Method developed and refined since 2010, across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Training practitioners internationally.
Most content about training in a new modality is written at the level of “imagine what you could do for your clients.” Lovely. And useful. But it does not tell you whether the thing pays for itself.
So this one is about the money: the head trash clearance training cost, what it does to your working week, and where the return comes from. If you are weighing this up alongside a mortgage and a caseload, I want to give you the numbers rather than the inspiration.
What head trash clearance training cost looks like
Level 1 is where you learn to use the method on yourself. Three formats:
- Essentials, self-paced, six modules, lifetime access. £495 paid in full.
- Group, with bi-weekly live calls, certificate inside two months. £950 paid in full.
- 1:1 Immersion, four months, private and bespoke. £4,444.
Level 2 is the practitioner certification, the one that lets you work with clients. Six months, bi-weekly two-hour live group calls, modules in between. £3,995 standalone if you already hold Level 1, or £4,500 for the Level 1 and Level 2 bundle.
That bundle number is worth a second look. Essentials at £495 plus Level 2 at £3,995 comes to £4,490 if you buy them separately. The bundle is £4,500. Ten pounds more, and it upgrades your Level 1 to the Group format, which costs £455 more on its own.
Payment plans exist across every tier and cost more, which is normal and worth planning around rather than being surprised by.
For context on where that sits: comparable certifications, NLP master practitioner, somatic experiencing, advanced coaching credentials, typically run somewhere between £4,000 and £15,000. This is not a cheap qualification, and it is not an outlier either.
What it costs in time, which is the bit people underestimate
Level 1 Essentials is self-paced with twelve months to submit the assessment. So what it that?
Twenty documented self-clearances. Each one written up: what you worked on, how you worked it, what shifted. Alexia reads them and comes back with feedback. Nobody passes on the strength of having watched the modules.This is about doing the work that matters.And watching videos isn’t it.
The number is not meaningless. Twenty deep clearances is roughly what it takes for the method to start to become fluent in your hands rather than something you are following instructions to do. If you have ever trained in something and then not used it because you never quite got past the instructions and checklist stage, this is the design working against that.
It’s also a good number of clearances for you to really start to understand how clearances work, and it feels like to do them, and to feel something shift. And that’s important.
The thing is, you could actually get all your 20 clearances done in a month. My clients get more than this done in a month, but they have me kicking their butt. The point is, doing the clearances is not the thing that takes the time. And if you write them up as you do them, then Level 1 really doesn’t need to be anything dramatic in terms of time. But when we’re left to our own devices, things have a habit of dragging on This is why the group option is probably the best route for many.
Level 2 runs six months with two-hour live calls fortnightly, plus supervised practice, a live demonstration in a group session, and case studies. Call it a serious side-project rather than a course you can do in the gaps.
Where the return comes from
Not from charging more per hour, at least not first. It comes from what happens to session count.
When a piece of work needs twelve sessions to produce real movement and it starts producing that movement in six, three things change at once.
The obvious one: that client’s engagement costs you half the delivery time. If you price by package rather than by hour, that is margin. If you price by hour, it looks like a problem at first, and I’ll come back to that.
The second one: you work through your clients faster, which means your referral engine runs faster. This is because people talk about you when something has just changed rather than eight months later when they have got used to it.
The third one, And this is less about numbers in a spreadsheet – but it doesn’t mean the cost is any less real. You stop carrying twelve months of somebody’s material. The weight of a slow caseload is a real cost.
The hourly pricing trap
If you charge by the hour and your work gets faster, you have engineered yourself a pay cut. This catches people out and it is entirely avoidable.
It simply requires a shift tin approach.
Price the outcome, not the hour. A package for a defined piece of work, at a price set by what resolving the thing is worth rather than by how long it takes you. This is standard in coaching and less standard in therapeutic practice, which is exactly why it is an opportunity.
Change your session length. Most practitioners default to fifty or sixty minutes because that is what the profession does. For HTC-integrated work, ninety minutes is the cleaner default. This gives you plenty of time to explore what’s going on, and then do a full clearance. Sixty minutes works fine for pure clearance sessions or if you don’t want to spend any time on exploration or integration.
The extras
Assessments. Level 1 Group includes two Ladder of Growth assessments; Level 2 includes three. They retail at around £150 each, so call it £450 to £600 of measurement insight you are not buying separately. More usefully, it means you leave the training already able to show a client how doing clearances brings about changes by showing a baseline and retakes using your own data.
Scale that does not require more of your hours. Recorded clearance tracks, group programmes, digital products. The method was built to be self-led at its foundation level, which means a good deal of what you deliver does not have to be delivered by you in a room.
The Practitioner Network. Certified practitioners join it. Annual licensing arrives from January 2027 with client licences, assessment access, marketing workshops, directory listing and peer supervision attached.
The arithmetic on head trash clearance training cost
Take the bundle at £4,500. If your average client engagement is £900 and adding HTC means you convert and complete five engagements you would otherwise have lost, stalled or dragged out, the training has paid for itself inside a year. And that’s conservative!
A 3-month anxiety programme could sell for anything around £3,000 – £4,500. We teach you to anxiety healing protocol on the training that makes this possible, This means you could pay for your training with ONE client. One Client.
I have practitioners charging £1000 for a one month engagement. Using this approach your training pays for itself on your fifth client. And depending on how you progress thorugh the training, you could start workng like this well before the end of the training. It’s entirely possible that your training has paid for itself before you’ve even finished it.
What it does not do is build you a practice you do not already have. If your problem is that nobody knows who you are, a new certification will not fix that, so i’m not going to lie to you about that. This is a method that makes existing work go deeper and faster. It is not a marketing plan.
If you want to work out which level fits where you are, the Pathways map sorts that in about five minutes. And if you want to watch the method run before spending anything, the monthly live Q&A is free.
Where to go next
- The practitioner’s practice hub
- The Pathways map
- The training pathway
- The intervention model: how HTC is delivered
- Case studies, with the data
If the maths above looks like it could work for your practice, book a fit conversation.
About the author
Alexia Leachman trains therapists, coaches and helping professionals in the Head Trash Clearance Method. Over 16 years and more than 1,000 clearance sessions she has watched what a slow caseload costs the practitioner carrying it, and built a method and a delivery model designed to change that. Author of four books, host of the Fear Free Childbirth podcast (2M+ downloads), and founder of Ladder of Growth. She came to this work as a trained coach with a 15-year commercial background, which is why the method is built like a process rather than a philosophy.