THANK YOU FOR AN INCREDIBLE 2026 HOLISTIC THERAPIST CONFERENCE 🤍

 

 

We are so grateful to everyone who joined us for this year’s Holistic Therapist Conference.

Thank you for learning, breathing, moving, connecting, and experiencing this weekend with us.

And we’re already looking forward to what we’re creating for 2027.

Want to join us next year?

Join the 2027 Holistic Therapist Conference Interest List to be the first to know when we announce the 2027 experience and open Early Access registration.

October 2027 | Retreat Destination Coming Soon

 

 

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WE WERE TAUGHT THAT THE MIND IS WHERE HEALING HAPPENS.

 

But we know healing is more holistic than that.

The body matters.

The nervous system matters.

Our energy, emotions, spirituality, relationships, and communities matter.

And the people doing the healing work need spaces where they can learn, experience, connect, and be cared for too.

The Holistic Therapist Conference brings together therapists, mental health professionals, healers, and wellness professionals who are ready to explore a more expansive approach to mental health and healing.

 

Embodied Healing. Ethical Integration. Liberated Practice.

JOIN US IN 2027

More Than a Conference

This Is A Return to Wholeness

The Holistic Therapist Conference is an immersive, retreat-style gathering for therapists, mental health professionals, healers, and wellness professionals who are ready to shift the paradigm of mental health by integrating holistic, somatic, trauma-informed, and unconventional approaches into the way they live, practice, and lead.

This experience is designed to support the whole healer, not just your clinical mind, but your body, your spirit, your mission, your nervous system, and the work you are here to do.

Together, we learn, restore, practice, connect, and expand in a space that honors both your personal embodiment and your professional growth.

Come to learn. Come to experience. Come to connect. Come back to yourself.

The Pillars That Shape This Gathering 

SELF-CARE

Experience restorative and embodied practices that support you, the healer.

LEARNING

Explore holistic, somatic, unconventional, and trauma-informed approaches and learn how to integrate them ethically into your work.

BUSINESS EXPANSION

Explore sustainable and aligned ways to expand your impact beyond the traditional 1:1 model.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Holistic tools and frameworks you can ethically and confidently bring into your work

  • Restorative practices that nourish your nervous system and prioritize your own well-being

  • New perspectives on healing, mental health, and whole-person care

  • Ideas for expanding your work and impact beyond the therapy room

  • Connection with a community of therapists, healers, and wellness professionals doing this work in real time

  • Renewed connection to yourself, your work, and why you began this journey

 

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Hear From Past Conference Attendees

Patrice Lanae Pickett, ACSW – California

“Hearing everyone’s experiences was inspiring. Learning more about breathwork, yoga, and holistic techniques will be applied in my practice. The speakers were excellent, and being in community with other holistic therapists felt amazing.”

Alix Amar, LCSW – GA & PA

“Opened my mind to new ideas for my practice. The conference was comprehensive and fun. Experiential sessions like Settle & Sound helped me see ways to increase these practices for myself and to introduce them to clients. I appreciated the interactive opportunities and the panel discussions."

Alexandria Stanton, LPC – Georgia

“I love how intimate this conference was. I felt comfortable meeting & networking with other therapists.”I would recommend this conference for the knowledge gained and also for the community & connection felt throughout the entire weekend.”

Meet Your Host

LeNaya Smith Crawford, M.A., LMFT, E-RYT 500

The Holistic Therapist™

LeNaya Smith Crawford is a licensed therapist, holistic mental health educator, speaker, business mentor, and wellness CEO with more than a decade of experience across mental health, wellness, education, and entrepreneurship.

Through The Holistic Therapist™, LeNaya is helping expand the way therapists and helping professionals think about healing by bridging clinical education with holistic, somatic, spiritual, energetic, and embodied approaches.

She is the creator of The Holistic Therapist Academy and The Holistic Therapist Framework, a whole-person framework that supports therapists in understanding and integrating the physical, energetic, mental and emotional, spiritual, and communal layers of healing.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, HuffPost, Essence, Healthline, Bravo, and other national platforms.

The Holistic Therapist Conference is an extension of that mission: creating a space where the people who help others heal can learn, experience, connect, expand, and be nourished too.

