Become an ADHD certified coach
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Become an ADHD certified coach 〰️
Become a Certified ADHD CoacH
Where great ADHD coaches are born.
The ADHD community doesn't need more coaches. It needs better ones.
Online, it looks like there's an ADHD coach on every corner. In the trenches, we hear a different story. Frustrated, disappointed, sometimes heartbreaking stories from people whose coach ticked a box that said "works with ADHDers" but didn't understand the masking, the burnout, the shame spiral, the hyperfocus. That's coaching with half the picture.
Some of you reading this are coaches already. Some of you have never coached a single session, you just know you're good with people and feel pulled towards this work. Both belong here. Because our training works the way we coach: turn what you're good at into what you're great at, by leaning into your strengths and strengthening them
Nov 4th 2026 - Jan 15th 2027
9 weeks | Live Online Sessions & Recorded
Live sessions: Wednesdays & Fridays at 12:00 GMT
Interested in becoming an ADHD coach?
Not sure if you’ve got what it takes to be a coach?
We’ve partnered with:
The first ADHD coaching certification co-created and delivered with a clinical neuroscientist, with ethics and safety standards led by a clinical psychologist.
Clinical neuroscientist Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas CBiol and accredited ADHD coach and founder Rosie Turner guide you through the certification, with senior clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas holding every coach we certify to clinical-grade practice.
This is for you if:
You're a coach who wants real neuroscience, not buzzwords
You're a therapist tired of watching ADHD clients fall through the gaps
You're an HR or wellbeing lead who wants to actually support neurodivergent teams
You're a sports or wellness coach who sees ADHD in your athletes every day
You suspect your own ADHD and want to finally understand it properly
WHY JOIN OUR Accredited adhd coach TRAINING
lived it.
This isn't theory to me, or to the coaches we train. It's my life, and it's the lived experience of the family we've built at Untangled. Real people who've actually been in the mess, not just read about it.
Back it.
With Clinical Neuroscience & Psychology.
Lived experience alone isn't enough. That's why every cohort includes soulful science with clinical neuroscientist Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas, deep chats with experts on hormones, trauma, relationships and eating disorders, and why clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas leads our ethics, so you know exactly where coaching ends and therapy begins.
Deep Chat Experts
ADHD touches relationships, hormones, food, parenting and more, so every module brings in a specialist on one of them for a live, honest conversation with your questions in it. We're not experts in all of this, and we'd rather you heard it from the people who are. It's how you learn where to signpost, and often how coaches find the niche they didn't know they had.
Built it.
With ADHD brains in mind, from the ground up. Most coaching starts with story, then state, then strategy. We flip it. State first, because you can't think your way into action from a dysregulated nervous system, you have to feel your way there first. No hand holding, no one dimensional syllabus, no generic strategy that ignores how your brain actually works. You learn a CPD certified method built around how ADHD brains function, with tools you can use from day one and the agency to make it your own.
Share it.
We believe in collaboration over competition. You don't finish this and disappear into the world alone. We've built an ecosystem, connecting you to a real network, honest business advice, and people who can help you build faster.
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Our Team
Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas
Clinical Neuroscientist
Dr Miguel is a clinical neuroscientist, published author and former go go dancer turned yoga teacher, which makes him living proof that tangled careers make the best teachers. He co-leads our training with the soulful science, evidence-based but never dry, specialising in nutrition, the gut and brain connection, and mental health. And he doesn't just teach ADHD, he lives it.
ROSIE TURNER
Founder & Accredited ADHD Coach
Founder of ADHD Untangled, accredited ADHD coach, podcast host and movement teacher. Diagnosed at 33 after a decade of corporate jobs that never quite fit, she has dedicated her life to helping the ADHD community rewrite struggle into strength. Today she coaches individuals, trains workplaces and certifies the next generation of ADHD coaches, all built on one belief: strengthen the strengths.
MICHAELA Thomas
Senior Clinical Psychologist & CBT Psychotherapist
Michaela Thomas is a senior clinical psychologist, CBT psychotherapist and ADHD Coach of the Year 2025 who has devoted half her life to psychology, from NHS occupational health to primary care. She leads the ethics and safety standards behind our training, so coaching stays coaching and every coach we certify works to clinical grade practice. She's Swedish, so she does not beat around the bush, and she doesn't just work with ADHD. Late diagnosed herself, she lives it too.
OUR DEeep Chats
Past GUEST SPEAKERS
What are Deep Chats? We don't do small talk here. ADHD doesn't switch off. So we don't stop where most trainings do.
