FAQs

Because we are a smaller school we know all our students, you will not slip under the radar!

We value inclusion and we want to keep developing our strengths in making our courses as inclusive as possible, enabling or students to become conscious, self-aware coaches.

You can book time in for a chat with Jo our director, she is always on hand for a discussion.

Our tutors have completed the qualifications you will study for and work actively as coaches too.

We are open to honest feedback and welcome suggestions.

No prior experience is needed to become a life coach with us. Our proven teaching methodology ensures you qualify in the same timeframe as someone with previous communication experience. Your life coaching journey starts here — this is the beginning of your next chapter.

It’s a collaborative process where a coach facilitates your exploration of goals and supports you in achieving them. Coaching is present and future-focused, helping you move past emotional barriers for personal or professional growth. Unlike therapy, counselling, mentoring, or advice-giving, coaching empowers you to find your own solutions and take meaningful action.

Life coaches work across diverse sectors including corporate, healthcare, fitness, education, and wellness. You can integrate coaching into your existing career, launch a side hustle, or build a full-time business. Deliver 1:1 or group sessions online or offline, create passive income products, or enhance your consultancy. The possibilities for applying your coaching skills are truly endless.

Our distance learning coaching courses are flexible. You receive your Welcome Pack and first module by email, then complete guided reading and assignments at your pace. Submit work via email and receive marked feedback plus the next module. Tutor support is always available. Diploma students also get business coaching sessions and a marketing consultation included in the course fee.

Coaching is solution-focused and forward-looking, helping you find answers within to achieve future goals. In contrast, therapy explores past experiences and emotions to understand how they impact your present. While coaching drives action and change, therapy focuses on healing and processing historical events. Both are valuable but serve distinct purposes in personal development.

Our coaching diplomas are fully online. You complete all modules and  hours of supervised skills development remotely via Zoom. Join monthly Saturday or Tuesday master classes for small-group practice and receive training in delivering remote coaching. While our London face-to-face sessions are currently paused, the entire qualification is designed for flexible, distance learning without compromising practical experience.

Certificates cover essential theory via distance learning with email support. Diplomas include all certificate theory plus supervised skills development, case study work, and a reflective learning journal. While certificates provide foundational knowledge, diplomas offer the practical training and assessment required for professional accreditation and full coaching competency.

A wellness coach will work with clients in specific areas such as health, communication skills, relationships, long term health condition management, returning to work and family.  A holistic wellness coach takes an integrated approach and will encompass mind, body and spiritual needs. 

This depends on your discipline and lifestyle, but in general, I would say 5 – 10 hours a week. 

Wellness Professionals at Work engages with three lead bodies to provide you with credible and independently scrutinized learning experiences: 

• Association for Coaching (AC) – we are an approved training provider and are proud to have two of our courses accredited with the AC (Diploma in Life Coaching Skills and Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills). 
• Complementary Medical Association – we are an approved training provider and offer CPD courses. Watch our interview with them here.
• Accredited Coaches, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists (ACCPH)  has approved us as a coach training provider and endorses all of our courses.
• UKIHCA approve our Fast Track Diplomas and accept them as part of their portfolio route should you meet their requirements/

All our coaching diplomas include supervised practical skills development led by Jo and her team. This hands-on training ensures you gain real coaching experience with expert guidance, building the competence and confidence needed to qualify as a professional coach.

Both the Certificates and Diploma courses involve distance learning modules.  Each module has one 1000-word assignment to complete. There is no grade for marked work.  Assessment entails making an informed and considered judgment about the quality of your performance on a given assignment is covering: 

• how effectively you have practiced the critical and analytical techniques 
• your degree of mastery of skills involved in communicating thoughts, ideas and evidence clearly and cogently 
• understanding of how the subject matter is grasped 

If an assignment doesn’t meet the above three points sufficiently, you will be asked to either submit the entire assignment again or for a further 500 words. 

The skills development for the coaching diplomas involves direct observation and feedback from myself and your peers.  Self-assessment from is each student is also encouraged.  The case studies are not directly observed; however, there is a paper trail assessment process. We accept vivas and oral presentations for our neurodivergent students.

