Successful coaches are not born.
They are trained.
Successful coaches are not born.
They are trained.
We train confident coaches in reality-based techniques, teaching them the psychology, social theory, and somatics that change their clients’ lives — and their own.
The Socratic Coaching Method Certification
The Socratic Coaching Method Certification is the only coaching certification created (and taught live!) by Master Certified Coach Kara Loewentheil — Yale and Harvard Law School graduate, author of the New York Times-bestseller Take Back Your Brain, and host of the top-charting podcast UnF*ck Your Brain.
Psst: If you're already a coach, therapist, or other mental health professional?
Coaching or thought work has changed your life.
And you've been secretly dreaming of becoming a coach.
Making a difference in the world and doing meaningful work?
Living the fulfillment of a purposeful life in a world that needs positive purpose more than ever?
While making more money than you thought was possible for you?
Whether that’s retiring your partner, fully funding college for your kids, buying a vacation home, or creating generational wealth?
From anywhere in the world?
Coaching calls on a laptop in the jungles of Costa Rica? Leading a retreat in a French chateau?
With having total control over your time and your schedule?
Working according to your brain and body’s preferred schedule and your family’s needs?
What’s not to love?
But you’ve got the natural questions and concerns, like:
“Where would I even start?”
“Do I really have what it takes to do this?”
“Is everyone going to think I’m crazy if I try?”
I had all the same questions when I was deciding whether to get certified as a coach.
Plus a lot more, like …
“What if I’m not any good at this?”
“What if someone brings me something serious or scary I don’t know how to handle?”
“Can I really make a living — a GOOD living — this way?”
These are all really good questions to be asking.
And we want to help you answer them.
People think the key to success as a coach is tons of experience, being a whiz at sales and marketing, or having a huge social media following.
And they're all wrong.
The key to success as a coach is your confidence in your coaching.
When you feel confident in your abilities, you intuitively show up as an expert.
When you show up as an expert, you naturally attract people who want to pay for your expertise to help them solve their problems.
When you have the expertise of a proven process and set of tools, you easily coach your clients to great results.
Your clients get results (and share their stories with others!), you show up with even more confidence, and the cycle just gets better and better and better.
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Knows exactly how to handle ANY issue that comes up in coaching, no matter how complex, difficult, or challenging.
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Can rely on a set of evidence-backed tools that have been validated with thousands of clients over years of practice to get clients clear and obvious results.
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Has a process for continually improving their own coaching by reflecting on and assessing their performance and recalibrating their skills — building confidence in their excellence more and more over time.
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Supports themselves with professional-level self-coaching tools to show up as their most confident self in session every time.
So: what distinguishes a confident coach?
A confident coach:
Other coach certifications teach you some tools for coaching clients.
And … that’s it.
You’re supposed to figure out what to do with them, how to use them well, and how to handle any challenges that come up on your own.
Even if the tools are evidence-based or proven (which they may or may not be depending on the certification), it’s like being a baby bird kicked out of the nest without having been taught to fly.
Or being given a tricycle with training wheels and being sent out to compete in the Tour de France.
But that's not how we roll. (Pun intended.)
We teach you how to coach at an advanced level.
AND how to get better and better over time.
Welcome to:
THE SOCRATIC COACHING METHOD CERTIFICATION
We train confident life coaches to deliver reality-based transformation through the Socratic Coaching Method.
We teach you to employ psychology, social theory, and somatics to change your clients’ lives — and your own.
Enroll now to claim theses bonuses:
BONUS 1:
"How to Coach the Scary Stuff"
(Expiring Monday, 9/22):
These bonus video trainings (delivered to you during the program when you’re ready to make the most of them) are my advanced systems for handling clients’ experiences of oppression, discrimination, bias, unfairness, and the complex issues that separate confident coaches from scared ones — yours when you enroll by Monday, September 22.
BONUS 2:
The All-Day Business Basics Intensive
(Expiring Friday, 9/26):
This all day, virtual, group workshop with me will be held on Sunday, June 7, 2026, and available via replay for those who can’t attend live. Inside, you’ll work through the key pillars of your coaching business, like defining (or refining) your niche, getting clear on the transformation you offer clients, making a plan for your first or next offer and setting your first or next business goal.
