Coaching for Psychologists is a comprehensive program designed for registered psychologists looking to expand their expertise, enhance their client impact, and seamlessly integrate coaching into their practice. Whether you're an early-career psychologist or a seasoned practitioner with limited coaching experience, this course will equip you with evidence-based coaching techniques and practical skills to elevate your professional offerings. 

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The key objectives of the course are for participants to:

• Extend your awareness and understanding of the evidence base, principles and intervention techniques for coaching psychology

• Gain a greater insight into your strengths and areas for development as a psychologist coach

• Broaden and build on your existing psychologist capabilities into the coaching domain

• Develop your coaching knowledge and skills though observation, practice, feedback and

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• Gain a clearer understanding of coaching applications across different domains

• Understand how to position yourself amongst other coaches in the market as an psychologist

 

Coaching for Psychologists is a comprehensive program covering:

 

• Introduction to coaching, coaching psychology and coaching competencies

• Developing the coaching alliance 

• Assessing and developing an understanding of your client 

• Basic approaches to coaching interventions - goal focused approaches and cognitive behavioural coaching

• More advanced approaches to coaching techniques including ACT, narrative, and positive psychological interventions

• Applications of coaching including leadership, executive coaching, personal growth and development, and organisational change 

• Multiple opportunities to observe, practise and receive feedback on your coaching. 

• Coaching demonstrations, case studies and extensive resources and relevant literature 

 

What's involved? Choose the learning path that works for you

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You can complete the Coaching for Psychologists program in one of three ways:

1. Full online program - online learning modules plus online experiential workshops,

2. Full combined program - online learning modules plus in-person experiential workshops, or

3. Self-paced online program - online learning modules only.

 

Option 1: Full online program

Includes six interactive 2-hour online workshops via Zoom. These will give participants an opportunity to discuss the online content, along with opportunities to practice the models and coaching techniques provided in each module, and to receive feedback on their practice.

 

Workshops run on alternate Tuesday evenings commencing at 5:30pm (Sydney time). The first 2025 session is planned to have the first workshop on Tuesday, April 15th.

 

Option 2: Full combined program

Provides the opportunity for the same experiential learnings but through two in-person, full day workshops. These will be run over two Saturdays, spaced a fortnight apart. We expect to hold these mid year with the exactly dates to be confirmed soon. The first of these will be held in Sydney but if there is sufficient demand, we can hold these in other capital cities.

 

Bonus for Full Program Participants

Both full programs also include two 1-on-1 coaching sessions with David. The first will be at the beginning of the program, soon after you enrol and the second is towards the end of the program. The purpose of these is to help you and David to align your expectations and learning goals with the course content. It also gives you an opportunity to observe coaching in action and gain the experience of being a coachee.

 

Option 3: Self-paced online modules

Our preference is for participants to undertake the full programs but we understand that not everyone may have the time and resources to meet the workshop commitments at this time. Option 3 will give psychologists who are interested in learning more about coaching psychology to explore the area and help decide if they are interested in pursuing this further. This may be followed up later by attending the workshops or undertaking supervised practice with an experienced coaching psychologist.

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Foundation online learning modules

The online program is organised into six modules. The content of each module provides answers to the why, what and how of each topic. The emphasis is on evidence based psychological models and practices that are widely used and accepted as best practice in wide psychological applications as well as coaching. The flow of these is intended to replicate how a coaching assignment proceeds: the introduction and exchanging of expectations between the coach and coachee, developing an alliance relationship, finding out about the coachee, undertaking the intervention, and at the end looking back at what has been learned and achieved, then looking ahead post-program.

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Program Fees

Our fees for the three options are:

1. Full online program - online learning modules plus online experiential workshops - $1980 inc GST

2. Full combined program - online learning modules plus in-person experiential workshops - $2310 inc GST

3. Self-paced online program - online learning modules only - $660 inc GST

 

For non-Australians, your fees for the online content only program would be AUD$600 (GST not applicable).

 

The program author and facilitator is David Heap, a leading organisational and coaching psychologist with over thirty years of professional experience. He is deeply experienced in coaching executives and senior professionals to improve their leadership, personal performance, and career success. He has worked for Deloitte, KPMG, Right Management and PA Consulting Group as well as founding and running several consulting firms. He has been the Chair of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists and the National Convenor of the APS Interest Group in Coaching Psychology. David is an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University, he was head of the Coaching and Management streams at ACAP and taught Executive MBA students at AGSM.

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Further details can be found at:

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​Welcome to Coaching for Psychologists 

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"Over the past few months, I’ve been diving deeper into what it means to coach as a psychologist through the Coaching for Psychologists program.
This program provided a great forum to unpack the nuances and layers of our practice while learning from and alongside an incredible group of professionals.
Big thank you to David Heap for holding the space so well and to my peers for being so open and eager to share your learnings and experiences."

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Tayla Stucke 

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"Thank you, David Heap, for hosting such an insightful and rewarding course! This is a fantastic course that brings research and evidence into practical coaching techniques, equipping us to confidently coach others by building on our existing knowledge and skills as psychologists."

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Kaitlyn Fung

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"For any Psychologists (provisional or registered across org, sport/performance or more clinical/counselling psych backgrounds), I highly recommend this program. I agree with points made by Kaitlyn Fung. This course gives Psychologists an ideal opportunity to build practical skills and explore coaching in depth."

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Allan O