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When your work involves people, you meet the full complexity of their lives. You encounter it in coaching conversations, in the relationships within a team and in the moments when someone’s response is difficult to understand.
The Diploma in integrative therapeutic coaching develops your psychological understanding, coaching skill and self-awareness so that you can respond with greater care, further depth and professional confidence.
Created and led by Lucy Power, the programme brings together transactional analysis, trauma responsive practice, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment and systemic approaches which you’ll learn to skillfully use in practice in your organisation, in consultancy work, in 1:1 coaching and leadership relationships, in groups and in teams. You will explore how these perspectives inform your work, experience their relevance personally and develop your practice through live teaching, observed coaching and professional feedback.
Whether you are developing a coaching practice or working with people within an organisation, this is an opportunity to deepen the understanding you bring to your relationships and responsibilities.
You may already recognise what your work is asking of you.
A client can describe a repeating pattern of thinking, feeling and behaviour in considerable detail and still find themselves returning to it. A colleague who appears capable may struggle when expectations change. Someone you manage may experience feedback, disagreement or uncertainty in ways that surprise you.
Alongside professional demands, people are living with loss, difficult relationships, the effects of trauma and circumstances they may never discuss at work. Neurodivergent people may also be navigating working environments which feel complex, inaccessible and demanding to them and their self expectations and ways of communicating do not always account for their needs.
These experiences can influence trust, engagement, concentration, confidence and the way people relate to authority. You may see their effects long before you understand the circumstances behind them.
Your role brings its own responsibilities. You need to recognise what you can usefully explore, understand the limits of your competence and know when a different kind of support is appropriate. There will also be moments when your own history and responses become part of the interaction.
The Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Coaching gives you sustained opportunities to examine this complexity and develop how you work within it.
Your self-awareness is part of your professional practice.
‘I can only meet you as far as I’ve met myself’
The way you work with someone is influenced by what you notice, what you assume and what happens within you as the conversation unfolds.
You might feel an urgency to reassure, find yourself taking responsibility for another person’s decisions or become less able to think clearly when someone is distressed. Understanding these responses can help you remain more thoughtful about what the person needs and what your role requires.
Throughout the Diploma, you will explore your own repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour. You will consider how your experiences have shaped your expectations of yourself and other people, and how those expectations influence your work.
I believe this personal development is integral to responsible coaching and leadership practice. As you understand yourself more deeply, you have more opportunity to recognise your responses and choose how to act.
What is integrative therapeutic coaching?
Integrative therapeutic coaching works to recognise, understand and respond skilfully to the psychological processes within coaching. It creates opportunities for new experiences, allowing accumulated evidence to gradually revise enduring expectations and support sustainable self-directed change.
In practice, this involves paying attention to the relationship between a person’s experiences, their nervous system, the meanings they have made and the choices that feel available to them.
You will learn to bring psychological and therapeutic perspectives into a coaching relationship with clear contracting, ethical boundaries and respect for the person’s autonomy. Part of the work includes recognising when coaching is appropriate and when referral or additional support should be considered.
Who the Diploma is for:
The Diploma is for you if your work involves supporting people’s development in contracts for personal change and you want a deeper understanding of what influences their experience, relationships and choices. You may already be a qualified coach, be developing coaching within your professional role or be considering formal coach training.
You may work with clients who understand their goals and can explain what is getting in the way, yet continue to return to familiar difficulties. A conversation about confidence, leadership or business can reveal longstanding expectations about belonging, achievement or what it means to be seen.
The Diploma helps you explore these repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour through transactional analysis, attachment and trauma responsive perspectives. You will develop how you listen, contract and ask questions, alongside your ability to notice what is happening within the coaching relationship.
Observed practice and mentor coaching help you examine your responses and refine your skills in relation to the ICF Core Competencies and PCC-level practice.
You may be responsible for performance and engagement while supporting people through change, conflict or difficult personal circumstances. It can be challenging to understand what someone needs, particularly when you also have decisions to make and organisational responsibilities to meet.