Of course you can.  Please contact Jo. You might also like to read about our successful graduates here.

Please see Meet the Team. 

Our Certificate courses are distance learning.  Our Diplomas are online with in-person online teaching.  We do also run in-person events.

Yes, you can.  

Diploma fees include: accreditation, student membership of accrediting bodies (where appropriate), CPD certification (where appropriate), access to apply for full membership of accrediting bodies (upon criteria fulfilment), access to Wellness Professionals at Work Community – Wellness Community on Circle, study-buddies, learning materials, over 200 hours of distance learning tutor support, 90 hours of supervised skills development,  business start-up coaching and 30 minutes of marketing consultation.  Books are not included. 

Certificate fees include: student membership of accrediting bodies (where appropriate), CPD certification (where appropriate), access to apply for full membership of accrediting bodies (upon criteria fulfilment), access to Wellness Professionals at Work Learning Hub on Circle, study-buddies, course learning materials, tutor support by email, phone or online 

Yes, you can.  If you need to, you can also apply for an extension. 

Yes, you can.  If you need to, you can also apply for an extension. 

You can start the courses any time you choose. 

The Certificates in  Coaching are suitable as a continuing professional development course as it presents underpinning theory only without any supervised skills development. You could also take the certificate if you’re considering a career change into coaching but want to toe-dip before upgrading to the Integrated Diploma. 

This qualification has CPD points attached and can be used as part of your ongoing professional development. Many registering bodies require 25+ hours of CPD per year.

 The Fast-Track Diploma can be completed in a year or less (depending on your lifestyle and discipline) and is an accredited coaching qualification (AACT) by the Association for Coaching (AC). The Integrated Diploma has extra modules and more intensive skills development and is accredited with the AC at a higher level (ACCT) than the Fast-Track. 

• Complete over two years (however you can complete quicker depending on your lifestyle and discipline or take longer).
• Enrolments are accepted throughout the year with a start-any-time policy.
• Access to accelerated coach accreditation with the Association for Coaching.
• Extra modules are included for additional theory.
• Ten supervised skills development workshops.
• Supervised case study work (40 hours).
• Reflective learning opportunities.
• 30-minute marketing consultation with Nneka from Banton Comms.
• Accredited Diploma in Coach Training from the Association for Coaching.

Life coaching is an approach to working with individuals who want to make changes in their life. Coaching is about helping a client identify their goals, explore options for reaching those goals and support them as they take action for success. Life coaching is not about telling clients what to do. Life coaching is about encouraging client ownership so they can reach their potential. 

You may already be working PAYE and looking for a side-hustle of a life coaching business. You may be working PAYE and looking to add new skills to your current job or the next job. Or you may be self-employed and looking to add on life coaching. Or you may be looking for a career change. There are a huge number of pathways open to life coaching e.g. new parents, exam stress, confidence building, increasing resilience, preparing for retirement and lots more options. The other advice I would give is to create an integrated practice embracing coaching, courses and information products. 

As you move through your coaching training with us and approach the end of your course, you can have  business coaching with us, a 30-minute session with a marketing consultant and of course access to our wonderful community platform Wellness Extra. There is also the option of reduced rate business coaching/mentoring post qualification. 

All of our courses have the prices next to them.  Visit this page to see https://wellnessprofessionalsatwork.com/all-courses/

We look at you and your experiences before taking you on to the course.  We have had students study with us who have done no formal study since GCSEs, students study our courses who have English as a 2nd or 3rd language as well as having students do our courses who have PhD’s! It’s about how approachable you are, your listening skills and your ability to motivate.

Quick answer.  One qualification.  6 months to 1 year.

No, we’re accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC) and the UKIHCA, not the ICF. The ICF is just one of several recognised coaching bodies — the AC holds equally rigorous professional standards and is highly respected worldwide. AC accreditation ensures our courses meet the same benchmark of quality, ethics, and competency that employers and clients expect from a credible coaching qualification.

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