It doesn't stay in the part of life you'd like it to stay in. It's in your relationships, your hormones, your food, your parenting, your sleep, your history. Which is why a training that only teaches you coaching skills is only teaching you part of the person sat in front of you.
Deep Chats are our answer to that.
Alongside the science and the coaching skill, most modules include a live conversation with a specialist or a lived experience voice on one of the areas ADHD tangles with most. Not a lecture. A real conversation, with your questions in it.
We're honest about why they exist. We are not experts in all of this. Nobody is. So rather than hand you a watered down version of somebody else's specialism, we bring you the specialist.
Why our coaches say these are the sessions they didn't know they needed
They show you where to signpost. Knowing where coaching ends is the single most important thing an ADHD coach can know. When a client's struggle is actually about hormones, or food, or something older and heavier, you'll recognise it, and you'll know who to point them towards instead of coaching around it.
And they show you where you might niche. Coaches often find their thing in a Deep Chat. Which conversation are you already leaning forward in? That's usually your answer.
Inside the Certified ADHD Coaching Training
One method runs through everything: State. Story. Strategy. Most coaching jumps straight to strategy. That's exactly why it fails ADHD brains.
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Connection to our clients, to ourselves and to each other. It's what Dr Ned Hallowell calls the other Vitamin C, and it's where this whole training begins.
Before we do anything else, we co-create something most of us never had. A space where you feel seen, understood and can finally come as you are. Because for ADHDers, connection isn't a soft skill. It's state work. A dysregulated nervous system can't open up, learn or change, and no reframe or strategy will land until the body feels safe.
So this is where we start: State first. Regulate, connect, build trust. Feeling safe is where the untangling begins.In this module:
🧡 Coaching with Rosie: Creating safety and building trust as a coach. How trust is built, broken and rebuilt. Presence, self trust and the small consistent actions that make clients feel safe enough to open up.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: ADHD as a neurotype. Understand the ADHD brain beyond the deficit model, so you coach the person in front of you, not the stereotype.
⚖️ Ethics with Michaela: Ethics, scope and clinical grade practice. Where coaching ends and therapy begins, so you can hold your clients safely and practise with confidence.
💭Deep Chat: Untangling ADHD & Building Your Brain-First Business, with Amanda Perry
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In Module 1 we regulated. Now we rewrite.
Years of being called too much, lazy or scatty leaves its mark. ADHD brains carry a stronger negative bias, so those words become beliefs, and those beliefs become the story that runs the show. You can't untangle a story you're still ashamed of. So this module starts with acceptance: meeting yourself and your clients exactly where you are, without judgement.
From that place we do the story work. We catch the limiting beliefs, challenge them and change them. Not with toxic positivity, but with evidence, compassion and reframes the ADHD brain actually believes. Because a new story, told from a regulated body, is what makes the strategy finally stick.
🧡 Coaching with Rosie Confidence and reframing limiting beliefs. Why ADHDers are more prone to limiting beliefs, how the Reticular Activating System filters what you see as possible, and the Catch, Challenge, Change method for untangling the internal story without toxic positivity.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: ADHD's unique neurobiological landscape. The science of what's actually happening in the ADHD brain, so acceptance is grounded in understanding, not resignation, and reframing is rooted in evidence, not wishful thinking.
💬 Deep Chat: Food choices and disordered eating with Dr Miguel. An honest look at the tangled relationship between ADHD, impulsivity and food, and how acceptance changes it.
💬Deep Chat: Take Off the Mask, Meet Who You Actually Are, with Marie. In this Deep Chat she takes us into masking at work.
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You can't coach a brain you don't understand. So this is where we go under the bonnet.
Dr Miguel maps the ADHD brain: what's actually happening neurologically, in language you can use with clients. Then we introduce the ADHDer Framework, the structure this entire training hangs on. It's how an Untangled coaching session actually runs, from opening with wins of the week to setting direction and beyond. A repeatable flow that starts in strength, keeps the session on track without scripting it, and works with the ADHD brain, not against it. And because structure only becomes skill through practice, you'll put it straight to work with chemistry calls.
🧡 Coaching with Kim Ingleby: The ADHDer Framework and practising chemistry calls. The session structure this whole training hangs on, from wins of the week through to takeaways, then straight into practice with chemistry calls.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: Mapping the brain, neuroanatomy for coaches. A guided tour of the ADHD brain in language you can actually use with clients, so your coaching is grounded in what's really going on neurologically.
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Relationships with Michaela Thomas. Clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas on how ADHD shows up in our closest connections, from RSD to conflict to communication.
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Strategy begins here. But not with a goals list, because ADHD brains don't run on should. We run on what matters.
