A 16-week certification for aspiring healers & practitioners who want to turn their calling into a career and become the practitioner people can't stop talking about.
The Modern Healer Academy is for you.
I'm ready →"I feel called to this but I'm terrified I don't know enough, I'm not grounded enough, and I'll fall apart in a session..."
A certified, embodied, trauma-informed practitioner who trusts herself completely, with the skills to hold space for real, lasting transformation.
A certified Reiki Level 1 Practitioner
A certified Reiki Level 2 Practitioner
A trauma-informed practitioner
A confident, ethical space holder
An embodied healer who deeply understands the energetic body
A practitioner who trusts their intuition completely
Someone who can confidently open, hold & close a healing session
A practitioner who can work with energy at a distance
Someone with a real practice, and the tools to grow it
Here's what happens when healers are trained the right way.
Because you can't hold others before you can hold yourself.
The knowledge, the certifications, and the energetic mastery.
From learner to practitioner, this is where it all comes together.
Your formal attunement, hands-on practice, self-treatment techniques, and partner practice, you leave certified and activated.
Distance healing, advanced symbols, and deeper energetic work. Your second attunement takes you to the next level.
The skill most practitioners never learn, and the one that separates good healers from great ones.
Theory sessions, Q&As, integration support, and mentoring throughout. This is where the real learning happens.
A thorough grounding in the chakra system, emotional-energetic patterns, and how to identify and work with imbalances.
Stop second-guessing your intuitive hits. Learn to receive, trust, and ethically work with intuitive information.
Beyond traditional Reiki, Violet Flame work, expanded energetic techniques, and your unique approach to energy.
Practice your skills on real people in a supported environment. Confidence comes from doing the work, this is where it's built.
Official reference materials you'll use long after graduation, scripts, protocols, guides for every scenario.
An intimate, private community for this cohort across 16 weeks. Ask questions, share breakthroughs, get held between sessions.
This is not a Zoom graduation. We mark this milestone in person, with ceremony, celebration, and your certificates in hand.
If something unexpected happens in a session, you freeze, a client goes somewhere new, you can always reach out. Always. That's a promise.
| Feature | Other Reiki Certifications | ✨ The Modern Healer Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Format | 1–2 day in-person weekend | Hybrid, in-person weekends + 16 weeks live online mentoring |
| Duration | 1–2 days per level | 16 weeks of spacious, supported immersion |
| Reiki Level 1 | ✔ | ✔ Included |
| Reiki Level 2 | Often sold separately | ✔ Included |
| Ongoing Mentorship | ✘ None after the weekend | ✔ 14 live group coaching & Q&A sessions |
| Trauma-Informed Training | ✘ Not included | ✔ Full certification included |
| Chakra & Energetic Anatomy | Basic overview (if at all) | ✔ Full dedicated training module |
| Intuitive Development | ✘ Not included | ✔ Dedicated training, learn to trust yourself |
| Advanced Energetics | ✘ Not included | ✔ Violet Flame, energy reading, beyond traditional frameworks |
| Practitioner Embodiment | ✘ Not included | ✔ Woven throughout all 16 weeks |
| Art of Holding Space | ✘ Not included | ✔ Full module with certificate |
| Supervised Practice Clinic | ✘ Not included | ✔ Practice on real people in a supported space |
| Integration Time | ✘ None, straight into the next cert | ✔ Dedicated integration weeks built in |
| Community Support | ✘ None | ✔ Private hub throughout all 16 weeks |
| Lifetime Teacher Support | ✘ Ends at graduation | ✔ Always. No expiry date. |
| Graduation Ceremony | ✘ Not included | ✔ In-person initiation & celebration |
| Business Readiness | ✘ You leave with a cert, no confidence | ✔ You leave ready to see paying clients |
One weekend teaches you a technique.
Sixteen weeks makes you a practitioner.
Intake limited to 6 practitioners. · Course begins 20 October 2026.
Have questions before you commit? Book a chat with Sinead →
I feel incredibly grateful to have completed my Reiki Level 1 training with Sinead. Not only is she a wonderful teacher, but she is also someone who genuinely cares about the people she works with. From the moment the training began, she created a warm, safe, and supportive space where I felt completely comfortable to learn, ask questions, and explore Reiki at my own pace.
Sinead has a beautiful way of sharing her knowledge that is both professional and deeply heartfelt. Her passion for Reiki shines through, and her calm, nurturing presence made the whole experience feel very special. I came away from the training with a much deeper understanding of Reiki, greater confidence in my practice, and a real sense of empowerment.
