THE ADVANCED TRAUMA RECOVERY COACHING CERTIFICATION

Earning your Advanced Certification is a next step in Certified Trauma Recovery Coaching development. You MUST have completed your Initial Certified Trauma Recovery course to enroll in an Advanced Course. The Advanced course builds upon the foundation taught in the Initial CTRC courses. Trauma Recovery Coaching is unlike any other type of coaching. Without the understanding of this methodology, taught in the Initial Course, the Advanced Coaching skills cannot be mastered.

Our CTRC-A coaches can work with more complex cases because they have additional training and supervised skill development. There are other perks, as well:

  • Being listed ahead of the Initial Certification Coaches in The International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching directory

  • Demonstrating to potential clients that you have greater education and more experience beyond the initial foundational knowledge

  • Preferential status for being invited to become a Coach Mentor

  • The ability to move into the Certified Supervisor Trauma Recovery Coaching training program — which allows you to provide Supervision in 1-to-1 and group formats to private clients as well as having opportunities within the Association to earn an income serving as Practice Group and Supervision Group facilitators and filling paid leadership roles.

Our Advanced Certification Courses are taught Two times a year.

Each Advanced Class accepts no more than 14 students before closing registration. At this level of education we focus on experiential education, which relies on greater student coach involvement and providing significant opportunity to practice in order to develop more complex coaching skills.

Our Advanced Certification classes are taught online and over the course of three weekends, each held across three months so that there is a three to four week break between each set of classes.

Course Time Commitment

All courses are taught within our Zoom classroom. The Advanced Class is very experiential. Almost all work is done within the course. There are no extra Practice Groups. There is only one homework assignment that is given to complete outside of class. Other “homework” and class projects are completed during the day’s scheduled meeting time.

Course Schedule

Each day of class is a full day. We typically follow this schedule (all times are EST)

  • Gather 11:00am

  • Break 12:30pm

  • Lunch 2:00pm

  • Reconvene 3:00pm

  • Break 4:30pm

  • Dismiss 6pm

Course Content

Books for the course: Nurturing Resilience by Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell and The Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Badenoch

The class will be a mixture of learning new content, incorporating that content into what you already know, and practicing your coaching skills. Content areas we will cover are:

  • Teaching our Clients Resilience

  • The Neurobiology of Attunement

  • How to Nurture Right Brained Neurodevelopment in Coaching

  • Family System’s Theory

  • Internal Family Systems

  • Unconscious Contracts Our Clients Might Have

  • Developing Resources to Provide to your Coaching Clients

  • Advanced Content Creation — developing a marketing strategy that uses article writing and video content creation that establishes you as an expert and gains you a loyal audience - we will write and video tape as part of the course content

Certification Requirements

  • Completion of the Advanced Certification Course

  • Obtain 12 Credits of Continuing Education Courses since completing Initial Course

  • 100 hours of client coaching

  • 30 hours of Supervision (25 group, 5 individual)

  • Written and Oral Examination

  • Complete the Certification Requirements within 18 months from Course Start Date

Attendance Requirements

Please note that, unlike with the coursework portion of the Initial Course, there is an attendance requirement for the Advanced Course. You must be present, with your camera on and actively engaged in the class, 80% of the course hours. There are 48 hours of coursework, so therefore you must be present for 38 hours of the class. This is because the course is highly experiential and also depends heavily upon the interaction and discussion amongst the students and instructors. If you are not present for that number of hours you will not receive credit for completing that semesters Advanced Course and will need to re-enroll and repeat it at a later date.

The course will be recorded so if you have to miss a few hours, less than 20%, you can catch up on the course material by watching the course replays.

Dates for Advanced Certification in 2024

Spring 2024 Dates: Saturdays/Sundays March 23/24, April 27/28 and June 1/2

Fall 2024 Dates: August 31/September 1, October 5/6, and November 2/3

Course Tuition Payment Options

The Advanced Class tuition is $2975.