Traditional goal setting fails us. Too many options and we freeze. All or nothing thinking means one missed day feels like total failure. And after years of masking, half the goals on the list were never ours to begin with. So this module flips it: vision before goals. First we get clear on the life that actually matters to you, unmasked, in your own words. That vision becomes the direction. Then we work backwards from it, dropping the goals that are just noise and breaking what's left into small, authentic steps your brain can actually plug into. Dream big. Step small.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: Unmasking as rewilding, why ADHDers mask and what it costs. What masking is, why ADHDers do it more, the toll it takes, and what it means to come back to who you really are.
🧡 Coaching with Rosie: Visions vs goals, working back from what truly matters. Why traditional goal setting fails ADHD brains, how to build a vision that's actually yours, and how to work backwards from it into small authentic steps. Dream big, step small.
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Hormones with Adele Wimsett. Hormone specialist Adele Wimsett on the ADHD and hormone connection, and why understanding your cycle changes everything.
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Same person, same brain, different fuel. This is where you learn why an ADHDer can be unstoppable on Tuesday and unable to start on Wednesday, and how to coach both without shame.
ADHD motivation doesn't run on willpower, it runs on dopamine. Fun, interest and meaning aren't nice to haves for our brains, they're fuel. So instead of fighting the dips, we honour them: honour your strengths, honour your setbacks, honour your natural cycles. Strengths first, because from strength comes confidence. Then we go deeper, moving motivation from interest-based to meaning-based, so action stops draining and starts sustaining.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: Hyperdrive and paralysis, why both coexist in ADHD. The dopamine science behind can't stop and can't start, and why the same brain can do both in one week.
🧡 Coaching with Rosie: Untangling motivation and powerful questioning. Good dope vs bad dope, coaching motivation without shame, and the WHY skill: powerful questions that ladder from surface problems down to core values, where lasting motivation actually lives.
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Parenting with Lauren .
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The graveyard of unfinished things isn't a discipline problem, it's a perfectionism problem.
ADHD brains have spent years relying on urgency, fear and last minute panic as fuel, and it works right up until it burns us out. This is where you learn to coach follow through the ADHD way: imperfect action over perfect plans, done over flawless, progress over perfection. We untangle what's actually behind the avoidance, and build follow through that runs on meaning instead of adrenaline.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: Habits, reward pathways, perfectionism and the ADHD brain. The neuroscience of why starting is hard, why finishing is harder, and how the ADHD reward system really drives action.
🧡 Coaching with Rosie: Making It Happen Imperfectly. Follow through, perfectionism and avoidance through a neuroscience informed lens. You'll learn how the ADHD reward system influences action, and how to support clients in taking meaningful steps without relying on urgency, fear or burnout.
💬 Deep Chat: TBC
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ADHD energy isn't constant. Some days you bounce in, some days you force yourself through the door. Pretending otherwise is the fast road to burnout.
This is where we come back to the body. You'll explore the role of the nervous system in ADHD regulation, and learn to work with your energy instead of overriding it. Not rigid routines or performative wellness, but realistic, adaptable practices for emotional awareness, energy management and regulation. And once you can read your state, you learn to anchor the ones you and your clients want more of.
🧡 Coaching with Kim Ingleby: Energy, anchoring positive emotions. The role of the nervous system and the body in ADHD regulation, with tools for emotional awareness, energy management and anchoring practices that are realistic and adaptable, not rigid or performative.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: The body as co-pilot, nervous system regulation. The science of the ADHD nervous system, and why regulation is the foundation every other tool stands on.
💬 Deep Chat: TBC
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The voice that says "who am I to do this" doesn't disappear with a certificate. This is where you rewrite it.
Rewrite is the final step of the framework for a reason. You've regulated, accepted, found direction, honoured your brain and taken imperfect action. Now you take back the pen. This module is the science of enoughness: how nervous system safety shapes self worth, why perfectionism was never the price of belonging, and what changes when you stop waiting to feel ready. Because your clients don't need a perfect coach. They need a real one, and that's a story you get to write yourself.
🧡 Coaching with Rosie: What makes a good ADHD coach. The qualities that actually matter, why authenticity beats perfection every time, and the permission to lead as yourself.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: The neuroscience of enoughness. How nervous system safety shapes self worth, and why "I'm not enough" is a state to regulate, not a fact to believe.
💬 Deep Chats with Michaela: More Than Enough, self worth beyond perfectionism. Clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas on untangling self worth from achievement, and building the compassion that makes confidence stick.
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This is where it all comes together.
