HeartMath for Health Professionals
A science-based solution for managing stress, anxiety and related health challenges.
Get CertifiedEmpower Your Clients to Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Develop Emotional Regulation, and Balance Their Nervous Systems
Emotional self-regulation starts in the heart! Shift from dysregulation to regulation, coherence, and balance.
The accumulation of stress and anxiety dysregulates the nervous system, compromising overall health and well-being. HeartMath combines real time HRV coherence feedback with evidence-based techniques to restore balance to the nervous system, regulate emotions, and build lasting resilience. With HeartMath, clients can visually track their heart rhythms in real time as they shift from incoherence to coherence—an optimal state where the heart, brain, and nervous system harmonize for better health. Science demonstrates we can train our autonomic nervous system to support balance, resilience, and well-being.
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Register with HeartMath!Heart Rate Variability Coherence — Seeing Is Believing.
Incoherence
- Stressful Emotions
- Cortical Inhibition
- Impairs Health and Performance
Coherence
- Regenerative Emotions
- Cortical Facilitation
- Promotes Optimal Health and Performance
Our heart rate is always changing, creating a pattern. These heart rhythm patterns, also called “heart rate variability” (HRV), are a powerful window into our health and emotional states.
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Integrate HeartMath Technology and Techniques Into Your Professional Practice
Learn the science, tools, and coherence technology to integrate HeartMath into your clinical, mental health, or health coaching practice:
- The science of HRV coherence
- Techniques to achieve and teach coherence
- How to use HRV feedback technology to enhance patient training
HeartMath Clinical Certification
- Our most popular certification to add the HeartMath techniques, technology, and science to clinical settings
- Includes the Inner Balance Coherence Plus HRV sensor and app (for mobile phones and tablets)
- Train your clients in office or virtually, or clients can train at home with the app.
- For practitioners helping clients with stress, anxiety, self-regulation, and emotional management skills
- This is our most popular training to integrate the HeartMath techniques, science, and technology into clinical settings.
- Includes the Inner Balance Coherence Plus, our HRV coherence sensor and app that can be used to train clients in-office, virtually, or for individual practice at home. Compatible with mobile phones and tablets.
- Best for integrating HeartMath where at-home practice is highlighted.
- 7 hours of video content plus supplemental training on the Inner Balance Coherence Plus in a clinical setting
- Best for integrating HeartMath in practices where at-home practice is highlighted. For in-clinic practice, see the HeartMath Interventions Program below.
- Optional access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development.
- Instructor: Tim Culbert, MD, Behavioral Health and Developmental Pediatrician
- For practitioners helping clients with stress, anxiety, self-regulation, and emotional management skills
- 7 hours of video content, including 60 minutes of training on using the Inner Balance Coherence Plus in a clinical setting
- Access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development
- Instructor: Tim Culbert, MD, Behavioral Health and Developmental Pediatrician
This certification is available without technology for $249.
HeartMath Interventions Program
- Learn the core HeartMath techniques, technology, and science for in-clinic use.
- Includes our desktop/laptop sensor and software — the emWave® Pro Plus
- Track multiple patients’ results, store session data, and train with coherence games.
- For practitioners helping clients with stress, anxiety, self-regulation, and emotional management skills
- This professional certification is for integrating HeartMath into clinical settings using our emWave® Pro Plus technology.
- Includes emWave Pro Plus hardware/software package ($499 value). This is our desktop and laptop coherence feedback software designed for in-clinic use.
- Track multiple patient results, store session data, and train with coherence games.
- A professional certification to add HeartMath to clinical settings with additional focus on the emWave Pro Plus.
- 9 hours of video content, including 90 minutes of training on the emWave Pro Plus software and hardware
- Add HeartMath to clinical settings where in-clinic practice is highlighted.
- Optional access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development.
- Instructor: Tim Culbert, MD, Behavioral Health and Developmental Pediatrician
- For practitioners helping clients with stress, anxiety, self-regulation, and emotional management skills
- 9 hours of video content, including 90 minutes of training on the emWave Pro Plus
- Access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development
- Instructor: Tim Culbert, MD, Behavioral Health and Developmental Pediatrician
Option to add on the Inner Balance Coherence Plus at a 40% discount on checkout page.
The Resilient Heart (Trauma-Sensitive Certification)
- Add HeartMath to trauma-focused therapies for nervous system balancing, stress release, and emotional well-being.
- Learn the core HeartMath techniques, technology, and science.
- Includes Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor and app (for mobile phones and tablets)
- Instructors include: Jorina Elbers, MD, Drs. John Gottman, PhD, and Julie Gottman, PhD, Dr. Dan Siegel, Thomas Hübl, and others.
- Integrate HeartMath into trauma-focused therapies for nervous system re-balancing, stress release, and emotional well-being.
- Learn the HeartMath techniques, technology, and science for professionals and others who provide trauma-informed care.
- Instructors include: Jorina Elbers, MD, Drs. John Gottman, PhD, and Julie Gottman, PhD, Dan Siegel, MD, Thomas Hübl, and others.
