Training
RCI’s Relationship Coach Training: Your Pathway to a Deeply Rewarding Profession That Transforms Lives
Transform your passion for helping others into a thriving, high-impact career. Our professional training program provides you with a complete, step-by-step methodology and turn-key coaching systems to guide clients at every stage of their relationship journey—from personal readiness to extraordinary marital bliss.
Whether you already serve the public as a helping professional, minister or coach, or if you are looking to make a career change, your path to transforming lives and relationships begins with RCI’s Relationship Coach training. For 30 years our program has a proven track record aligned with the standards of the International Coach Federation, so you can trust that we provide the top-notch training needed to make you a confident, effective, successful relationship coach.
Key Takeaways
- Relationship coach training empowers coaches to help individuals and couples achieve their desired lives.
- RCI offers a comprehensive program based on ICF Core Competencies, ensuring high standards in coaching.
- The training consists of three parts: Foundational Skills, Singles, and Couples coaching, each with specific curriculums.
- The program emphasizes practical experience through a ‘learning by doing’ approach, enabling early client interactions.
- Membership at RCI provides ongoing support and resources for coaches to thrive as self employed professionals.
Once you master your coaching skills through RCI’s relationship coach training and certification program, there is no limit to where you – and your clients – can go. A strong coaching foundation is essential, so our Relationship Coach Training Program begins with a foundational relationship coach training and includes advanced courses to work with singles and couples.
Our philosophy:
RCI utilizes a “learning by doing” training approach as becoming a skilled coach requires practicing coaching skills. Expect to start obtaining and coaching clients early in your relationship coach training.
There are three primary parts to our Relationship Coach Training and Certification program:
Our Relationship Coach Training Program provides 60+ training hours and is composed of these three parts:
- Foundations of Relationship Coaching addresses the skills necessary to become a masterful, professional relationship coach and provides you an in-depth exploration of the ICF Code of Ethics and Core Competencies.
- Relationship Coaching for Singles provides the necessary education, skills, strategies and tools to help singles experience relationship fulfillment. While most singles desire a lasting primary relationship, many singles in today’s world prefer alternative lifestyles other than traditional marriage and this program prepares trainees to coach all types of singles, including never-married, divorced, widowed, and those who are single as a permanent lifestyle choice. Includes licensing of branded marketing campaigns, workshops/classes, and coaching programs such as Conscious Dating® and Radical Dating®.
- Relationship Coaching for Couples provides the necessary education, skills, strategies, and tools to help new (dating), pre-committed, pre-marital, and committed couples experience relationship fulfillment, as well as individuals who have goals and challenges regarding a particular relationship. Includes licensing of branded marketing campaigns, seminars, workshops, classes and coaching programs such as Couple for Life™ and Radical Marriage®.
Please Note: Foundations of Relationship Coaching is required, but you can choose whether to take our Singles Coach trainings or Couples Coach trainings, or both!
RCI’s Relationship Coach training curriculum includes:
1. Foundations of Relationship Coaching
Master the art and science of professional coaching and provide deep, lasting transformation for your clients. This training includes the latest ICF Core Competencies and Code of Ethics. We help you master foundational coaching skills and practice putting those skills into action!
In this training you’ll learn how to:
- Lead coaching sessions with unshakeable confidence, clarity, and structural focus.
- Ask powerful, client-centered questions that unlock deep self-awareness and spur decisive action.
- Keep 100% of the focus on the client, empowering them as the true expert of their own life.
- Establish professional boundaries and accountability structures that build lasting trust.
This training module provides you the skills required to build strong trust, foster accountability, and stand out as a highly effective professional coach.
2: Client Enrollment and Relationship Coaching Paradigms
This training helps you master how to enroll new clients, conduct an effective Intake process to set your client up for success, and how to use our most popular and commonly used relationship coaching paradigms and tools for singles and couples.
In This Training You’ll Learn:
- How to Enroll Paying Clients
- Intake of New Clients
- Basics of Coaching Singles and Couples
- RCI’s Most Commonly Used Relationship Coaching Paradigms and Tools
- How to Coach Client Obstacles and Challenges to Success
This training gives you a solid foundation for launching your new relationship coaching practice, and coupled with our proprietary Coaching Business Success System™ you’ll have everything you need to build a highly successful coaching business!
Singles Relationship Coach Trainings
3: Conscious Dating® Part One: Relationship Readiness
Learn how to help single clients break free from negative relationship patterns, discover what they truly want, and build unshakeable self-worth before they jump back into the dating world.
In This Training You’ll Learn How To:
- Help your clients gain absolute clarity on their personal vision, core values, and non-negotiable criteria for a partner.
- Guide your clients to resolve past baggage and eliminate self-sabotaging choices that keep them stuck.
- Empower your clients to embrace their worth so they stop settling and begin making conscious, intentional dating and relationship choices.
The Transformation You’ll Deliver: Help your frustrated single clients finally find the love of their life and the life that they love!
