You Know The Physiology
But what about the person behind the plan?
You understand the biochemistry. You can assess the symptoms, read the clinical picture and create an individualised nutrition or treatment plan that makes complete sense.
And still, you find yourself sitting across from a client thinking...
There's something else going on here.
Maybe it's the client whose symptoms flare every time life gets stressful, even though everything clinically looks well managed. Maybe it's the client who knows exactly what they need to do, genuinely wants the outcome, and still can't seem to follow through. Or maybe you've addressed every physiological driver you know to look for, and something still feels unresolved.
You can sense there's something deeper going on...
you just don't know what the next step is.
That's the gap Emotion Release Technique™ was created to fill.
The Missing Layer in Client Change
Why understanding the physiology isn't always enough, and what else may be influencing your client's symptoms, behaviours, beliefs and ability to create change.
Created for naturopaths, nutritionists and health practitioners who want to expand the way they understand and support their clients.
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What If They Don't Need More Information?
You're probably already seeing this layer in your practice, and it tends to show up in two ways.
It shows up in their symptoms.
The client whose gut, skin, sleep or hormonal symptoms seem to worsen during periods of stress. The client whose presentation shifts around particular relationships, situations or seasons of life. The nervous system that stays switched on, despite appropriate clinical support. The complex or recurring presentation where you've addressed the obvious factors, and you can feel there's another piece to assess.
And it shows up in their behaviours.
The client who starts strong, then slowly slips back into old habits. The one who eats emotionally when they're stressed or overwhelmed, or struggles with cravings despite knowing exactly what their body needs. The client who feels restricted or resistant the moment they're handed a plan. The one who loses motivation even though they genuinely want the outcome, or who sabotages their progress just as things begin to change, and finds themselves starting all over again.
Underneath both, you'll often find the same things. Stress responses. Emotional drivers. Beliefs and identities that shape how a client responds to treatment and change. Previous experiences that are still quietly running the show. And that frustrating misalignment between what a client says they want and what they're actually doing.
So when you've addressed everything you know to assess, where do you look next?
You don't need to abandon the clinical work you're already doing. You need another way of understanding what may be influencing it, and the skills to know what to do with what you find.
Introducing The ERT Practitioner Pathway
Emotion Release Technique™ (ERT) gives practitioners a structured way to assess and facilitate the emotional, subconscious and nervous system responses that may be influencing a client's presentation.
ERT isn't about guessing, deciding what a symptom "means", or assuming you already know the emotional reason behind someone's experience. Two clients can walk in with the very same symptom and have completely different things going on underneath it, and that's exactly why we don't work from a list of meanings.
We assess the individual.
ERT gives you a process to follow so you can get curious about what's happening beneath the presenting symptom, behaviour, belief or pattern, while continuing to work within your existing skill set. For naturopaths and nutritionists, that means ERT doesn't replace your physiological or nutritional work. It gives you another lens through which to understand the person sitting in front of you.
Become The Practitioner Who Knows Where To Look Next
This isn't about becoming a different kind of practitioner. It's about expanding the practitioner you already are.
Imagine being in a consult, recognising there may be another layer influencing what's happening, and actually knowing where to go next.
Because so many practitioners know that moment well. You can sense there's something more going on with your client, but you don't know what to do with it. And if you're honest, that's when the doubt creeps in. You start questioning your knowledge, second guessing your plan, and wondering whether you've missed something. Over time, those moments can quietly chip away at your confidence, even though you're a skilled and caring practitioner.
ERT gives you somewhere to go in those moments. Instead of doubting yourself, you have a structured assessment process you can trust.
You don't need to figure your client out, have all the answers, or convince them of an emotional explanation. You assess, you follow the process, and you facilitate what's there.
That's the practitioner I want ERT to help you become
Meet Karlie
Hi, I'm Karlie McKeand, Naturopath and founder of Emotion Release Technique™.
I didn't create ERT because I wanted another modality to teach. I created it because I kept seeing the same thing in my own clinic. I could get the physiology right, the plan right, the supplements right, and some clients still didn't shift. I knew there was something else going on, and I needed a way to work with it that was structured, individualised and grounded in the clinical work I already loved.
So I saw a need, and I built a way to fill it.
I'm a practitioner teaching practitioners. I still work with clients in my own practice, which means ERT isn't something I teach from a distance. Every part of the process has been shaped by real consults, real presentations and real people.
Training practitioners has become one of my favourite parts of this work. What I want most for the practitioners I train isn't just a new technique. It's that feeling of walking into a consult knowing you can trust yourself, trust the process, and support your client in a way that truly makes a difference. And knowing that every practitioner I train goes on to support clients I'll never meet is what lights me up.
Learn the skills to bring the ERT lens into your existing practice.