Through the Diploma, you will explore how your own responses, communication and relationship with authority influence your leadership. Transactional analysis offers ways to understand interactions and establish clearer agreements, while systemic approaches help you consider the wider team and organisation. Coaching practice develops your ability to listen carefully, explore assumptions and support someone to think for themselves while remaining clear about your responsibilities.
Your work may bring you into conversations about distress, strained relationships or difficulties participating and progressing at work. You may be trying to understand how personal experience, neurodivergence and the working environment interact, while recognising that each person’s needs and circumstances are different.
The Diploma develops your psychological understanding and the coaching skills you bring to these conversations. Learning about attachment, the nervous system and relational patterns can help you consider a wider range of explanations for what you encounter. Contracting and ethical practice support clarity about confidentiality, expectations and the limits of your role. Through experiential learning and feedback, you will practise responding thoughtfully without assuming you know someone’s experience or taking responsibility for decisions that belong to them.
You may be drawn to coaching because you want to work thoughtfully with people and understand the psychological foundations of change. The Diploma brings this interest together with the practical development of coaching skills, professional ethics and self-awareness.
Live teaching, demonstrations and supported practice help you connect theory with the experience of coaching. You will develop your own approach while learning to recognise when coaching is appropriate and when someone may need another form of support.
N.B. If your employer is considering funding your place, we can discuss how the programme relates to your role and professional development priorities.
Discuss the Diploma with LucyWhat you will develop.
Through skilled tutoring, your personal reflection, professional coach mentoring and supported practice, you will work towards:
- A deeper understanding of the psychological and relational processes that can influence a coaching conversation or working relationship
- Greater awareness of your own responses and their effect on how you work with people
- The ability to recognise and explore repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour without reducing someone to a label or explanation
- More informed ways of responding when emotion, uncertainty or a person’s history becomes relevant to the work
- Stronger coaching skills, developed through observation, practice, feedback and mentor coaching
- Clearer professional boundaries, including contracting, confidentiality and recognising the limits of your role
- A more considered understanding of how organisational relationships and wider systems influence individual experience
You will have opportunities to examine what these developments mean in your own work, whether you coach independently or apply coaching within your organisational role.
Learn with experienced practitioners, in relationship with other people
The Diploma has been developed from professional study, extensive practice and over a decade of building intensive experience of teaching coaches. Its curriculum and teaching draw on the expertise of the people delivering it and have been developed without reliance on AI.
Lucy Power delivers at least 70% of the programme, alongside expert tutors who are graduates from the Diploma and who contribute their specialist knowledge and experience.
Live learning gives you the opportunity to ask your questions as they arise, explore the implications of an idea and observe how a tutor responds when practice becomes complex.
You will coach and be coached, hear different perspectives and receive feedback on your developing skills.
How the Diploma works.
Enrolment is open throughout the year. Following a conversation with Lucy, you can enrol and receive immediate access to the pre-recorded introductory module and then join your live learning experience at the next available starting point.
During our teaching weeks, you will spend four hours live online with tutors and fellow students. You can attend one four-hour daytime session (10am - 2pm) or two two-hour evening sessions (6-8pm) each week.
Your live learning includes teaching, reflection and discussion and observed coaching practice with feedback. One hour of your weekly learning is dedicated to observed practice, giving you regular opportunities to develop your coaching skills and learn from the work of others.
Planned teaching breaks (these coincide with school and academic holidays) provide time for reading, reflection and integration. The available groups and teaching timetable will be discussed during your enrolment discussion call.
Your learning hours.
Your Diploma experience includes 188 hours of coach-specific learning: 140 hours within the core Diploma and a further 48 live teaching hours across the two included certificates. This comprises:
- 108 hours of live Diploma module learning, including observed coaching practice.
- 12 hours of recorded introductory learning.
- 20 hours of coach mentoring and observed coaching practice, including ten mentor coaching hours in total across individual and group sessions.
- 48 hours of live teaching across the two included certificate programmes, with 24 hours in each.
Reading, reflection and self-study extend your learning beyond these hours. The Diploma closing ceremony is additional and is not included in this learning total.
Your ten modules.
108 hours of live Diploma module learning, including observed coaching practice, across ten modules.
