Safe Space,
Strong Practice

Learn how to integrate trauma-sensitive practices into your coaching sessions to create a safer, more supportive environment for clients, fostering trust, resilience, and growth without re-traumatization. This course also helps coaches protect themselves by establishing clear boundaries, staying within their scope, and practicing trauma-informed coaching responsibly.
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FORMAT

Online Live Course

NEXT START 

7 April 2026

CERTIFICATION

Certificate of Completion

LEVEL

Beginner to Advanced

DURATION

5 Modules
5 × Live Classes (2.5 hours each)

PRICE

$1,500 pay in full
or
$600 today + 3 monthly payments of $333
(Structured Payment Plan — total $1,599)

Why should I take this course?

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Course Objectives

Who is this course for

How It Will Benefit Your Practice

  • Understand trauma and its effects on individuals' behaviors and emotional well-being.
  • Learn the core principles of trauma-informed care and how to apply them in coaching.
  • Develop trauma-sensitive communication techniques and interventions.
  • Build a coaching practice that promotes safety, trust, and empowerment for trauma-affected clients.
This course is for both qualified coaches and those new to coaching who want to integrate trauma-informed practices into their work. Whether you're an experienced life, career, relationship, or wellness coach, or someone just starting your coaching journey, this course will equip you with the tools to create a safer, more supportive environment for clients who may have experienced trauma. It’s also ideal for anyone interested in working in a trauma-sensitive way, helping to ensure that all clients feel empowered, understood, and respected throughout their journey.
  • Enhance Client Trust: Trauma-informed coaching helps create a safe, supportive environment where clients feel more comfortable opening up, deepening trust and connection.
  • Expand Your Client Base: By incorporating trauma-sensitive practices, you can better serve a wider range of clients, including those who may have experienced trauma, leading to new opportunities for growth in your coaching business.
  • Improve Coaching Effectiveness: Gain tools to recognize and respond to trauma responses in a way that fosters healing and empowerment, making your sessions more impactful and transformative.
  • Prevent Burnout: Learn to manage the emotional intensity that comes with trauma-related topics, protecting your well-being and preventing compassion fatigue in your practice.
  • Stay Ahead in the Field: Trauma-informed coaching is becoming increasingly valued, positioning you as a forward-thinking, empathetic coach who understands the complexities of human experience.

Course Structure

Welcome Module: Orientation and Course Overview

An introduction to the course structure, learning approach, and expectations. This module supports participants to orient themselves to the programme, understand scope and boundaries, and engage with the learning in a grounded and supportive way.

Module 1: Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Clients

This module introduces trauma through a coaching lens. Participants explore different understandings of trauma, including developmental and relational aspects, and learn how trauma may show up in coaching contexts. The focus is on awareness, recognition, and reflective practice rather than diagnosis or treatment.

Module 2: Core Principles of Trauma-Informed Coaching

An exploration of the foundational principles that underpin trauma-informed practice in coaching. This module focuses on safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, cultural sensitivity, and identity awareness, supporting coaches to create ethical, respectful, and inclusive coaching relationships.

Module 3: Trauma-Sensitive Communication and Interventions

This module focuses on how coaches communicate when working with trauma-impacted clients. Participants explore trauma-sensitive language, questioning approaches, grounding and regulation strategies, and the use of embodied awareness in coaching, while remaining firmly within scope of practice.

Module 4: Building a Trauma-Informed Coaching Praxis

A practice-focused module that supports coaches to integrate trauma-informed principles into their professional work. Topics include boundaries between coaching and therapy, ethical decision-making, referral considerations, self-care for coaches, and working thoughtfully with neurodivergence.

Module 5: Trauma-Informed Coaching and the ICF Competencies

This module connects trauma-informed coaching principles with the 2025 ICF Core Competencies. Participants explore how trauma awareness enhances ethical, professional, and effective coaching practice in alignment with ICF standards.

Assessment and Integration

The course concludes with a final quiz and assessment to support integration of learning. Participants are invited to reflect on their development and consolidate their understanding of trauma-informed coaching practice.

Bonus Materials

Optional additional resources, including selected research papers, are provided for those who wish to deepen their understanding beyond the core curriculum.

Live Classes

The programme includes live classes designed to deepen learning through discussion, reflection, and applied exploration within a facilitated, trauma-informed container.

Experiential Learning and Coaching Practice

This programme is deeply experiential. Learning is supported not only through teaching and discussion, but through live application and coached practice.