Learn the method on yourself first.
Level 1 is where every HTC practitioner begins. Three tiers, scaled by the level of support you want through the work. By the end, you have a self-care tool for life.
Personal use + professional foundation.
Level 1 teaches you to use Head Trash Clearance on yourself. You work on your own emotional patterns, clearing them systematically, by completing 20 documented self-clearances.
You don't deliver this work to others without doing it on yourself first. This isn't optional, it's essential, and it's how we've designed it. The best practitioners are the ones who've done the work.
What you'll learn
- The fundamentals of the HTC method
- How to identify emotional themes, patterns, and triggers in yourself
- How to apply the 5-step HTC process on your own material
- How to complete 20 deep clearances on yourself (required for Level 2 entry)
- How to build emotional resilience and nervous system stability
Measurement built in Group Training only
L1 Group includes two Ladder of Growth profiles, and you choose which one fits you: the Therapist Growth Journey, the Coach Growth Journey, or the Anxiety Growth Journey if you're neither, or pivoting from another career (retail value £150–£200).
You take the assessment at the start of the two-month cohort and again at the end, so you can see through your own personalised results how your inner world has shifted from doing the work. Ladder of Growth is comparable to instruments like DISC or StrengthsFinder, but it's a far more in-depth assessment and goes considerably deeper.
Not included with L1 Essentials.
What Level 1 sets up for the future
If you later decide to certify as a practitioner, Level 1 is the foundation. But beyond that — HTC is a method that scales beyond 1:1 work. Practitioners trained in HTC can deliver group programmes, digital products, recorded clearance tracks, and live one-to-many sessions. You're not starting on a method that traps you in the hours-for-money model. You're starting on one that opens up multiple delivery formats if you want them.
Three ways to complete Level 1.
The training is the same across all three tiers. What changes is the level of structure, accountability, and personal attention you receive while you work through it.
Essentials
Online, self-paced
Best for independent learners. Professionals confident with self-paced study who want to experience the method without committing to live cohort timing.
- HTC Method Course in full
- Self-paced video lessons
- 12 months' access to complete the work (need longer? Just ask and we'll extend it)
- Group community support
- Level 1 Certificate upon completion
- 12 months to complete the assignment
or 2 monthly payments of £275
Enrol — L1 Essentials →
Group Training
With live calls
The default route for most professionals. Practitioners who learn best with structure, accountability, and live guidance.
- Everything in Essentials, plus:
- Bi-weekly live group calls with Alexia for 2 months
- Guidance on your personal clearances
- Energetic testing mentoring
- Direct feedback in group sessions
- 2 x Ladder of Growth assessments — your choice of Therapist, Coach or Anxiety (retail value £150–£200)
- Level 1 Certificate within 2 months
- Prepares you fully for Practitioner Training
or 12 monthly payments of £101
Enrol — L1 Group Training →
1:1 Immersion
Private programme with Alexia
For practitioners who want intensive personal transformation alongside training. Those carrying significant material they want to address with Alexia directly.
- 4-month private programme with Alexia
- Personal healing and training blended together
- Bespoke pacing — start any time
- Your 20 clearances completed as part of the programme
- 2 x Ladder of Growth assessments — your choice of Therapist, Coach or Anxiety (retail value £150–£200)
- Profound personal transformation as the primary outcome
- Level 1 Certificate by end of programme
- Eligible for fast-tracked Level 2 enrolment
Pay in full
Enquire — L1 Immersion →* Pricing shown is for the 2026–2027 intake. Prices will increase from the following intake.
Healing happens best when you've got SASS.
SASS is HTC's signature support framework — the structure that holds the training experience so trainees are properly supported through the work, not handed materials and left to it.
| Pillar | Essentials | Group | 1:1 Immersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | ✚ | ✚✚ | ✚✚✚ |
| Accountability & Attention | — | ✚✚ | ✚✚✚ |
| Speedy Shortcuts | ✚ | ✚✚ | ✚✚✚ |
| Support & Community | ✚ | ✚✚ | ✚✚✚ |
Different tiers carry different levels of SASS. Pick the level of support that fits your context, time, budget, and need for live guidance versus self-paced flexibility.
What's required for Level 1 certification.
- Submit 20 self-clearances for review (included in all L1 tiers)
- For Essentials: 12 months to complete and submit
- For Group: submission within 2 months
- For 1:1 Immersion: completed as part of the programme
Completing Level 1 awards you the Level 1 Certificate, which is required for Level 2 Practitioner Certification entry, and is evidence of your ability to use the method independently. The 20-clearance requirement isn't arbitrary — completing 20 deep clearances is what creates the practitioner-level fluency with the method.
Why every practitioner starts at Level 1.
- Build emotional fluency and self-trust with the method
- Learn energetic testing on yourself (the foundational skill that scales to client work)
- Integrate the method personally — not just intellectually
- Build a foundation of inner resilience and regulation
- Understand what your clients will experience when you take them through the work
Practitioners who start at Level 1 and do the work properly become some of the most powerful practitioners in the network. The Level 1 work is what makes the Level 2 work possible.
