Designed as a six-month programme with flexible completion options. Scholarships are available through application.
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Relationship coaching is more than listening to a client’s problems or offering personal advice. A professionally trained relationship coach helps clients clarify what they want, understand recurring interpersonal patterns, improve communication and take constructive action towards healthier relationships.
The Relationship Coach Certification Program combines relationship-focused learning with practical coaching principles. It prepares you to support people who want to establish stronger boundaries, handle conflict more constructively, develop meaningful connections, improve family or workplace relationships and make intentional decisions about their personal lives.
The programme is suitable for people entering coaching for the first time as well as existing coaches and helping professionals who want to develop a relationship-focused specialisation. If you are completely new to coaching, you can begin with Noble Manhattan Coaching’s introductory life-coaching training before progressing into the relationship coach certification pathway.
Relationship coaching is a non-clinical, goal-oriented professional service. It is not psychotherapy, mental-health diagnosis or clinical treatment. Responsible coaches work within the limits of their training and refer clients to appropriately qualified professionals when a client requires therapeutic, medical, safeguarding or crisis support.
The Relationship Coach Certification Programme is a flexible online training pathway developed through the collaboration of Noble Manhattan Coaching and Dr Eric Maisel. It is designed to help aspiring and experienced coaches develop a deeper understanding of human relationships and apply that understanding within structured coaching conversations.
The programme is anchored by clear lessons, expert-led webinars and the wider learning resources provided by Noble Manhattan Coaching. It explores common relationship concerns across personal, family, social and professional settings, helping you understand how coaching can support clients in identifying goals, recognising obstacles and making purposeful changes.
You will study ways of helping clients communicate more effectively, establish appropriate boundaries, navigate interpersonal conflict, develop intimacy, address dating concerns, improve family relationships and respond more constructively to workplace dynamics. The training also explores how relationship coaching can be applied when working with singles, couples, families, groups and businesses.
The programme is designed to be completed over approximately six months, while allowing greater flexibility where a learner needs additional time. Beginners can enter through an introductory life-coaching foundation, while experienced coaches and helping professionals may enquire about Accreditation of Prior Learning.
The purpose of the programme is not simply to provide information. It is to help you develop a relationship-focused coaching perspective that you can integrate into an existing practice or use as the foundation for a new professional direction.
The training explores the personal and professional relationship challenges that clients commonly bring to coaching. You will learn how to approach these concerns through goal-focused conversations, appropriate questions, practical reflection and client-led action.
The programme is intended to build coaching awareness and relationship-focused skills. It does not qualify a coach to diagnose mental-health conditions, provide psychotherapy, handle clinical trauma or replace licensed medical and mental-health professionals. Ethical scope, appropriate boundaries and responsible referral should be clearly understood by every practising coach.
The programme is structured to help you move from foundational coaching understanding to relationship-focused application. Your pathway may differ depending on whether you are completely new to coaching or already have relevant training and professional experience.
Learners who are new to coaching begin by developing an understanding of the coaching relationship, the coach’s role and the difference between coaching, advice, counselling and therapy. Existing coaches may discuss whether their previous learning is relevant to the programme.
Work through structured lessons exploring communication, boundaries, conflict, intimacy, dating, family relationships, workplace interactions and other areas in which clients may seek relationship-focused coaching.
Use the programme webinars to deepen your understanding of the material, explore practical applications and learn from the professional experience of the programme trainer.
This programme is designed for people who want to understand relationships more deeply and use structured coaching skills to help others make purposeful changes.
It may be suitable for career changers who are drawn to coaching but have not previously completed professional training. Beginners can develop their coaching foundation before moving into relationship-focused study, giving them a clearer and more responsible route into the profession.
The programme may also be relevant to practising life coaches, wellness coaches, executive coaches, consultants and other helping professionals who want to add relationship coaching to their existing services. Professionals with previous learning can enquire about Accreditation of Prior Learning, although exemptions should be based on formal review rather than assumed automatically.
Counsellors, therapists and other qualified practitioners may also find relationship-focused coaching concepts useful as a separate, non-clinical service. However, every professional must preserve the boundaries of their original qualifications, professional registrations, insurance and applicable laws.
The programme is particularly relevant for learners interested in supporting clients with personal relationships, communication, boundaries, dating, intimacy, family dynamics, workplace relationships or interpersonal development.
Review the central features of the programme before deciding whether the training matches your experience, goals and preferred way of learning.
Access the programme online through structured lessons, webinars and the learning resources available through Noble Manhattan Coaching. Online delivery allows students from different locations to participate without relocating.
The programme is designed around approximately six months of study. Additional flexibility is available for learners who need more time to complete their training requirements.
New learners can establish a life-coaching foundation before specialising in relationship coaching. Experienced coaches and helping professionals can enquire about recognition of relevant prior learning.
Explore how relationship coaching can be used when working with singles, couples, families, groups and businesses across personal, family and professional relationship challenges.
Dr Eric Maisel is an internationally active author, master coach, teacher and workshop leader whose work spans coaching, creativity, life purpose, meaning and critical approaches to mental health.