This course is limited to 14 individuals on a first come, first serve basis. Full Payment or $700 deposit secures your spot. No spots will be held without payment.

Pay in Full:

Our most popular payment option is for students to pay the course tuition in full. The Advanced Course tuition is $2975.

Deposit and Remainder in Full:

ALL DEPOSITS ARE NON REFUNDABLE

Our second most popular option is for students to pay a non-refundable deposit of $700 to hold their place and then pay the remainder in full $2275 before the enrollment deadline date. 

Automatic 6-month Payment Plan: 

ALL DEPOSITS ARE NON REFUNDABLE

When students are unable to pay in full after the initial deposit, the Association offers a 6-month automatic payment plan. If you are utilizing the payment plan you must set up automatic payments in Dubsado to make the 6 payments after you’ve paid your deposit. Payment plans will have a monthly $25.00 processing fee added. Please email helpdesk@iaotrc.com if you have any questions or need to change the date your payments are deducted. $700 deposit (to hold your spot) and six installments of $404 ($379 + $25 processing fee) due every 30 days.

*Failure to set up automatic payments will result in the student being removed from the course and forfeiting any refund. 

**Certification will not be granted if students do not pay their course tuition in full. If students complete all other requirements and the course tuition has not been paid in full, and a student wasn’t removed from the course, their certification will be held until payment is made in full. If payment is not made in full within 18 months from the start date of the course, students will forfeit certification rights and all payments made.  

ENROLL IN THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATION COURSE HERE

For questions about registration, contact info@iaotrc.com

Refund Policy

BEFORE CLASS STARTS

If a student pays in full and withdraws from the course before it starts, a refund of all charges except the deposit fee, will be made to them within 30 business days. Please reach out to helpdesk@iaotrc.com to make withdrawal arrangements. The non-refundable deposit fee may be applied to a future initial course if the student re-enrolls within the following two cohorts. Otherwise, non-refundable fees will be forfeited.

WITHIN 30 DAYS

If a student withdraws from the course after it starts but before 30 days into the course have elapsed, a refund of all charges except the deposit and the first monthly payment will be made to them within 30 business days. Please reach out to helpdesk@iaotrc.com to make withdrawal arrangements. Non-refundable fees may be applied to a future initial course if the student re-enrolls within the following two cohorts. Otherwise, non-refundable fees will be forfeited. 

AFTER 30 DAYS

If a student withdraws from the course after 30 days of it starting all funds paid to date will be forfeited. Students will be removed from the course. NO refunds will be offered. NO option of applying non-refundable fees to future certification will be offered. Students can enroll at full fee at any future date.

NON PAYMENT

If a student is removed from the course due to payment failure of our 6-month automatic payment plan all funds paid to date will be forfeited. NO refunds will be offered. NO option of applying non-refundable fees to future certification will be offered. Students can enroll at full fee at any future date. 

NON COMPLETION

If a student does not complete the certification requirements within 18 months and has not applied for or was denied ECP re-enrollment due to extenuating circumstances all funds paid will be forfeited. NO refunds will be offered. NO option of applying non-refundable fees to future certification will be offered. Students will not be awarded certification. Students can enroll at full fee at any future date. 

CE Credits:

  • 10 CE credits earned at completion of the Advanced Certification Course

Renewal for Advanced Certification Course:

  • 1st Renewal at 2 Years: 

    • Obtain supervision: 25 group hours and 5 individual hours 

    • Obtain 15 credits in Continuing Education Units 

    • Successfully complete an Ethics Review and Quiz  

    • Pay a $100 certificate renewal fee 

    • Submit a copy of your current Policies and Procedures document

    2nd Renewal 2 Years & Subsequent 2 Years Beyond: 

    • Obtain 15 credits in Continuing Education Units 

    • Successfully complete an Ethics Review and Quiz

    • Pay a $100 certificate renewal fee 

    • Submit a copy of your current Policies and Procedures document