Become a Certified NeuroChange Professional or Specialist
Elevate your professional expertise and personal growth
Experience and learn the NeuroChange Pathway — a breakthrough in transformational change
Master 8 NeuroChange Strategies™, 8 NeuroRelational Skills™, & 4 NeuroDiagnostic Methods™
Become a recognized champion transformational change and a thought leader in your field
At the Makin Institute for NeuroChange, we are revolutionizing the way helping professionals approach growth and transformation. Our NeuroChange Professional Certifications equip counselors, executive coaches, pastors, leaders, and other helping professionals with the tools to create deeper, enduring change using cutting-edge affective neuroscience, uniquely integrated with biblical principles.
What Makes This Certification Unique?
- Groundbreaking Curriculum — Our program integrates insights from over 60 academic disciplines, offering a comprehensive understanding of neuroscience-based transformational and biblical change.
- Hands-On Learning — You’ll engage in dynamic, experiential sessions that include role-playing, real-world scenarios, and media-enhanced presentations—so you don’t just learn concepts, you master practical skills.
- Expert Guidance — Learn from seasoned professionals who are passionate about your growth. Our instructors bring decades of experience and expertise to ensure your success.
What You’ll Gain
- Professional Distinction — Stand out in your field with advanced strategies and skills grounded in the Next-Generation Brain Change Model™.
- Enhanced Client Impact — Transform lives by facilitating profound, enduring change in those you serve. This certification is designed to help you address the real-world complexities your clients face.
- A Supportive Community — Become part of the NeuroChange Community, where camaraderie, peer support, and ongoing professional development help you thrive.
Your path to certification
Enroll
Apply for a certification course of study that fits your needs as a helping professional.
Engage
Dive into immersive, action-oriented sessions packed with practical tools and cutting-edge neuroscience.
Empower
Create profound breakthroughs, elevate your practice, and stand out as a visionary shaping the future of your field.
Take the leap and redefine your professional journey
Enroll today and enhance your impact to help people
grow and heal with confidence and credibility.
Post-Masters
Certified NeuroChange Professional
- 4 experience-based, media-enhanced courses that last 4 weeks for each course. Certification is completed in under 4 months.
- Minimum cohort of 5, maximum 12.
- Master’s degree required. Meet weekly for 75 minutes on Thursdays at 4 pm EST.
- No Process Group.
- Learn 6 NeuroChange Strategies and 5 NeuroRelational Skills synthesized from cutting-edge neuroscience and over 30 additional disciplines which create deep and lasting change for the people you serve.
- Gain multiple templates with general steps to guide people to the healing experiences they desperately need.
- Practice using these strategies and skills and receive feedback from your instructor to become an expert clinician.
- You are entitled to one 30-minute supervision for each course at a separate time to review a recording or verbatim of a session.
- Emerge with a prestigious certification that positions you at the forefront of neuroscience-based strategies within a Biblical worldview.
- You have the support of your classmates and a seasoned professional instructor as you take this course. You are not alone.
- Access our Makin Institute Learning Community for additional resources, mutual support, and collaboration.
- Receive a Premier Membership in the Makin Institute for NeuroChange for the duration of these courses.
- Receive free access to the monthly workshops for the duration of these courses, including the CE.
- All for just $186 per week.
- Payment plan for $250 a month for 12 months available.
- Pay in full and receive a 5% discount.
$744
Per Course
$2,976
Total
Certified NeuroChange
Practioner
- Next Certification begins May 5, 2025 and then September 1, 2025.
- This class will cover at the introductory level of 5 of the 8 NeuroChange Strategies, 5 of the 8 NeuroRelational Skills, and 1 out of the 4 NeuroDiagnostic Methods to the NeuroChange Pathway to Transformation.
- 4 experience-based, media-enhanced courses that last 4 weeks for each course. Certification is completed in under 4 months.
- A Bachelor’s degree is required, but exceptions have been made.
- Meet in a weekly Virtual Classroom for 75 to 90 minutes on Wednesdays at 4 pm EST. Watch live demonstrations and video examples, have your questions answered, and continue building deep connections with classmates.
- You will have a Process Group experience for each course to experience life-changing growth connected to your learning. This will be during the fourth Virtual Class that will be extended for a total of 2 and one-half hours.
- You will have the right to use the curriculum, multiple templates and uniquely created videos. You are even permitted to adapt these and put them on your letterhead.
- Practice using these strategies and skills. You will receive one 30-minute supervision feedback for each course by your Instructor to review a session recording.
- Emerge with a prestigious certification that positions you at the forefront of neuroscience-based strategies integrated with Biblical principles.
- You will also receive 20 CEs for attending the Virtual Classrooms. The National Board for Certified Counselors has approved the Makin Institute for NeuroChange as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7487. Watching a recording will not count toward the 20 CEs according to NBCC guidelines.
- You do not take this alone. As you take this certification, you will be in a cohort (5 to 12) where you will develop into a vulnerable, encouraging community for support.
- Financial Investment: $996 per course for a total of $3,984.
- Payment Plans: $670 monthly for 6 months or $335 monthly for 12 months or receive a 5% discount if paid in full.
