Integrative Life Coach Certification Program

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Comprehensive Training for Holistic Wellness Careers. Increase your influence, income, and impact helping others change their lives.

Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA) offers professional certification and master level specialist programs for those who want to begin a life coaching business or expand their current coaching practice. Our Integrative Life Coaching Certification programs (ILC) is our professional level certification and provide the training, tools, techniques, skills and resources for you to become a successful Integrative Life Coach and build a thriving practice with confidence. It is not necessary to continue on to our master level program, the ILC offers excellence in professional practice. For those who know that they want to achieve a specialist level training we do offer a reduced tuition dual enrollment option which can be found here.

IWA trains and certifies Integrative Life Coaches to transform lives. IWA offers a much deeper and broader education than other coaching schools. Ther Integrative Life Coaching Certification Course incorporates Wellness Coaching and whole-person wellbeing in addition to holistic life coaching. IWA’s Integrative Life Coaching programs uniquely combine life coaching fundamentals, holistic life model, proprietary Inside-Out Outside-In Coaching Model that addresses the root cause of blocks and limits, diverse healing modalities, coaching business basics, and life coaching certification. This is next level life coaching that will set you apart and far above competitors!

Our Integrative Life Coaching Certification Course (ILC) is taught by IWA’s expert instructors, who share life coach training, tools, skills, application, business practices and effective transformative techniques to help you become a successful Integrative Life Coach. Begin your life coaching practice today!

Benefits of Integrative Coaching Certification

Earning an integrative life coaching certification offers profound advantages for aspiring coaches. This comprehensive credential establishes you as a qualified practitioner in the rapidly growing field of holistic coaching, providing the credibility needed to attract clients and command competitive rates. Unlike traditional coaching certifications, integrative coaching programs equip you with diverse modalities including mindfulness techniques, emotional wellbeing tools, somatic practices, and transformational psychology—creating a robust skill set that addresses the whole person thus enabling you to coach your clients holistically in all of the major life areas – health & wellness coaching, career coaching, family & relationship coaching, self-development & spiritual coaching.

Professionally, certified integrative life coaches gain access to high demand, exclusive career opportunities in wellness centers, corporate environments, and private practice settings. The holistic approach you’ll master allows you to serve clients seeking deeper, more sustainable transformation rather than surface-level achievement. This certification also positions you within a supportive professional community, offering ongoing mentorship, resources, and networking opportunities that accelerate your coaching career. Whether you’re transitioning from another helping profession or starting fresh, our integrative life coaching certification provides the foundation, framework, skill set and credibility to build a thriving, meaningful practice that creates lasting impact.

The feedback from our graduates resoundingly expresses deep satisfaction in the educational journey with IWA. Students feel support from instructors through scheduled 1-on-1 mentorship calls as well as through the community experience within our student cohort group.

Course Instructors

Dr. Rachel Eva Dew

Rachel is a board certified Doctor of Natural Medicine, Integrative and Functional Medicine, with additional focus on Lifestyle Medicine. She is an international speaker, self-development author, and leader in integrative wellness. Dr. Rachel is the founder and head instructor for the Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA). Learn More

Andrea Leda Wilborn

Andrea Leda Wilborn is an integrative life coach, speaker, and IWA instructor. She brings a deep understanding and practical application of powerful coaching, journal  therapy, mental health and mental and emotional release work. Learn More

Brad Berger

Brad is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ specialist, Master Integrative Life Coach, and author who has over a quarter of a century of comprehensive financial planning  experience. Learn More

Debra Heslin

Debra Heslin is an Integrative Life Coach and IWA instructor. She brings experience in teaching and coaching clients in her private practice to help them reach their full potential. Learn More

Garett Larson

Garett is an IWA graduate, additionally trained in numerous holistic modalities. His background in business and marketing is extensive. Learn More

Training Methodology and Curriculum

IWA’s integrative coaching programs employ a distinctive training methodology that balances rigorous academic learning, ethics and ethical code with experiential practice and application. Our curriculum is grounded in evidence-based coaching principles while incorporating transformational psychology, mental health and wellbeing tools, somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, and holistic wellness frameworks. This multi-modal approach ensures graduates can address clients’ needs across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions.

