For Those Who Are Stuck. For Those Who Have Tried Everything.
The therapy. The EMDR. The IFS. The somatic work. You have done it all — and something still feels hollow, just beneath the surface.
That is not failure. That is your body telling you it needs something different.
The Sacred Becoming offers ketamine-assisted EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, IFS, somatic therapy, and nervous system regulation for adults in Illinois and Colorado who are ready to heal at the root — not just manage the symptoms.
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- The Sacred Becoming Episode One
In the debut episode of The Sacred Becoming podcast, Ashley Hartman, somatic and attachment therapist, RYT registered yoga teacher, and perinatal mental health clinician (PMHC) founder of The Sacred Becoming and Dr. Sarah Tisser, owner… Read more: The Sacred Becoming Episode One - The Sacred Return: A Low-Dose Ketamine-Assisted EMDR, IFS & Yoga Retreat
There is a reason every initiation story begins with a journey into the wilderness. Clarissa Pinkola Estés wrote that the wild nature calls us outward — into the woods, into the untamed — because it… Read more: The Sacred Return: A Low-Dose Ketamine-Assisted EMDR, IFS & Yoga Retreat - Second Somatic Reparenting Workshop
Second somatic reparenting workshop complete – we held space a @rising_lotus_healing_center. One participant reported she arrived terrified and left feeling gangster. 💕✨💕✨ Another came in heavy and walked out light. Three hours of a full… Read more: Second Somatic Reparenting Workshop
The path back to yourself
takes many forms.
Each offering at The Sacred Becoming is a different way of listening
to what the nervous system is ready to meet.
The Deep Descent
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Therapy & Intensives
For the places words have never reached. A clinically held, somatically grounded descent into the deeper terrain — where old wounds live and real integration begins.
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The Sacred Rhythm
Individual Therapy — IFS, Inner Child, Somatic Work
The steady, ongoing practice of coming home. Week by week, layer by layer — in relationship with a therapist who knows your system and holds the long arc of your return.
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The Wild Gathering
Ketamine EMDR and Yoga Retreats
The wilderness has always known how to call us back. Four days, four women, one private Colorado sanctuary — a container for the kind of shift that changes the entire orientation of a life.
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The Embodied Return
Somatic Integration – Trauma Informed Yoga Sessions
The body is not a footnote to the healing. She is the original text. Movement, breath, and presence as a pathway back to the self that was always there.
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The Kindred Circle
Workshops
Belonging that does not ask you to disappear first. A curated circle of women who know what it is to have been underground — and who are finding their way back together.
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Ashley Hartman,
LCSW, PMHC, RYT-200
A somatic and attachment trauma therapist with fifteen years of clinical experience. A complex PTSD survivor. A yoga teacher. A woman who has died a thousand times to become this version of herself.
She is trained in Ketamine Assisted EMDR, Internal Family Systems, , early developmental trauma — the wounds that form before we have words for them.
She is not here to hand you answers.
She is here to hold the space
while you find your own.