BONUS 3:
A free month in "No BS Business"
(Expiring Friday, 10/3):
Corinne Crabtree, creator of the “No BS Business” program, is the real deal. She runs a $13 million a year business now, but when I met her, she was charging $29 a client. Since then, I’ve watched her build a powerful, heart-centered, smart and savvy business. Her program will teach you how to do the same. And you can always join to stay on after your free month ends!
Choose your S.C.M.C. experience:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Online Experience
January–June, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Live, Group Integration Calls: Join the weekly live teaching and coaching sessions led by Kara and by our small group teaching staff.
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Modules: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment:
$8,000
Payment plan option:
$800/month for 10 months
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Immersion Experience
January–June, 2026
Immersion Intensive: May 4–8, 2026 in NOLA
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
Your investment:
$16,000
Payment plan option:
$1,600/month for 10 months
Socratic Coaching is the only form of coaching that not only teaches you how to coach your clients effectively, but teaches you how to coach and improve yourself as a coach effectively too.
Socratic Coaching is best for you
AND your clients because it is:
(Click each element for the full deep dive!)
Socratic coaching is not about woo, manifestation, or vibrations. It combines philosophical principles dating back to the Ancient Greeks with modern cognitive psychology frameworks to help your clients decide who they want to be, what lives they want to live, and how to make them happen.
And our work is evidence-based — it was part of a peer-reviewed double-blind study (aka the gold standard of scientific papers) published in JAMA Network Open ***, a leading online medical journal, by two doctors who proved that these coaching interventions worked.
This means you will be confident in your tools right out of the gate. You will not need to create anything of your own to start coaching, and you won’t just be relying on my word for it — you’ll know the tools are backed by evidence and by a decade of successful utilization with thousands of women all over the world. So you start coaching at a level of excellence most coaches never reach no matter how long they practice.
PLUS we teach you two crucial skills that other certifications don’t even mention:
- How to self-assess to continually improve your coaching skills over time.
- How to coach yourself through the normal mindset drama that comes up when a client seems resistant, someone says no on a consult call, a client ghosts, or a session goes off the rails.
Most coaching programs pretend that coaching happens in a vacuum. That all you need to do is know what your client is thinking, or apply a simple model to everyone, no matter what their circumstances.
But life is lived in reality. People have different resources, different constraints, different values, and different priorities. Political, social, legal and financial systems constrain and shape all of our lives in different ways, and different identities and communities face different challenges.
Socratic coaching teaches you how to meet a client in their reality, honoring their identity and acknowledging the real-world circumstances that impact their lives — while also holding the vision for change and success that they cannot see when they first come to you. It means you can be confident that you can help ANYONE who comes to you, regardless of how similar or different your lives are.
Traditional life coaching, especially when aimed at women or other marginalized identities, tends to be aimed at helping clients conform to social norms. Lose weight, get married, keep a perfect home — all goals patriarchy has for women.
Because traditional coaching frameworks operate inside social norms, they simply adopt these goals and try to teach clients how to achieve them, with spotty success (partly because clients and coaches are often subconsciously conflicted about them, for good reason!). Meanwhile the coach becomes an authority figure that the client ends up wanting to please rather than engage in authentic growth.
Socratic coaching is different. It’s a collaborative process in which the coach and client don’t just set a goal — they interrogate the why behind the goal and make sure it aligns with the client’s values, priorities, and authentic self. This process makes goal-setting a pathway to liberation and empowerment, instead of just another way to play out perfectionism and fear of failure. Socratic coaching recognizes a client’s agency and authority and empowers them more deeply than traditional life coaching with its guru/expert model.
The biggest reason that clients (and coaches!) don’t achieve their goals is that they are not connected to their emotions. This means even when they are doing cognitive-change work, they are not choosing and practicing new thoughts correctly because they are ignoring the brain-body connection that controls the process of creating new beliefs.
At the same time, coach certifications that focus too much on somatics or intuition can end up leaving clients following unreflective impulses and acting out of flight or fight nervous system activation without realizing it, which means they never get any closer to regulation or achieving their goals.