Training emphasizes experiential learning—students don’t just study coaching theories; they experience them firsthand through personal coaching sessions, peer practice, and self-reflection exercises. This immersive approach develops genuine coaching presence and intuition that cannot be learned from textbooks alone. The program structure includes live instruction, recorded modules for flexible learning, supervised practice sessions, and mentor coaching to refine skills.

Students progress through clearly defined competency levels, mastering foundational coaching skills before advancing to specialized techniques like values clarification, limiting belief transformation, and integrative goal-setting frameworks. The curriculum exceeds International Coaching Federation (ICF) standards while adding distinctive integrative elements that differentiate IWA graduates in the marketplace. Hands-on practice with real clients begins early in training, ensuring graduates complete certification with confidence, competence, and a portfolio of coaching experience.

Close-up of a life coach using powerful questioning techniques in a professional session.

Life Coaching Foundations

  • Coaching core competencies: Set the foundation Powerful questioning
  • Active listening
  • Coaching agreements Establishing rapport
  • Direct communication
  • Create awareness
  • Forwarding the action
  • Learn to co-create the relationship, create coaching plans, design actions, and goal setting
  • Learn to manage progress and accountability
  • Live coaching examples and exercises

Life Coaching Frameworks

  • Proprietary Holistic Life Model for balancing the 4 systems
  • Proprietary Inside-Out, Outside-In Coaching Model
  • Integrative life coaching approach addresses all areas of client’s life: Life Coaching Career Coaching Performance Coaching Family Coaching Relationship Coaching
  • Health Coaching Transition Coaching Wellness Coaching
  • Understand how to research, facilitate learning, and provide credible resources
  • Learn to apply coaching models
A professional coach facilitating a session using holistic wellness frameworks to identify client blocks.
Integrative life coach using CBT and positive psychology tools to help a client achieve behavior change.

Life Coaching Techniques

Learn tools and techniques from over 20 different healing modalities including:

  • Learn powerful healing techniques from: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Emotional Clearing Method™ (ECM) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Positive Psychology
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Lifestyle medicine
  • Communication Meditation techniques
  • Emotional healing techniques Thought pattern management Behavior change techniques Visualization techniques
  • Values aligned goal setting
  • Client action planning to achieve goals in balanced and sustainable ways
  • Receive forms and exercises you can use with your clients
  • Learn to lead group coaching programs
  • Learn techniques to transition group clients into private client relationships

Life Coaching Business

  • Immediately launch your own coaching practice, plan your career, select your coaching specialty, and find your niche
  • Learn how to get life coach liability insurance to protect your business
  • Cover business basics, including legal, policies, ethical guidelines, and professional standards
  • Learn how to price, market, and sell your services
  • Gain information to establish and leverage partnerships
  • Learn simple effective ways to lead groups and transition group clients into private client relationships
  • Legal guidelines, ethics, ethical code of conduct
Successful life coach working from home managing a virtual coaching business and client marketing.
Student receiving their Integrative Life Coach Certification after completing the 6-month online course.

Life Coaching Certification

  • Comprehensive online course, move at your own pace with up to 6 months to complete certification
  • Based on 30 years of research, education, and clinical best practices
  • Available owrld-wide, study online and around your own schedule
  • Bring coaching knowledge to your organization, existing career, or begin a new career in coaching
  • Includes certification, which depends on successful completion of course completion – All Classes, Assignments, Practicum, and Final Exam

ILC Course Outline

  • ILC Course Welcome
  • ILC Course Guidelines
  • ILC Course Overview
  • ILC Handouts
  • ILC Course Guidelines
  • IWA Recommended Reading List

  • Active Listening
  • Asking Powerful Questions
  • Holistic Wellness & Balance
  • Inside-out & Outside-in Coaching Model
  • Integrative & Holistic Wellness
  • Integrative Life Coaching Overview

  • Beliefs & Presuppositions
  • NLP Presuppositions
  • Models of the World
  • Coaching Toward Balance
  • Mind-Body Connection

  • Mental System
  • Emotional System
  • Physical System
  • Spiritual System

  • Coaching Guidelines: Part 1
  • Coaching Guidelines: Part 2
  • Coaching Guidelines: Part 3

