Healing Legacies Coaching Agreement

Welcome to Healing Legacies.
This agreement outlines the purpose and scope of your participation in the Healing Legacies program. It clarifies the difference between coaching and therapy, supports informed consent, and offers a foundation for engaging with this work in a way that is safe, empowering, and clear.

This Is Coaching — Not Therapy

Healing Legacies is a coaching and educational program, not psychotherapy. While it is rooted in relational, trauma-informed, and neurobiology-based frameworks, it is not designed for mental health treatment, emotional processing, or healing trauma in a clinical sense.

Coaching is:

Coaching is a collaborative, forward-looking process that supports growth, reflection, and personal insight.

In this program, coaching focuses on helping you develop greater awareness of your relational patterns, emotional responses, and parenting experiences — within the context of learning and exploration. Coaching is not therapy. It does not involve diagnosis, treatment, or emotional processing of trauma, but rather offers space for clarity, curiosity, and change.

Therapy is:

- A clinical relationship involving diagnosis, assessment, and treatment
- Designed to support healing and emotional processing of trauma, grief, and mental health challenges
- Bound by formal healthcare regulations, privacy protections, and treatment plans
- Conducted by a regulated health professional acting in a clinical capacity

While your facilitator is a registered mental health professional, they are not acting as a therapist in this program. You will not be receiving psychotherapy or clinical care through Healing Legacies.

Scope of Services

This program offers:
- Educational content on trauma, attachment, and intergenerational patterns
- Opportunities for reflection, journaling, and group discussion
- Tools to support nervous system awareness and parenting insight

This program does not provide:
- Mental health assessments or treatment
- Diagnosis or clinical case management
- Crisis intervention or therapeutic processing of trauma

Your Mental Health is Important

By participating in this program, you agree to:
- Take responsibility for your mental and emotional wellbeing
- Seek professional mental health support from a licensed provider if needed
- Refrain from using this program as a substitute for therapy

If you are currently in crisis, experiencing acute distress, or navigating significant trauma symptoms, we strongly encourage you to speak with a therapist, physician, or crisis service before or alongside participating in this work.

What Coaching Can Help You With

Healing Legacies is designed to support:
- Increased awareness of how intergenerational trauma may show up in your parenting
- Insights into your own stress responses and caregiving patterns
- A compassionate lens through which to view yourself as a parent
- The development of curiosity, flexibility, and gentler self-understanding

While personal insight may feel transformative, it is not the same as clinical healing work. Coaching creates conditions for learning and change — not treatment.

Commitment to Growth

By joining this program, you agree to:
- Show up to the work with openness and self-compassion
- Reflect between sessions, using the tools provided
- Ask for support when needed
- Respect the confidentiality and dignity of other participants in group discussions
- Recognize that learning can be uncomfortable — and that discomfort is often part of growth

Consent & Acknowledgment

By enrolling in Healing Legacies, you acknowledge and agree that:
- You understand this is a coaching and educational program, not psychotherapy
- You will not receive clinical advice, treatment, or a diagnosis
- You are responsible for seeking external mental health care as needed
- You consent to participate in a learning process that may include emotional reflection, but not therapeutic processing

We are honored to walk beside you as you explore the stories, beliefs, and patterns that shape your parenting journey. Thank you for trusting this process.

Confidentiality & Community Agreements

While this is not a therapy group, we still hold space with care and respect. We ask that participants:
- Treat others’ stories and experiences with discretion and care
- Do not share names or identifiable information outside the group
- Avoid judgment or unsolicited advice during group discussions

Because this is a group-based coaching and education space, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed, especially in live calls and discussion forums. We trust you to participate in a way that feels safe for you.

Facilitators will not share your information with outside parties, except in cases where there is a legal duty to report (such as risk of harm to self or others or disclosures involving child protection).

Trauma Disclosure Guidelines

This is not a space for detailed processing of traumatic events. While we may reflect on past experiences and family patterns, participants are asked to:
- Avoid sharing graphic, intense, or specific trauma details
- Speak from the present moment (e.g., “I notice I feel anxious when...” rather than describing past abuse)
- Prioritize emotional regulation and safety during reflection and sharing

If you are needing space to process trauma in more depth, we encourage you to connect with a licensed therapist who can support you in a clinical capacity.