Trauma-Informed Educator and Trainer

Getting underneath the patterns that keep people stuck

If your nervous system is in survival mode, mindset work won't touch it. That's where I come in.

Founder of The RISE Method™ and CjMindCleanse Method®. Thirty years working frontline with some of the most complex human situations you can imagine. What I discovered changed everything about how I work, and how I train others.

Discover Your Survival Mask Free Masterclass for Practitioners
Candice Jane
30
Years frontline experience
5 Industry Awards
Founder: The RISE Method™
CjMindCleanse Method®
Schools, Social Work and Housing
CPD Accredited Training
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Find out what's really going on underneath

Two ways in. Whether you're a practitioner who wants to go deeper with your clients, or someone who has tried everything and is still hitting the same walls, start here.

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Which Survival Mask Are You Wearing?

The Five Survival Masks are patterns the nervous system developed to keep you safe. The problem is they often keep you stuck too. Take this short quiz to discover your primary pattern and start to understand what's really driving your behaviour.

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Trauma-Informed Practice for Frontline Professionals

Made for social workers, teachers, housing teams and anyone who shows up every day for people in hard situations. You've been trained to understand trauma. But has anyone trained you to work with where it actually lives? This masterclass is where that conversation starts.

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About Candice

I learned this the hard way. In the room and in myself.

I spent decades doing the mindset work. I gave myself a really hard time when it didn't shift things the way it seemed to for everyone else. I tried everything. I knew the theory. I did the journalling, the goal setting, the positive thinking. And still, the same patterns kept showing up.

Then I started noticing the same thing in the people I worked with. Clients who understood exactly why they did what they did, and still couldn't stop doing it. People who had been to therapy for years and were still stuck in the same sabotaging loops.

What I eventually understood was this: if the nervous system is running in survival mode, no amount of mindset work will touch it. The body has to come first.

Everything I have built since then, The RISE Method™, the CjMindCleanse Method®, thirty years of frontline experience across residential childcare, post-prison release, family support and schools, it all comes back to that one discovery.

Multi-Award Winning Trauma-Informed Educator Founder: The RISE Method™ Fife, Scotland
A Story You Might Recognise

When knowing why isn't enough

"She could trace every pattern all the way back. She knew exactly where it came from. And still, every time something good came along, she found a way to walk away from it."

I worked with a client who had done everything right. Years of therapy. Multiple coaching programmes. She had read every book, done the inner child work, understood her attachment style, could tell you exactly why she did what she did.

And still. Every time a good opportunity came along, every time a relationship started to feel safe, every time she got close to what she actually wanted, something would happen. She would pull back. Sabotage it. Walk away before it could go wrong.

That wasn't a mindset problem. That wasn't something she could think her way out of. Her nervous system had learned, a long time ago, that good things don't last and that getting close means getting hurt. And it was doing its job. Protecting her. Keeping her exactly where it had decided she was safe.

The moment we stopped trying to work on her mind and started working with what her body was holding, things began to shift. Not overnight. But they shifted. Because we were finally working with the right thing.

That's what The RISE Method™ is built on. And it's why we always start with the body.

The Sequence That Changes Everything

Most approaches start with the mind. I start with the body.

There's a reason the mindset work didn't work. It's not that it's wrong. It's that it's being done in the wrong order. When the nervous system is in survival mode, the thinking brain isn't running the show. The body is. And until you work with the body first, everything else is just surface level.

Both the RECLAIM Process and the RECLAIMED Process start in the same place. Regulating the nervous system. Because nothing else is possible until that happens.

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The body first
Regulate the nervous system. Work with where trauma actually lives, not just the story told about it. This is where the real work begins.
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Then the subconscious
Once the nervous system is no longer running in survival mode, the subconscious work can actually land. This is why it didn't work before. The body wasn't ready.
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Then real evolution
From a regulated, integrated place, genuine change becomes possible. New patterns. New ways of operating. Not forced. Not performed. Real.
The RISE Method™

Four pillars. One complete framework.

