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A SELF-PACED BUSINESS COURSE BY PRAXIS HOUSE

You know how to help people. Now learn how to build the business behind your work.

 

The Foundation Lab gives early-stage practitioners a clear path to launching an online service-based business—from deciding who you help and shaping your offer to pricing, marketing and setting up the systems you need.

And because knowing what to do does not always make it easy to do, we also look at the self-doubt, visibility fears and money patterns that can show up along the way.

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Self-paced · Seven modules · Practical strategy + psychology-informed support

Your professional training probably did not teach you how to run a business.

 

You may know how to support a client, lead a session or do excellent work in your field.

But deciding what to sell, what to charge, who to speak to and how to find clients online can feel like learning an entirely different profession.

So you collect advice. You start a website, reconsider your niche, rewrite your bio and wonder whether you should be posting more. Everything seems important, which makes it difficult to know what to do first.

You need a foundation—and a sensible order in which to build it.

That is what The Foundation Lab is for.

Learn the strategy. Understand what comes up when you use it.

 

A course can tell you how to price an offer. It takes a different kind of support to help you notice why naming that price makes you want to lower it.

You can learn how to market your work and still hesitate every time you are about to become visible.

Inside The Foundation Lab, we address both sides of the build. You will learn practical business skills while examining the patterns that may influence how you make decisions and follow through.

Sometimes you need a clearer process. Sometimes you need to understand your response to the process. Knowing the difference can save you a great deal of unnecessary effort.

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For practitioners becoming business owners.

 

The Foundation Lab is designed for coaches, therapists, counsellors, wellness practitioners and other people-centred service providers who are launching their online business or still establishing its foundations.

You might be newly qualified and wondering where to begin. You might already have a few clients but no clear offer, consistent way of marketing or reliable process behind your work.

You do not need to arrive with a polished brand or a complete business plan. You do need to be willing to make decisions, test your ideas and build one useful piece at a time.

From “I have an idea” to “I know what I’m building.”

The course is self-paced, so you can move through it around your work and life. The lessons give you a sequence to follow:

First, get clear.

 

Define the work you want to do, the people you want to help and what your business needs to make possible for you.

Then, build the offer.

 

Turn your expertise into a service people can understand, assess and choose. Consider its scope, value and price.

Next, make it visible.

 

Learn to communicate your work, choose marketing approaches you can sustain and start inviting the right people in.

Finally, support the business behind it.

 

Put simple planning, content and operational systems in place so you are not rebuilding everything each week.

You can revisit lessons as your business develops. A foundation is something you use, not something you complete once and forget.

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THE CURRICULUM

Seven modules covering the business and the person building it.

01 — Self-worth and business decisions

Explore how comparison, self-doubt and tying your value to outcomes can affect the choices you make. Get clearer on your vision and begin building a business around your values and actual goals.

02 — Visibility and your voice

Understand what makes sharing your work feel difficult. Develop a message you can stand behind and begin practising visibility in a way that is honest and sustainable.

03 — Planning, capacity and boundaries

Create a workable relationship with structure. Look at how you plan, follow through and protect your time, especially when caring for clients makes it tempting to give more than you can sustain.

04 — Simple systems that support your work

Build practical foundations for managing your time, content and workflow. Learn to choose tools and processes that serve the business you have now.

05 — Offers, clients and pricing

Clarify who your work is for. Shape or refine your service, communicate what it helps people do and make considered decisions about pricing and scope.

06 — Ethical marketing and launching

Learn the foundations of messaging, content, email and simple funnels. Put together a launch approach that helps people understand your work and decide whether it is right for them.

07 — Money, growth and your relationship with success

Examine the beliefs and responses that can influence earning, receiving, visibility and growth. Use that awareness alongside practical decisions about the kind of business you want to build.

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A business you understand how to build—not just a collection of lessons.

 

As you work through The Foundation Lab, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Decide who you want to serve and how to describe your work.
  • Develop an offer with a clearer scope and price.
  • Understand the basics of communicating and marketing your service online.
  • Put simple systems around your work and capacity.
  • Notice when fear, perfectionism or people-pleasing is influencing a business decision.
  • Choose a next step without treating every piece of advice as urgent.

There is no promise that one course will remove every challenge of entrepreneurship. The aim is to give you the knowledge, tools and discernment to begin well.

“The Foundation Lab Changed Everything For Me”

 

"I joined the program during a confusing period after burning out in my high-pressure marketing career.

