Coaching for Mental Health & Wellbeing

Course Overview
This course is a CPD earning
Specialist Professional Development Module

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Tutor-led Learning: | 2 days training | Total CPD Earned: | 14 hours |
CPD Accredited by: | Association for Coaching CPD |
Enhance Your Confidence and Competence in Coaching Conversations Around Mental Health
This specialist programme is designed for practising coaches and mentors who want to deepen their understanding of mental health and wellbeing within a coaching context.
As mental health and wellbeing become increasingly prominent in professional and organisational settings, coaches often find themselves navigating sensitive issues that require careful boundaries, ethical awareness, and practical tools. This programme provides the insight and support needed to respond with clarity, care, and professionalism.
Programme Overview
Delivered over two intensive days, this evidence-based programme explores:
- Key wellbeing models and frameworks
- Common challenges and boundary considerations in coaching conversations
- Strategies to support safe, ethical, and boundaried coaching practice
- Increased confidence in responding to wellbeing-related topics raised by clients
This highly practical course is rooted in current research and designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing coaching practice.
Expert-Led Learning
This programme is designed and facilitated by Michelle Brook, an experienced therapist, coach, and wellbeing practitioner. Michelle brings a unique blend of therapeutic insight and coaching expertise to create a rich, supportive learning environment.
Accreditation
✔ CPD Accredited by the Association for Coaching
Next Available Course
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Duration: 2 Days
29 July 2025
30 July 2025
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Virtual
Pricing & Qualification Options | ||
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An independant module for | ||
Specialist Professional Development | ||
Option | 1 | Virtual |
CPD Only | 650 | 580 |
Prices exclusive of VAT |
About the programme
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Benefits for individuals include:
1. Enhance Coaching Confidence & Competence – Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support clients effectively with mental health and wellbeing challenges, ensuring a professional and ethical approach.
2. Apply Evidence-Based Wellbeing Models – Learn how to integrate scientifically validated wellbeing strategies into coaching practice to help clients enhance resilience, manage stress, and improve overall wellbeing.
3. Recognise & Respond to Mental Health Indicators – Develop the ability to identify early signs of mental health and wellbeing concerns in clients and understand when to coach, when to refer, and how to establish boundaries.
4. Improve Client Outcomes & Goal Achievement – Support clients in overcoming wellbeing-related barriers to success, helping them sustain motivation, improve self-awareness, and achieve personal and professional goals.
5. Develop a More Holistic Coaching Approach – Strengthen coaching effectiveness by incorporating mental wellbeing as a key factor in personal and professional development, leading to more meaningful, sustainable change.
Benefits for the organisation include:
1. Increase Employee Resilience & Productivity – Equip employees with coaching tools that help them manage stress, improve emotional resilience, and enhance performance in the workplace.
2. Reduce Absenteeism & Improve Retention – Support employees in maintaining good mental health, leading to lower absenteeism rates and higher employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
3. Strengthen Workplace Wellbeing Culture – Embed a coaching-led approach to wellbeing, fostering an environment where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered to manage their own mental health.
4. Enhance Leadership & Employee Support Strategies – Enable leaders, managers, and HR professionals to have more meaningful wellbeing conversations, creating a psychologically safe workplace.
5. Align with Organisational Wellbeing & ESG Goals – Demonstrate a proactive commitment to employee mental health and wellbeing, reinforcing the organisation’s values, ethical responsibilities, and employer brand.
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Daily Programme Structure
Time Event 09:00 Registration 09:30 Session A 11:00 Morning Break 11:15 Session B 12:45 Lunch Break 13:15 Session C 14:45 Afternoon Break 15:00 Session D 16:30 Day End Important information:
- The Daily Programme Structure table, provides a useful overview of approximate timings for each day.
- On the first day of a course registration takes place from 09:00 on subsequent days (if applicable), please arrive or sign in remotely by no later than 09:20
- The programme commences at 09:30 daily,
- Each Guided Learning session is approximately 90 minutes in duration (precise timing will be content specific).
- Breaks are facilitated between sessions, however you are free to stretch your legs or grab some refreshements at any time.
- Lunch is taken at approximately 12:45 for 30 Minutes.
- We aim to finish activities at approximately 16:30 daily.
Greater detail regarding the each days planned topics, are shown in the Day Planner below.
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Day Planner - Level 5 Programme
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Day One
1. What is coaching and what are the differences between coaching and mentoring.
2. The benefits of coaching for you and your organisation.
3. The skills and attributes of a safe, effective coach.
4. Understand and apply to underpin psychological concepts that support coaching.
5. Asking effective coaching questions.
6. Exploring Coaching Models such as T-GROW, OSKAR & CLEAR.
7. Practice professional coaching and mentoring conversations in a safe, supervised environment, and receive feedback. -
Day Two
- Transactional Analysis.
- Numerous Co-coaching sessions
- More coachy stuff
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Day Three
- Numerous Co-coaching sessions
- The final countdown
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Day Four
- Numerous Co-coaching sessions
- The final countdown
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Day One
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CPD Only
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Whether you attend in person or join virtually, you are part of a fully live and interactive experience, where your presence and participation are essential.
This programme is accessible in the following modes:
Virtual Classroom
Our virtual classroom brings the quality and engagement of in-person learning to you, wherever you are. Leveraging the latest in online education technology, our virtual courses are designed to be interactive and engaging, with live lectures, real-time discussions, and collaborative activities that mirror the in-person experience. You'll have the flexibility to join from the comfort of your home or office. Our virtual platform ensures that distance is no barrier to accessing high-quality education, with all the tools you need to succeed, including digital resources, virtual breakout rooms for group work, and direct communication with instructors and fellow participants.
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Association for Coaching CPD
The Association for Coaching's (AC) continuous professional development Hours Scheme is designed to recognise the hours for ongoing professional development.
This Scheme is specially created for practitioners and Leader Coaches and organisations offering ongoing learning and development. This allows participants to evidence the hours invested in ongoing professional development. This may apply to courses, workshops, certifications, webinars and events which can be used towards CPD elements of AC accreditation and other related programmes.
Upcoming Course Dates
Summer Course
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Duration: 2 Days
29 July 2025
30 July 2025
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Virtual