This comprehensive diploma is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support parents and families through therapeutic parent coaching.
Blending flexible online learning with applied assessment and practical coaching experience, this programme enables learners to develop a strong foundation in developmental trauma, therapeutic parenting, and coaching practice—supporting meaningful change in family systems.
This qualification is ideal for practitioners and individuals who wish to support parents more effectively, including:
- Social workers and family support workers
- Foster parents and adoptive parents
- Residential childcare practitioners
- Therapeutic practitioners
- Parenting practitioners and group facilitators
- Education and pastoral staff
It is particularly suited to those who want to develop their skills in coaching parents, delivering therapeutic parenting support, and facilitating parent groups.
Across ten structured units, you will explore:
- Understanding the traumatised child and developmental trauma
- How parent experiences, interactions, and responses impact children
- Core principles of therapeutic parenting
- Syndromes, disorders, and survival behaviours linked to early trauma
- Practical therapeutic parenting strategies (initial and advanced)
- Understanding family dynamics and family life
- The role of the Therapeutic Parent Coach
- Developing a therapeutic parenting knowledge base for coaching
- Coaching skills to support parents effectively
- Promoting resilience, wellbeing, and self-development in families
This is a blended professional development programme designed to support both knowledge acquisition and applied coaching practice.
Guided Online Learning
Ten professionally structured units delivered through flexible, self-paced study, including video-based teaching and built-in knowledge checks.
Applied Assessment
Each unit includes assessment activities designed to embed learning and support practical application in real-world contexts.
Coaching Practice & Professional Portfolio
You will complete an end-of-course portfolio demonstrating your competence as a Therapeutic Parent Coach, including:
- Evidence of working with two parents/clients
- Reflection on your coaching practice
- Application of therapeutic parenting strategies
Tutor support is available throughout to guide you in successfully completing your portfolio.
Flexible Study
Designed to fit alongside your current role and commitments, with fully online delivery and self-paced progression.
On successful completion, you will achieve an ACCPH-accredited Therapeutic Parent Coaching Diploma, and receive a certificate from The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma CIC.
This qualification is accredited by the Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists (ACCPH) and supports eligibility for membership with the association.
It also includes your first year of CoECT Professional Membership (worth £218) upon successful completion.
- Flexible completion over up to 10 months
- Self-paced online study
- Combination of guided learning, assessment tasks, and coaching practice
£840 (including VAT)This all-inclusive fee provides:
- Full access to the complete online programme
- All learning materials and video-based teaching
- End-of-unit assessments and knowledge checks
- Guidance and support for your final portfolio
- Portfolio assessment to demonstrate your coaching competence
This programme is ideal if you want to:
- Develop a strong understanding of developmental trauma and its impact on families
- Build skills in therapeutic parenting approaches
- Learn how to coach and support parents effectively
- Facilitate parent support and therapeutic parenting groups
- Strengthen your professional practice with a recognised qualification
- Evidence your skills through applied coaching experience
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Apply therapeutic parenting principles in practice
- Support parents to better understand and respond to their child’s needs
- Use coaching tools and techniques to facilitate change
- Promote resilience and wellbeing in children and families
- Work confidently as a Therapeutic Parent Coach
- Reflect on and develop your own professional practice
This programme combines structured learning, coaching application, and professional reflection—offering a depth of practice development beyond standard parenting or coaching courses.
