For established clinicians and practice owners who've built something successful... and are now trapped by it.
The Catalyst Collective
A 6-Month Leadership Incubator for Established Mental Health Practitioners
Apply Now To Join the WaitlistTHIS IS FOR YOU IF...
- β You're generating $150Kβ$300K+ in revenue
- β You have strong clinical skills and have done your own work
- β You can see the next level but every path forward feels unsustainable
- β You're starting to resent work you once loved
- β You believe there has to be a third option between staying small or burning out
- β You're ready to STOP before redesigning
Introducing
The Catalyst CollectiveΒ
Β The Catalyst CollectiveΒ is a 6-month incubator where you redesign your practice from the ground up using somatic principles - not just in your clinical work, but in your actual business architecture.
This isn't another training program where you consume content and return to the same unsustainable structure.
PHASE 1:
THE 6-WEEK CATALYST INTENSIVE
This is where everything shifts. We meet weekly for deep, focused work that moves through three essential activators:
Week 1- 2Β
Rest and Repair
Before you can redesign anything, you need to stop. Most clinicians are trying to build something new while still running at unsustainable capacity. We start here because your nervous system needs to downregulate enough to actually FEEL what's true.
This isn't about adding self-care to your calendar. It's about recognizing that rest isn't preparation for the real work - it IS the work.
We explore: What would it look like to build a practice where rest is structured in, not squeezed in? How do you design revenue models that don't require constant output? What does your body need to tell you that you can't hear when you're in survival mode?
Week 3-4:
Resourcing the ResourcerΒ
Now that you can actually sense yourself, we focus on regulation. You're the instrument of healing - and that instrument has been running on empty. We go deep into nervous system literacy applied to business decisions:
- What does a resourced workweek actually feel like in your body?
- How do you make decisions from regulation rather than depletion?
- Where are you overriding your own needs in the name of 'professionalism'?
This is where you start to see that your exhaustion isn't a character flaw - it's accurate data about an unsustainable design.
Week 5-6:
Embodied Boundaries
Now you're ready to redesign. With your nervous system regulated and resourced, you can finally FEEL your way through business decisions rather than just thinking them:
- When you look at next quarter's schedule, what does your body tell you?
- When you consider adding another clinician, where do you feel expansion vs. contraction?
- What does a 'yes' actually feel like versus a 'yes' that's really compliance?
We practice boundaries as somatic experience, not psychological concept. You learn to trust: If it doesn't feel sustainable in my body right now, it won't be sustainable in my practice six months from now.
PHASE 2:
THE 5-MONTH IMPLEMENTATION
- Monthly Peer Pod Meetings (90 minutes).Β This is where the real transformation happens. Collective sense-making with people who get it, witnessing each other's process, troubleshooting the real-time challenges of building differently. You're not alone in this.
- Monthly Office Hours with Helen (60 minutes).Β Bring your edge cases, your stuck points, your 'this came up and I don't know what to do' moments. I show up when you need the catalyst, not as the expert you have to depend on. This is where we apply Rest and Repair, Resourcing the Resourcer, and Embodied Boundaries to whatever's actually happening in your practice.
- Private Community AccessΒ Ongoing support between sessions, because sometimes you need to share a win, process a setback, or ask, 'Is anyone else feeling this?'
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
It starts with rest, not hustle. Most business programs ask you to add more capacity while already depleted. We start by creating space, because you cannot redesign a practice from a dysregulated nervous system. Rest and Repair isn't a nice idea; it's the foundation.
It's peer-to-peer, not expert-led. I'm the container-holder and catalyst, but transformation happens in collective witnessing, not expert prescription. You're not here to consume; you're here to co-create.
It's based on somatic principles, not business formulas. Every decision is filtered through your actual nervous system: Does this resource nourish me or deplete me? Can I hold this position without dysregulation? What is my body telling me that my mind is trying to override?
It's designed for catalysts and initiators. If you have a pattern of starting strong and then moving on, that's not something to fix, that's your design. We create frameworks that support this approach rather than oppose it.
It builds sustainability that actually scales. My practice grew to 7 figures with 27 clinicians BECAUSE of nervous system sustainability, not despite it. When you are not feeling depleted, you can effectively manage and sustain growth.
THE THREE ACTIVATORS BECOME YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM
After the 6-week intensive, Rest and Repair, Resourcing the Resourcer, and Embodied Boundaries aren't just trainings you completed; they become the lens through which you make every business decision:
Considering a new revenue stream? Run it through: Does this business model allow for rest and repair, or does it require constant output?
Thinking about expansion?Β Ask yourself: Am I able to adequately support myself while managing this, or am I setting myself up for another burnout?
Establishing boundaries with a client, staff member, or opportunity is crucial. Feel it: What does my body know that my mind is trying to rationalize?
This is how somatic principles become business architecture.
Apply Now To Join the WaitlistTHIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF...
- β You're just starting out and need basic practice-building (there are great resources for that; this isn't it)
- β You're looking for a formula or expert to tell you exactly what to do
- β You can't or won't create space to actually rest during the intensive (this model requires slowing down to speed up)
- β You're not willing to examine how capitalism and extraction have shaped your business model
- β You want another certification to add to your wall
Investment
This is less than many single weekend trainings, but it's a 6-month restructuring of how you work. It's an investment that says, 'I'm worth building something sustainable around
If you're currently seeing 20 clients/week at $150/session, you're generating $156K/year. If this program helps you redesign so you can either:
See fewer clients while maintaining revenue (by raising rates, adding groups, or building leverage)
Grow without burning out (by building systems that don't require your constant presence)
Stop losing weeks to depletion and resentment (and actually use your capacity for revenue-generating work)
Structure in rest without guilt (knowing your practice can handle your absence)
...the ROI isn't just financial. It's getting back to why you fell in love with this work in the first place.
And honestly? If you can't take 6 weeks to slow down enough to do this work, that's the loudest data point about why you need it.
Bonus: 6 CEUs includedΒ
(because requirements matter, even if that's not why you're here).
Limited to 12 Participants Per CohortΒ
Because this is peer-to-peer work, the container size matters. Small enough for real intimacy and witnessing, large enough for diverse perspectives.
Apply Now To Join the WaitlistΒ
Application Process:
Applications are now being accepted for our waitlist. Be the first to know when the next cohort opens.
Submit a brief application (I want to know where you are, what you've built, and what wall you're hitting.)
If it seems like a fit, we'll have a 20-minute conversation, not a sales call, but a genuine check-in about whether this is right for both of us
When the next cohort opens, waitlist applicants get first access.
I'm Helen Malinowski
Founder of the Somatic Integration Institute and operator of three mental health practices: KAIROS Counseling, Brighter Beginnings Children's Mental Health Initiative, and a community nonprofit.
I'm a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and I've been a Training Assistant in the SE community since 2020. I've built KAIROS Counseling from a solo practice to a 7-figure group practice with 27 clinicians.
But here's what matters more: I did all of this after hitting my own wall with burnout in 2019. I rebuilt everything using somatic principles, not just in how I work with clients, but in how I design business systems, leadership structures, and growth strategies.
I created the Catalyst Collective because I kept meeting skilled, established clinicians hitting the same wall I hit, trapped between limiting their impact or burning out. This program is what I wish had existed when I was lying awake at 3am doing math that didn't work.
Ready to Build Differently?
Applications are open now for our waitlist. We're keeping it small, just 12 people, because this is deep, peer-to-peer work, not another expert-led training.
APPLY NOWNot sure if it's right for you? Reach out at [email protected] for a conversation. No pressure, no sales tactics, just two clinicians talking honestly about what you need.
