Promoting Wellness Within

Resilience is a capability, not a trait

Evidence-informed resilience and professional training for first responders and helping professionals, built by doctorate-level clinicians. Self-paced and online, completed on shift or off.

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IWI is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7535. Continuing education credit applies to Helping Professionals provider courses.

Certificate of completion 365-day access Self-paced

3,500+ First responders trained in Mastering Resilience

7535 NBCC ACEP provider number

365 Days of access to lessons, resources and handouts

5 PEACE modules across every resilience program

Who It Is Built For

Programs

The Integrated Wellness Institute provides evidence-informed resilience and professional training. First responders and helping professionals are where that work is most distinctive. Individuals have a pathway of their own.

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

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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.

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For 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 Agencies

Programs 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

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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

Catalogue

Peer 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. Anchored in its own companion book.

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First Responder Treatment Provider Training

Required for certification. For helping professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and efficacy in working with first responders, including EMS, firefighters, and police officers.

13 hours

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The PEACE Resilience Model

Framework

Resilience is a protective, mitigating factor with trauma exposure. The PEACE Resilience Model is the first resilience model created for first-responders that integrates into triphasic trauma treatment. It 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

Standards

At 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.

About the Institute

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 the conviction that everyone can develop the insight, skills, and strategies needed to live better. 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 better Dr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer · IWI Founder

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Questions

Before You Enroll

For Helping Professionals, the Integrated Wellness Institute is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7535. Provider courses are geared toward post-master’s level helping professionals.

For Law Enforcement, the Mastering Resilience: First Responder Edition course is currently in review under International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST).

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 courses Mastering Resilience and Peer Support in Action are both anchored in corresponding books, providing a keepsake that keeps learning going beyond the course.

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. Completed on shift or off.