Working within TFL has been incredible. Nikki’s knowledge is outstanding, her energy is warm and grounding, and she has a rare ability to take things I could only vaguely sense about myself and make them suddenly make sense. Throughout the TFL lessons, she explained the science behind patterns and behaviours I’ve been experiencing for years... week after week, something else would just “click”.

I uncovered so many subconscious barriers that I never realised were affecting my career (and other areas of my life, probably). The work helped me move through some major identity challenges connected to my burnout and I was able to properly heal and regulate my nervous system again. 

Ironically, that clarity led me back to marketing, but from a much healthier and more aligned place! It was exactly what I needed while navigating the aftershocks of burnout and the transition from employee to self-employed.

I can’t recommend The Foundation Lab enough!! 10/10 experience, genuinely one of my best decisions ever, and I hope to keep working with Nikki for as long as she’ll have me."

Yasmin Wilkinson | Conscious Marketing Consultant

“I gained practical tools and a stronger foundation.”

 

“This program came at a time when I was rebuilding my life and business from the ground up, it gave me not only the practical tools but also the clarity and confidence to create a strong foundation.

What stood out for me was the balance. Nikki doesn’t just teach structure and strategy in a rigid way; she weaves in the psychological, the feminine and the masculine, so that building a business becomes both organized and soulful.

Nikki herself is an extraordinary guide clear, supportive, and deeply generous in the knowledge she shares. The resources, materials, and tools provided can be re-visited at any time, continuing to evolve and support our journey.

This course has been truly transformative as well as supportive. Nikki has poured so much into it, and it shows in every detail. I am deeply grateful for the structure, wisdom, and empowerment it has brought into my life and my business."

Anita Koenye | Spiritual Mentor

“The combination of business strategy and nervous system education made so much sense.”


"The highlight for me was the combination of strategy, marketing, business info with nervous system education. I have never seen anyone offer this and it makes sooo much sense that we need to understand our beliefs, blocks we face and how to overcome these things.

There are lots of business courses to help with your offer or funnels, but Nikki’s combination was so helpful to understand why certain things are scary or hard for us to do! And then be able to actually overcome those blocks so that our strategy actually works.

Highly recommend!"

Hannah Peard | Mental Health Coach

“It helped me understand what was happening when I tried to become more visible.”

 

"Nikki’s work is genuinely inspiring. She brings a rare level of care and commitment to her clients, and it shows in every part of The Foundation Lab course. I’m delighted I found her page and decided to enrol.  I love her approach because it’s so much more than strategy. Integrating nervous-system safety with business and marketing, while addressing the subconscious beliefs shaping how you show up, is transformative on such a deep level.  This course is full of enlightening and practical content and I would recommend it wholeheartedly."

Lotten Holmqvist | Somatic Practitioner

“I got clearer on my niche, my offer and how to speak to my audience.”

 

"I absolutely love The Foundation Lab. It helped me understand how my nervous system and sense of self-worth were showing up in my business. Because of this, I was able to overcome some major blocks around visibility. 

I also got really clear on my niche, my core offer, and how to genuinely speak to my audience.  Nikki’s warm energy, deep knowledge, and experience as both a business owner and a psychotherapist make this program truly special. It’s one of the best business courses I’ve ever done. Thank you!"

Jana Denker | Transformation Coach

FROM NIKKI

Being excellent at your work should not mean guessing your way through business.

 

I’m Nikki—a psychotherapist, business strategist and entrepreneur of more than 14 years.

I’ve seen skilled practitioners delay launching because they think they need one more qualification. I’ve also seen people push themselves into marketing tactics that do not fit their work, then assume the problem is their confidence.

Sometimes the missing piece is a business skill. Sometimes a fear or protective pattern is making that skill difficult to practise. Often, you need space to understand both.

I created The Foundation Lab to give early-stage practitioners a practical starting point: what to consider, what to build and how to keep moving when being a business owner brings up more than you expected.

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Is The Foundation Lab your next step?

Choose The Foundation Lab if you are launching or establishing an online service-based business and want to learn the foundations at your own pace.

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There is no single route everyone has to follow. The useful choice is the one that fits the problem you are solving now.

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You do not have to figure out every part of business at once.

 

Start with the foundations. Learn what matters at this stage, build it in a useful order and understand yourself a little better as you go.

The Foundation Lab is here to help you move from practitioner to business owner with more clarity about what you are doing—and why.

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Self-paced business education for early-stage, people-centred practitioners.