Socratic coaching connects the brain and the body, allowing the coach to accurately diagnose what is going wrong when a client is unable to change a thought, process an emotion, or take a new action — and can tell them how to fix it. A coach trained in the Socratic Coaching Method never has to worry about what to do when a client says “it’s not working.”
And as a Socratic Method Coach you will never have to worry about thinking that your coaching isn’t working either — because we’ll teach you how to coach yourself whenever you feel insecure, lose your footing, or doubt yourself as a coach. You’ll be able to get back to confidence quickly, not just intellectually but emotionally — so you can show up with confidence and create the coaching career of your dreams.
Based on cognitive psychology & radical inquiry
Socratic coaching is not about woo, manifestation, or vibrations. It combines philosophical principles dating back to the Ancient Greeks with modern cognitive psychology frameworks to help your clients decide who they want to be, what lives they want to live, and how to make them happen.
And our work is evidence-based – it was part of a peer-reviewed double-blind study (aka the gold standard of scientific papers) published in the JAMA Open Network***, a leading online medical journal, by two doctors who proved that these coaching interventions worked.
This means that you will be confident in your tools right out of the gate. You will not need to create anything of your own to start coaching, and you won’t just be relying on my word for it – you’ll know the tools are backed by evidence and by a decade of successful utilization with thousands of women all over the world. So you start coaching at a level of excellence most coaches never reach no matter how long they practice.
PLUS we teach you two crucial skills that other certifications don’t even mention:
- How to self-assess to continually improve your coaching skills over time.
- How to coach yourself through the normal mindset drama that comes up when a client seems resistant, someone says no on a consult call, a client ghosts, or a session goes off the rails.
Grounded in reality
Collaborative
Traditional life coaching, especially when aimed at women or other marginalized identities, tends to be aimed at helping clients conform to social norms. Lose weight, get married, keep a perfect home – all goals patriarchy has for women.
Because traditional coaching frameworks operate inside social norms, they simply adopt these goals and try to teach clients how to achieve them, with spotty success (partly because clients and coaches are often subconsciously conflicted about them, for good reason!). Meanwhile the coach becomes an authority figure that the client ends up wanting to please rather than engage in authentic growth.
Socratic coaching is different. It’s a collaborative process in which the coach and client don’t just set a goal – they interrogate the why behind the goal and make sure it aligns with the client’s values, priorities, and authentic self. This process makes goal-setting a pathway to liberation and empowerment, instead of just another way to play out perfectionism and fear of failure. Socratic coaching recognizes a client’s agency and authority and empowers them more deeply than traditional life coaching with its guru/expert model.
Anchored in somatics
The biggest reason that clients (and coaches!) don’t achieve their goals is that they are not connected to their emotions. This means even when they are doing cognitive change work, they are not choosing and practicing new thoughts correctly because they are ignoring the brain-body connection that controls the process of creating new beliefs.
At the same time, coach certifications that focus too much on somatics or intuition can end up leaving clients following unreflective impulses and acting out of flight or fight nervous system activation without realizing it, which means they never get any closer to regulation or achieving their goals.
Socratic coaching connects the brain and the body, allowing the coach to accurately diagnose what is going wrong when a client is unable to change a thought, process an emotion, or take a new action – and can tell them how to fix it. A coach trained in the Socratic Coaching Method never has to worry about what to do when a client says “it’s not working.”
And as a Socratic Method Coach you will never have to worry about thinking that your coaching isn’t working either – because we’ll teach you how to coach yourself whenever you feel insecure, lose your footing, or doubt yourself as a coach. You’ll be able to get back to confidence quickly, not just intellectually but emotionally – so you can show up with confidence and create the coaching career of your dreams.
The Socratic Coaching Method Certification
runs from January–June 2026.
Here’s how it works.
The certification is broken down into three phases:
Foundation & Core Method
You will learn the core Socratic Coaching Method, along with foundational techniques for helping clients connect to their emotions, change their thoughts, and create new habits and actions. (Tap the button to keep reading.)
Real World Application
You will learn how to apply these tools to specific areas of your client’s lives, like work and money, family and relationships, sex and dating, new habits, body image, organization and productivity, and more. (Tap the button to keep reading.)