You've learned the framework piece by piece. Now you watch it run start to finish: a full live coaching demo, from wins of the week to rewrite, so you see how the steps flow into one another when a real client is in front of you. Then we turn to the part of the training most coaches never get: how to actually build the thing. Your offers, your pricing, your visibility, your way. Because a brilliant coach nobody can find helps nobody, and burnout helps nobody either. You're not just building a practice, you're building an ecosystem that sustains you.
🧡 Coaching with Kim Ingleby: Full coaching demo, the ADHDer Framework in action. A complete session, live and unscripted, so you see the whole method working as one before you take it into the world.
🧠 Science with Dr Miguel: The neuroscience of connection. Why coaching works at a brain level, and the science of what you've been building all along.
💬 Deep Chat: Q&A, your business questions with Rosie. Bring your real questions about coaching, clients and building your practice. Nothing off limits, answered honestly.
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No exam hall, no trick questions. You coach, you get feedback, you grow. With flexible deadlines and multiple submission dates, because we built this for how ADHD brains actually finish things.
And it doesn't end when you certify
You're not left in the lurch, you're part of the family. A year's access to all recordings and updated materials. The WhatsApp group that never goes quiet. Invites to new deep chats in future cohorts. And The Untanglers, our supervision membership, with monthly support from Rosie and quarterly sessions with Dr Miguel, so you're never coaching alone.
FAQs
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Coaching that's built for ADHD brains — not standard coaching with a neurodiversity module stapled to the back of it.
The difference shows up fast. Most coaching runs on a simple assumption: once you know what you want, you'll go and get it. Set the goal, break it down, check in weekly, celebrate the win. That works for plenty of people.
It falls apart for ADHDers, because knowing was never the problem. The gap isn't information. It's everything that happens between deciding and doing.
ADHD-informed coaching works inside that gap. It knows motivation runs on interest, urgency and novelty rather than importance. That time doesn't behave itself. That a dysregulated nervous system can't be reasoned with, however good the strategy is. That masking, rejection sensitivity and years of quietly absorbed shame are shaping the whole thing whether anyone names them or not.
So instead of handing someone another system to fail at, we start with state. Get the nervous system somewhere safe enough to think from, then build strategy on top of it. Most coaching goes story, state, strategy. We flip it, because you can't think your way into action from a body that's braced for impact.
One thing to be clear on: this isn't therapy, and it isn't clinical care. We don't diagnose, we don't treat, and we don't go digging through the past. ADHD coaching sits alongside clinical support, not instead of it — and knowing exactly where that line falls is part of what we train.
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We teach our own ADHDer Framework, designed specifically for coaching ADHD brains. It's built around three pillars: State, Story and Strategy. It's unique to ADHD Untangled, so you won't find it anywhere else.
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The majority of our live sessions include supervised coaching practice, so you're coaching with support from day one rather than just learning theory. You'll complete 15 hours of coaching practice, and your final coaching session is assessed live in the last module.
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Some people arrive here with a decade of coaching behind them. Some have never run a single session and just know they're good with people. Both belong.
You'll probably feel at home if you're:
Already coaching and tired of half-fitting your ADHD clients into a model that wasn't built for them
A therapist, counsellor or clinician who wants a forward-focused offer that complements the work you already do
In education, HR, occupational health or SEND, supporting neurodivergent people daily with no proper framework to do it with
Brand new to all of it, usually because you've lived this — your own diagnosis, your kid's, your partner's — and you can't unsee it now
We teach the coaching skills alongside the ADHD specialism, so you leave with a full method rather than a certificate and a vague hope.
Lived experience isn't a requirement, but we won't pretend it doesn't count. Understanding the burnout, the masking, the 2am hyperfocus and the shame spiral from the inside gives you something no syllabus can hand over.
Where it's not the right fit: if you want a clinical qualification, if you're hoping to assess or diagnose ADHD, or if you want a badge without the practice.
We have a free quiz to help you discover your coaching strengths, or sign up for our free live Q&A to have your questions answered.
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Train with people who've done the work. Look for training that's independently certified or accredited, then look past the badge at what's actually inside it. Who's teaching? What's their experience? Is it built for ADHD brains, or is it general coaching with a neurodiversity chapter bolted on?
Check the syllabus goes deep enough. Executive function tips alone won't cut it. You want the neuroscience, the nervous system, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, burnout, masking, hormones, and how ADHD actually shows up across different genders and life stages.
Find your people. The coaches who thrive aren't the ones who finish a course and disappear. They're the ones with a network — honest business advice, people to refer to, and somewhere to take the hard questions.
This is exactly what you’ll find in our program.
Learn more about how our training works in our upcoming free live Q&A.
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Yes. On completion you're certified as an ADHD Coach, and that's the title on your certificate.