$996
Per Course
$3,984
Total
Advanced Certified NeuroChange
Professional
- Payment Plans: $125 monthly for 12 months, $250monthly for 6 months, $665 monthly for 3 months, Pay in full and receive a 5% discount.
- Next Certification begins September 1, 2025 and then January 5, 2025.
- This advanced class will cover how to diagnose and then treat these disorders using the 8 NeuroChange Strategies and 8 NeuroRelational Skills: Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive and Bi-Polar Disorders, Addictions, Trauma, Stress Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorders, Schizophrenia
- 2 experiential-focused, media-enhanced courses that last 4 weeks for each course. Certification is completed in 2 months.
- A Master’s degree is required and completion of the NeuroChange Professional Certification.
- Meet in a weekly Virtual Classroom for 75-90 minutes on Wednesdays at 4 pm EST. Watch live demonstrations and video examples, have your questions answered, and continue building deep connections with classmates.
- You will have the right to use the curriculum, multiple templates, and uniquely created videos. You are even permitted to adapt these and put them on your letterhead.
- Practice using these strategies and skills. You will receive one 30-minute supervision feedback for each course by your Instructor to review a session recording.
- Emerge with a prestigious certification that positions you at the forefront of neuroscience-based strategies integrated with Biblical principles.
- You will also receive 20 CEs for attending the Virtual Classrooms. The National Board for Certified Counselors has approved the Makin Institute for NeuroChange as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7487. Watching a recording will not count toward the 20 CEs according to NBCC guidelines.
- You do not take this alone. As you take this certification, you will be in a cohort (5 to 12) where you will develop into a vulnerable, encouraging community for support.
- Financial Investment: $744 per course for a total of $1,488.
$744
Per Course
$1,488
Total
Certified NeuroChange
Specialist
- Become a specialist in a specific area of your choosing.
- The curriculum integrates biblical principles with the latest in the neuroscience of transformative change (taken from over 50 academic disciplines and areas of study).
- Emerge with a prestigious certification that positions you at the forefront of neuroscience-based strategies within a Biblical worldview.
- A 4-week experience-based, media-enhanced, pragmatic course that you take with a cohort of 8 to 15 people.
- Financial Investment: $199
- Payment Plans: $55 monthly for 4 months, $35 monthly for 6 months, or receive a 5% discount if paid in full.
- You will also receive 6 CEs for attending the Virtual Classrooms. The National Board for Certified Counselors has approved the Makin Institute for NeuroChange as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7487. Watching a recording will not count toward the 6 CEs according to NBCC guidelines.
Upcoming Courses
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder — March 10 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (11, 18, 25, April 1) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
- Relational Spirituality – April 14 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (April 15, 22, 29, May 6) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
- Borderline Personality Disorder – May 19 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (May 20, 27, June 3, 10) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
- Obsessive Personality Disorder – June 23 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (11, 18, 25, April 1) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
- Facilitating Process Groups – July 28 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (July 29, August 5, 12, 19) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
- Dependent Personality Disorder – September 15 with 4 weekly Virtual Classes on Tuesdays (September 16, 23, 30, October 7) lasting 75 to 90 minutes starting at 4 or 5 pm EST.
$199
Per Course
Stand Alone
NeuroChange Courses
- You will take these courses on your own. There is not a cohort or regular virtual classrooms.
- There will be 7 Learning Activities that you complete at your own pace.
- The different components of the NeuroChange Pathway will be offered over a 3-year span.
- Financial Investment: $99 per course. An introductory offer of $79 if you sign up and pay in March or April.
- Payment Plans: $40 monthly for 2 months.
$99
Per Course
Course List
- NeuroChange Strategy: Core Character Traits – Attachment | Part 1
- NeuroChange Strategy: Core Character Traits – Attachment | Part 2
- NeuroChange Strategy: Core Character Traits – Attachment | Part 3
- NeuroChange Strategy: Core Character Traits – Attachment | Part 4
- NeuroRelational Skill: Attachment Suite – Level One: Reciprocal Attunement, Silence, Non-Verbal, Clarifying Attunement, Befriending the Defense, Containment
- NeuroRelational Skill: Attachment Suite – Level Two: Focusing Attunement, Heightening Attunement, Additive Attunement, “Experience Near” Attunement, Bodily Felt Attunement, Attuning Observation, Attuning Confrontation
- NeuroRelational Skill: Attachment Suite – Level Three: “In Your Mind,” Attunement Identifying, Attunement Self Disclosure Attunement, Lament Attunement, Right Brain-to-Right Brain Attunement
- NeuroChange Strategy: “Real” Relationship | Part 1
- NeuroChange Strategy: “Real” Relationship | Part 2
- NeuroChange Strategy: “Real” Relationship | Part 3
- NeuroRelational Skill: Corrective Relational Experiences: Category A – Heightening Syntonic Experiences in the Deficit Core Character Traits
- NeuroRelational Skill: Corrective Relational Experiences: Category B – Transforming Dystonic Micro-Abilities in the Deficit Core Character Traits
- NeuroRelational Skill: Corrective Relational Experiences: Category C – Role Plays
Apply Now
Enrolling in the NeuroChange Pathway Certification is easy. Simply complete a few questions on this application and we will contact you with details and a link to register in the Makin Institute Learning Community.