  • Nutrition Coaching: Part 1
  • Nutrition Coaching: Part 2
  • Nutrition Coaching: Part 3
  • Fads, Diets, and Cleanses
  • Fitness
  • Healing Modalities

  • Worldviews
  • Core Issues
  • Forgiveness: Part 1
  • Forgiveness: Part 2

  • Research & Statistics 1
  • Research & Statistics 2
  • Research & Statistics 3

  • Mind-Body Medicine
  • Mind-Body Medicine Disclaimer
  • Quantum Physics & MEPS Connection
  • Quantum Physics & Energy
  • Quantum Physics & Linguistics
  • Quantum Physics & Life Coaching

  • Building Client Rapport
  • Tools and Techniques Introduction
  • Sharing Resources with Clients
  • Language Patterns
  • Transition Coaching: Part 1
  • Additional Coaching Tools
  • Transition Coaching: Part 2

  • Life Coaching Techniques Introduction
  • Closing Gaps Technique
  • Meditation Technique
  • Breathing Techniques
  • Visualization Technique
  • Emotional Healing Technique: Journaling
  • Emotional Healing Technique: Breathing
  • Elicitation Techniques
  • Emotional Clearing Method (ECM)
  • Emotional Clearing Method (ECM) Full Session

  • Life Coaching Exercises Introduction
  • Mind Mapping Exercise
  • SMART Goals Exercise
  • Finding Beauty & Gratitude Exercises
  • Building Gut Trust Exercise
  • ‘Me Time’ Exercise

  • Integrative Life Coaching Introduction
  • Record Keeping
  • Modeling & Mentorship
  • Transitioning Coaching Clients
  • Setting Coaching Goals
  • Assessing Client Priorities
  • Accountability in Life Coaching
  • Life Coaching Sessions
  • Life Coaching Models
  • Integrative Wellness Planning
  • Client Intake: Part 1
  • Client Intake: Part 2
  • Full Life Coaching Session Example
  • Coaching Clients to Manage Resources

  • Coaching Business Intro
  • Coaching Business Basics
  • Coaching Industry Standards
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Policies & Safe Practices
  • Prices & Rates
  • Time Management
  • Coaching Niches
  • Coaching Partnerships
  • Transform Program
  • Continued Education
  • IWA Referral Program
  • Personal Development
  • Professional Development

  • Live Training and exercise examples

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Career Opportunities for Certified Integrative Coaches

Certified integrative coaches enjoy diverse and lucrative career pathways in today’s wellness-focused marketplace. Many graduates establish thriving private practices, serving individual clients seeking holistic transformation in areas like life purpose, stress management, work-life balance, career transitions, relationships, health & wellness, and personal growth. The integrative approach is particularly valued in corporate wellness programs, where companies invest in coaching services to support employee well-being, leadership development, and organizational culture enhancement. Many graduates practice online life coaching or in-person professional life coaching. While other graduates opt for a combination of virtual sessions as well as in office client sessions. The future of the coaching industry continues to expand and be in high demand within the market, especially for those with holistic approaches.

Career opportunities for certified integrative life coaches working in corporate wellness, private practice, and holistic health centers.

Beyond one-on-one coaching, certified practitioners often facilitate group coaching programs, workshops, and retreats—creating scalable income streams while serving more people. Healthcare and wellness centers increasingly seek integrative life coaches to complement their service offerings, recognizing that holistic coaching addresses root causes rather than just symptoms. The digital landscape offers additional opportunities through online coaching platforms, virtual programs, and digital course creation.

Earning potential varies based on experience, specialization, and business model, but established integrative coaches typically charge $150-$300 per session, with top practitioners commanding even higher rates. Many coaches generate six-figure incomes by combining individual sessions with group programs, speaking engagements, and corporate contracts. Market demand continues to grow as more people seek holistic, integrative approaches to personal and professional development.

Student Success Stories and Outcomes

IWA graduates consistently report transformative experiences both personally and professionally. Sarah, a former corporate manager, completed her certification while still employed and gradually transitioned to full-time coaching within 18 months. She now runs a six-figure practice specializing in helping professionals find purpose-aligned careers, crediting the integrative methodology for her ability to facilitate profound client breakthroughs.