What You’ll Experience

 

HOLISTIC + SOMATIC EDUCATION

→ Workshops exploring holistic, somatic, trauma-informed, energetic, spiritual, and unconventional approaches to mental health and healing.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

→This isn’t a conference where you’ll spend the entire weekend sitting in a chair taking notes. Expect opportunities to move, breathe, practice, experience, reflect, and integrate.

RESTORATIVE SELF-CARE

→ Yoga, breathwork, meditation, sound healing, embodiment, and other restorative experiences designed to tend to the healer within.

REAL-WORLD INTEGRATION

→ Learn from professionals actively integrating holistic approaches into clinical practice, wellness, education, leadership, and business.

COMMUNITY + CONNECTION

→ Gather with therapists, healers, wellness professionals, and leaders who understand that our own embodiment matters just as much as the work we offer others.

BUSINESS EXPANSION

→ Explore what it can look like to expand your impact, income, leadership, and body of work beyond traditional models.

 

 

" We're Ready For A New Paradigm Of Mental Health "

- LeNaya Smith Crawford, LMFT, The Holistic Therapist™

 

Mental health is evolving, and so must our approach to healing. In this powerful keynote, LeNaya Smith Crawford introduces The Holistic Therapist Method™, a signature framework that integrates trauma-informed care with evidence-based somatic practices like yoga, breathwork, and sound healing.Drawing from her decade of experience in the mental health and wellness space; as a licensed therapist, healer, and educator, LeNaya invites attendees to explore what it truly means to become a holistic therapist. This work goes far beyond learning new tools. It is a call to embody a new way of practicing that honors the nervous system, neuroscience, and the soul.Together, we will explore the shift from traditional models to a more embodied, expansive, and ethically aligned path. You will walk away understanding that becoming a holistic therapist is not just a professional decision. It is a paradigm shift rooted in deeper self-awareness, skill building, and community-centered care.Whether you are new to holistic work or deep in your integration journey, this keynote will expand your perspective, reaffirm your purpose, and offer a vision of mental health rooted in liberation, embodiment, and holistic expansion.

2027 SPEAKERS ARE BEING CURATED

We’re intentionally curating another powerful lineup of therapists, educators, healers, wellness professionals, and thought leaders who are expanding what’s possible in mental health, healing, and wellness.

 
The 2027 speaker lineup will be announced soon.
 
Learn From the Community We’ve Already Gathered
Over the years, The Holistic Therapist Conference has brought together an incredible community of holistic, somatic, trauma-informed, and unconventional therapists, educators, healers, authors, and wellness leaders.

 

PAST CONFERENCE SPEAKERS + FEATURED GUESTS

LeNaya Smith Crawford, M.A., LMFT, ERYT‑500 

LeNaya Smith Crawford is a thought leader, speaker, educator, trauma-informed yoga, breathwork, and meditation teacher, sound healer, and licensed therapist helping redefine the future of mental health and healing. Through her holistic framework, she equips therapists, helping professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations to move beyond fragmented approaches and return to wholeness by integrating every layer of who we are: physical, energetic, mental and emotional, spiritual, and communal. 

With over a decade of experience across the mental health, wellness, and entrepreneurial space, LeNaya blends her clinical expertise with evidence-informed, ancient, and holistic healing practices to bridge the worlds of science and soul. She expands the way people think about healing, leadership, self-care, and sustainable success through trauma-informed facilitation, holistic mental health education, consulting, and immersive learning experiences that inspire lasting personal and professional growth. 

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, HuffPost, Essence, and on Bravo TV. She is the founder of The Holistic Therapist, Kaleidoscope Therapy & Holistic Wellness, and Seviin Yoga & Yoga School. 

 

Gabrielle Juliano‑Villani, MSW, LCSW 

Gabrielle Juliano-Villani is a business mindset coach and consultant who helps therapy practice owners scale, sell, and thrive without burning out. After building and selling her own 7-figure group practice in 2021, she now combines her expertise as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Small Business Administration coach to help other entrepreneurs create sustainable, profitable businesses. 

