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Trauma Informed CoachingCourse

This accredited Trauma-Informed Coaching course empowers existing practitioners to support trauma-affected clients within the scope of their current role and professional boundaries. Learn how trauma impacts the mind and body, how to build safety, and how to facilitate sustainable, healing-centred change.

Course overview:

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11 Modules

20 Videos

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What Will You Learn?

Explore how trauma shows up in client sessions, why traditional methods may fail, and how to create safety, resilience, and empowerment. This course blends neuroscience, practical tools, and ethical coaching strategies to apply trauma-informed principles to your coaching practice.

Created by Kirsty Watson, a qualified hypnotherapist (HPD) with a strong background in holistic wellness and personal transformation, this course is grounded in a whole-person approach—mind, body, and soul. Kirsty brings a wealth of knowledge from additional training in life coaching, nutrition, NLP, Reiki, quantum healing, and trauma-informed practice.

You’ll gain practical tools to identify trauma responses, hold emotional space, and guide clients through regulation techniques. Learn how to support clients in developing self-awareness, resilience, identity exploration, and safe, realistic goal-setting. The course emphasises working ethically and within your professional boundaries, including knowing when to refer on, while remaining a compassionate and empowering presence in your clients' journey.

Combining trauma theory with body-based techniques, this training equips you to foster emotional safety, resilience, and healing-centred change. You’ll also explore how to reframe narratives, nurture self-worth, and build coaching relationships rooted in trust, healthy boundaries, and empowerment.

By the end, you’ll feel more confident integrating trauma-informed principles into your coaching practice and better prepared to support meaningful, safe transformation.

This course is ideal for life coaches, wellness professionals, therapists, educators, or anyone looking to integrate trauma-informed practices into their existing coaching or mentoring framework. If you’re passionate about safe, ethical, and effective transformation, this course is for you.

Please note: This is a CPD course designed to enhance the knowledge of existing coaches and professionals. It is not intended to serve as a standalone qualification.

Introduction
Part 1: The Foundations of Coaching
Part 2: Trauma-Informed Coaching
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 1: Assessment

Part 1: The Science of Trauma and the Nervous System
Part 2: The Polyvagal Theory and Why Safety is Key in Coaching
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 2: Assessment

Part 1: Emotional Safety in Coaching
Part 2: The Window of Tolerance
Part 3: Trauma-Informed Language and Communication
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 3: Assessment

Part 1: Recognising Trauma Responses and Triggers in Clients
Part 2: Recognising Dysregulation and Helping Clients Move to Safety
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 4: Assessment

Part 1: How Trauma Shapes Identity and Self-Belief
Part 2: Coaching with Compassion: Balancing Validation and Growth
Part 3: Shadow Work and Trauma-Informed Coaching: Helping Clients Face Their Stories
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 5: Assessment

Part 1: Trauma and the Body
Part 2: Somatic Awareness and Practical Tools for Trauma-Informed Coaching
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 6: Assessment

Part 1: A Body-Based Approach
Part 2: Emotional Agility – Helping Clients Manage Difficult Emotions
Part 3: Breathwork and Movement: Somatic Tools for Trauma-Informed Coaching
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 7: Assessment

Part 1: Why Traditional Goal-Setting Doesn’t Work for Trauma Survivors
Part 2: Coaching Clients Towards Sustainable Change
Part 3: Gentle Goal-Setting: Reframing Objectives through a Trauma-Informed Lens
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 8: Assessment

Part 1: Relationships, Attachment Styles and Boundaries
Part 2: Coaching Clients on Healthy Communication After Trauma
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 9: Assessment

Part 1: Processing Trauma: EMDR, EFT, and the Power of Holding Space
Part 2: Understanding EFT
Part 3: EMDR Therapy
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 10: Assessment

Part 1: Ethical Considerations
Part 2: The Importance of Psychoeducation
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Conclusion
Module 11: Assessment

This course is accredited by the IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine).

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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