Completion Therapy Facilitator Training Program

FOUNDATIONS:

February 5 - April 16, 2026

Classes meet on Zoom Thursday evenings, 5:30-7:30pm

$825, payment plans up to 6-months available

Register by January 22 for a $50 discount

Welcome to the launch of Emily’s first practitioner training program! This comprehensive program is composed of 5 courses, each 10 weeks long, that gradually move the facilitator-in-training through increasing depth and clarity in the paradigm of Completion Therapy, its techniques, and the philosophical and spiritual insights that serve as its foundation and lifeblood. This first course, Foundations, provides a solid launching pad for future practitioners, but it is equally appropriate for anyone who works with others in a service capacity and aspires to infuse that work with greater potency, clarity, and love. See below for more details, including a brief curriculum outline.

What is Completion Therapy

Completion Therapy is a method of addressing an individual’s combined psychological, emotional, mental, and spiritual process such that the core issues limiting their personal expansion, expression, and aliveness are resolved conclusively and permanently. As a joint approach marrying the psychological transformation of deep therapeutic work with the potential for human expansion elucidated by humanity’s ancient spiritual traditions, Completion Therapy begins at the point where most conventional counseling modalities leave off. It prioritizes transformation over coping; real freedom over social functioning; the inner landscape over external circumstances; radical authenticity over learned speech and behavior modification; and the intelligence of true faith over either dogma or analysis.

The Basic Framework

As a Completion Therapist, you will facilitate a three-pronged approach to help the participant remain continually at the upper limit of their own growth potential:

1. Meditation and spiritual practices drawn from the world’s major wisdom traditions. These may include Christian contemplation and prayer, Buddhist insight and Zen meditation, Yogic self-investigation and mind control, or Taoist and Tantric self-surrender.

2. Emotional awareness and surrender. Emotional processing requires the participant to develop the courage and confront necessary for them to face their deepest emotional haunts, immerse themselves fully in those long-avoided experiences, and maintain the deep inner equanimity and witness required to come out the other side.

3. On-going personal risk-taking. The participant’s psychological, mental, and spiritual gains and insights are tested and refined in the crucible of daily life through risks that continually challenge the limits of what they consider comfortable and safe.

This ‘sit-feel-risk’ approach is employed in one-on-ones with the facilitator, in facilitated group sessions with other CT participants, and in the participants’ daily lives. Undergirding this whole model is a continually developed rapport with one’s own soul, that uniquely held source of wisdom, love, and clarity, and both therapist and participant remain in a stream of connection with that guidance.

A Brief History

Completion Therapy has its roots in the life and work of Ira Fish, a personal process facilitator and spiritual teacher who, during his 45+ year career, helped hundreds of people come through deep, unresolved trauma; access new levels of personal courage, intelligence, and joy; and dissolve fundamental internal barriers created out of fear, confusion, and resistance to life. In his 20’s, Ira recognized both the fundamental limitations of secular psychology and the untapped potential for transformation in humanity as a whole, and through his extraordinary innate ability to directly perceive other people’s emotional and energetic states coupled with extensive study and practice in Eastern spiritual traditions, he pioneered a new form of personal and spiritual process facilitation. His approach hinged on seeing and understanding the person at a level not revealed by their personal narrative, pushing the limits of what they thought possible for themselves, tolerating nothing less than absolute honesty and transparency, and demonstrating pure love and acceptance for their authentic self, whatever that looked like. Ira summed up the foundation of his work as a union of the Buddhist principle of non-attachment and the Taoist principle of non-resistance—essentially, that lasting happiness and freedom are found only in the willingness to part with all illusions and temporary forms, no matter how dearly held, and the willingness to embrace all experience, no matter how painful.

Ira’s long career ended in 2024. During his decades of service, he trained a small cohort of other facilitators in his methods and principles, but he never fully codified his techniques. Emily Carson, a student, client, and close friend of Ira’s for many years, began her own counseling and spiritual teaching practice in 2003 and founded the non-profit The Sound of Rain. She integrated much of Ira’s framework into her own, while contributing new ideas and methods born of her extensive experience with trauma, her in-depth research and practice with myriad ancient wisdom traditions, and the hundreds of contemporary spiritual teachings she channeled over the years from her own soul guidance. In 2025, Emily began to systematize this synthesis of her’s and Ira’s work, and Completion Therapy was born.

Foundations Course Outline