Michael, who entered the program as a yoga instructor seeking to deepen his impact, discovered that integrative coaching allowed him to address not just physical wellness but the emotional and spiritual dimensions his students were seeking. He now offers hybrid coaching-yoga experiences and reports that his income has tripled while his sense of fulfillment has soared.

Jennifer came to IWA after decades in social work, feeling burned out and seeking a new direction. The integrative coaching training rekindled her passion for helping others while providing tools that prevented the compassion fatigue she’d experienced. She now specializes in coaching other helping professionals through career transitions and burnout recovery. These stories reflect a common theme among IWA graduates: the certification catalyzes personal transformation while providing practical skills to build sustainable, impactful coaching practices that serve diverse populations.

Success Stories

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  • Impressive life coaching course!

    I was really impressed with the teacher’s knowledge and the structure of the course. It was packed with useful information that I can apply to my own life and hopefully to share with clients, too!
    — IWA Coach

  • Overwhelmed to confident!

    I didn’t expect to feel so confident after completing the program, but I gained invaluable confidence to become a coach. I’m glad that I don’t feel lost or timid and feel confident to be able to coach others.
    — IWA Coach

  • New outlook, new understanding!

    The knowledge I learned from this course has equipped me to become a successful coach. I have a new understanding of how to guide clients to create balance in their lives.
    — IWA Coach

  • Absolutely life-changing course!

    Amazing class! Dr. Rachel is a phenomenal teacher and a pioneer in the field of integrative wellness and health. I would take ANY class that she offers without hesitation.
    — Cindy, IWA Coach

  • Everything you need to know!

    I had very little knowledge about life coaching, especially in subjects like nutrition, fitness, and mind-body connection. I now feel empowered to use this training in my life coaching practice to inspire others!
    — IWA Coach

  • Powerful coaching course!

    The teacher brought years of knowledge to the material and made it fun and interesting with multiple exercises and videos. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to become a coach.
    — IWA Coach

  • Confidence building and enlightening!

    I have gotten a better understanding of who I am and what my personal goals are. I also gained confidence to be a good coach and these are all things that the course gave me.
    — IWA Coach

  • Amazing experience!

    I have always dreamed about becoming a coach. This certification course helped me accomplish that dream! As an integrative life coach I am now able to coach clients to find balance in body, mind, and spirit.
    — IWA Coach

  • Powerful coaching models!

    The best part of the course was learning the inside-out and outside-in coaching model. I was able to create my own “coaching toolbox” that I can use to help my clients reach their goals more effectively.
    — IWA Coach

  • Game-changer!

    This experience was a game-changer for me. It far exceeded what I imagined it would be. I appreciate IWA for the focus, commitment, and love that they clearly put into these courses.
    — IWA Coach
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Why Choose Integrative Coaching Over Traditional Coaching

Integrative Life Coaching represents an evolution beyond traditional coaching methodologies by addressing the whole person rather than isolated goals or behaviors. While conventional coaching often focuses primarily on performance, achievement, and strategic action planning, integrative coaching recognizes that sustainable transformation requires alignment across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. Additionally, all actions and goals should create optimization and more balance within all major life areas. This holistic perspective allows coaches to identify and address root causes rather than surface symptoms, leading to more profound and lasting client outcomes ad positive change.

Traditional coaching models sometimes overlook the somatic wisdom held in the body, the unconscious patterns that sabotage progress, and the spiritual dimensions that provide purpose, meaning and motivation. Integrative Life Coaching incorporates multiple evidence-based modalities—including mindfulness, somatic practices, positive psychology, and transformational techniques—creating a comprehensive toolkit that adapts to each client’s unique needs and learning styles.

