No. The entire clinical protocol is free and open-source. Read it, use it, adapt it. We believe this knowledge is too important to gatekeep. We offer optional advanced training for those who want formal representation, but the core model is yours.
For Therapists
A Rebellion for the Burnt-Out, the Pissed-Off, and the Hopeful
Remember Why
You Started This.
Remember the fire in your gut that made you want to sit with people in their darkest moments. The profound, almost sacred desire to help another human being make sense of their story and find a path forward.
Now, look at your average Tuesday.
How much of it is that sacred work, and how much is bureaucratic bullsh*t? How much time is spent fighting with insurance companies to justify a diagnosis you know is inadequate? How much energy is wasted following a rigid, manualized protocol that your gut, your training, and your own lived experience tells you is harming your client?
This Isn't Burnout.
It's Moral Injury.
The exhaustion you feel is not a personal failing. It is a moral injury—the predictable consequence of a deeply feeling, intelligent human being forced to operate within a profoundly sick system.
You are a healer being forced to work with poison. The sickness is not in you; it is in the paradigm.
The therapeutic relationship itself is a complex adaptive system—change emerges from dynamic reciprocity, synchronization, and mutual influence. Not from checklists. Not from manualized protocols that ignore the human sitting across from you.
The Antidote Isn't Self-Care.
It's a New System.
The pathology paradigm → doesn't just harm our clients; it suffocates us. It forces us to betray our own clinical intuition, to ignore the complexities of trauma and environment, and to reduce vibrant human beings to a checklist of deficits.
The Enlitens model is the antidote. It is a way to practice with intellectual and ethical integrity:
- Modern Neuroscience — Built on Polyvagal Theory → and the Default Mode Network →, not century-old theories
- Anti-Oppressive Framework — Acknowledges trauma and systemic failure as root causes of suffering
- Collaborative Model — You're a co-researcher, not a detached expert dispensing diagnoses
- Core Traits vs. Comorbidities — We separate what should be understood and leveraged from what needs treatment
This isn't another tool for your overstuffed toolbox. This is permission to throw out the whole damn toolbox and build something that actually works.
Not a Training Grift.
An Open-Source Rebellion.
We know how the therapy world works. Good ideas get locked behind exorbitant paywalls, turned into multi-level certification schemes designed to extract money, not create change.
We are not doing that.
The entire clinical protocol for the Enlitens Interview → is free and open-source. Read it. Challenge it. Use it. Start tomorrow.
Our mission is to start a revolution, not a business. We invite you to be a part of it.
Questions From Fellow Rebels
The Enlitens Interview gathers more than enough data to support DSM-5 or ICD-10 diagnoses. We treat diagnosis as a bureaucratic necessity, not a clinical truth—it's a key to unlock reimbursement, not the core of our understanding.
Absolutely. We've done the fMRI reading so you don't have to. We're translators—distilling complex science into practical, human-centered clinical tools. You don't need to become a neuroscientist.
We're not selling weekend certifications or multi-level schemes. This is grounded in Polyvagal Theory, Default Mode Network research, and Memory Reconsolidation—actual neuroscience, not rebranded CBT.
The model works for anyone, but it's especially powerful for folks who've been failed by the pathology paradigm—late-diagnosed adults, trauma survivors, and anyone tired of being reduced to a checklist of deficits.
Part of: The Philosophy Hub | Explore: The Enlitens Interview Model
