Whether you want to coach alongside your job or build something of your own, this pathway gives the grounding. Psychology and counselling study sits under eleven coaching modules on goals, change and ethics. Made for a careful start.
Most short coaching courses skip the theory. Here a full psychology and counselling diploma sits beneath the coaching modules.
Coaching models, session management, goal setting and ethics. The parts a paying client assumes you already have.
Four hundred hours is a lot. The long window means life can get in the way without costing you the course.
Coaching in New Zealand is mostly self-run: a handful of clients, sessions by video, word of mouth doing the selling. Community and wellbeing programmes hire too. The work is conversations, notes, goals and follow-ups, and it suits people who listen more than they talk.
Working under an established coach while you build.
Goal and habit work with individual clients.
Helping people plan a move or a return to work.
Running group sessions inside a service.
Structured support through a local organisation.
The scheduling and client side of a practice.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. The college treats these courses as a starting point and recommends further training or an internship for the hands-on experience employers look for. This study does not qualify you to work as a counsellor or psychologist.
Three things that separate this from a weekend coaching badge.
Six psychology and counselling certificates come before the coaching work begins.
Inclusive and ethical coaching practice has its own module, alongside session management.
Twelve months with the International Association for Counselling, including journals and webinars.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded by the college on completion.
Twelve months, with journals and webinars.
A link in the platform you can share on SEEK.
An advisor explains how the two parts fit together.
Any day. Weekly plan, or pay upfront in full.
Six psychology and counselling certificates come first.
Eleven coaching modules, then your first practice sessions.
No. No coaching experience, business plan or client list is expected. It starts at the beginning.
From only $29 a week on a plan, with no deposit and no credit check. Enquire for current pricing.
About 400 hours in total, with eighteen months of access to work through it.
Plenty of people do. The study is self paced, and coaching work often starts with a few clients on evenings or weekends.
No. The final module covers coaching careers and business basics, so that can wait until you know you enjoy the work.
No, and it is worth being clear about that. What you get is a real grounding in psychology, counselling skills and coaching practice, at a fraction of the time and cost of a counselling degree. The college states plainly that it is not approved by the New Zealand Association of Counsellors, includes no supervised clinical training and does not lead to registration. Life coaching itself is a different path, and this pathway is built for that one.
It carries a Certificate of Achievement, and the college is an ICOES accredited centre with Official Accreditation from the CPD Standards Office and IARC registration. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. Those are different things, and life coaching is not a registered profession in New Zealand.
Yes. A 10-day money back guarantee runs from enrolment.
You enrol through The Career Academy, an online college in New Zealand, and the college delivers this pathway itself.
The Career Academy has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year. Tutors on this subject hold psychology and counselling backgrounds, and a portion of course proceeds goes to Youthline.
Picture the session where a client hears their own answer out loud, and you were the one holding the space.