Specializing in supporting practice owners as they navigate Medicare/Medicaid billing, Gabrielle brings a unique blend of clinical expertise and business strategy to her work. She's been featured on NBC News, Spruce Health, and speaks internationally about preventing burnout while building successful practices. 

Kimberley Small, MSW, LCSW, QS, CCTP 

 

Kimberley “Kim” Small, LCSW, QS, is a Certified Holistic Mental Health Therapist, trainer, and visionary strategist. Her work lives at the intersection of ancestral wisdom, neuroscience, intergenerational trauma healing, spirituality and decolonial leadership. 

She is the founder of multiple mental wellness businesses, most notably Healing Insight Therapy & Wellness Collective. Through therapy, wellness, intensives, community education, and training for therapists, Kim creates expansive pathways for healing, growth, and liberation. Her work supports cycle breakers, clinicians, and leaders as they release inherited patterns of trauma, isolation, and overwhelm and create new cycles of resilience, purpose, compassion, and possibility. 

Kim is known for blending brain-based modalities, somatics, spiritual integration, and liberation-centered care with a deeply human, culturally rooted approach. She is especially drawn to the sacred nuance of building new patterns of relating with ourselves, each other, the land, and the Divine. 

At the heart of her work is one invitation: to live, love, and lead openhearted and unbothered. 

Dr. Rasheeka Fogg, DPC, LCMHC, LCAS, CCS, QS 

Licensed Holistic Trauma Therapist, Certified Holistic Sexologist, and Human Design Educator. Founder of Faith, Prosperity, & Change, PLLC integrating trauma therapy with Human Design, Reiki, Sound Healing, Breathwork, and Yoga. 

Mimi Daraa, Breathwork Instructor

 

Krista Yapp-Cooper

Session Title: The Healing Trance: An Experiential Journey into Spiritually Integrated Hypnosis and Embodied Resilience 

Jeni Booker Senter is a mental health clinician, researcher, educator, and doctoral scholar specializing in trauma, resilience, and integrative approaches to psychological healing. Her work bridges evidence-based psychotherapy with holistic and spiritually informed practices that support mind-body connection, emotional regulation, and post-traumatic growth. She utilizes modalities including CBT, EMDR, mindfulness-based interventions, somatic approaches, and clinical hypnosis to help clients navigate complex trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress. Her current research explores the impact of spiritually integrated hypnosis on stress resilience and

overall well-being. Passionate about ethical, embodied, and client-centered care, she is dedicated to advancing therapeutic practices that honor the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. She frequently speaks on trauma-informed healing, nervous system regulation, resilience, spirituality in psychotherapy, and innovative integrative approaches to mental health and wellness. 

Marlo Keenan, M.S., LPC, GC‑C 

Marlo Keenan, LPC, is a Licensed Holistic Psychotherapist and founder of MMKG Counseling Services. She specializes in helping adults navigate chronic stress, anxiety, overthinking, and emotional overwhelm through an integrative and nervous system informed approach to healing. Marlo blends evidence-based psychotherapy with mindfulness, meditation, Yoga Nidra, breathwork, and sound healing to support emotional balance and sustainable transformation. 

In addition to her private practice, Marlo is the creator of the Mindful Meditation Course for Chronic Stress and Anxiety and the voice behind the YouTube channel, Transformative Guided Meditations, where she shares guided practices designed to calm the mind and restore inner peace. Her work is 

rooted in compassion, embodiment, and practical tools that help individuals move from survival mode into greater clarity, confidence, and intentional living.

Kanjana Hartshorne, MSW, LCSW, C‑IAYT 

Kanjana Hartshorne takes therapy beyond the couch and into the world through nature, movement, art, and ritual. As a licensed psychotherapist, IAYT-certified yoga therapist, and Reiki Master, she helps clients and clinicians explore healing through insight, relationship, the body, the breath, and creative, spiritual, or ancestral practices that feel aligned. 

As founder of Healing Hearts Wellness, Kanjana leads a team of somatic therapists redefining modern healing as grounded in science and infused with spirit. Through Wanderhome Retreats, her continuing education and retreat brand for therapists and wellness professionals, she creates immersive learning experiences that invite clinicians to reconnect with their healing and bring the body and energy work their work. Her retreats, workshops, and CE programs explore the physical, energetic, emotional, intuitive, and spiritual layers of being. Known for her quirky, experiential teaching style, Kanjana invites participants to experience healing as evidence-based, embodied, and a little magical. 