Introduction to the Diploma and integrative therapeutic coaching.
You will begin with an introduction to the programme, its learning expectations and the principles of integrative therapeutic coaching. Explore the therapeutic approaches included in the Diploma and start considering how this learning relates to your development and professional role.
Being an integrative therapeutic coach.
Explore coaching competencies and their expression in practice. Consider your coaching presence, the assumptions you bring and how you develop a way of working that is both personally authentic and professionally accountable.
The integrative therapeutic coaching relationship.
Examine the significance of relationship in coaching. Explore how trust develops, how relationships can be strengthened and how you respond to the dynamics that emerge between you and the person you are coaching.
Coaching the whole person using transactional analysis.
Use transactional analysis to explore ego states, transactions and contracting. Consider how a person’s internal experience and ways of relating influence their choices, and how coaching can support greater congruence and autonomy.
Integrative therapeutic coaching in organisations.
Explore organisations through a transactional analysis perspective and consider the practical responsibilities of working within them. Examine contracting, organisational relationships and the considerations involved in coaching a team or group.
Trauma responsive integrative therapeutic coaching.
Develop your understanding of trauma, its potential effects and the relevance of the nervous system to coaching. Explore how trauma responsive practice informs your responses, contracting and professional boundaries.
Your integrative therapeutic coaching approach.
Examine coaching approaches and how you support a person through change. Reflect on the way you integrate your learning into a coherent practice that expresses who you are while remaining responsive to the person you are coaching.
Moving forward with care as an integrative therapeutic coach.
Consider your own wellbeing, the role of reflection and the importance of professional support and supervision. Plan how you will continue developing your practice and sustaining yourself within the work.
Interpersonal neurobiology for integrative therapeutic coaching.
Explore the foundations of interpersonal neurobiology, connection and attachment. Consider how these perspectives inform your understanding of relationships and how you apply them thoughtfully within coaching.
Systemic coaching and constellations.
Explore the foundations and methods of systemic coaching and constellations. Through practical learning, consider how relationships, roles and wider systems influence a person’s experience and the possibilities they perceive.
Two further certificates are included in your enrolment.
Your Diploma enrolment also gives you access to the Certificate in trauma responsive coaching and leadership and the Certificate in transactional analysis for coaching and leadership. Each includes 24 hours of live teaching, alongside reading and self-study, adding 48 live teaching hours to your learning.
Certificate in Trauma Responsive Coaching and Leadership.
Deepen your understanding of how trauma can influence a person’s experience, relationships and responses. Explore how this understanding informs your work as a coach or leader, supporting thoughtful communication and a clearer understanding of professional boundaries.
Certificate in Transactional Analysis for Coaching and Leadership.
Develop your understanding of Transactional Analysis and its relevance to coaching and leadership. Explore how you can use this perspective to understand patterns of communication, strengthen working relationships and reflect on your own contribution to an interaction.
Both certificates are included in the Diploma investment. Their teaching schedules will be shared with you so that you can plan your participation alongside the Diploma sessions.
Develop your coaching at PCC level.
The Diploma is built around the International Coaching Federation’s (ICF) Core Competencies and aligned with the coaching skills and professional standards expected at Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level. Teaching throughout the programme is designed to support your development towards this professional level of practice and prepare you to work towards the ICF PCC credential.
You will develop your skills through demonstration, experiential learning and feedback on your coaching. Assessment includes observed coaching and submitted coaching session recordings, giving you opportunities to examine how your understanding translates into practice.
The programme includes ten hours of mentor coaching, combining individual and group sessions, in line with ICF’s mentor coaching requirement. This provides focused support for developing your coaching in relation to the ICF Core Competencies and PCC performance expectations.
Alongside live learning, you will need time for reading, reflection, workbook activities and coaching practice.
Learn with Lucy Power
I am the founder and Educational Director of the Therapeutic Coaching Academy and an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach.
I am a former social worker, a locally qualified youth worker and a qualified counsellor. I have undertaken extensive training in transactional analysis psychotherapy and have deep experience of applying psychological understanding in my work with people. My further training includes trauma treatment, clinical supervision and personal and business coaching.
