The Sovereignty Way reconfigures the entire paradigm through which we understand and treat suffering and mental illness. At its core, The Sovereignty Method—alongside The Sovereignty Way Therapeutic Medicine Protocol—is the result of a 30-year quest to uncover accurate diagnoses and develop relevant, effective treatments that facilitate true and lasting resolution.
More than just a therapeutic approach, it is a vehicle for transformation—guiding individuals not only through the healing of deep wounds but also reclaiming their personal agency, discovering their purpose, creating a meaningful, thriving life in alignment with their values, gifts and true nature.
Our approach is founded on the core principle that people are stuck in their biology, not their psychology. We are not experiencing a mental health crisis. We are in the midst of a disembodiment epidemic. Embodiment is the key to transformational healing, and a fulfilling life experience. This requires a new diagnostic system that accurately identifies the nature of wounding and provides the corrective physical, relational, or developmental/attachment inputs needed to restore the biology to proper functioning.
The synergy between The Sovereignty Method’s innovative relational trauma resolution techniques and The Sovereignty Way Therapeutic Medicine Protocol offers a comprehensive, proven framework for healing a wide spectrum of conditions—from complex PTSD, depression, and anxiety to autoimmune disorders and chronic pain. Together, they address the root of suffering at every level—body, mind, and spirit—unlocking the potential for profound healing and lasting transformation.
the sovereignty method's
advancements and innovations
Suppression Mechanisms - Solving The Biggest Blocks in Therapy
Suppression mechanisms are involuntary physiological responses the body employs to contain unresolved trauma, pain, or emotional energy. These mechanisms include muscular holding patterns, parasympathetic neural freezes, and dissociation.
The Sovereignty Method introduces the groundbreaking understanding that there is a spectrum of parasympathetic freezes that includes eight distinct neural states - Shame Freeze, Statue Freeze, Turtle Freeze, Play Dead Collapse, Relational Shut-Down, Dissociative Amnesiac Collapse, Conservation Mode, and Catatonia, and provides targeted, physical and nervous system-based interventions that resolve each specific freeze state enabling access to the underlying deeper wounds. This equips facilitators with the skills to diagnose and resolve issues—such as depression, chronic fatigue, and digestive problems, — which are rooted in these stuck parasympathetic neural states that often remain untouched by conventional treatments.
Therapeutic Safe Touch - Restoring Nature’s First Medicine
While many modern psychotherapy organizations discourage touch to reduce the risk of harm, emerging evidence supports, consensual, safe, nurturing, therapeutic touch as a key factor in resolving our current "mental health" crisis. The Sovereignty Method recognizes that safe touch is a sacred and powerful therapeutic tool that, when skillfully applied, significantly enhances healing - activating neurobiological systems of safety and connection, supporting trauma resolution, nervous system regulation, and helping to rebuild trust in human connection. Students learn the types of therapeutic touch and how and when to appropriately and skillfully apply safe touch.
Neuroceptive Feeling Theory - Redefining The Neural Architecture of Feeling
Humans experience a wide variety of sensations and impulses that were previously all broadly classified under the umbrella of feelings and emotions. TSM Neuroceptive Feeling Theory redefines our understanding of emotions by more accurately classifying them as feelings of threat detection, survival states, neuroceptions, and neural fluctuations that arise from neuroceptive information coming from the neuroception of the gut, heart, brainstem, and autonomic nervous system. To effectively treat physical and psychological issues, we must distinguish true emotions—like caring and grief, which arise from the heart’s neuroception—from neural states like depression and anxiety, which originate in the autonomic nervous system as survival responses.
Parts Work The Sovereignty Way - Decoding the Myriad of Protectors
Parts Work The Sovereignty Way is a comprehensive therapeutic model for working with internal parts and protectors which are coping strategies, behavioral patterns, and internalized interjects that serve to shield us from pain, avoid overwhelming emotions, and inhibit access to deeper trauma. Unlike models that generalize defenses, TSW offers a precise classification system that organizes protectors into three distinct types—Mental Protectors, Avoidant Protectors, and Complexes—encompassing 43 specific protector patterns. It details how each presents and functions, and provides tailored interventions such as relational repair, trauma resolution, and dissociation repair, making it a more accurate and effective approach for reintegrating wounded and fragmented parts.
Instinctual Re-Parenting - Honouring the Biological Blueprint for Caregiving
Instinctual parenting is a science-backed, nature-based approach that harnesses the wisdom of our innate biological design and intelligence to foster secure, healthy, and resilient human beings — emotionally, neurologically, and relationally. This therapeutic reparenting model restores the biological blueprint for caregiving as the foundation for transformative therapy. Rather than pathologizing symptoms or over-intellectualizing human development, we return to the natural instincts encoded in all mammals. Our approach provides the missing developmental and attachment inputs, essential for nervous system regulation, attachment, and healthy development.
