Integrative Transformational Coaching
Practitioner training for people serious about facilitating lasting change in others.
Develop the methodology, understanding, discernment, and practical skill to know what to do when a real person is sitting in front of you.
Being Good With People Is Not the Same as Knowing How to Facilitate Change
Many people who come to coaching are already good with people.
Others trust them. They listen well. They may be naturally perceptive or intuitive and have an ability to recognize what is happening beneath the surface.
What they don’t necessarily have is a way to know, in the moment, what to do with what they’re sensing.
How do you help someone move beyond an insight they’ve already had many times?
How do you recognize what’s actually keeping someone stuck?
When do you question, challenge, explore, redirect, or simply listen?
How do you help someone translate awareness into different choices and meaningful change?
And how do you support someone’s development without rescuing, overfunctioning, or taking responsibility for their process?
These are learned skills.
Integrative Transformational Coaching (ITC) is designed to help you develop them.
Who ITC Is For
There are different paths into practitioner development. You don't need to be starting from the same place to benefit from this training.
If You're Already Working With People
You may already be a coach, therapist, healer, spiritual practitioner, teacher, mentor, wellness professional, or practitioner trained in one or more modalities. You have skills. You have experience. And you may have begun to encounter the edges of what you already know.
Your client understands the pattern, but nothing changes. You sense that something important is happening underneath the presenting problem but aren't always sure how to work with it. You find yourself reaching for the same handful of interventions. Or perhaps you simply want more range: more ways to understand what you're seeing and more choices about how to respond.
ITC is designed to extend your range rather than replace the skills you already have. Coaching provides an adaptable framework that can help you integrate what you know and use it more precisely and effectively.
If You're Newer to Practitioner Work
You may already sense that you're good with people. Perhaps others naturally come to you. You're interested in human development and have accumulated substantial life, professional, psychological, or spiritual experience.
But natural ability isn't the same as having a method. The question becomes: What does skillful coaching actually involve, and how do you develop the judgment to trust yourself when someone is sitting in front of you?
ITC gives you a structured way to develop that foundation through learning, observation, practice, and direct feedback rather than leaving you to piece it together on your own.
Coaching Methodology
Learn a clear, adaptable coaching process that helps you move beyond simply listening or giving advice. Develop the ability to ask more effective questions, identify the real focus of the work, and help people move from insight toward choice and action.
Psychological Understanding
Develop a stronger understanding of patterns, behavior, resistance, relationships, and the processes involved in human change so that you can better understand what may be happening beneath the presenting problem.
Practitioner Discernment
Learn to work intelligently with what you perceive. Practitioner discernment means developing your ability to recognize what may be relevant, distinguish observation from interpretation, and make better decisions about when to question, challenge, explore, redirect, support, or simply allow space. Intuition can inform your work. Discernment helps you know how to use it responsibly.
Supervised Practice
Knowing coaching concepts and being able to coach effectively are different things. You develop competence by actually working with people, seeing what happens, receiving feedback, correcting course, and practicing again. That process is built directly into ITC.
People Don't Fit Neatly Into Methodologies
Real people bring complexity.
What initially looks like a mindset problem may be relational. What appears to be resistance may require a different question or approach. Someone may understand exactly why they behave as they do and still be unable to change it.
A single method can be valuable. But the more you work with people, the more important it becomes to have enough range to recognize what is actually happening and determine what might be useful.
That is the foundation of Integrative Transformational Coaching.
ITC develops four capacities that support effective transformational work:
What You'll Learn to Do
ITC is designed to increase your effectiveness with real people and real situations.
Throughout the program, you’ll develop your ability to:
Listen for what is underneath the problem someone is presenting.
Recognize patterns without imposing your interpretation on the client.
Ask questions that generate insight rather than simply providing answers.
Determine when to question, challenge, explore, redirect, support, or remain quiet.
Recognize when insight is present but something else is preventing change.
Help clients translate awareness into choices, action, and meaningful change.
Work with resistance more intelligently.
Support people without rescuing them or taking responsibility for their process.
Integrate skills and modalities from previous training into a more versatile way of working.
Develop a coaching style that reflects your own strengths rather than simply reproducing someone else's formula.
Become more confident working with the complexity that real clients bring.
You Don't Learn Coaching Simply by Learning About Coaching
Coaching is a relational skill.
You can study models, learn questions, watch demonstrations, and understand theory. But eventually there is a person sitting in front of you, and you have to decide what to do next.