For clients, this means deeper breakthroughs, more balanced sustainable change, and transformation that touches every area of life. For coaches, the integrative and holistic approach prevents burnout by honoring your own wholeness while providing the versatility to serve diverse populations effectively. In an increasingly complex world, Integrative Life Coaching offers the depth, flexibility, and holistic perspective that modern clients seek and that creates truly meaningful, lasting transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely. Our Integrative Life Coach certification programs are designed to allow certified life coaches to specialize. Within our comprehensive holistic coaching training, you can choose specific niches such as wellness coaching, career development, relationships, self-development or personal growth with your expertise in Integrative Life Coaching. As an Integrative Life Coach trained through IWA you will gain the knowledge, skills and expertise in all major life areas since they are deeply interconnected and part of a holistic approach to coaching.

Becoming a certified life coach especially an Integrative Lie Coach offers profound benefits, including significant personal and professional growth. Through comprehensive life coach certification programs, you gain the skills to empower others, unlock increased career opportunities, and experience the deep fulfillment of making a positive impact with your future clients. Our Integrative Life Coaching approach ensures you’re equipped to facilitate holistic transformation.

We offer a professional and master-level Integrative Life Coaching certification programs specifically designed for those seeking holistic coaching training. These programs provide comprehensive life coach certification for both personal development and building a thriving career as a certified life coach, specializing in Integrative Life Coaching.

Enrolling in our Integrative Life Coach certification programs is straightforward. Simply visit our website, explore the various coaching certification programs available, and select the one that best fits your aspirations to become a certified life coach. Complete the online registration form to secure your spot and begin your journey in holistic coaching training.

No. You may enroll and begin your education and journey towards your certification at anytime. Once you enroll you will immediately gain access to your course and can begin at anytime. The course must be completed within 6-months of when you begin your first lesson.

As part of our holistic coaching training, aspiring certified life coaches develop a robust skill set. This includes active listening, effective communication, advanced goal-setting strategies, emotional intelligence, and powerful motivational techniques. In addition to these foundations and core competencies for coaching our students also learn a holistic model for coaching and an extraordinarily expansive integrative skill set with tools and techniques that can be easily and effectively be applied in practice. Our Integrative Life Coaching curriculum ensures you master these essential competencies for excellence in practice and profound client impact.

No. There is no legal governing body or accreditation board for life coaches. To date, there has been no regulatory guidelines, standards or governing/accrediting bodies put in place within the US or globally for life coaching. Life coaching remains a completely unregulated industry.

The chances of such governance within the industry of life coaching is very low as there is no financial gain for countries and then each state or province within it to create oversight. If such a governing body were to ever be established, it would require worldwide unification and participation. Let us imagine a world where that did take place, there are thousands of life coaches around the world that would have to be grandfathered in. 

No it is not. Your future clients will have never heard of any companies or schools for life coaches, including ours. Your future clients are seeking a certified coach to help them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals. They will their choice based on feeling comfortable and confident in YOU after communicating with you. Likely you heard that clients seek coaches who are “accredited” versus certified either from a paid advertisement that appeared to be an educational article or you heard it from someone who was influenced by a similar source. There are a few companies (ICF, BCC, EMCC, etc.) who have branded themselves as recognizing or accreditation boards for Life Coaches, one of the more well-known ones is ICF. These businesses are not government recognized accreditations or governing bodies. IWA’s courses are not ICF “accredited” curriculum. The reason for this is because to be an ICF sanctioned school we would teach their pre-determined coach curriculum, which does not include a holistic approach and is focused on behavior modification. Nor does traditional life coaching curriculim encompass emotional process and release techniques, does not deal with resolving core issues or root causes, or work from a holistic or integrative model. 

IWA or any school associated with ICF would be required to focus only on their life coaching model and need to bypass the integrative coaching tools and holistic model of Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical. IWA developed the combination of integrative life coaching and wellness coaching as a certified modality and covers much more content then just ICF content or other life coaching courses. IWA is the only holistic and integrative coaching academy.

The duration to complete your life coach certification (ILC) varies, typically it takes students approximately 80-100 hours to complete all classes and required coursework. You will have up to 6-months to complete this. If you opt for the dual enrollment option into the MILC, you will need to complete the ILC within 6-months, however the MILC portion does not have a time limitation. Our flexible coaching certification programs are designed to accommodate individual paces, allowing you to become a certified life coach on a schedule that works for you. The courses are self-paced within the time frame listed above.