Practicum and Certification
It’s all about application and practice. (Tap the button to keep reading.)
Foundation & Core Method
You will learn the core Socratic Coaching Method, along with foundational techniques for helping clients connect to their emotions, change their thoughts, and create new habits and actions. (Tap the button to keep reading.) toggle icon We’ll also be doing deep dives into trauma and nervous system regulation, neurodiversity in coaching, and teaching you the self-practice tools you will use to build confidence in your own coaching. Phase 1 is taught live virtually by Kara, with integration calls hosted by our program coaches. At the end you’ll take a written test to advance in the certification.
Real-World Application
You will learn how to apply these tools to specific areas of your clients’ lives, like work and money, family and relationships, sex and dating, new habits, body image, organization and productivity, and more. For each topic you’ll learn new tools and exercises, as well as how to apply the core Socratic Coaching Method to these areas of clients’ lives. Phase 2 has two options: Self-study with an online curriculum OR a week in person with Kara in New Orleans (additional fee).
Practicum and Certification
It’s all about application and practice. You’ll be meeting in small groups virtually with expert coaches to practice coaching and get personal feedback on your coaching. At the end of Phase 3, you’ll submit five recorded coaching calls for review in order to earn your certification.
Want more details?
Click to expand for a week-by-week overview of what you will learn in each phase.
Phase 1: Foundational Coaching Tools
- Socratic Method Step 1: Learn the foundational Socratic Coaching Method radical inquiry tool, and how to use it on your clients and yourself.
- Socratic Method Step 2: Learn the TEB cycle of cognitive psychology and learn the ARCA model for coaching a client through their reaction to the TEB cycle so they don’t get stuck in shame or resistance.
- Socratic Method Step 3: Learn collaborative goal-setting and how to help clients tap into their life values and make aligned decisions.
- Socratic Method Step 4: Learn how to help clients develop and implement new beliefs, and how to calibrate the thought change process to make sure it truly creates neural rewiring.
- Deep Dive on Trauma, the Nervous System and Abuse: Learn how trauma impacts coaching, how to spot and handle nervous system activation in your clients, and how to screen for clients using coaching to tolerate abuse or who need additional mental health care, and how to handle those scenarios.
- Deep Dive on Neurodiversity & Coaching: Many coaching clients are neurodiverse (as are many coaches), likely because they grow up in a society that tells them they should be different and they seek out self-help to try to cope with expectations about how they should be able to function that don’t match their lived experience. In this deep dive you’ll learn how neurodiversity can impact the coaching experience and how to best support neurodiverse clients.
- Deep Dive on Coaching with Confidence: We will be focusing on confidence in your coaching throughout this certification but in this deep dive we’ll work on specific tools you can use to coach yourself when you second-guess yourself and feel insecure about your coaching, as well as our proprietary continual improvement self-assessment.
At the end of Phase 1 you will complete an open-book test on what you have learned in order to advance to Phases 2 and 3.
Phase 2: Topic-Specific Coaching Tools
- Impact of social messages on thought systems and beliefs
- Dating, romantic relationships & sex
- Family, parenting, & household labor/management
- Eating, movement, & relationship with the body
- Time management & organization
- Career confidence & performance
- Money (earning, spending, saving, investing, & debt)
- Confidence & self-worth
- Coaching on experiences of discrimination
- Numbing & buffering (eating, drinking, shopping, social media, Netflix etc).
- Habit breaking & formation
Phase 3: Practice & Integration
- Coaching practicum calls
- Live coaching feedback
- Coaching Q&A sessions
- Practice a self-assessment model for continually improving your coaching
- Review of a recorded session by one of our coaches to achieve certification.
And if you want to take things to the next level, IRL?
Consider joining us for the Immersion Experience
Imagine dedicating an entire week to coaching mastery at gorgeous Salon Salon in New Orleans, surrounded by passionate future coaches and guided by my direct mentorship every step of the way.
That’s what we’re offering inside the Immersion Experience tier of The Certification.
What makes it so special exactly?
It’s your chance to connect more deeply with the work, and your new colleagues, in a beautiful space where you can truly shut off distractions. While we love our online friends, sometimes stepping into a network of like-minded teachers and colleagues live and in-person feels like the most magical place on earth (because it is).