You can't take a client somewhere you haven't been yourself.
Even if you never deliver this with clients, you walk away with the only self-care tool you'll need for life.
Most training programmes are structured around what you'll do with the work. HTC is different: the method is self-led. You can use it on yourself, for yourself, without ever delivering it to a client. By the time you finish Level 1, you have a tool to support your own mental health, emotional wellbeing, and self-care for the rest of your working life.
Emotional self-care on tap, any time, anywhere. A clearance runs in 20 minutes: between meetings, at the end of a hard day, whenever you need it. You build emotional resilience rather than effort. Material that would have hooked into you and stayed for weeks clears within a session of focused work.
Essential for therapists, coaches, and helping practitioners. If your work involves holding other people, you end up carrying the emotional cost. Practitioners across every modality are carrying enormous loads right now. Clients arrive with heavier material than most training prepared people for. Caseloads are full, and the emotional residue accumulates across years.
Practitioners trained in HTC don't carry it home. If something does land, a session where you've been triggered, you do a clearance on it afterwards. The hook clears. You don't go home with it. And the fulfilment and satisfaction you get from this work is a different thing entirely when you're not carrying it around with you.
What's next after Level 1.
Once you've submitted your 20 clearances and received your Level 1 certificate, the pathway opens to Level 2 — Practitioner Certification (6-month programme, supervised practice, certification assessment).
The L1+L2 Bundle
You can bundle Level 1 + Level 2 at the start. The L1+L2 Bundle includes L1 Group Training (the 2-month live-call version) plus the full L2 Practitioner Training. £4,500 pay in full.
If you're certain about practitioner certification from the outset, the Bundle is usually the right entry. If you want to experience L1 first before deciding, take L1 on its own and enrol in L2 separately later — the pathway stays open.
Cohort dates.
L1 Essentials
Self-paced — start any time. Immediate access to all course materials. 12 months to submit your 20-clearance assignment for certification.
L1 Group Training
Next cohort: starts second half of September 2026 — runs for two months of bi-weekly live calls. Practitioners completing L1 Group arrive ready to progress to Level 2 Practitioner Certification once L2 dates are confirmed.
Enrol at any time — you receive immediate access to online materials and join the next round of live calls.
L1 1:1 Immersion
Bespoke pacing — start any time. The 4-month programme is structured around your availability and Alexia's, scheduled after your fit conversation.
What practitioners say.
HTC flips the script. The client brings everything up easily and quickly during the clearance — and then I can use my training, my insight, my theory. I come out of sessions feeling lighter, not draining.
I couldn't get my head around what was actually going on at first. It seemed too simple. Then I did the training, and the pieces fell together. This is the easiest, quickest, and most potent method I have ever seen.
As someone who has been seeking freedom from my emotional baggage for over 25 years, this is without doubt the jewel in the crown.
I wish I had discovered this 10 years ago — I would have saved myself $70k in therapy training.
HTC is the Carlsberg of therapy; probably the best in the world.
Wow! The head trash training! Just brilliant!
Common questions.
No. Level 1 is open to anyone interested in learning the method — for their own healing, as a foundation for practitioner training, or out of intellectual curiosity. Most L1 trainees are professionals from helping fields, but L1 also welcomes yoga teachers, personal trainers, nutrition coaches, HR leaders, organisational practitioners, corporate executives, career-changers, and others without a clinical background.
The training material is the same; the level of support changes. Essentials is self-paced solo. Group adds bi-weekly live calls with Alexia over 2 months. Immersion is a 4-month private programme with Alexia, blending training and personal healing. Pick the level of structure and attention that fits your situation.
Essentials: up to 12 months to submit your assignment (most complete in 3–6 months). Group: 2 months of live calls, certification submission within that window. Immersion: 4-month programme.
Level 1 has standalone value — many people take it purely for personal use, to gain emotional fluency with the method without intending to deliver it to clients. There's no obligation to progress. The lifelong self-care tool you acquire at Level 1 is worth doing the training for, regardless of whether you ever certify.
Almost everyone does. The method is built to be portable — you can run a clearance on yourself in twenty minutes, between meetings, at the end of a hard day. Most L1 graduates report using the method on themselves regularly for years after completing the training.
Yes. For 1:1 Immersion enquiries, the fit conversation is required. For Essentials and Group, it's optional but available if you'd like to talk through which tier fits. Book a fit conversation →
Still deciding?
Free guides for your profession
Short guides for professionals from different backgrounds to help you decide whether HTC is a good fit for the work you do.
Monthly Q&A with Alexia
Once a month, Alexia hosts an open Q&A for prospective trainees. Bring whatever questions you have. No pitch.
Book a fit conversation
For 1:1 Immersion enquiries (required) or for anyone wanting a private conversation before enrolling.
Choose your route.
Considering Level 2 certification? Take both together with the L1+L2 Bundle.
See the L1+L2 Bundle →