He is the author of more than 50 books, including works addressing creativity, life purpose, meaning and emotional wellbeing. His published titles include Life Purpose Boot Camp, Redesign Your Mind, The Van Gogh Blues, Choose Your Life Purposes and Why Smart People Hurt.
Dr Maisel helped develop the profession of creativity coaching and has trained coaches and other professionals through international workshops, webinars and certification programmes. He has also written the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today and has contributed extensively to discussions about human experience, personal responsibility, meaning and purposeful change.
As the trainer for the Relationship Coach Certification Programme, Dr Maisel brings a broad understanding of coaching practice and human relationships. His teaching encourages students to think beyond formulas and consider the individual’s values, choices, circumstances, patterns and relationship goals.
Through this programme, learners gain access to his practical teaching alongside the training structure and student resources provided by Noble Manhattan Coaching.
A relationship coach certification is a professional training pathway that develops coaching skills for working with interpersonal and relationship-related goals. It may cover communication, boundaries, conflict, intimacy, dating, family dynamics, workplace relationships and the structure of a responsible coaching engagement.
A certification demonstrates that a learner has completed the requirements established by the course provider. It does not make the graduate a licensed therapist, psychologist, counsellor or medical professional.
Previous coaching experience is not required. Learners who are completely new to coaching can begin with Noble Manhattan Coaching’s introductory life-coaching training before progressing into the relationship coach certification programme.
Experienced coaches and helping professionals may enquire about Accreditation of Prior Learning. Any exemption or adjusted pathway is subject to review and should not be assumed before the programme team has examined the applicant’s previous qualifications and experience.
Yes. The programme is delivered online through lessons, webinars and the learning resources provided by Noble Manhattan Coaching. This makes the training accessible to students in different countries and allows learners to study without relocating.
Before enrolling, confirm the current webinar timetable, whether sessions are live or recorded, the time-zone arrangements and how long you will retain access to the learning materials.
The Relationship Coach Certification Program is designed around approximately six months of study. Learners who require additional time may be able to complete the programme more flexibly.
Your actual completion time will depend on your starting experience, study schedule and completion of the programme requirements.
The programme explores coaching applications relating to communication, boundaries, interpersonal conflict, dating, intimacy, family dynamics, parenting relationships, relationship repair, new relationships and workplace interactions.
It also considers how relationship coaching can be applied when supporting singles, couples, families, groups and businesses.
No. Relationship coaching and therapy are different professional services.
Relationship coaching is generally goal-oriented and focuses on helping clients clarify objectives, consider choices, develop skills and take constructive action. Therapy may involve mental-health assessment, diagnosis, trauma treatment and clinical interventions delivered by appropriately licensed or registered professionals.
A relationship coach should not diagnose mental-health conditions or represent coaching as a replacement for psychotherapy, medical care, crisis support or safeguarding services.
The programme includes relationship-focused learning that may be applied when working with singles, couples, families, groups and businesses.
Working with two partners simultaneously requires clear agreements, neutrality, appropriate boundaries and the ability to recognise situations that should be referred to a couples therapist, safeguarding professional or another qualified practitioner. Ask the programme team how couples-coaching practice is addressed within the current curriculum.
Existing life coaches, wellness coaches, executive coaches, consultants and other helping professionals may use the programme to develop a relationship-focused area of practice.
Any new service should remain consistent with your qualifications, professional insurance, regulatory responsibilities and local laws. Completing a coaching certificate does not expand the clinical scope of a therapist, counsellor or healthcare professional.
The current GBP payment options are £2,500 as a one-time payment, £1,275 per month for two months or £650 per month for four months. The instalment plans have different total costs.
USD payment options are also available. UK VAT may apply where relevant. Review the complete payment terms before registering because prices, taxes and payment arrangements may change.
Scholarship applications are available to prospective students worldwide. Applicants can submit the scholarship form to learn what level of support may be available before deciding whether to register.
A scholarship application should not be presented as a guarantee of a particular award or discount. Confirm the scholarship amount, final programme fee and payment schedule in writing before enrolling.
After successfully completing the applicable programme requirements, students receive the certification awarded through Noble Manhattan Coaching’s relationship coach training pathway.
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Graduates may choose to establish a relationship-focused coaching service, add relationship coaching to an existing practice, deliver online sessions or use the learning within another appropriate professional role.
Certification does not guarantee employment, clients, income or business success. Professional outcomes depend on the graduate’s experience, continued development, positioning, ethical practice, business skills and applicable local requirements.
Choose the payment arrangement that best suits your circumstances. Each option provides access to the same core programme unless the written enrolment terms state otherwise.
Review the full payment, VAT, cancellation, refund, access and certification conditions before registering. Contact the programme team if you require clarification about currency conversion, UK VAT or scholarship eligibility.
Scholarship Applications
Scholarship opportunities are available to applicants worldwide. Submit the scholarship application to learn what level of support may be available to you. Applying does not create an obligation to register.
Accreditation of Prior Learning
Already trained or working as a coach, counsellor, therapist or helping professional? You may request a review of relevant previous learning and professional experience. Any exemption or adjusted pathway is subject to formal assessment.
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