Built from thirty years of frontline experience and a deep understanding of what actually shifts things. The RISE Method™ is the foundation of everything taught across all three levels of the practitioner pathway.

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Regulate

The nervous system comes first. Always. Before anything else can shift, the body needs to feel safe enough to let it happen.

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Integrate

Connect the dots between past experience, present patterns and the subconscious programmes that have been running the show without anyone noticing.

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Safety

Real felt safety. Not just the absence of danger but the genuine experience of being regulated, grounded and able to be present.

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Evolve

Build something new from an integrated place. Support yourself and the people you work with to stop being run by old survival patterns.

The Five Survival Masks

This is what sabotage actually looks like

The Survival Masks are what happens when the nervous system learns to protect us. They aren't character flaws. They aren't weaknesses. They're survival responses that made perfect sense once and now keep showing up whether we want them to or not. They run as a golden thread through every level of the training pathway.

The Seeker
Flight Response

Always searching, always moving. Finds safety in forward motion and the belief that the next thing will be the one that finally works.

The Pathfinder
Fight Response

Driven, achieving, pushing forward. Finds safety in control and in staying one step ahead of whatever might go wrong.

The Harmoniser
Fawn Response

Keeps the peace, holds everyone together, gives until there is nothing left. Finds safety in being needed and in making sure no one is unhappy.

The Watcher
Freeze Response

Observes, assesses, waits. Finds safety in understanding everything before committing to anything.

The Retreater
Shutdown Response

Withdraws, goes quiet, disappears. Finds safety in stillness and in stepping back before the overwhelm becomes too much.

Find out which mask is yours. Free quiz.
Practitioner Training Pathway

Three levels. One complete journey.

Whether you are just starting out in trauma-informed practice or ready to go to the deepest level of this work, there is a place for you in the pathway. Eighteen practitioners have already come through as beta testers across all three levels. The feedback has been extraordinary.

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Level One

Foundation and Principles Training

Five modules covering trauma-responsive practice, the nervous system, the subconscious mind, the inner child and what trauma actually is. The essential foundation for anyone working with people.

The RISE Method™
From £297
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Level Two

Practitioner Training

Building on Level One, this is where practitioners learn to apply the RECLAIM Process with clients. A seven-stage approach that starts, always, with the body. Regulating the nervous system before anything else.

The RECLAIM Process
From £497
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Level Three

Advanced Practitioner Training

The deepest level of this work. Using the RECLAIMED Process within the CjMindCleanse Method® framework, experienced practitioners learn to go beneath the Survival Masks to core wound level. This is sacred work and it requires you to have done, and to keep doing, your own inner work. Because you cannot take a client somewhere you haven't been yourself.

CjMindCleanse Method®
By application only
Level 2 completion required. Inner work essential.
Not sure which level is right for you? Let's talk.
For Organisations

Your Conscious Journey: bringing this work into the places that need it most

A twelve-hour programme that can be adapted for any frontline setting. Schools, social work teams, housing organisations, anywhere that people show up every day for other people in complex and difficult situations.

Schools

Staff are working with children and young people carrying enormous amounts of trauma. This programme helps them understand what's actually happening and gives them practical tools that work with the body, not just the behaviour. Aligned to Scotland's Promise.

Social Work and Housing

Social workers are trained to understand trauma intellectually. They can talk about adverse childhood experiences and attachment theory. But most of what they are given to work with is behaviour modification. This programme fills that gap, starting with the body.

All Frontline Settings

Wherever people show up for other people in hard circumstances, this programme adapts. Bespoke delivery, half-day or full-day, retainer contracts available. Get in touch to talk about what your team needs.

It blows my mind that social workers receive so little support for vicarious trauma. This programme isn't just for the people they work with. It's for them too. You cannot keep pouring from a depleted system.

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I thought I understood trauma. I didn't. Not really. This changed the way I see every single person I work with. And honestly, it changed the way I see myself.
Practitioner, Level 2 Graduate
Social Work, Scotland
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