You’ll get early hands-on practice in coaching live, with direct feedback in a smaller and more intimate setting. That means you can sharpen your skills with real-time input, gain clarity on your strengths, and address growth edges immediately.
There’ll be live demonstrations, too, so you can see powerful Socratic Coaching in action, then apply those insights in small group breakouts.
IMMERSION TIER BONUS: We’ll also be taking stunning new headshots of all participants from our go-to photographer to celebrate your new chapter, as our gift to you!
And don't miss these time-limited bonuses when you enroll:
BONUS 1:
"How to Coach the Scary Stuff"
(Expiring Monday, 9/22):
These bonus video trainings (delivered to you during the program when you’re ready to make the most of them) are my advanced systems for handling clients’ experiences of oppression, discrimination, bias, unfairness, and the complex issues that separate confident coaches from scared ones — yours when you enroll by Monday, September 22.
BONUS 2:
The All-Day Business Basics Intensive
(expiring Friday, 9/26):
This all day, virtual, group workshop with me will be held on Sunday, June 7, 2026, and available via replay for those who can’t attend live. Inside, you’ll work through the key pillars of your coaching business, like defining (or refining) your niche, getting clear on the transformation you offer clients, making a plan for your first or next offer and setting your first or next business goal.
BONUS 3:
A free month in Corinne Crabtree's "No BS Business"
(expiring Friday, 10/3):
Corinne is the real deal. She runs a $13 million a year business now, but when I met her, she was charging $29 a client. Since then, I’ve watched her build a powerful, heart-centered, smart and savvy business. Her program will teach you how to do the same. And you can always join to stay on after your free month ends!
And by June 2026? You’ll be a Certified Socratic Method Coach.
You’ll have a high-level coaching skill set, with powerful tools, techniques, and frameworks to help clients get the kinds of results most coaches only dream of.
You’ll have rock-solid confidence in yourself as a coach, with theory and practice under your belt, and with a process to use to continue to self-assess and improve year after year.
You’ll be ready to bring the power of socratic coaching to new people, whether you’re starting a business, working as coach for someone else, or bringing coaching into your existing role in another profession.
Choose your S.C.M.C. experience:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Online Experience
January–June, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Live, Group Integration Calls: Join the weekly live teaching and coaching sessions led by Kara and by our small group teaching staff.
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Modules: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment:
$8,000
Payment plan option:
$800/month for 10 months
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Immersion Experience
January–June, 2026
Immersion Intensive: May 4–8, 2026 in NOLA
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
Your investment:
$16,000
Payment plan option:
$1,600/month for 10 months
Meet Your Teacher
I’m Kara Loewentheil, Master Certified Coach and creator of the Socratic Coaching Method. I’m a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and in my former life I was a women’s rights attorney and academic.
These days I teach women how to live a confident life, and train coaches in how to use the Socratic Teaching Method to blow their clients’ minds — and their own. I’m the host of the top-ranked UnF*ck Your Brain Podcast (50 million downloads and counting!) and the author of the New York Times-bestseller Take Back Your Brain.
As a coach I’ve coached thousands of women from all over the world, and been featured in publications like The New York Times, Glamour, and Forbes. My company, The School of New Feminist Thought, has created over $26,000,000 in revenue.
I drink iced coffee year-round and when I’m not working you’ll find me reading novels in a hammock by the creek next to my 200-year-old farmhouse upstate, or corralling my family of excitable raccoons (by which I mean husband and step-kids) in a brownstone in Brooklyn. I enjoy cheap pizza, expensive travel, and asking people inappropriately deep questions in social situations.
FAQs:
You've got questions? We've got answers !
“Is coaching a real job? Can I really make a career of this? Aren’t there already a lot of coaches?”
In order: Yes! Yes! And not really!
Listen, I was raised by a New York Jewish family for whom a graduate degree was as expected as kindergarten. Or as our joke went, you could be anything you wanted as long as what you wanted to be was a lawyer, doctor, or professor. So when I decided to become a life coach – on the INTERNET – it seemed crazy to everyone around me. And to me, a little, to be honest!