The cost of our life coaching certification programs varies depending on the certification level and specific course offerings. Detailed pricing for all our Integrative Life Coaching certification programs, including options for Integrative Life Coaching (ILC) and Master Integrative Life Coach training (MILC), is available on our website and can be found within our online shop or by contacting our admissions team. We provide flexible payment options, including one-time payments and installment plans for most individual courses (does not apply to dual enrollment programs), to increase accessibility to become a certified life coach.

Yes, all our life coach certification courses are offered as flexible online programs. This allows you to pursue your holistic coaching training and become a certified life coach from anywhere in the world, making our coaching certification programs accessible and convenient.

A life coach certification opens up a wealth of career opportunities. Certified Integrative Life Coaches are in higher demand than traditional life coaches and can establish thriving independent practices, work in wellness centers, contribute to corporate settings, or specialize in areas like health and wellness, career and finances, relationship and family, self-development or spirituality integrative life coaching. The demand for professionals with holistic coaching training continues to grow across diverse sectors.

Holistic coaching training, particularly our integrative life coaching approach, fundamentally differs from traditional coaching by addressing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit as well as all major areas of life. Addiionally beyond traditonal coach skills we integrate powerful tools and techniques from many other science backed modalities. While traditional coaching often focuses on specific goals or behaviors and behavior modification, our Integrative Life Coaching certification programs equip certified life coaches to facilitate deeper, more sustainable transformation by considering all dimensions of a client’s well-being.

To enroll in our coaching certification programs and begin your holistic coaching training, we typically require students to be over the age of 18. More importantly, we look for individuals with a genuine passion for personal development and a strong commitment to the principles of integrative life coaching. No prior life coach certification or prerequisities are needed to start the ILC.

Absolutely. Our Integrative Life Coach certification programs are designed to allow certified life coaches to specialize. Within our comprehensive holistic coaching training, you can choose specific niches such as wellness coaching, career development, relationships, self-development or personal growth with your expertise in Integrative Life Coaching. As an Integrative Life Coach trained through IWA you will gain the knowledge, skills and expertise in all major life areas since they are deeply interconnected and part of a holistic approach to coaching.

We provide extensive support for new certified life coaches embarking on their careers. This includes robust mentorship programs during your educational journey, as wll as lifetime access to a vibrant coaching community, ongoing holistic coaching training resources, and practical marketing skills to help you launch and grow your Integrative Life Coaching practice after completing your Integrative Life Coach certification.

The process for becoming a certified life coach through our coaching certification programs involves a few key steps. First, you enroll in your chosen Integrative Life Coach certification program. Next, you complete the comprehensive coursework, which includes your online classes, practical holistic coaching training, your assignments, exam and practicum sessions. Once you successfully complete these steps and you pass the certification exam to earn your credential in Integrative Life Coaching.

While specific continuing education requirements for certified life coaches can vary by professional body, ongoing professional development is highly encouraged to maintain and enhance your skills in integrative life coaching. While we do not require CEU’s or any re-certification, we do promote continued development. All courses have recommended reading and resources to continue your growth after graduation. Additionally many of our coaching certification programs offer advanced master level trainings and resources for continued holistic coaching training even after initial life coach certification. Additional ways to continue your growth and educational journey after becoming certified can be found under our programs tab on our website.

Success rates for certified life coaches can vary based on individual effort and specialization. However, those who complete reputable life coach certification programs, especially with comprehensive holistic coaching training you recieve at IWA as a certified Integrative Life Coach, graduates consistently report higher client satisfaction, income, improved client outcomes, and greater professional fulfillment in their Integrative Life Coaching practices.

To effectively market yourself as a certified life coach who specializes in holistic and integrative coaching after completing your Interative Life Coach certification, focus on building a strong cross referral network with other holistically focused practiitioners in complimentary modalities, establish an online presence, creating a professional website showcasing your Integrative Life Coaching expertise, networking locally, and actively sharing compelling client testimonials. Our holistic and integrative coaching training also includes modules on business development and marketing strategies.

