Solo facilitators
Your practice, set up.
Your brand, your website, your intake forms, your scheduling, and the workflows that hold it all together. Built around the regulated facilitation arc so everything connects.
Built by a facilitatorThe work is heavy.
The work is heavy.
What holds it should be quiet, capable, and
built well.
Canoe builds practices. The website, the intake, the scheduling, the regulatory paperwork, and the day-to-day workflows underneath. For licensed facilitators, healing centers, and retreats working inside the regulated model. Built to disappear once they're running, so your time goes back to the people in your care.
Services
What I build, shaped by what you're running.
Whether you're a solo facilitator, running a healing center, or coordinating retreats, the work follows the same arc: intake, preparation, the journey, integration. I build what holds each one together.
Healing centers
Your center, coordinated.
Intake, facilitator scheduling, regulatory paperwork, client records, room booking. I work alongside Althea or Homecoming where they fit, and build around them where they don't.
Retreat operators
Your retreat, held.
Participant screening, travel and dietary needs, daily schedules, facilitator briefings, group journey support, integration after. Built so everyone arrives prepared and the logistics don't pile up.
Why this matters
My mission is access.
The math is simple. Hours a facilitator spends on operations are hours priced into the work. Less time on operations, lower overhead, lower cost to the people in your care. So this medicine reaches more of the people who need it.
That's the whole point. Not the systems, not the website, not the polish.
A well-made vessel isn't an aesthetic preference. It's how more people get to cross water they couldn't cross alone.
Sound familiar
You trained for the practice, not the setup.
I'm a facilitator. I trained for this work. I know how to hold a session.
What I didn't sign up for is choosing a system that actually understands the regulated facilitation arc. Wiring up intake, screening, preparation, the journey day, and integration so they all hand off to each other. Setting up the documentation the state requires. Then connecting it to a website, an email, a scheduling tool, and a way to take payment that holds a client from finding me online through their last integration session. All before I've seen a single client.
Every hour I spend on this is an hour I'm not spending on the people I'm here to be with. It wears me down before the real work begins. By the time everything is “almost done,” I feel disconnected from the work that called me here.
What this isn't
Five things Canoe is not.
Not
A SaaS subscription
No recurring license, no platform fee. You'll have an admin login for managing your own data, and everything I build is yours to keep.
Not
A clinical EHR
Doesn't replace SimplePractice or Athena. Use those alongside what I build, where they fit.
Not
A replacement for Althea or Homecoming
I work alongside the facilitator-specific PMS you've already chosen, and build around it where it doesn't cover what you need.
Not
A template shop
Every build is genuinely custom. No theme to install, no kit to drop in.
Not
A wellness brand
No streaks, no badges, no "you're doing great." What I build isn't trying to gamify work that isn't a game.
Who built this
I needed this myself.
I'm Alex Carpenter, a practicing natural medicine facilitator in training, based in Colorado. What facilitation work actually requires isn't a marketing claim for me. It's the practice I build from.
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Let's talk about what you're building.
A discovery conversation. Free, by video or phone. We'll talk through where you are, what's working, and where the operational weight is. I'll tell you honestly whether the work is a fit before any proposal.