The Gritty Academy
The Gritty Academy
Welcome to
No ivory tower. No endless theory. Just real conversations, clinical tools you’ll actually use, + gritty support for therapists living real lives.
Now offering online classes for new to mid career therapists!
Introducing the Gritty Academy
Bringing 30+ years of clinical experience to your practice.
For years, we’ve mentored therapists in Omaha, Nebraska - helping them feel more confident, regulate in tough moments, and trust their instincts in the therapy room.
Now we’re bringing that same grounded, real-world support online so you can feel clearer, calmer, + more capable with your clients.
If you want to stop second-guessing yourself…
If you want tools you can actually use…
If you want to feel confident and enjoy your life outside the office…
Then you’re in the right place. We have a whole vault of courses, classes + mentorship resources coming your way.
A 3-class training track built from 30+ years of real clinical work, designed to help therapists thrive…
Therapist AF
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01
The Grit Shift: Where Rookie Meets Ready
Before we focus on your confidence and skills in the therapy room, we start with getting grounded and confident in who you are.
You’ll learn how to:
✔ Regulate your nervous system in-session
✔ What to do when you freeze, blank, or internally panic
✔ Stop spiraling after tough or confusing moments
✔ Build grounded clinical confidence without perfection
✔ Trust your skills even when the room feels unpredictable
Coming Soon
02
Clinician Rewired: Grit Over Good Intentions
Now that you’re solid in the room, we go deeper into actual, practical intervention work.
You’ll learn how to:
✔ Move beyond vague “supportive therapy” into targeted, intentional interventions
✔ Know exactly why you’re choosing a technique, not throwing spaghetti at the wall
✔ Use clinical micro-skills with strength, clarity, and purpose
✔ Handle client defenses, avoidance, and emotional intensity with grounded direction
✔ Shift from “I hope this helps” to “I know what I’m doing and why”
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03
The Hard Stuff: What Therapists Need to Know
This class tackles the realities you don’t hear in supervision until it’s too late.
You’ll learn how to:
✔ Navigate clients who trigger your own stuff
✔ Regulate emotional exhaustion and therapeutic fatigue
✔ Handle high-intensity cases without burning out
✔ Set boundaries that keep you human (and employed)
✔ Conquer ethical gray zones and “no one taught me this” moments
✔ Live with the mental load of being everyone’s safe place
Stop waiting to become the therapist you wish you were, start today to gain your grit.
You can start TODAY with The Grit Shift. Get a head start on the tools, confidence, and grounded presence that the full Therapist AF program will build on.
Start becoming the therapist who feels ready, capable, confident, and unshakably grounded in the room.
And when the full 3-Track Therapist AF Course launches in 2026? You’ll be first in line to upgrade.
This is your moment.
Don’t miss the beginning of what’s about to become the training that changes you.
Let’s get Gritty!
The Grit Shift Class
$149
one-time payment, life-time access
LEARN HOW TO GET GRITTY WITH US
Listen to the Gettin’ Gritty Podcast
We know the mornings: coffee that went cold, kids who refused shoes, and a brain already buzzing with client notes before you even hit the office. That’s where Gettin’ Gritty comes in—bite-sized conversations packed with tools, stories, and scrappy encouragement to remind you you’re not crazy, you’re not alone, and yes—you can actually do this.
Free Resources to help you Get Gritty
Here are 7 gritty, no-fluff tools for your back pocket. Designed to help you find your footing and show up for your clients, your family, and yourself, because being a therapist takes more than knowledge, it takes grit.