But it was the best decision I ever made. And there’s room for so many more coaches to be successful. World-wide there are about 100,000 life coaches…and 8 billion people. We need so many more coaches than we have!
Some people were saying that the coaching market was saturated a decade ago when I became a coach, and they have kept saying it, and will keep saying it – while the rest of us are out here building an incredible career, making money, and loving what we do.
Will this program teach me how to market, sell, and build a coaching business as well?
Having watched a decade of new coaches get trained and develop, I feel very strongly that coaching certifications that try to teach you how to coach AND how to build a business at the same time are doing you a huge disservice.
In order to succeed as an entrepreneur, the most important thing you can have is confidence in your product that you are selling. That is what motivates you to get out there, show up, and make offers. (Think about it – in your personal life, when you really love a product or a service, you naturally tell everyone about it right? The same is true of your own work.)
Trying to teach you how to build a business, market and sell your services before you’re confident in them is a terrible idea, and it leads people to making bad strategic decisions, avoid their business, or get paralyzed and never get going – and then that becomes a whole identity and shame spiral in and of itself so they never get traction.
That’s why we offer business-building bonuses that you can use after you’re certified, but we don’t confuse your brain with teaching you business at the same time as teaching you how to coach.
When you join the Socratic Coaching Method Certification you’re going to get a free month in No BS Business, which is a business coaching program run by my friend Corinne Crabtree. She’s the best business coach I know, who built a $13 million a year coaching company before she started business coaching. When you activate your free month after the certification is over you can download all of her business-building materials – and if you like the community, teaching and support in the membership you can always decide to join it on an ongoing basis.
If you sign up in time to get access to the Business Basics Intensive, you’ll also get access once you’re certified to some of my favorite business-building resources that I created and used myself, including exercises I use with clients building businesses to help them identify their niche, create a business plan, develop an initial coaching program, and market it online.
I don’t know if I want to be an entrepreneur and/or a professional full-time coach. Is this certification still for me?
Once upon a time, before coaching was a bit more mainstream, the only way to be a life coach was to become an entrepreneur and business owner too. And for those of us who crave that level of autonomy and adventure, it’s an incredible life.
But these days it’s not the only way to be a coach!
You can be a staff coach in another coach’s business. You can do employee or performance coaching in-house in a corporation or non-coach-related business. You can bring coaching concepts and tools into your existing role in HR, mentorship, or employee development.
You can also use these tools as a therapist or other mental health professional. Like Katy Delagardelle, a LCSW, who went through a previous version of this program shared with us that “After I started implementing this perspective a client said to me: Where did you learn how to be a therapist? Because I’ve been in and out of therapy and I’ve never done it like this.”
A therapist named Sasia Lile, MSW, went through that same prior program and shared with us: “The lens Kara brings is not taught in any of the places I gained education from, and I’m very skilled with CBT and DBT, those were my core curriculum. This brought an entirely new layer to my practice. I specialize in addictions and trauma and this work transformed my relationship with myself and empowered me to facilitate deeper transformation with my patients.”
I’m already a certified coach. Is this certification for me?
Absolutely. The Socratic Coaching Method is a proprietary coaching method I’ve developed, honed, and tested over the last decade – it’s not taught anywhere else.
Whatever coach training you have already completed, this will expand your knowledge base, sharpen your skills, and give you access to and license to use an entire new set of tools and techniques that are not otherwise available for you to use with clients.
Learning to improve your confidence as a coach and learning how to self-assess and improve will also up your coaching game long-term and help you show up more powerfully as a coach.
Here’s what a coach who had been certified by another school who went through a previous iteration of this program said: “I now understand coaching in a way that I was unable to before this program. I can recognize patterns in my clients with their thinking, what they fear and where they’re holding back and now I know why. Before, it felt like I was coaching on the surface and now I can recognize the deeper cause of their issues. This deeper understanding has made me one thousand times more effective as a coach.” – Sandy
Want more on why this certification is a must-have for an already-certified coach?
I love coaching but I’ve experienced a lot of privilege-blindness in coaching spaces. Is that going to be a problem in this certification?
