Deepen Your Knowledge. Strengthen Your Ability to Help.
Different mental and behavioral health challenges require different knowledge. Begin with the specialty most relevant to the people you serve, then build the practical skills to recognize concerns, offer compassionate help, and connect individuals with appropriate care. Mental Health Coach Training includes real-life scenarios, interactive activities, actionable steps, plus one specialty of your choice.
Explore specialties
Explore Mental Health Specialties
Select a specialty to learn what it covers and how you can apply those skills when helping others.
Trauma
Understand how traumatic experiences can affect a person’s ability to cope, connect with others, and move forward.
What You’ll Learn
Recognize signs of trauma, long-term trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and adverse childhood experiences. Learn ways to compassionately help people affected by trauma as they pursue healing and recovery.
How You Can Apply It
Use these skills to recognize when trauma may be influencing someone’s behavior, communicate with greater compassion, and help connect them with appropriate resources and professional care.
Addiction and Behavioral Health Disorders
Explore how addiction and behavioral health disorders develop and influence emotional wellness, relationships, and daily life.
What You’ll Learn
Recognize signs of substance misuse, behavioral addictions, eating disorders, and self-harm. Explore how addiction affects the body’s reward system and learn about recovery, positive coping, treatment, and referral options.
How You Can Apply It
Help individuals and loved ones better understand these behaviors, encourage positive coping strategies, and navigate the recovery process.
Aging and Elder Care
Build the knowledge to help older adults and caregivers navigate the mental health challenges that can accompany aging.
What You’ll Learn
Explore common challenges affecting older adults and caregivers, ethical considerations, caregiver needs, resilience, autonomy, and the role of spirituality in finding meaning throughout the aging process.
How You Can Apply It
Use what you learn to encourage older adults, help caregivers feel better equipped, support informed decision-making, and connect individuals and families with helpful resources.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Learn to recognize mental and behavioral health concerns early and help families find the care and resources they need.
What You’ll Learn
Identify signs of common mental health challenges in children and adolescents, understand factors that affect their well-being, and learn how parents and caregivers can create a supportive home environment.
How You Can Apply It
Use these skills to begin compassionate conversations, assist parents and caregivers, and help families follow the appropriate steps for professional care.
Specialized knowledge is one part of effective support. Mental Health Coach Training also develops practical skills for listening, navigating difficult conversations, maintaining healthy boundaries, and connecting people with appropriate care.
The Complete Mental Health Coach Training Experience
As you explore the specialty most relevant to the people you serve, see how it fits within the complete Mental Health Coach Training experience. The training prepares you to offer help, hope, and encouragement to people navigating mental and behavioral health challenges. Through practical scenarios and actionable steps, you will learn how to establish your role, uphold ethics and confidentiality, build a referral network, use specialized resources, and create a plan for serving your community.
Your training includes the core Mental Health Coach curriculum plus one specialty of your choice, allowing you to develop deeper knowledge in the area most relevant to the people you serve.
See What Your Training Includes
- Mental Health Coach Training featuring essential information, practical tools, real-life scenarios, and actionable steps.
- One specialty training in the area of your choice.
- A free copy of reImagine: A Holistic Approach to Mental Wellness and Recovery by Matthew Stanford, Ph.D., and Joe Padilla, with a workbook to help guide your Mental Health Coach practice.
- Free Transformed Groups curricula for leading support groups.
- Access to a community map where you can share your contact information and find resources in your area.
- Access to the Mental Health Coach forum, where you can connect with other Mental Health Coaches.
Choose Your Specialty and Begin Your Training
Select the specialty you want included with your Mental Health Coach Training.
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