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When would be the right time? When will you not be busy? If you're waiting for a quiet patch, you'll be waiting forever. Most people don't attend everything live it's all recorded and designed to flex around real life. If you can show up for roughly three hours a week as often as you can, you're in a great position. The rest you catch up in your own time.
Everything is recorded. You won't fall behind. The Wednesday practical sessions are the ones I'd love as many people live as possible but even then, it's not compulsory. We do a recap so no one's lost.
Plus you get access to all the recordings for a year after you've trained.
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This is the one I hear the most and it's also the one I want to push back on hardest.
Coaching isn't about having your shit together. It never will be. None of us will ever fully have our shit together that's just perfectionism dressed up as a prerequisite.
Your clients aren't coming to you because you've cracked it. They're coming to you because you get it. Because you've lived it. You only need to be a few steps ahead, or have knowledge they don't have yet, to make a real difference. And honestly? The fact that you're still in it often makes you more relatable, not less.
I started coaching when I was basically homeless and completely all over the place. I thought I had no business helping anyone. Turns out, that was exactly what made me effective.
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It would be a great foundation but it absolutely doesn't shut you off from training. One of the biggest takeaways and something I experienced myself is that the training IS your coaching. You'll be coached in the group, you'll self-coach, you'll go through your own transformation. It's two for one. And if you want 1:1 time with me after, ad hoc sessions are an option. There's also The Untanglers, our post-certification supervision membership, where I'm there monthly to support you.
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The live sessions are roughly four hours a week 90 minutes with me, 90 minutes with Dr Miguel, plus a group session. There are also some short pre-records I'd love you to listen to, but honestly, stick them on in the car or on a walk. There are workbooks if you like to write. There are recordings if you miss anything live. We built this for ADHD brains it's meant to be flexible.
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Honestly, I don't know and I won't promise something I can't confirm. There may not be another one this year. If you're feeling called to do this, now is the time.
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We don't do small talk here.
ADHD doesn't switch off. So we don't stop where most trainings do.
It doesn't stay in the part of life you'd like it to stay in. It's in your relationships, your hormones, your food, your parenting, your sleep, your history. Which is why a training that only teaches you coaching skills is only teaching you part of the person sat in front of you.
Deep Chats are our answer to that.
Alongside the science and the coaching skill, most modules include a live conversation with a specialist or a lived experience voice on one of the areas ADHD tangles with most. Not a lecture. A real conversation, with your questions in it.
We're honest about why they exist. We are not experts in all of this. Nobody is. So rather than hand you a watered down version of somebody else's specialism, we bring you the specialist.
What you'll get access to
💬 Food choices and disordered eating, with Dr Miguel Toribio Mateas 💬 ADHD and relationships, with Michaela Thomas, clinical psychologist 💬 ADHD and hormones, with Adele Wimsett, hormone specialist 💬 ADHD and parenting, with Lauren [surname to confirm] 💬 [Trauma / further topics to confirm]
(Deep Chats evolve with every cohort. We add the voices our coaches tell us they need.)
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Yes. Everyone from our first cohort is now coaching in some capacity. Graduates can also be listed on our platform as part of the ADHD coaching membership, where we match people looking for support with our coaches. Rosie has also just finished building a first draft of matchmaking technology that helps people find the coach who's right for them, so there's a clear route from certifying to actually being found by clients. For a sense of scale, our website had almost 6,000 visits this month alone.
What You'll Get From the Training
Understand ADHD from a range of leading experts: the science, nuances, strengths and everyday challenges.
❋ Coaching Framework
You’ll learn how to support clients through overwhelm, procrastination, and inconsistency using real tools, real practice, and expert feedback.
❋ Learn to Adapt
You’ll be able to adapt your coaching to different brains - whether you're supporting an elite athlete who can’t stop, or a client who’s frozen by overwhelm.
❋ Inclusive Practices
Whether you’re self-employed or part of an organisation, you’ll learn how to coach in line with inclusive practices and disability awareness so you're creating meaningful support that works.
❋ A Supportive Space
It’s a private community, not just a course- built for ADHD brains with post-training support available.
The investment
£2,750 ( * if booked after 1st Sept 2026 - 20% VAT will be added)
✔️ CPD Certification
✔️ 9 weeks with 2 x weekly live calls (all recorded)
✔️ Guest expert workshops & talks
✔️ Additional coaching templates, materials, and workbooks
✔️ Private online community
*Please note: All payments are non-refundable, including full or part payments, due to the limited spaces and the preparation involved in delivering this training.
Still Unsure?
Come along to our free live Q&A to ask us your questions, or if you can’t make it live, put in your details here and let us know how we can help.

