Shadow Alchemy Coaching Academy
Somatic Shadow Work Coaching

For Practitioners, Leaders & Humans Called to Go Deeper

Train in the world's first trauma-informed somatic shadow work methodology — integrating shadow work, embodiment, and mindset to work with the deeper patterns shaping how people think, feel, and behave.

  • Deep love for personal growth, healing, and transformation?
  • Passionate about understanding what drives human behaviour?
  • Called to go deeper within yourself — and guide others to do the same?

Shadow Alchemy is the place for you.

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Shadow Alchemy
500+
Coaches Certified
15+
Years Developing The Method
Coaches Certified
Globally
The First
Somatic Shadow Work Certification
3000+
Transformations
15+
Years Developing The Method
Coaches Certified
Globally
The First
Somatic Shadow Work Certification
3000+
Transformations
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Building a human-first movement where shadow work becomes a pathway to deeper compassion, safer relationships, and a more healed world.

Shadow Alchemy Coaching Academy trains the coaches, practitioners, and leaders who are here to lead the revolution.

Your Options

Choose Your Path

Whether you choose the personal or facilitator pathway, your journey begins by experiencing somatic shadow work for yourself — through embodied practice, self-inquiry, and meaningful personal insight.

Personal Pathway

Personal Pathway

Experience Shadow Alchemy through our Personal Pathway — created for the self-aware person who understands their patterns but still feels stuck in the same emotional loops, protective responses, and self-sabotage.

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Certifications

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Certifications

Become certified in the Shadow Alchemy Method through our Level 1 Certification for foundational 1:1 facilitation, or enter the Full Practitioner Pathway — from foundations through to advanced facilitation, group work, leadership, and transformational retreats.

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Find a Coach

Find a Coach

Connect with a certified Shadow Alchemy practitioner trained to support the deeper patterns holding you back — showing up in your relationships, health, business, visibility, boundaries, self-trust, or emotional regulation.

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What People Are Saying About Shadow Alchemy
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Honestly, what I learnt the most from the immersion was witnessing the way you taught, coached and facilitated. It's helped me understand the cues in people at such depth.

Bree March
Breathwork Facilitator, Indonesia
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I loved the opportunity to have three days to focus completely on me, and the depths of my soul. To be held and loved and supported and seen through all of it.

Amanda Elle
Self-Sabotage Coach & Gym Owner, Australia
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What drew me to this work was my business. I was hesitant at first because "shadow work" sounded very woo woo to me. What I didn't realise was how much this work would actually transform me.

Kelissa Ouellet
Nutritionist & Health Coach, Canada
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What made it different was the depth. Nothing was rushed or performative. The space was solid, the people were real, and the work actually landed.

SJ Chiovitti
Trading & Business Mentor
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I've been everywhere looking for a certification that isn't just throwing around buzzwords and hype, staying surface level. This has extreme depth — this is where the gold is.

Synthia
Somatic & Shadow Coach, Australia
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The best part of coming out of Shadow Alchemy is I feel I have so much knowledge and support that I can hold these women, and create safety so quickly.

Steph Beers
Empowered Mum Coach, Australia
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Honestly, what I learnt the most from the immersion was witnessing the way you taught, coached and facilitated. It's helped me understand the cues in people at such depth.

Bree March
Breathwork Facilitator, Indonesia
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I loved the opportunity to have three days to focus completely on me, and the depths of my soul. To be held and loved and supported and seen through all of it.

Amanda Elle
Self-Sabotage Coach & Gym Owner, Australia
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What drew me to this work was my business. I was hesitant at first because "shadow work" sounded very woo woo to me. What I didn't realise was how much this work would actually transform me.

Kelissa Ouellet
Nutritionist & Health Coach, Canada
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What made it different was the depth. Nothing was rushed or performative. The space was solid, the people were real, and the work actually landed.

SJ Chiovitti
Trading & Business Mentor
"

I've been everywhere looking for a certification that isn't just throwing around buzzwords and hype, staying surface level. This has extreme depth — this is where the gold is.

Synthia
Somatic & Shadow Coach, Australia
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The best part of coming out of Shadow Alchemy is I feel I have so much knowledge and support that I can hold these women, and create safety so quickly.

Steph Beers
Empowered Mum Coach, Australia
The Method

What is Shadow Alchemy?

Shadow Alchemy is a transformational coaching methodology that helps people understand the deeper patterns influencing their thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and results.

Rather than focusing on mindset alone, the method works across three interconnected layers of transformation.

The Three Pillars of Shadow Alchemy

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Shadow Work

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Pillar 01

Shadow Work

Many of the patterns people struggle with aren't conscious. Shadow Work helps uncover the hidden beliefs, protective strategies, shame patterns, fears, and disowned parts of self that quietly influence behaviour from behind the scenes. When these patterns are brought into awareness and integrated, people gain greater choice, self-understanding, and freedom in how they respond to life.

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Somatics + Emotional Embodiment

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Pillar 02

Somatics + Emotional Embodiment

Insight alone doesn't always create change. Somatics and Emotional Embodiment help people reconnect with the wisdom of the body, process emotions more effectively, release stored tension, and create shifts that are felt, not just understood. This helps bridge the gap between knowing what needs to change and being able to live it.

