Coaching & Training
Therapist To Coach has a new home!
This programme was founded by Dr Trish Turner in 2013 and has trained qualified therapists and psychologists to become exceptional coaches ever since. Trish is retiring in March 2027, and I, Helen Cottrill, her fellow tutor on the course, am taking it over with her full support. The next cohort will run from January 2027, limited earlybird places available now.
Same content, same accreditation, same rigorous programme.
The programme has the prestigious European Mentoring and Coaching Council Global (EMCC) European Quality Award (EQA) which provides you with an EMCC Global Senior Practitioner in Coaching qualification.
Plus, you have the option to fast-track to accreditation (European Individual Accreditation – EIA) for €245.
The Therapist to Coach programme is rigorous and demanding to meet the highest possible standards, with a focus on self-guided, deeply reflective learning and skills practice. I believe people learn coaching by doing it, so 80% of the programme is focused on practice.
This bespoke programme level is aimed at those:
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Who will practise as a professional coach and can draw on a range of models and frameworks
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Who are or wish to work with a range of clients contexts and organisations
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Whose focus of work will be building capacity for progression, managing complex and challenging relationships, working with ambiguity and change
You may wish to be executive, business, life, therapeutic, or performance coaches, or not even know for sure at this point. You may want to work in corporate, private or public sectors. Whichever, this programme will give you the skills and practice, standards and credibility to enable you to be the coach you want to be.
What is included?
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Post-graduate advanced diploma (level 7) in coaching
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The competences and capabilities to equip you to be a professional, qualified and accredited coach
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Professionally certified coach status as an EMCC Global Senior Practitioner in Coaching – the penultimate level of proficiency
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Eight full day workshops spread over eight months
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Rich, complex and diverse conversations about the similarities and differences between coaching and counselling
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Bespoke content specific to therapists and psychologists who want to coach
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Two free one hour individual supervision sessions with an external accredited supervisor and master coach (each session one hour)
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Four free optional tutorials over zoom (two 1:1 each session one hour and two group tutorials lasting 90 minutes)
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Rich, complex and diverse conversations about the similarities and differences between coaching and counselling
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Two free one hour individual supervision sessions with an external accredited supervisor and master coach (each session one hour)
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Four free optional tutorials over zoom (two 1:1 each session one hour and two group tutorials lasting 90 minutes)
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Peer/Co-supervision (with fellow participant)
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Peer/Co-coaching (with fellow participant)
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A huge handbook full of valuable resources
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A participant and alumni community on LinkedIn
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Library of bespoke video resources, demonstrations and learning
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Additional support to ensure my course does not disadvantage you (ADHD, dyslexia etc
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*The course easily maps against the new BACP coaching competency framework and I hope to be one of the first to have it accredited by them, when they are ready.
Who can apply?
The only entrance requirement is that you are qualified to diploma level in counselling or psychotherapy and an accredited or registered member of either the BACP and/or UKCP. Alternatively, you may be a chartered psychologist (BPS).
Members of other professional bodies can also apply, but may need to complete a form that maps their competencies against those of EMCC to Practitioner level. I can go through this with you if this is the case.
My programme requires participants to have a solid psychological/therapeutic foundation and substantial knowledge and experience of developing people and building trusting relationships with clients.
It is therefore only open to qualified and BACP or UKCP registered/accredited counsellors and psychotherapists, which means you will have successfully completed a minimum of 450 hours (i.e. one year full time or two years part time) counselling/psychotherapy qualification that included theory-based learning in at least one theoretical model, such as Gestalt, Psychoanalytic, Person Centred, Integrative etc., and guidance on skills practice as an integral part of the course.
Practitioners from other therapeutic and psychological professional bodies (such as BPS) are accepted providing they can evidence equivalence to these requirements.