4: Conscious Dating® Part Two: Dating / Attraction
Gain the specialized tools to coach singles as they actively navigate the modern dating landscape, helping them effortlessly find, attract and select their highly compatible, ideal life partner.
In This Training You’ll Learn How To:
- Equip your clients with practical strategies to scout, screen, and test potential partners without wasting time or energy.
- Support your clients to set firm boundaries, avoid common dating traps, and navigate modern dating platforms & venues with ease.
- Leverage group coaching models to provide clients with a supportive community and ongoing accountability.
The Transformation You’ll Deliver: Helping your frustrated single clients to navigate dating with clarity, confidence, and efficiency, to finally find the love of their life (and the life that they love)!
Couples Relationship Coach Trainings
5: Coaching Pre-Committed & Premarital Couples
Master the process of coaching dating couples through the vital stage of evaluating long-term compatibility, helping them answer the ultimate question: “Is this the one?” This program includes coaching pre-committed and pre-marital couples, living-together arrangements (“LTAs”), and all the variations of couple relationships that are together but not formally committed.
In This Training You’ll Learn How To:
- Guide couples through a structured discovery process to evaluate deep alignment in life goals, values, and long term vision.
- Facilitate objective, stress-free conversations that uncover hidden deal-breakers before major commitments are made.
- Empower couples to make a clear, confident decision—whether to move forward into a lifetime union or gracefully part ways.
The Transformation You’ll Deliver: Facilitate objective decisions to protect your clients from yet another painful, costly relationship failure and ensure they have the compatibility, skills, and solid foundation for a successful future together.
6: Coaching Committed Couples
This program provides coaching skills and tools for helping Committed Couples resolve their differences, communicate effectively, and build/re-build a functional and fulfilling relationship.
In This Training You’ll Learn How To:
- Help couples build essential relationship skills, from constructive conflict resolution to clear, authentic communication.
- Guide partners to align their finances, responsibilities, and lifestyles into a seamless, co-created plan for the future.
- Transform reactive relationship habits into a resilient, highly supportive team dynamic.
The Transformation You’ll Deliver: Gives couples the practical tools and roadmap they need to navigate life’s challenges and build a strong, lifelong bond.
7: Coaching Advanced Partnerships / Radical Marriage®
Learn advanced coaching methodologies to help established couples reignite passion, deepen intimacy, and elevate a good marriage into an extraordinary, radical partnership. This program provides specific coaching tools and skills for helping functional, committed couples who want to deepen their level of intimacy and connection and includes the skills, paradigms and tools of our innovative Radical Marriage® coaching program.
In This Training You’ll Learn How To:
- Guide long-term couples to unlock new levels of emotional, physical, and spiritual connection.
- Help partners break through stagnation and rediscover excitement, shared purpose, and romance.
- Support couples in creating a lasting legacy of love that continues to grow and evolve over a lifetime.
The Transformation You’ll Deliver: Re-energize mature relationships and transform routine marriages into vibrant, deeply fulfilling unions living “beyond happily ever after.”
Take just the relationship coach training you want or need:
Although most relationship coaches work with both singles and couples, you may want to focus your business on just one of these specialties. Click on the links below to see what the curriculum is for working just with singles, or just with couples.
Why Train with Us?
- Turn-Key Coaching Systems: Receive complete, client-ready workbooks, templates, and session tools and frameworks so you can start coaching immediately.
- Proven Methodology: Grounded in 3 decades of professional coaching practice and structured around ICF Core Competencies.
- Flexible Learning Tracks: Enroll in individual tracks to target specific niches or complete the entire program to help singles and all forms of couple relationships.
- Community & Mentorship: Connect with a supportive network of professional coaches, trainers and mentors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need prior coaching experience to enroll?
No prior experience is required. Our Foundations of Relationship Coaching track provides all the core competencies, session structures, and skills training needed to begin coaching confidently.
Are these programs aligned with ICF standards?
Yes. Our training framework embeds International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competencies throughout, ensuring high professional standards, ethical boundaries, and client-centered methodologies. You will be able to apply 60+ training hours towards your ICF certification via their portfolio path (if desired).
Will I receive ready-to-use materials for my clients?
Yes. Each specialized track includes turn-key client workbooks, exercise templates, and step-by-step session plans that you can immediately integrate into your practice.
How are the classes delivered?
Programs feature interactive live virtual modules, practice sessions, and study resources that fully cover how to coach singles and couples in a step-by-step format.
Ready to Build a High-Impact Relationship Coaching Practice?
Take the next step in your professional journey. Contact us to find the right training path for your goals.
Training Schedules and Eligibility
Our coach training program is currently being redesigned to offer a more flexible, hybrid learning experience. Beginning January 2027, you will be able to start when you’re ready, move through the curriculum at a pace that fits your life, and receive support through a blend of structured lessons, live practice, and community engagement.