Across these settings, I have worked with the relationship between someone’s history, their current circumstances and the possibilities they can imagine for themselves. That experience informs how I teach and the care I bring to professional boundaries.
I created this Diploma to bring depth of psychological understanding into the development of skilled, reflective coaches and practitioners. I deliver at least 70% of the programme myself, working alongside expert tutors whose contributions extend the learning.
Your development matters to me personally. I want you to leave this programme with a deeper understanding of yourself and greater confidence in the care and skill you bring to your work.
Book your enrolment conversation with meWhat graduates have said.
“I've grown immensely both as a person and as a coach.”
Caroline
“This Diploma is the best learning experience I’ve ever had and I came into this already having a Masters in Coaching! It’s left me able to work at a much greater depth and take care of myself well within that. I’ve gone on to extend my business so that I have secured lucrative contracts with UK wide reach”
Akeila
“I didn't have any idea what coaching was before signing up to the Diploma and I was scared to be in a group with others who were bound to be more experienced. I was surprised because even though my group included people who were super experienced and successful as coaches, I felt like I belonged and was welcomed. I am now so excited to bring coaching into what I offer as a yoga teacher and as a business owner. I’m certain this will enhance what I already offer”
Sophie
“I have been a successful business mentor for years and I wanted to meet my clients in all the depth and complexity they has started to bring. I wanted to be able to work with trauma, neurodiversity and emotional complexity and the Diploma took me through exactly what I needed to learn and practice so that I could do this well and with confidence.”
JoJo
The graduate feedback currently shared by the Academy describes deeper understanding of trauma, changes in coaching practice and the personal significance of the learning. Other accounts describe the value of learning alongside fellow coaches and the depth graduates found after previous coaching education.
Your investment.
You can choose the payment option that works for you. All prices below include VAT.
Pay in full
£7,500
Saving £600 compared with the 18-month payment plan. This is £6,250 plus VAT.
Pay over 12 months
£650 / month
Totalling £7,800 and saving £300 compared with the 18-month payment plan.
Pay over 18 months
£450 / month
Totalling £8,100.
Paying in full gives you the greatest saving, while the payment plans allow you to spread your investment.
If your employer is funding your place, we can provide information to support that arrangement.
Optional individual coaching with Lucy.
If you would like additional support to explore the personal relevance of your learning, you can choose ten private 90-minute psychotherapeutic coaching sessions with Lucy alongside the Diploma.
The additional investment is £3,000 plus VAT, totalling £3,600 including VAT. This is an optional addition to the programme, which you can discuss during your enrolment conversation.
Questions you may have.
We welcome enquiries from existing coaches and people exploring coach training, as well as professionals seeking to develop coaching within their organisational role. Your conversation with Lucy will establish whether the Diploma is appropriate for your experience and goals.
Recordings are available to support review and catch-up. The programme requires 90% attendance or evidence of catching up with the relevant learning. Any missed observed practice, mentoring or assessment activity will need to be discussed so that you can meet the practical completion requirements.
Please discuss your learning needs with Lucy before you enrol. We can explore adjustments and arrangements that would help you participate, with clarity about the programme’s practical and assessment requirements. Welcome and belonging are central to how we want you to experience the Academy.
The Diploma prepares you for integrative therapeutic coaching. It does not confer a counselling or psychotherapy qualification. Understanding the boundaries of coaching and working within your competence are central to the programme.
The Diploma supports your development towards PCC-level coaching practice. Gaining the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential also requires you to meet ICF’s individual credentialing requirements, including coaching experience and the credentialing examination. Completing the Diploma does not automatically award you the credential.
You are welcome to discuss employer-funded enrollment. We can explore how the learning relates to your role, your organisation’s priorities and the practical arrangements for attending the programme.
Let’s talk about what you want to develop.
You may already know which parts of your work you want to understand more deeply. You may be considering how to develop as a coach, or seeking a more psychologically informed approach to the responsibilities you hold within an organisation.
I would welcome the opportunity to hear about your work and what has brought you here. Let’s explore what you want to develop and whether the Diploma is the right next step for you.
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