- 12+ hours of video content plus a supplemental training on using the Inner Balance Coherence Plus in a clinical setting
- For practitioners helping clients with stress, anxiety, self-regulation, and emotional management skills.
- Option to include the Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor and app, our technology and app used to train clients in office, virtually, or for client use at home.
- Lead instructor: Jorina Elbers, MD, Pediatric Neurologist with expert guests
- Optional access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development.
- 12 hours of video content plus optional 60-minute training on the Inner Balance Coherence Plus in a clinical setting
- Includes the Inner Balance Coherence Plus, our most popular sensor and app that can be used to train clients in-office, virtually, or for individual practice at home. Stores data for a single user only. Compatible with mobile phones and tablets.
- Lead instructor: Jorina Elbers, MD, Pediatric Neurologist with expert guests
- Access to ongoing monthly live calls with Jorina Elbers, MD, for professional development
This certification is available without technology for $299.
HeartMath Technology for Professionals
Real time HRV feedback to develop emotional self-regulation, rebalance the nervous system, and reduce stress.
Help your patients and clients develop emotional self-regulation, rebalance their nervous system, and reduce stress and anxiety with real time HRV coherence feedback.
Inner Balance Coherence Plus
HRV coherence feedback sensor and app to train in the office or at home.
- Easy to implement into your practice.
- Clients can train at home or in-office.
- Raise heart coherence with real time feedback and guided techniques.
- Includes hours of guided training, techniques, and courses
- Lifetime access to the HeartMath app with continually updated learning
emWave® Pro Plus
Train patients and clients in the office.
- Easy to implement into your practice.
- Used on laptop and desktop computers so is best suited for in-office use.
- Store progress and session data for all of your clients.
- Clients train with our Coherence Coach, guided techniques, & games with real time HRV.
- Includes HRV Assessments
- Included for free in the HeartMath Interventions Certification Program
The New Science of Stress Management
HeartMath Institute Research Director Rollin McCraty, PhD, discusses why heart coherence is essential in stress and anxiety management and sustainable behavior change.
HeartMath has been a leader in heart-brain research
and application for over 30 years.
30+
Years of pioneering research
500+
Independent research studies; 16,000+ citations
10k+
HeartMath Certified Health Professionals use HeartMath with patients
500+
Hospitals and organizations have utilized HeartMath training
Health Professional Resources for Practitioners and Patients
Check out our health professional library of resources that includes free webinars and other practitioner and patient resources.
Daily practice can bring results quickly!
Over 30 years of HeartMath Institute research with over 500 peer-reviewed or independent studies underpin the effectiveness of the HeartMath approach. Our research participants and partners have included Boeing, Stanford, Duke, Hewlett-Packard, Mayo Clinic, Motorola, NASA, UCLA, the VA, and many more.
Studies conducted with over 14,000 people have shown improvements in mental & emotional well-being in just 6-9 weeks using HeartMath training and technology. A few benefits include:
- 24% improvement in the ability to focus
- 30% improvement in sleep
- 38% improvement in calmness
- 46% drop in anxiety
- 48% drop in fatigue
- 56% drop in depression
N = 14,266
Percent of individuals responding often to always on normed and validated pre and post Personal and Organizational Quality Assessment (POQA-R)
Evidence-Based Benefits of Heart Coherence
Reduces stress & anxiety
Coherence helps regulate the stress response, reducing the effects of chronic stress and anxiety on the body and mind.
Improves physical health
Coherent states have been linked to a more efficient cardiovascular system, reduced inflammation, and enhanced hormonal balance and immune function, all of which contribute to overall health and well-being.
Increases resilience
Coherence training builds resilience to stressors, helping individuals adapt and recover more quickly from challenging situations.
Improves emotional regulation
Achieving coherence supports the ability to manage emotions effectively, promoting emotional stability and resilience in the face of challenges.
Enhances cognitive function
Coherent states are associated with improved mental clarity, focus, decision-making, creativity, and innovation.
Creates harmonious relationships
Being in coherence helps us listen more deeply and communicate more effectively, bringing more care and kindness to our relationships.
Optimizes physical and athletic performance
Coherence has been shown to improve endurance, sensory-motor integration, reaction times, and access to flow states.
Enhances psychological well-being and self-regulation
Practicing coherence can lead to an increased sense of inner peace, more effective emotional self-management, and lower reactivity, positively impacting psychological health.
A Handout for Your Clients
Download our client education handout, which provides a simple technique to share with your clients.
HeartMath is used in behavioral health and medical settings, institutions, and private practices.
Health professionals in private practices, hospitals, clinics, behavioral health groups, medical clinics, addiction and recovery centers, organizational health and wellness programs, school systems, and universities are using HeartMath to empower adults, children, teens and families, groups – and themselves.
Who shares HeartMath with their patients?
- Physicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners
- Psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers
- Chiropractors, naturopaths, physical therapists, and occupational therapists
- Addiction counselors
- Trauma specialists
- Acupuncturists, massage therapists
- Health coaches, performance coaches, and trainers
In VA Medical Centers
VA Medical Centers around the country have been using our training and technology with veterans for over 15 years. Our techniques and technology have been found to be helpful for anxiety, PTSD, addictions, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic pain.
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