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Trauma-Informed Facilitation

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Pillar 03

Trauma-Informed Facilitation

Lasting transformation requires safety. Trauma-Informed Facilitation recognises that people move at different speeds and have different capacities for change. By creating emotional safety, understanding nervous system responses, and working within ethical scope of practice, deeper transformation can occur without force, pressure, or overwhelm.

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Caitlin Clark
Meet the founder

Caitlin Clark

Founder & Creator of the Shadow Alchemy Method

Caitlin created Shadow Alchemy after years of personal development, mindset work, and healing left her with deep awareness — but still stuck in shame, emotional overwhelm, and repeating patterns she could not think her way out of.

Through bringing shadow work into the body, Caitlin discovered the missing layer between understanding a pattern and actually changing it. What began as her own process became the foundation of the Shadow Alchemy Method: a body-based approach to working with shadow, shame, subconscious conditioning, nervous-system responses, emotional embodiment, and integration.

Her work is built on the belief that nothing is broken within us. This work is not about becoming a perfectly healed person — it is about breaking down the conditioning that keeps us trapped in shame, so we can access more freedom, joy, self-trust, and compassion for ourselves and others.

Today, Caitlin trains individuals, coaches, healers, and practitioners in somatic shadow work through personal transformation pathways, certification, retreats, and advanced facilitation training.

Background & Training

Bachelor of Psychology, Bachelor of Nutrition, and trained in NLP, hypnosis, master life coaching, feminine embodiment, and personal training — with 10 years of coaching experience.

Latest insights

The Blog

Blog post

Why Awareness Alone Doesn't Create Change

Most coaching frameworks stop at insight. Here's why that's often not enough — and what to do instead.

Jun 12 · 6 min read Read →
Blog post

What Your Client's Self-Sabotage Is Protecting

Self-sabotage isn't a flaw to fix. It's a strategy to understand. Here's how to work with it.

Jun 5 · 5 min read Read →
Blog post

Inside Our 3-Day Facilitator Immersion

A behind-the-scenes look at what actually happens during the Level 1 immersion weekend.

May 28 · 4 min read Read →
Now Open — October Cohort

Applications for the October Cohort Now Open

Live training begins shortly after enrolment, with the 3-day immersion running in October. Applications are reviewed in the order they're received.

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12 spots remaining this intake

Our Community

Some of Our Graduates

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Kelissa O.
Kelissa O.
@kelouellet_wellness
Synthia H.
Synthia H.
@synthia.huynh
Steph B.
Steph B.
@stephbeers_
Britta K.
Britta K.
@spiritbird_sanctuary
Jen I.
Jen I.
@lovelylion.co
Kelly B.
Kelly B.
@kelly.luisa.bagshaw
Connie K.
Connie K.
@connie_krol
Bree M.
Bree M.
@breelouise____
Free Quiz

Discover Your Coaching Layer

Take our free quiz and discover the layer shaping your coaching — your strengths, your shadow side, and the growth edge that changes everything.

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Cat Dunn
Client Spotlight

Cat Dunn

Podcast Host, Speaker, Biz Mentor

From abusive relationships to a thriving business and personal life: here's how somatic shadow work changed Cat's life.

Before discovering somatic shadow work, Cat had already spent years working on herself through personal development, mindset work, coaching, and therapy. She understood her patterns intellectually, yet still found herself repeating the same cycles in her relationships, doubting herself, people-pleasing, and slowly losing sight of who she really was.

Years of personal development hadn't touched the deeper patterns running the show
Discovered the qualities she'd hidden for years were actually her greatest strengths
Found the courage to leave an abusive relationship and rebuild from the ground up
Built a thriving business and community by becoming fully, authentically herself

At the time, she was building a business while navigating an abusive relationship that had left her feeling disconnected from herself and increasingly unsure of her own voice. Like many people, she wasn't lacking awareness. What she lacked was an understanding of the deeper emotional patterns, protective strategies, and unconscious beliefs driving the behaviours she couldn't seem to change.

Through somatic shadow work, Cat began uncovering what sat beneath the self-sabotage. She started recognising how much of her life had been shaped by a need to fit in, avoid rejection, and become who other people expected her to be. The more she explored the work, the more she realised that many of the qualities she'd spent years hiding were actually some of her greatest strengths.

What followed wasn't just greater self-awareness. It was a complete shift in the way she related to herself. She found the courage to leave an abusive relationship, rebuild her life, create stronger boundaries, and stop shaping herself around other people's expectations.

As she embraced more of who she really was, she built a thriving business, created meaningful community, and became known for the very qualities she once believed she needed to hide.

Today, Cat helps women break free from the fear, self-doubt, and limitations that keep them playing small. She hosts transformational events, leads a growing community, and runs a podcast that brings together inspiring stories of women who have overcome adversity, reclaimed their power, and gone on to create lives they genuinely love.

Her story is a powerful reminder that lasting change doesn't come from becoming someone new. It comes from understanding the patterns that have shaped you, reclaiming the parts of yourself you've abandoned along the way, and creating a life that's aligned with who you truly are.

Listen to Cat's Story