Trauma-Informed Practices in Coaching

Science-Based Skills for Ethical, Effective Client Work

If you’re a coach, trauma is already showing up in your work — whether you name it or not.

Clients bring stress, burnout, anxiety, identity shifts, and long-standing patterns into sessions every day. And most coaching programs don’t teach you what to do when motivation tools stop working, emotions run high, or progress quietly stalls.

This course offers a clear, practical path to trauma-informed practices — designed for life coaches, leadership coaches, and performance coaches who want to support clients more effectively without crossing into therapy or stepping outside their scope of work.

What This Course Focuses On

This program centers on how trauma-informed principles apply inside coaching, not on treating trauma.

You’ll learn how to:

recognize when stress or past experiences are impacting a client’s capacity

understand why certain coaching tools stop working under pressure

adjust pacing, language, and expectations to reduce harm

work with emotional activation without escalating it

maintain clear, ethical boundaries between coaching and therapy

feel more confident about what is and is not your role as a coach

Trauma-Informed ≠ Trauma Treatment

You will be taught how to:

coach in ways that are safer and more effective

recognize when referral is appropriate

protect both client and coach from unintended harm

work with complexity without pretending it isn’t there

For many coaches, this clarity alone changes how they work.

Who This Course Is For

This course is a strong fit for:

life coaches, executive coaches, leadership coaches, and performance coaches

practitioners working with burnout, stress, anxiety, or identity shifts

coaches who want to improve outcomes without becoming clinicians

professionals who value ethics, boundaries, and evidence-based practice

coaches who want tools — not just concepts

Trauma-Informed Practices in Coaching

Science-Based Skills for Ethical, Effective Client Work

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About the Instructor

Stephanie High, M.A.

What makes this work different is the bridge between science and practice. Stephanie’s background allows her to translate neuroscience and performance psychology into tools coaches can actually use, while maintaining clear ethical boundaries around scope of practice.

This isn’t theory for theory’s sake, and it isn’t therapy-adjacent coaching. It’s practical, evidence-based education designed to help coaches work more effectively with real humans, real stress, and real complexity — without overstepping or oversimplifying.