Kinship Worldview✨

Your dedication, insight, and fortitude have brought this project to life, and I couldn’t be more excited for you and to see it out in the world 🙏🏾 🌍

Go get your copy! 📖

29/01/2026

NON-MINNESOTA THERAPISTS WANTING TO OFFER MH SERVICES:

LPCs/LPCCs- you are actually able to offer up to 30 days of care (does not have to be concurrent) to folks here in MN. It will be easiest for LPCs/LPCCs to support, from what it looks like.

Subd. 5.Nonresidents. A nonresident may engage in the practice of professional counseling within the state without a license for up to 30 days during any calendar year if the nonresident is authorized to provide the services under the law of the state or country of residence and the nonresident has provided proof of credentials to the board, been found qualified to render services in the state, and been granted permission by the board to practice.

Email the board: bbht.board@state.mn.us

Full statute: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/148B.592?fbclid=IwY2xjawPom9BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhVmdpaGJLdUs2dDJVdFVDc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHr55N1Xvcl27u9zGLHU_QcPg7PVl4fMw3bT61j9F3073HxGLcXdEVH-a8jur_aem_GgpuwoQJj1RcJILXz0tSVQ

LMFTs/LCSWs- you can apply for a temporary license through the MN Boards

https://mn.gov/boards/marriage-and-family/licensee-info/licensee-info/

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Marriage and Family Therapy 335 Randolph Avenue, Suite 260 St. Paul, MN 55102 Phone: 612-617-2220 Hearing/Speech Relay: 1-800-627-3529 Email: mft.board@state.mn.us Website: mn.gov/boards/marriage-and-family