Promoting Wellness Within
Resilience is a capability, not a trait
Structured, online, self-paced resilience training for first responders, helping professionals, and individuals. Built by doctorate-level clinicians. Approved by NBCC. Completed on shift or off.
NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider
ACEP No. 7535
Who It Is Built For
Programs
For First Responders and Agencies
Workforce resilience, trained across ranks
IWI builds workforce resilience for first responders and other high-demand professionals. Two flagship programs, one framework, deployed self-paced, instructor-led, or hybrid. If it is trained across roles and ranks, it becomes culture.
3,500+ trained Companion book included Certificate
For Helping Professionals
Helping professionals have an exclusive provider section offering post-masters level training for honing specialized skills for clinical practice. These courses can sharpen foundational skills or extend into new content practice areas to better help clients.
Provider Courses 03For Individuals
Individuals can access self-empowered courses that facilitate personal growth and deeper self-awareness. Whether you are searching for strategies to live better or additional tools to review during professional counseling, IWI has a course for you.
Individual Courses
Bring It To Your Organization
For AgenciesPrograms grounded in evidence-based practices, designed for operational realities, and engineered for adoption with companion books. Turnkey, with no curriculum development required on your side.
3,500+ trained Quarterly team practice Turnkey
- Self-paced
- Move at your own pace through lessons and activities. Some lessons are less than 5 minutes.
- Instructor-led
- Delivered live to your team, on a schedule that fits your shift pattern.
- Hybrid
- Both formats combined. This is where most agencies land once staffing is factored in.
- Tracked and certified
- Participants track their progress and receive a certificate of completion.
Courses
CataloguePeer Support in Action
A practical, competency-based training that equips peer support team members with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to effectively support their peers in high-stress environments.
02First Responder Provider Course
For helping professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and efficacy in working with first responders, including EMS, firefighters, and police officers.
03Living Authentically
A self-paced course designed to guide you through the process of self-awareness, to help you understand your thoughts, emotions, and actions on a deeper level.
The PEACE Resilience Model
FrameworkResilience is a protective, mitigating factor with trauma exposure. The PEACE Resilience Model provides practical tools to build resilience and enhance well-being.
- P Psychoeducation on Trauma Identify the impact of trauma on the mind and body
- E Expand Awareness Enhance emotional and environmental awareness
- A Activate Healthy Habits Learn to meet needs across all levels of wellbeing
- C Coping with Acute Stress Evidence-based techniques for immediate stress management
- E Establish a Plan Individualized plan for building resilience and maintaining wellbeing
Design and Quality
StandardsAt the Integrated Wellness Institute we take pride in the quality and expertise behind every course we offer. Each course is meticulously crafted by a doctorate-level practitioner, based on research, practice and years of clinical knowledge, and designed with precise objectives aimed at empowering and achieving wellness goals.
- Access
- 365 days of access to resources, lessons and handouts.
- Self-paced learning
- Move at your own pace through lessons and activities. Some lessons are less than 5 minutes.
- Interactive
- Practical tools, strategies, handouts and videos for interactive learning.
- Track progress
- Participants can track their progress and receive a certificate of completion.
Dr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer
IWI Founder
- Licensed Professional Counselor
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor
- Nationally Certified Counselor
Dr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer founded the Integrated Wellness Institute on one conviction: resilience is a capability, not a trait. She holds certifications as a First Responder Provider, Hypnotherapist and Clinical Trauma Professional.
Former Dean of Behavioural Sciences at Yorkville University, she created the national First Responder Treatment Provider certification program and writes every IWI resilience course alongside the clinicians who developed the framework. Her work is anchored in companion books so the material outlives the login.
The best investment in life is to take time to live it betterDr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer ยท IWI Founder
Questions
Before You EnrollThe Integrated Wellness Institute is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7535. Provider courses are geared toward post-master’s level helping professionals.
365 days of access to resources, lessons and handouts. Courses are self-paced. You move through lessons and activities on your own schedule, and some lessons are less than five minutes.
Yes. Participants can track their progress and receive a certificate of completion.
Yes. Mastering Resilience is a scalable, workforce-wide resilience training designed for trauma-exposed professionals, and can be delivered self-paced, instructor-led, or hybrid. Peer Support in Action adds four quarterly team practice activities.
Each course is meticulously crafted by a doctorate-level practitioner and is based on research, practice and years of clinical knowledge.
Yes. The course is anchored in the Mastering Resilience book, providing a structured foundation for skill development and implementation.
Promoting Wellness Within
Train It Like The Skill It Is
For yourself, for your clients, or for your entire workforce. Built by doctorate-level clinicians. Approved by NBCC. Completed on shift or off.