TSM Relational Repair Techniques - Unlocking Advances in Relational Healing
Relational repair is the process that occurs when a person is in the felt experience of a relational wound and receives a relationally intelligent corrective experience, in response to a relational wound or trauma, that meets the original unmet needs. The Sovereignty Method provides innovative techniques that map and address various types of repair—including “on-the-fly” corrections, rupture and repair, relational reenactments, and boundary repair. These techniques not only unlock access to deeper healing but also support the rewiring of attachment and relational pathways, often achieving results not possible in traditional therapeutic models.
TSM Trauma Classification System - Integrating The Full Spectrum of Trauma Presentations
The Sovereignty Method introduces a comprehensive model for classifying the wide range of trauma imprints, by expanding the definition of trauma to include over 16 different types of trauma such as ancestral, psychic, existential, environmental and intergenerational that are often overlooked or underacknowledged in therapy. This inclusive reclassification offers a nuanced lens to ensure accurate diagnosis, a deeper understanding of the root of suffering and the application of targeted, body-based trauma resolution interventions - —a significant departure from symptom-focused models like the DSM.
ADVANCed METHODS AND
INNOVATIVE THERAPEUTIC MEDICINE PROTOCOLS
The Extraordinary Synergy Between The Method and The Medicines
Central to The Sovereignty Way’s approach is the profound synergy between advanced, cutting-edge relational trauma resolution techniques and the targeted application of empathogens and psychedelics - dramatically enhancing therapeutic results.
Our approach is a radical departure from almost all other psychedelic medicine containers where the medicines are seen as the primary agents of change, instead positioning them as catalysts that amplify the therapeutic work of the method—facilitating deeper emotional access, enhancing neuroplasticity, and accelerating the dismantling of entrenched defense patterns.
Built on the foundation of The Sovereignty Method’s techniques, are advanced techniques and modalities, specifically designed to work alongside the tailored medicines that include, working with developmental trauma, and attachment rewiring, advanced parts work and dissociation repair, resolving complex trauma, biofeedback and reading the field and shamanic work - addressing complex presentations safely and effectively, facilitating profound healing.
The Medicine Protocol
The Sovereignty Way Therapeutic Medicine Protocol is built around the intentional, targeted and sequenced use of medicines designed to meet the client's unique psychological needs and the specific layered, presentations as they arise in session.
Due to its profound impact on healing outcomes, the remarkable empathogen 3-MMC serves as the foundation medicine. Unlike any other known therapeutic substance, it significantly increases interoception—the ability to feel, it evokes ‘clear seeing’-the ability to accurately know what is true, and it enriches relational faculties, all while enhancing neural plasticity and neurogenesis.
It is followed by strategic, psycholitic, combination doses of 3MMC with ketamine, and 3MMC with 5-MeO-DMT, used to disable protectors, soften defences, enhance regression, amplify resourcing to access and process deeper trauma imprints, and support attachment healing and rewiring, enabling the resolution of challenging presentations ranging from developmental trauma through to complex PTSD.
The Therapeutic Relational Container
Our approach is rooted in the understanding that healing happens in relationship. What distinguishes The Sovereignty Way is the depth, scope and integrity of the therapeutic container and the required level of embodiment, capacity, and sincerity of the facilitator.
Healing is not simply about what happens during the medicine session—it is the result of a fully scaffolded process that includes a thorough intake, a comprehensive pre-session, the 7–10 hour medicine session, committed aftercare, and post-session integration sessions.
The facilitator's skill and level of embodiment are the two most significant factors that influence safety and therapeutic outcomes. Their level of emotional and relational intelligence, attunement, wisdom, caring, integrity, and nervous system capacity all correspond to how embodied they are. As such, this method is suited for those who are sincerely committed to doing their own ongoing deep inner work. This path gives students the methods, protocols, techniques, tools and guidance needed to become highly effective embodied practitioners capable of creating safe relationally healing containers and confidently delivering this sacred work.
"The Sovereignty Way's contribution to the world of psychedelic healing is one of the most important conversations in the field. Relational trauma resolution psychedelic work is not the eye shades, have a good journey, I’ll hold your hand if you get scared kind of approach. It’s skillfully attuned, trauma, and spiritual healing grounded through the magic of the human relational field. It’s interactive, shamanic, somatic, and deeply personal. And this training will give you a concrete understanding of the tools, practices, and ways of being necessary to begin to facilitate this kind of potent and transformational work. Highly recommend!"
Anat LeBlanc
Psychedelic Facilitator