 

Ashley Turner, M.A., LMFT, E‑RYT 500 

Ashley Turner, M.A., LMFT, E‑RYT 500, is a holistic psychotherapist, yoga‑meditation teacher, and integrative mental health educator known for blending Eastern and Western approaches to emotional wellness. She specializes in supporting women and visionary leaders through major life transitions including fertility, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, career pivots, and identity shifts using a mind‑body‑spirit framework. Her clinical work integrates somatic tools, meditation, spiritual psychology, and psychedelic‑assisted psychotherapy principles to help clients release emotional blocks, build resilience, and cultivate clarity and confidence. Ashley is also the founder of Yoga‑Psychology™, where she trains clinicians and wellness practitioners in embodied therapeutic practices.

 

 

 

 

Chris McDonald

Chris McDonald, LCMHCS, RYT‑200 and founder of Path to Hope Counseling and Yoga in the Therapy Room, integrates traditional psychotherapy with holistic, trauma‑informed, and embodied approaches to support clients navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm.

She is Certified in Grief Yoga with Paul Denniston and incorporates movement, breath, sound, and mindfulness into her work with grief and loss. Chris is also an educator and author of Self‑Care for the Counselor and provides trainings for therapists interested in thoughtfully integrating yoga and embodied practices into clinical work.

Chris is a meditation teacher and course creator on Insight Timer and the Aura App.

 

 

 

Koya Webb, Wellness Educator, Yoga Teacher, Author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce and Wellbeing Rituals, Founder of Get Loved Up Official Book Partner – Wellbeing Rituals (HTC 2026)

Koya Webb is a globally recognized transformational speaker, nervous system regulation specialist, embodied leadership facilitator, holistic wellbeing expert, and longevity specialist with over 25 years of experience in breath‑based healing and sustainable wellbeing. She is the founder of Get Loved Up Yoga School and the Get Loved Up Embodied Leadership Academy, creator of Embody Breath, and author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce (Hay House) and Wellbeing Rituals (Wiley).

Koya helps compassionate leaders understand how chronic stress and survival mode impact the body, emotions, and decision‑making and teaches practical tools for nervous system regulation, resilience, and embodied leadership. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Goop, ESSENCE, NBC, CBS, and E!, and she has guided celebrity clients and global brands toward holistic transformation.

 

Kyion Isaac

Koya Webb, Wellness Educator, Yoga Teacher, Author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce and Wellbeing Rituals, Founder of Get Loved Up Official Book Partner – Wellbeing Rituals (HTC 2026)

Koya Webb is a globally recognized transformational speaker, nervous system regulation specialist, embodied leadership facilitator, holistic wellbeing expert, and longevity specialist with over 25 years of experience in breath‑based healing and sustainable wellbeing. She is the founder of Get Loved Up Yoga School and the Get Loved Up Embodied Leadership Academy, creator of Embody Breath, and author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce (Hay House) and Wellbeing Rituals (Wiley).

Koya helps compassionate leaders understand how chronic stress and survival mode impact the body, emotions, and decision‑making and teaches practical tools for nervous system regulation, resilience, and embodied leadership. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Goop, ESSENCE, NBC, CBS, and E!, and she has guided celebrity clients and global brands toward holistic transformation.

 

Sarah Buino

 

 

Jess Pfeffer

 

 

Rikki Clark McCoy

 

 

Dr. Shayda Nematollahi

 

 

Dr. Tina Vitolo

 

2027 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON.

  THE 2027 EXPERIENCE

We’re Creating Our Next Retreat-Style Gathering

October 2027

Our 2027 conference will once again be intentionally designed as more than a traditional professional conference.

We’re curating a retreat-style environment where learning, embodiment, restoration, community, and continuing education can exist together.

Our team is currently finalizing the official destination and dates for our 2027 gathering.

Expect an immersive setting intentionally selected to support:

  • Learning
  • Movement and embodiment
  • Restoration
  • Connection
  • Community
  • Space to breathe

2027 DESTINATION REVEAL COMING SOON.

Founding Early Access allows you to secure your ticket now at the lowest registration rates that will be offered.

