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Foundations
Understand how familiar patterns become automatic, and meet the NEAR framework.
Neuroscience for everyday life
Understand your brain.
Build skills for life under pressure.
Welcome to Dr. Marks Academy. Learn practical ways to recognize your patterns, make room for a more intentional response, and support your resilience.
Explore the courseMeet Dr. Tracey Marks
Board-certified psychiatrist · Author · Speaker
A place to understand and practice
Knowing the pattern is a beginning.
Practicing a response is the next step.
Pressure can pull you into familiar habits: saying yes before checking your capacity, reacting before you have time to think, or pushing through when you need to recover.
At Dr. Marks Academy, neuroscience becomes something you can use. The focus is on understanding what is happening and practicing skills that help you respond with greater awareness and flexibility.
Our featured course
Re-engiNEAR Your Brain™
A neuroscience approach to resilience
NEAR stands for Neuroscience Empowered Approach to Resilience. Begin with the foundations, then learn four connected skills you can practice in the moments and routines of your own life.
MODULE 1
Notice
Recognize the early signs of pressure in your body, thinking, and behavior.
MODULE 2
Expand
Create space between a trigger and your response so you can choose your next step.
MODULE 3
Anchor
Direct your attention and build margin around the demands of your week.
MODULE 4
Recover
Recognize what has been depleted and practice recovery that fits what you need.
Ways to learn
Work at your pace.
Add live guidance if it fits.
Self-paced course
Learn on your schedule
Work through the main course and apply the lessons to your own situations. Return to the practices as you build them into everyday life.
Guided Cohort upgrade
Bring your questions to the group
The main course, plus four live Zoom Q&A sessions with Dr. Marks and recordings of the sessions.
Submit weekly questions privately to Dr. Marks and her team for group discussion on Zoom. Answers are included in the recordings; individual private replies are not provided. Similar questions may be combined, and you may request that your name be omitted.
See the course and enrollment page for offer details and cohort availability.
Your instructor
Meet Dr. Tracey Marks
Board-certified psychiatrist
Author and speaker
25 years in private practice
Author and speaker
25 years in private practice
Dr. Tracey Marks helps people understand how their brains work and what that means for everyday life.
Drawing on 25 years in private practice, she brings a clear, practical approach to teaching about pressure, patterns, and resilience. At Dr. Marks Academy, her focus is helping you turn that understanding into skills you can practice.
The academy offers education and practical learning. It does not provide individual psychiatric care or therapy.
A few helpful details
Before you begin
Do I need a background in neuroscience?
No. The course introduces the concepts and connects them to situations you can recognize in your own life.
Do I need to attend a webinar first?
No. The course begins with Foundations, so you can start with the framework and build from there.
How does the Guided Cohort work?
The upgrade adds four live Zoom Q&A sessions and recordings to the main course. Questions submitted privately are discussed in the group sessions, with answers included in recordings. This is group learning, with no individual private replies. Similar questions may be combined, and you can ask for your name to be omitted.
Where do current students sign in?
Use the Dr. Marks Academy student portal to access your courses.
Start with understanding.
Build through practice.
Explore Re-engiNEAR Your Brain™ and find out how the NEAR skills fit into your life.
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