What’s included in our Level 4 Life Coaching course?

Your lessons are designed so they are interactive with group discussions, skills practice, and case studies.

This qualification is the final part of the progression route, once completed with enable you to be a qualified life coach and maps to a range of competency frameworks, and occupational standards.

Why choose us?

We offer a reflective practice with supervision to support you whilst working with clients, drawing on our knowledge and skillset, whilst you develop yours.

Your Tutors run a successful Counselling Practice and share their experience throughout the course. You will have ongoing support throughout your Life Coaching journey. From Level 3 to Level 4 and beyond, through training, career coaching, finding your niche, job searches, and private practice.

Our course is pending approval by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, (CPCAB).

As you begin your journey with the CPCAB Level 4 Certificate in Life Coaching Studies, you are embarking on life coaching training towards qualified life coach status

As part of this, we include the 7 mandatory units:

  • Work within an ethical framework for independent life coaching practice
  • Apply a relational approach to life coaching practice
  • Apply understanding of diversity to life coaching practice
  • Support clients to cope with life’s challenges and engage with opportunities to flourish
  • Apply learning from self-development to enhance life coaching practice
  • Apply a coherent body of knowledge and skills to enhance life coaching practice
  • Use reflective practice to develop and inform life coaching work

Awarding Body

The Counselling And Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) is a specialised awarding body managed by professional practitioners, supervisors, trainers etc. It is the UK’s biggest provider of counselling qualifications in which there are 130 recognised training centres in the UK with 10,000 candidates registered annually.

Ethical Framework

Our course is designed to work within the Global Competence Framework of the European Mentoring and Coaching Centre (EMCC). The EMCC exists to develop, promote and set the expectation of best practice in mentoring, coaching, and supervision globally for the benefit of society. Their vision is to be the ‘go to’ body in mentoring, coaching, and supervision

Course Requirements

You will need to attend weekly evening lessons, online via Zoom for 9 months, totalling 150 guided learning hours. Throughout the course, you will need to complete written reflective journals, assignments, worksheets and small skills practice. All learners will have their own online profile on our Moodle site where you will find recourses and can submit your work.

Entry Requirements

19 years or over

Completed the following courses:

  • Level 2 qualification in a life coaching or a related subject - e.g. counselling skills, health and social care - or the Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) equivalent.
  • Prior qualifications might include CPCAB:
  • Level 2 Award in Effective Listening Skills (ELSK-L2)
  • Level 2 Award in Introduction to Counselling Skills (ICSK-L2)
  • Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (CSK-L2)
  • CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Life Coaching Studies (LCS-L3) or the Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) equivalent.