The Momentum Lab:
Empowered Change-Making
for Helping Professionals
Join now!
Do you feel ineffective, disenchanted, or disconnected from the kind of work you want to be doing?
 Stuck — in your practice, in your personal life, in your professional development?Â
The world is so overwhelming lately, and you’re the sponge that soaks up all your clients’ stress, on top of everything life throws your way. Maybe it feels like things keep piling up, and there’s no way to hit the “stop” button.Â
Lack of insight isn’t your problem.
You have plenty of emotional intelligence, but getting yourself out of the rut takes a whole different skillset. Let us show you a new way forward, so you can get back in a groove that feels good.
This group is a love letter to clinicians who feel underresourced.
As therapists and coaches, practically everything we do is focused on helping somebody else. This group is something different. It’s centered on your goals, and dedicated to helping you create a change that feels meaningful to you, whether in your work life, your personal life, or your relationships.
A Change Process for Each Aspect of Life
Let us help you find agency, wherever you’re stuck. We’ll work with you to identify an actionable goal that will make a real difference for your life, design micro-experiments to move you forward, and create support and accountability for your change process so you stay on track.Â
By the time this group ends, we’re confident you’ll have made significant progress. You’ll feel less overwhelmed and more empowered. You’ll feel more aligned with who you want to be and how you want to show up, in your work, in your relationships, and for yourself.Â
By walking through the change process yourself, you’ll understand better how to apply it with your clients. You’ll experience the transformation personally, so you can bring it home in session.
Meet your instructors
Martha Kauppi is a marriage and family therapist, educator, author, speaker, and AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor. She has a lifelong career in health and sexuality, and is a senior trainer of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. Martha trains therapists all over the world to work more effectively with relational intimacy challenges and sex issues. She is the author of Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients).
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Jess Cleeves, MAT LCSW, is an author, educator, and relationship expert. Jess' BS in Biology (SFSU) lays a strategic, scientific foundation for her clinical work. Her Master of Arts in Teaching (Stanford University), two decades of experience teaching science in impacted public schools, and university roles facilitating teacher training translate to meaningful, actionable client learning. Her book Planning to Stay: Burnout, Demoralization, Exploitation, and How to Reclaim Self-Care, Your Classroom, and Your Life… Anyway supports teachers to thrive realistically despite increasingly challenging circumstances. Jess shapes her clinical practice with extensive, ongoing training; she has earned PACT Level 3, IFS 2, IFIO, and ATSIP Level 2 credentials and has trained in the Developmental Model, EMDR, and somatic trauma processing. Her current work helps people in Utah and Colorado with relationship counseling, and people from all over with psychoeducation and facilitation for relationships, teachers/people in helping professions, and organizations of all types to envision and enact healing, humane, human-to-human care.
Course Structure
4 live consultation sessions
- Direct guidance and discussion with the instructorsÂ
- Q&A
- Experiential practice in session, so you feel the shift inside yourself.
Community Support
- Connect with each other between sessions in our discussion forums
- Practice in small groups during session
- Enjoy networking oppportunities
Handouts and Resources
- You’ll be well-supported with journaling prompts, handouts you can use both for yourself and in session, and resources to support the growth process, for you and your clients.
Meeting dates:
- October 7th, 2026 - 11:00-12:30 Central Time
- November 4th, 2026 - 11:00-12:30 Central Time
- December 7th, 2026Â - 11:00-12:30 Central Time
- January 7th, 2026 -Â 11:00-12:30 Central Time
All meetings will run from 11:00-12:30 Central Time. Use this world clock to convert Central Time to your time zone.
Parts of each meeting will be recorded so you can watch later, but the breakout groups will not be recorded. We encourage you to plan to attend live if at all possible.Â