That judgment develops through practice.
ITC is therefore structured around a cycle of:
Learn → Observe → Practice → Receive Feedback → Refine → Practice Again
You’ll have opportunities to coach, observe others coaching, receive direct feedback, and see where another approach might have created a different result.
The goal isn’t simply to complete the curriculum.
The goal is to become more capable.
Basic Skills Calls
Learn the foundational coaching methodology step by step with the guidance of Dr. Kate. These calls establish the skills and frameworks you'll use throughout the program.
Regular Practice Calls
Practice coaching live and receive direct feedback from Dr. Kate and your cohort. These sessions give you the opportunity to identify what is working, see what you may be missing, refine your approach, and develop greater confidence in real time.
Peer Coaching
From the beginning of the program, you'll work with your peers to practice your skills, experience coaching from both sides of the relationship, and support one another's development.
Self-Study & Online Classroom
Explore the field of coaching and develop a deeper understanding of the areas that most interest you. Guided assignments and presentations help you integrate what you're learning and begin defining your particular interests and approach.
Online Community
Stay connected with your cohort between calls, share assignments and insights, ask questions, and continue the learning process throughout the six months.
How the Program Works
Six-Month Coaching Certification Program
ITC combines structured teaching, self-study, peer work, and live practice over six months.
Develop an Approach That Is Actually Yours
One of the advantages of integrative coaching is that you don’t need to discard everything you already know in order to become a coach.
If you’ve studied psychology, healing, spirituality, somatics, leadership, communication, or other approaches to human development, those skills can inform the practitioner you become.
ITC gives you a coaching framework through which you can begin integrating those capacities more intentionally.
Over the course of the program, you’ll clarify your particular interests, identify the people and problems you’re most interested in working with, and begin defining a coaching style that reflects your strengths.
For some participants, that means developing a new coaching practice.
For others, it means becoming significantly more effective in an existing practice or profession.
Either way, the goal is not to turn you into a copy of your teacher.
It is to help you become a more skillful version of the practitioner you are capable of becoming.
Learn From Decades of Work With Human Transformation
Dr. Kate brings decades of experience in psychology, coaching, mentoring, healing, spiritual development, and transformational work to the Integrative Transformational Coaching Program.
Her work has consistently centered on a fundamental question: What actually helps people change?
That question has led her to study and work across disciplines rather than relying on a single model of human development.
ITC brings that experience into practitioner training.
You’ll learn practical coaching methodology while also developing the psychological understanding and practitioner discernment needed to work with the complexity people actually bring into a session.
Just as importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to receive direct feedback as you develop your own skills.
What Can You Do With ITC?
Completing ITC can support several different professional paths.
You may choose to:
Build a coaching practice around work that is meaningful to you.
Add coaching to an existing healing, therapeutic, wellness, consulting, or practitioner practice.
Integrate coaching skills into leadership, teaching, mentoring, management, or other work with people.
Use the training as a foundation for continued practitioner development.
Bring greater skill and discernment to the helping work you're already doing.
The value of coaching extends beyond a single professional title.
It is an adaptable skill set that can strengthen almost any role in which your ability to help another person think, choose, develop, or change matters.
Is ITC Right for You?
This program may be a good fit if:
You have a genuine interest in facilitating personal development and meaningful change.
People already come to you for support and you want to become more skillful in how you help them.
You're curious about coaching and want a serious foundation for exploring it professionally.
You're already trained in therapeutic, healing, spiritual, or other practitioner modalities and want to expand your range.
You want more than information and are willing to practice, receive feedback, and develop your skills.
You want to integrate what you've already learned rather than abandon it for another rigid methodology.
You're ready to take a concrete next step toward developing or expanding your practice.
Not Sure Yet? Start With the ITC Webinar
If you’re interested in coaching but aren’t yet sure whether ITC is right for you, start with the Integrative Transformational Coaching Webinar.
You’ll learn more about what effective coaching actually involves, how coaching skills can strengthen both your life and your work, and the essential elements Dr. Kate believes are necessary for creating impactful and sustainable work with others.
Ready to Develop Your Skills?
ITC is a six-month opportunity to move beyond simply being interested in helping people and deliberately develop the skills to do it well.
If you’re ready to become more effective in the work you’re already doing—or build the foundation for becoming a practitioner—apply for the Integrative Transformational Coaching Certification Program.
After applying, you’ll schedule a conversation with Dr. Kate to discuss your goals, answer your questions, and determine whether ITC is the right fit.