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World-Class Couples Coach Training & Professional Certification

Key Takeaways

  • RCI’s couples coach training program equips coaches with a framework and tools necessary for effective couples coaching.
  • The training caters to therapists, aspiring coaches, experienced coaches, pastors and faith leaders looking to specialize in couples work.
  • Participants learn to coach couples at all relationship stages, from pre-commitment to advanced partnerships.
  • RCI offers business and marketing support to help coaches attract clients and build a successful coaching business.
  • RCI’s couples coach training program includes practical skills development, mentoring and ongoing support for getting and helping your couple clients.

Coaching a couple requires a completely different skillset than coaching an individual. If you are ready to master the delicate “dance” of working with two partners simultaneously, our comprehensive couples coach training program gives you the exact framework, tools, and confidence you need. Whether you are brand new to coaching, already a trained coach, transitioning out of traditional therapy or launching a new practice, our couples coaching certification equips you to guide partners from pre-commitment to radical intimacy.

RCI’s Couples Coach Training Program is designed to provide you the skills, support and confidence needed to help couples have successful and fulfilling relationships. All course materials, classes and skills practice labs for this couples coach certification program are online and can be done at your own pace!

RCI’s Couples Coach Training Program is For:

  • Therapists & Counselors: Break free from insurance limitations, the medical model, and focusing on pathology. Step into empowering future-focused, growth-oriented coaching.
  • Aspiring & New Coaches: Claim one of the most in-demand, high-fee niches in the coaching industry with a turnkey, step-by-step framework.
  • Experienced Coaches: Add a robust, proprietary couples framework that differentiates you in a crowded market.
  • Pastors and Faith Leaders: Support the couples in your community to have successful relationships via classes, groups, retreats as well as 1:1

RCI’s Couples Coach trainings prepare you to coach couples at all stages, including:

  • Pre-Committed and Pre-Marital Couples: Master the process of coaching dating, pre-committed and pre-marital couples, living-together arrangements (“LTAs”), and all the variations of couple relationships that are together but not formally committed.
  • Committed Couples: This training provides the coaching skills and tools for helping Committed Couples resolve their differences, communicate effectively, and build/re-build a functional and fulfilling relationship.
  • Advanced Partnerships: 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.

RCI provides unparalleled business and marketing support to help you get clients and build a highly successful coaching business:

  • Master a Proven, Proprietary Methodology: Become a Radical Marriage® Coach and learn the industry-leading Radical Marriage coaching program to guide your couple clients step-by-step to living happily ever after.
  • Build a Thriving Practice, Not Just a Skillset: Go beyond coaching theory with our Coaching Business Success System™ and get experienced mentoring and support for how to package your services, enroll paying clients, and launch a successful coaching business.
  • Fast-Track Your Professional Credibility: Earn 60+ coach training hours that seamlessly apply toward your International Coaching Federation (ICF) credential via the portfolio track (if desired).
  • Gain Real-World Confidence Through Practice: Hone your skills in RCI’s live video classes and practice labs with our mentors and get honest, real-time feedback in a safe setting to become a masterful coach.
  • You’re Never Alone: When you become a member of RCI, in addition to all the above, you’ll have access to unlimited support and mentoring, and a supportive community of RCI members from all over the world.

And you’ll be amazed at how easy we make it for you to get paying clients and help them achieve the relationship of their dreams:

  • Done-For-You Client Attraction & Marketing Materials: Skip the guesswork with ready-to-use marketing resources and assets designed specifically to help you attract, convert, and enroll couples into your business with ease.
  • “Out-of-the-Box” Radical Marriage® Curricula: Launch instantly across multiple revenue streams with fully developed, plug-and-play programs spanning coaching packages, workshops, webinars, presentations, classes, and retreats.

How to Become a Professional Couples Coach with RCI:

01
Join RCI

Become a member to unlock all the training and business-building support you need for success right from day one.

02
Start Your Training

Master the essential skills, competencies, and proven tools needed to help couples live happily ever after with our expert guidance.

03
Implement RCI’s Coaching Business Success System™

Follow our step-by-step framework to design and build a highly successful, profitable coaching business.

04
Plan Your Core Services

Define your offerings, including 1:1 coaching, group programs, workshops, classes, and retreats tailored to your ideal clients. Use our proven Radical Marriage® program or your own!

05
Build Your Marketing Funnel

Map out your path from prospect to paying client using effective strategies like social media promotion to drive traffic to low-cost classes or workshops. Market under our Radical Marriage® brand or your own!

06
Leverage “Business in a Box” Resources

Select from ready-to-use RCI resources, including “done-for-you” Radical Marriage® marketing campaigns, webinars, and program materials.

07
Launch & Grow

Launch your new coaching business with confidence and enjoy the ride—knowing we continue to help you for as long as you want our help!

✨ Yes, we genuinely support you every step of the way!

What Our Members Say About RCI’s Couples Coach Training

Robert Clarke

“I highly recommend Relationship Coaching Institute. Their professionalism, training and the support to become a fantastic coach is outstanding.”

Robert Clarke, Relationship Coach for Couples

Yasmin Abouelhassan

“I just completed my Couples Coach Training and it was a wonderful experience.  RCI is unique in the richness of their training materials, incredible support and feedback throughout the training program. The entire training team is highly professional, experienced and supportive.

The Knowledge is presented in ways that together create deep understanding and application and supported me to be true to who I am as a coach and as a person.

I’m proud to be an RCI graduate.”

Yasmin Abouelhassan

Diane Schaffer

“I just finished Couples Coach Training and I have been so pleased with my journey with RCI. The level of their support, information, guidance, enthusiasm, professionalism and competence is remarkable. We all wanted the class to continue. How fortunate we are to have trainer and mentors of such high caliber- competent, knowledgeable and willing to go beyond. Thank you!”

Diane Schaffer, Relationship Coach

Gary Robertson, Couples Therapist

“I have worked as couples therapist for 18 years and I’ve learned many new things in this class and was given tools that I wish I had much earlier. I am fully “In” on coaching and glad to leave the therapy world behind. This training has renewed and revitalizing my passion for helping couples. I am excited again!

RCI’s approach to helping pre-committed and pre-marital couples is a real breakthrough. I have worked for years with couples, have completed three levels of Gottman training. I have also used Prep, Prepare and Imago resources. I also did premarital couples counseling for years as a Presbyterian minister.

I have not seen anything like this anywhere else. I now have the tools, strategies, paradigms and concepts to help couples find partners for life and avoid relationships that are broken and don’t work. Tremendous!!”

Gary Robertson

Brooke Miller, Couples Therapist

“RCI’s Couples Training was such an amazing experience in so many ways! It was clear, insightful and practical, distilling complex material into simple, accessible truths with concrete suggestions for implementation. My work as a therapist has been positively impacted by many things I have learned in this program, and my work as a Relationship Coach now has a solid foundation to build on. On a personal level, I have learned what is possible and how to reverse-engineer the relationship of my dreams! Many, many thanks for all of the invaluable information and support.

I have found all of RCI’s training materials to be clear, insightful, distilling complex material into simple, accessible truths with concrete suggestions for implementation. My instructor was always so warm, approachable, positive and did such a wonderful job of helping us master the training skills, coaching tools, and answering questions about them. I am so grateful I made the decision to join RCI!

Brooke Miller, LCSW, CPC

Megan Darling

Megan Darling

RCI’s couples coach training program is the absolute best in it’s field.  The classes and training materials are exceptional.  RCI is helping couples worldwide to live more fulfilled and connected lives together.

Megan Darling

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