No space is entirely privilege-blindness-free, but The Socratic Coaching Method builds on Kara’s international leadership in bringing an intersectional feminist lens to the coaching world.
We call our coaching method reality-based because it takes into account social, political, legal, and financial systems of power and oppression and teaches coaches how to make space for those realities in their coaching while also empowering clients to see new possibilities for their lives.
Here’s what a student in an earlier version of this program said about participating in it as a woman of color:
Right from the beginning of this course I felt seen and heard as a Black woman. I honestly did not expect it. As a woman that belongs to a number of marginalized groups it was amazing to see myself reflected back in this curriculum and have acknowledgement of my experience in the world!
If you’re thinking about doing the program then the answer should be HELL yes! It has truly upleveled my coaching! – Dr. Sonia Wright
I know Kara’s work directly with clients focuses on feminist confidence coaching. Is this only for people who coach women and/or only open to women students?
This certification is open to anyone of any gender identity who coaches any kind of human!
The first phase of this certification focuses exclusively on foundational coaching tools and processes that applies to anyone with a human brain. And honestly, that phase on its own is worth the cost of admission.
Phase Two of the certification focuses on how social messages impact people’s brains, and how to apply that theory to various areas of clients’ lives. This phase does focus more on gender socialization than other factors, but also covers socialization along identities like race and ethnicity, neurodiversity, body size, age, gender identity and sexuality, etc.
If you plan to coach people socialized as women in whole or in part, it’s invaluable as-is. If you plan to coach exclusively people socialized as men, the concepts will be very useful as a framework for developing your own understanding of how men are socialized and how that impacts their thought patterns. (In fact, if this is you, please let us know post-certification because I’m always looking to connect with folks who coach men around their gender socialization!).
Bottom line: If you plan to coach people with brains, this certification will make you better at doing it.
I’ve taken some of your programs and I know how to coach myself. Can’t I just use those tools as a coach without going through a certification?
Short answer: No, that’s not a good idea.
Longer answer: No, that’s not a good idea for a few reasons.
First, coaching yourself is not the same as coaching someone else. The skills are related, but it’s like practicing handball by yourself v. playing in a live game. Coaching someone else requires a whole set of skills you don’t learn from coaching yourself, especially since other people’s brains will often work differently than yours and they will need coaching on different topics and patterns than you did.
Second, in her coaching programs Kara uses a mix of her own tools and tools she learned in the coach certification she attended. She has a legal license to use the latter set of tools with her clients, but not to use them to certify other coaches. That’s why the Socratic Coaching Method Certification is a unique certification in Kara’s proprietary tools. If you haven’t been certified by a coaching program, you don’t technically have a license to use their intellectual property in your business. When you achieve your SCM certification though, you get a license to use all of our tools with your clients!
The Socratic Coaching Method has changed the lives of thousands of people all over the world.
Now it's time to be part of the movement —
and maybe even create your own.
Choose your experience and enroll now:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Online Experience
January–June, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Live, Group Integration Calls: Join the weekly live teaching and coaching sessions led by Kara and by our small group teaching staff.
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Modules: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment:
$8,000
Payment plan option:
$800/month for 10 months
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
Immersion Experience
January–June, 2026
Immersion Intensive: May 4–8, 2026 in NOLA
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
Your investment:
$16,000
Payment plan option:
$1,600/month for 10 months
**Testimonials on this page were provided by graduates of earlier iterations of this program.
:: A Five-Day, Live Immersion Intensive in New Orleans: Dive into five days of in-person learning, skill-building, and practical coaching.You’ll benefit from early hands-on practice and direct, in-the-moment feedback to sharpen your coaching mastery.
:: In-Person Socratic Coaching Demonstrations: Observe me and your coaches modeling powerful coaching in real time, and apply what you learn with focused practice.
:: Collaborative IRL Community: Build lasting, face-to-face connections with fellow participants, and a support network that extends well beyond the Intensive.
:: Distraction-Free Growth: Fully unplug from your daily routine and immerse yourself in a focused environment designed to accelerate your learning.
:: BONUS: New Professional Headshots: Celebrate your journey with a beautiful new headshot from our trusted photographer — our gift to you in your next chapter.