JOIN THE INTEREST LIST

Ticket Inclusion At A Glance

You don’t have to wait for the destination reveal or speaker announcements to know you want to be in the room.

Founding Early Access gives our community the opportunity to secure the lowest available registration pricing for 2027 before the full conference experience is announced.

Founding Early Access ends December 31, 2026.

STUDENT ADMISSION

 

Includes:

  • ✅ Full in-person conference admission
  • ✅ General workshops, keynotes, panels, and experiential sessions
  • ✅ Embodied learning experiences
  • ✅ Opening and closing experiences
  • ✅ Community and connection opportunities
  • ✅ Digital conference materials and resources
  • ✅ Conference goodie bag

Student Admission does not include Continuing Education credits. Proof of current enrollment is required.

   

GENERAL ADMISSION

 

Your complete Holistic Therapist Conference experience.

Includes:

  • ✅ Full in-person conference admission
  • ✅ Up to 20 Continuing Education Hours for eligible counseling professionals and Yoga Alliance teachers
  • ✅ Conference workshops, keynotes, panels, and experiential sessions
  • ✅ Embodied learning experiences
  • ✅ Opening and closing conference experiences
  • ✅ Community and connection opportunities
  • ✅ Digital conference materials and resources
  • ✅ CE certificate(s) for eligible attendees who meet applicable requirements
  • ✅ Conference goodie bag

VIP EXPERIENCE

 

Begin your embodiment and integration journey before we ever meet in person.

  • ✅ Includes everything in General Admission, plus:
  • âś… 6 MONTHS OF THE HOLISTIC HEALING CIRCLE

Receive one full year of access to the Holistic Healing Circle, giving you an opportunity to begin practicing and integrating the work before we gather in person.

Your membership includes:

  • 100+ on-demand holistic practices

  • Yoga

  • Breathwork

  • Meditation

  • Sound healing

  • Holistic wellness workshops

  • Live practices and experiences

  • A growing library of resources you can return to throughout the year

  • âś…UPGRADED CURATED VIP SWAG BAG

Receive an elevated VIP swag bag with additional gifts and resources intentionally selected for therapists, healers, and wellness professionals.

  • ✅ 2027 FEATURED BOOK PARTNER BOOK

Receive a complimentary copy of our 2027 Featured Book Partner’s book.

  • ✅ PRIORITY CHECK-IN

Enjoy priority conference check-in when you arrive.

 

VIP MASTERMIND EXPERIENCE

 

For therapists, healers, wellness professionals, and entrepreneurs ready to intentionally expand the business, brand, or body of work they’re building.

Includes everything in VIP, plus:

3-HOUR BUSINESS EXPANSION MASTERMIND WITH LENAYA SMITH CRAWFORD

An intimate strategic experience focused on helping you clarify what’s next and expand your work sustainably.

We’ll explore areas such as:

  • Business and brand expansion
  • Offers and revenue
  • Visibility and thought leadership
  • Leadership
  • Sustainable growth
  • Strategy and implementation
  • Personalized coaching and hot-seat support

Limited availability to preserve the intimate nature of the experience.

 

Haruna Nail, LMHC – FL

“I enjoyed some amazing interactions and being in a space with like-minded professionals. The conference felt aligned with my values and practice. Incredible sense of community with other holistic, unconventional therapists and healers. I’m on the right path and inspired to continue."

Maya DeNola, LCSW – CA & CO

 “A highly crafted, thoughtful, and nourishing experience. The crew behind the effort were phenomenal and truly created a welcoming, healing space. Learned many practical skills and met phenomenal humans. Felt personal and dedicated, with a size that allowed connection. A unique opportunity to nurture both self and practice.”

FAQ's

THIS IS NOT JUST A CONFERENCE.

It’s a return to wholeness.

A reconnection to your body and your spirit.

A recommitment to your mission and to nourishing yourself along the way.

Come to learn. Come to realign. Come to be in community.

Healer, it’s time.

Join us in October 2027 for another immersive gathering centered on healing, learning, embodiment, expansion, and community.

 

GET INVOLVED IN THE 2027 CONFERENCE