ERT Certification
ERT Certification is a 12 week practitioner training designed to teach you how to confidently assess and facilitate Emotion Release Technique™ with your clients.
Throughout the Certification, you'll learn how to apply the ERT lens across a wide range of client presentations, from physiology and symptoms through to behaviours, emotional responses, mindset and a client's capacity to create change.
The Body
Hormonal and endocrine presentations
Add another lens to hormonal presentations by exploring the stress and emotional patterns that may be relevant alongside the physiological drivers you're already assessing.
Gut and digestive presentations
Explore the relationship between stress, emotional responses and nervous system patterns, and the way clients experience and respond to digestive symptoms.
Sleep and rest
Look beyond sleep hygiene to what may be influencing a client's ability to switch off, rest and relax.
Fertility and reproductive health
Explore the emotional, stress and nervous system patterns that may be relevant when supporting fertility and reproductive health alongside appropriate clinical care.
Immune and physiological load
Broaden your lens around chronic stress, immune responses and the patterns that may be contributing to ongoing load on the body.
Stress & The Nervous System
Stress, past and present
Explore how current and past stress can influence the way a client responds, adapts and experiences what's happening in their body and their life.
Safety, threat and protective responses
Understand how the nervous system's drive towards safety can sit beneath resistance, avoidance, hypervigilance and control, patterns that can so easily be mistaken for self sabotage.
The Emotional & Mental Layers
Mood and emotional wellbeing
Explore the emotional patterns, triggers and responses that may be contributing to how a client feels and moves through their everyday life.
Mental health presentations
Learn how the ERT lens may complement appropriate mental health care by exploring relevant stress responses, emotional patterns, beliefs and behaviours, while recognising your scope and when additional support is needed.
Beliefs, identity and thought patterns
Assess the beliefs, internal narratives, expectations and identities that may be shaping how a client sees themselves, interprets their experiences and approaches change.
Behaviour, Change & Transformation
Behaviours and self sabotage
Go beyond telling clients what they "should" do, and explore what may be driving repeated behaviours, resistance, avoidance and difficulty following through.
Goals and creating something new
Work beyond resolving what's "wrong" to support clients in moving towards what they actually want. Explore not only what they want to change, but what that outcome represents to them, and what may be influencing their capacity to take aligned action.
Receiving, sustaining and integrating change
Creating the outcome is only one part of change. Explore what happens when clients begin getting what they want, and the patterns that can influence their ability to receive it, sustain it and integrate it into who they're becoming.
ERT isn't about learning that a particular symptom, behaviour or body system has a particular emotional meaning. No two clients are the same, and two people can walk in with the very same presentation and have completely different things going on underneath it.
So rather than guessing what's happening or relying on a list of predetermined associations, you'll learn how to use a structured assessment process to identify what's relevant for the individual client in front of you, and then facilitate the ERT process from there.
That's what makes ERT so individualised, and so powerful in practice.
What Your 12 Week Certification Includes:
12 weeks of live practitioner training
You'll learn ERT progressively, building your skills and confidence as we move from foundations into real clinical application.
The complete ERT assessment and facilitation process
Learn how to assess and how to follow a structured process without needing to know the answer before you begin.
Practical application and demonstrations
We don't just learn ERT in theory. You'll see it demonstrated, practice it yourself, discuss cases and build the confidence to use it in your own practice.
Case clinics and Q&A
Bring your questions, experiences and client scenarios so we can explore how ERT applies in real practice.
Lifetime access to the ERT Online Training Portal with your ERT practitioner resources and access to your Certification training.
For the 12 weeks, you'll go through Certification together with your cohort in a private group. Once you're certified, you'll join the ERT practitioner group page, where you can stay connected, ask questions and share cases with practitioners who speak the same language.
How You Can Use ERT In Your Practice
One of the things I love most about ERT is how naturally it fits into the way you already work. There's no one right way to use it, so you get to shape it around your practice and your clients.
Integrate it into your existing consultations when you recognise another layer is influencing what you're seeing
Offer standalone ERT sessions as their own service
Incorporate it into your programs and group work
Create a premium or VIP tier within your existing packages
Collaborate with other practitioners, either by bringing the ERT process into their programs, or by becoming the practitioner they refer their clients to for ERT consultations
Work in person or online, giving you complete flexibility in how and where you practice
For a lot of practitioners, this is where ERT really starts to change things. It deepens the support you can give, and it opens up new ways to structure what you offer.
What Your 12 Week Certification Includes:
01. PRACTITIONER SKILL
A structured process you can confidently use when you recognise there may be an emotional, subconscious or nervous system layer influencing what you're seeing. You'll learn to assess rather than assume, to facilitate rather than fix, and to support the whole person without feeling responsible for having all the answers.
02. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
You bring you into every consult. Your confidence, your beliefs, your relationship with visibility and receiving, your sense of worth and your willingness to step into something bigger all shape what you create in your practice. That's why your Certification includes 3 months of Alignment Mastermind.
03. PRACTICE EXPANSION
ERT gives you another skill to weave into what you're already doing. As your skill set expands, so do the conversations you can have, the patterns you can explore, and the ways you can grow your practice.
Alignment Mastermind:
Included In Your Certification
3 months complimentary access, valued at $999
You've done the training. You know you're good at what you do. So why does growing your practice still feel so hard?
You can be an incredible practitioner and still find yourself holding back from being visible, undercharging or questioning your value, overthinking decisions, or procrastinating on the very things you know would move your business forward. Sometimes the thing holding your business back isn't another strategy. It's the patterns playing out beneath it.
Strategy tells you what to do. Alignment helps you address what's getting in the way of doing it.
Alignment is an ongoing weekly mastermind that brings together business mentoring, practical strategy, mindset, identity and ERT. We don't just talk about what's holding you back. I use ERT to help you assess and work with the subconscious patterns, stress responses, beliefs and identities influencing the way you show up in your business.
Inside Alignment, we work on money and receiving, visibility and being seen, confidence and self trust, clients and growth, pricing and value, energy and burnout, identity, and self sabotage and resistance.
It's somewhere to work on the patterns keeping you stuck, while you're learning to support your clients with theirs.
Your Exclusive Conference Bonuses
For practitioners joining this intake, I'm adding three live bonus workshops.
Each one is a live 60 minute group ERT session with me. Rather than just teaching you about these topics, I'll take the group through the ERT process to assess and address the blocks and resistance sitting underneath them. So you're not only working on your own practice, you're also experiencing ERT from the inside, which is one of the most powerful ways to understand what it can do for your clients.
Bonus Workshop 01:
Being Visible On Social Media
Live, 60 minutes | Friday 16th October 11am AEDT
You know you need to put yourself out there, but knowing that doesn't make being seen feel easy. Together we'll explore what's happening beneath the fear, resistance and discomfort around visibility, so you can begin sharing your knowledge and showing up with far more confidence.
Bonus Workshop 02:
Receiving Money As A Healer, Without Shame Or Guilt
Live, 60 minutes | Friday 23rd October 11am AEDT
You can want more clients, a greater income and a profitable practice, and still carry unconscious resistance to receiving money for the work you do. For natural therapists especially, beliefs around helping, healing, worth and money can quietly shape the way we price, sell and promote ourselves. In this session we'll work with the patterns making it harder to receive, so you can create financial success without the shame or guilt that so often comes with it.
Bonus Workshop 03:
Attract More Clients, Help More People And Make More Money
Live, 60 minutes | Friday 30th October 11am AEDT
Growing your practice isn't only about learning another marketing strategy. We'll use the ERT lens to explore the patterns influencing your ability to put yourself out there, attract clients, create opportunities and allow your practice to expand. Because growing your business means you get to do more of the work you came here to do.
Pay In Full Bonus:
A Private 1:1 Session With Karlie
When you pay in full, you'll also receive a private 1:1 session with me, and you get to choose where we focus.
Maybe it's something personal, a pattern or block you'd love to finally move through. We'll use the ERT process together, so you experience the depth of the work firsthand.
Or maybe it's your business, your offers, pricing or how you'll bring ERT into your practice. We'll look at the strategy and the patterns underneath it, so you walk away clear and aligned on your next steps.
Are You A Metabolic Balance® Practitioner?
You'll also receive a private workshop with me.
Live, 60 minutes | Wednesday 28th October 12pm AEDT
On top of everything else, you'll receive a ERT workshop for MB pracs focused on your offers, programs and pricing. We'll use the ERT process to uncover what's truly aligned for you and clear whatever is getting in the way, from pricing hesitation to self doubt or resistance to being seen. You'll walk away with offers that feel right for you, your clients and the practice you want to create, and the confidence to put them out there.
Everything You Receive
12 week ERT Certification
Lifetime access to your training portal
Live training, case clinics and Q&A
Private cohort group, plus ongoing access to the ERT practitioner group
3 months Alignment Mastermind (valued at $999)
3 live bonus ERT workshops, exclusive to this intake (valued at $999)
Private 1:1 session with Karlie for Pay in Full
Metabolic Balance practitioners additional workshop with Karlie to work through the program, pricing and packages.
Certification begins Monday 16 November 2026
Enrolments close 13 November 2026.
Your Investment
Pay in Full
$3,333
12 Month Payment Plan
$333 × 12
24 Month Payment Plan
$169 × 24
Not sure yet?
Take your time, watch the training, and see whether this feels like the skill you've been looking for. If you have a question about Certification, you're so welcome to message me directly on Instagram.