All certified life coaches are expected to adhere to strict ethical guidelines. This includes maintaining client confidentiality, setting clear professional boundaries, ensuring informed consent, culturally appropriate and inclusive coaching, safe pracitces, and consistently practicing honesty and integrity. Our Integrative Life Coach certification programs emphasize the highest level of ethical practice and these principles as a core component of responsible practice in coaching within our ILC and MILC training programs.

The benefits of engaging in holistic coaching training and integrative life coach training are profound. Clients experience greater self-awareness, significantly improved emotional well-being, and a more balanced approach to both personal and professional growth, leading to holistic and balanced sustainable transformation guided by a certified life coach. Both a holistic and integrative approach used in life coaching provides clients with the support needed to address the root issues that are crateing blocks to achieving and sustaining their goals. It additionally takes into account the deep interconnection and impact each major area of life has on the others.

Integrative Life Coaching significantly enhances personal development by offering personalized guidance tailored to individual needs. A certified life coach helps clients increase self-awareness, identify core values, and set and achieve meaningful goals, fostering continuous growth and transformation through structured holistic coaching training principles.

Course downloads for the IWLC course can be found in two locations. In the ‘Welcome’ module there is a Course Handouts page with all download links. The same handout links may also be found in the Intro section of each corresponding module.

It is not a requirement to purchase an IWLC textbook for the online course; however, we HIGHLY recommend it. The reason you should choose to purchase one is that most of our students find it helpful for studying, for referencing, and for decreasing the amount of note taking.

The In-Person Training includes an IWLC textbook which is provided at check-in.

You are your first client. Many of the assignments will be done on yourself first. So, the ‘Client Intake and Personal History’ should be answered by you. However, during your practicum you will also need to complete one with your practice client, too.

You need to complete the course either online or in person then complete and turn in the ’30-Day Action Plan’, the ‘30-Day Wellness Journal’, and a ‘Wellness Plan’ on yourself. Then, take and pass the Final Exam and the Final Practicum on a volunteer practice client. The practice client should be a fellow student or someone in your community (you may not use friends, romantic partners, or family members for your practicum.) We provide you with access to our student body in order to find a practicum client.

We recommend that you fill out the ‘Client Intake and Personal History’ form right away before you begin the course so that you have fresh eyes when answering it. You will be using it as you move through the course to coach yourself through each technique and exercise that you learn. You will also need the completed form throughout the course work to do some of the exercises.

Once we receive your assignments, please allow IWA Instructors time to grade and respond back with your progress within ~14 days.

We recommend you have it available as you go through the course, but you may not answer some questions until you have learned that information. It can be helpful to answer as you learn the information or at least mark where the answer is so you can easily come back to that information when you answer the questions.

You can view them in the handouts that are provided in the online course as downloadable documents, however we HIGHLY recommend that you purchase a textbook to support what you learn.

You will receive your IWLC textbook when you check-in for your in-person training.

You may choose to purchase the IWLC textbook from the IWA SHOP and it will be mailed to you. Then, when you check in for the in-person training, you will receive a complimentary copy of Transform: a 12-week transformational program.

The IWLC Certification has three parts.

Part 1: Submit your assignments, including your 30-Day Action Plan, 30-Day Wellness Journal, and Client Intake and Personal History.

Part 2: Pass the multiple choice exam. This is open book and you may use your notes.

Part 3: Submit your Practicum. This includes two coaching sessions with a volunteer practice client either a fellow IWA student or volunteer client in the community. You may conduct these sessions over the phone or in person with your volunteer client. Then you will submit your session notes as your Practicum to be graded.

Upon successful completion of your assignments, final exam, and practicum, you will receive your certification as an Integrative Wellness & Life Coach in the mail and may legally begin to work as a life coach. If you do not pass your final exam, you will be allowed to retake the exam up to 10 times without any additional fees. Once you are certified there is no re-certification needed or additional CEUs required. You will be legally able to practice as an Integrative Life Coach!

The online course includes audio lessons, downloadable documents, and 15 hours of classroom training videos from the in-person training. You will need to dedicate the time to complete the online course, do the assignments, and pass the certification. You may do this in a time focused and intensive manor or dedicate a smaller amount of time each week that fits your schedule in order to complete the course. We have had students complete the course in two months but most students become a certified life coach in 3–6 months.

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