Get your Life Coaching for Crisis Pregnancy Certificate Today!

Course Description

When crisis pregnancies occur, the mother is left confused and scared, struggling to understand what steps to take. It is at this point where crisis counselors are most needed to come alongside these women with guidance and support. This introductory course is designed to offer foundational training in understanding the core issues related to crisis pregnancy coaching and caregiving. Participants will learn essential people-helping skills, basic crisis intervention, strategies to address appropriate self-identity and relational concerns, and how to effectively integrate faith-based concepts into the overall delivery of care.

Course Description

Building upon the information from Crisis Pregnancy Coaching 101, this course dives deeper into the issues and challenges that counselors face when working with pregnant clients. Counselors will learn how to deal with relevant and difficult issues such as the ethics of abortion, unresolved trauma, rape, complicated grief, and more.

Trauma-informed coaches are knowledgeable about the tell-tale signs of trauma but are not qualified to treat trauma. In fact, tasking someone who is not a licensed professional with treating trauma could result in the re-traumatization of a client.  

Trauma-informed coaching is a skill that entails being able to recognize the signs of trauma, deftly bringing the client to a place of mental stability and referring the person to a licensed professional who is able to treat the trauma.

There are several differences between a coach and a therapist, though the most notable distinction is that therapists are licensed professionals while coaches are not. As such, the treatment strategies of therapists differ from those used by coaches.  

While therapists often seek to help their clients recover from mental illness. Areas of treatment for therapists include, but are not limited to: 

• Addictions 
• Anxiety 
• Bipolar disorder 

• Clinical depression 
• Trauma 

On the other hand, coaches do not seek to help their clients recover from mental illness. Instead, coaches focus more on the development of positive thinking patterns.

Though the coaching niche is unregulated, no certifications are needed to become a coach, proper training is strongly advised. Think about it – you wouldn’t want to learn baseball from someone who never played, would you? 

If you’d like to become a trauma-informed coach who can confidently identify signs of trauma and refer people to the correct licensed professional, Light’s online crisis response and trauma-informed care certification program is an excellent fit. With training that covers topics ranging from how children react to crises, anxiety and depression, and trauma attachment theory, our trauma-informed certification doesn’t just benefit you – it benefits those you serve.

Life coaches cannot, and should not try, to treat trauma. Coaches who attempt to treat trauma may re-traumatize their clients and further agitate deep emotional wounds. Trauma treatment is reserved for licensed mental health professionals alone.