the inner critic healing camp
You show up for everyone else, but what about you?
Choose a healing experience + Program that best fits you.
limited seats in each powerful container
“I have nothing left to give. I have no margin ‘for me’ in my days. I keep re-heating my morning coffee throughout each day. No one asks how I am doing. I cannot trust anyone but me. Everything falls on my shoulders.”
-All moms + women-business-owners ever
Does this sound like you?
The 2am replay: an inner critic that recites everything you should have done better, in a tone you'd never allow around anyone you love.
Success that feels like survival: you built something real, but you can't actually feel it — every win just resets the bar.
Rest that doesn't rest: even when you finally stop, guilt shows up to fill the quiet.
Hyper-independence: you hold everyone, and quietly believe no one can hold you.
Performing "fine": high-functioning on the outside, running on fumes underneath — and terrified someone will notice either one.
Join Us in “Healing Camp”
Our purpose here is to give you the season you never actually got — a safe, trusted container where the woman who holds everything is finally the one being held.
Through therapeutic life & business transformation support rooted in Internal Family Systems and curated with psychotherapy fully integrated into the work we help you meet your inner critic with curiosity instead of combat, tend to the loyal, exhausted parts of you that built your success on hypervigilance and hyper-independence, and reconnect you with the steady, compassionate Self that has been underneath the performance all along.
This is not another program to achieve your way through; there is nothing to earn here and no one to take care of.
You arrive, you belong, and you leave with something no summer ever gave you: a quieter mind, a regulated nervous system, and a life and business led from Self instead of survival.
What are my choices?
[All offerings are in-person in Hinsdale, IL]
1:1 intensive 90-minute IFS sessions, 1x month, to start → Basecamp
Sacred Circle: Weekly sessions (8 total), side by side with 7 others who get it → The Cabin Circle
1:1 intensive IFS sessions for 6 months, twice per month, 75-minute sessions → The Private Trail
Sacred Circle: 8 seats, 4 hours per month, exclusive container with similar others → The Lodge
To learn more about any of the above offerings, email us at:
FAQ
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I ENROLL?
Two things, quickly: a confirmation lands in your inbox, and within about a day a real human (usually Emily herself) reaches out personally to schedule your sessions and welcome you to the season. No portals to figure out, no onboarding maze.
WHEN DO WE BEGIN?
Every container opens in September. All sessions meet during the workweek, between 9am and 2pm — inside “school hours”, on purpose — and we'll find the exact times together when we schedule you personally.
CAN I PAY MONTHLY?
First, you will submit your $300 deposit to save your seat in one of the limited spots in the program of your choice. Then, the Private Trail is billed monthly by design — $1,000/month for six months. Basecamp ($300 per session) and The Cabin Circle ($1,600) are simple one-time payments: one yes, and you're in. The Lodge's investment and payment options are shared in conversation.
IS THIS THERAPY?
This is therapeutic life & business transformation support — a unique, specialized model curated by Emily Pagone, MS, LCPC, with psychotherapy fully integrated into the work and your business in the room. It's held to clinical standards of care and confidentiality, and it sits beautifully alongside any therapy relationship you already have.
WHAT IF I FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORK AND WANT TO GO DEEPER?
That happens a lot — Basecamp is a doorway on purpose. Campers often move into The Cabin Circle or The Private Trail as the season unfolds. Just tell us; we'll make the path smooth.
WHAT IF I NEED TO MISS A SESSION OR MY CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE?
Life can bump into the healing schedule sometimes — we get it. Reach out and we'll work it out together like humans.
Emily Pagone
Founder + Psychotherapist
Emily Pagone, MS, LCPC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor and the Founder + CEO of Authentic Growth Wellness Group, a trauma-informed mental health practice and healing community. She is also the host of The Inner Critic Podcast, where she explores the voice so many high-performers know intimately — the one reciting everything you should have done better — and what it actually takes to heal it. This fall, she is your Camp Director.
Emily's work lives at an intersection most support never reaches: the place where your inner world and your business meet. Her therapeutic life & business transformation support model — a unique, specialized approach she curated, with psychotherapy fully integrated — is rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic work, and trauma science. She works with high-performing women business owners, parents, and leaders whose success was built on hypervigilance and hyper-independence, helping them meet the inner critic with curiosity instead of combat and lead from Self instead of survival.
The Camp exists because Emily kept meeting the same woman in her office: brilliant, capable, holding everything for everyone — and never once the one being held. She believes the inner critic is not a character flaw but a loyal, exhausted protector, and that the women who run the whole camp deserve a season of their own. Whichever trail you've chosen, you'll be met with clinical depth, genuine warmth, and reverence for everything you've carried to get here.
it's time to revive + thrive
you deserve your own space to have solace, reprieve, and healing.