What stood out most to me was Sinead's authenticity and kindness. She teaches from the heart and truly wants her students to grow and benefit from the experience. I would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone considering Reiki training or healing sessions. It was a privilege to learn from her, and I look forward to continuing my Reiki journey with her guidance.
This is the kind of work you'll be doing. Real people. Real transformation.
She first came to Reiki as a skeptic, unsure whether energy healing could actually support her.
What started as curiosity became a completely unexpected journey — from experiencing Reiki for herself to training in the modality and becoming a fully qualified Reiki practitioner.
She described her training as “an amazing experience” that brought up emotions she hadn’t expected and “met my expectations and more.”
From skeptic to practitioner. Sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself.
She came into Reiki Level 1 feeling nervous and unsure what to expect — and even questioned whether she'd be able to feel anything when practising Reiki herself.
By the end, that had completely shifted.
She left feeling confident practising Reiki on herself, excited to continue with friends and family, and with a spark to learn even more.
The small-group setting, shared debriefs and space to connect made the experience feel “lovely, friendly and not intimidating at all.”
From unsure if she’d feel anything → to trusting her own experience and wanting to go deeper.
I feel incredibly grateful to have completed my Reiki Level 1 training with Sinead. Not only is she a wonderful teacher, but she is also someone who genuinely cares about the people she works with. From the moment the training began, she created a warm, safe, and supportive space where I felt completely comfortable to learn, ask questions, and explore Reiki at my own pace.
Sinead has a beautiful way of sharing her knowledge that is both professional and deeply heartfelt. I came away from the training with a much deeper understanding of Reiki, greater confidence in my practice, and a real sense of empowerment.
What stood out most to me was Sinead’s authenticity and kindness. She teaches from the heart and truly wants her students to grow and benefit from the experience.
I would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone considering Reiki training or healing sessions.
It was a privilege to learn from her, and I look forward to continuing my Reiki journey with her guidance.
Ive been seeing Sinead for reiki for while and she is amazing. Not only for the energy reset and balance but also with her intuitive information, which is always so spot on with whats happening in my life!
So when it came to wanting to do my reiki training, it was perfect that Sinead offered this and felt right as she knew me so well already!
The level 1 training was amazing. Sinead is so knowledgeable and experienced and made the day so fun and engaging!
I learnt so much in those few hours with a great group and the practical elements were so good.
I have been able to use all my reiki skills so easily in my life. I can't wait to do level 2!! Thank you Sinead! 🥰❤️
| Phase | Weeks | Format | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Become the Vessel | 1–3 | Live Online | Foundations, energy hygiene, nervous system, Reiki theory |
| Reiki Level 1 | Wk 4 + Integration | In-Person Weekend + Online | Attunement, hands-on practice, certification |
| Work with Energy | 6–9 | Live Online | Chakra, intuition, advanced energetics, Reiki L2 theory |
| Reiki Level 2 | Wk 10 + Integration | In-Person Weekend + Online | Attunement, symbols, distance healing, certification |
| Become the Practitioner | 12–16 | Online + In-Person Intensive | Trauma-informed training, facilitation intensive, graduation |
Spacious by design. Because real integration takes time.
Sinead Galligan is the founder of the Modern Healer Academy, and one of Sydney's most sought-after Reiki practitioners, with a year-round two-month waitlist.
But her path to this work didn't begin in a classroom. It began in a doctor's office, where she was told she had an irreversible autoimmune disease, and that falling pregnant naturally was unlikely.
She didn't accept that as her story.
What followed was years of turning inward, turning to natural healing, and trusting what the medical system told her not to. She is currently reversing her autoimmune diagnosis. She fell pregnant naturally. And she built one of Sydney's most loved healing practices from the ground up.
She also brings over a decade of formal training and lived experience in trauma, mental health, and counselling, which is why her sessions and her teaching go far beyond what most Reiki training ever touches. She holds space for the whole person, the nervous system, the emotional history, the story that lives in the body.
Now Sinead is on a mission to train the next generation of healers properly. Not just with attunements and techniques, but with the confidence, the ethics, the intuition, and the embodied presence to genuinely change people's lives. And the skills to build a practice that lets them live on their own terms.
She knows what it means to be told something isn't possible. And she knows exactly what becomes available when you stop believing that.
6 spots. One cohort. Sixteen weeks that will change the way you work, and who you are.