Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coaching Certificate

Name: Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coaching Certificate
Brand: The Embody Lab
Price: 1234.0 USD
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"Intimacy is not something that just happens between two people; it is a way of being alive." — GENEEN ROTH

EXPLORE THE SCIENCE, STRATEGIES & TOOLS OF EMBODIED INTIMACY

Intimacy is the felt sense of closeness — a bridge to our foundational relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world. This first-of-its-kind 80-hour certificate explores the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy across physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, and spiritual dimensions. Taught by world-renowned relationship experts — including Dr. Sue Johnson, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Emily Morse, and Katherine Woodward Thomas — it prepares you to coach individuals and couples through the full spectrum of connection.

Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coaching Certificate

Overview

Program at a Glance

Are you ready to guide individuals and couples into deeper and more satisfying connection, sex, and sustained relationships?

Are you committed to holistically transforming intimacy challenges and supporting clients in mindful dating, break-up processes, grieving, relationship skills (strategies and tools), resolving sexual concerns, and facilitating embodied awareness and better sex?

Then, we invite you to join us for the first-of-its-kind 80-hour Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate.

This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.

This incredible program brings together world-renowned relationship and attachment experts, somatic sex therapists, and intimacy coaches to guide you in embodying and facilitating this holistic methodology to physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and spiritual intimacy.

Meet Your Lead Faculty

Learn from World-Leading Voices in Trauma Treatment

Internationally recognized leaders bring to life a holistic and unified curriculum.

Kai Cheng Thom

Onika Henry

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Cyndi Darnell

Vanessa Bennett

Amy Chan

Dené Logan

Barbara Carrellas

Jillian Turecki

Sue Johnson (Dr.)

Emily Morse

Laura Berman (Dr.)

Stan Tatkin (Dr.)

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Curriculum

01 MODULE 1: Embodied Self Intimacy & Self Work

• Healing & Whole-Ing: Foundations in Self-Work for Intimacy Coaches
• Befriending Our Bodies: Somatic Self Awareness For Intimacy Coaches
• Mapping the Intimate Body 1: Meeting Our Erotic Self
• Mapping the Intimate Body 2: Developing Personal Practices for Intimacy Coaches

02 MODULE 2: Coaching Skills & Trauma Informed Coaching

• Holding the Intimacy Coaching Frame - Holding the Coach/Client Relationship
• Core Skills For Intimacy & Sex Coaches
• Intimacy Is For Every Body: Diversity & Intimacy Coaching 1
• Intimacy Is For Every Body: Diversity & Intimacy Coaching 2

03 MODULE 3: Adult Attachment & Intimacy Repatterning

• Personal Attachment Mapping
• Attachment in Relationships - Cycle Tracking and Forming Your Secure Anchor
• Development of Bonding and Intimacy
• Intimacy and Eroticism

04 MODULE 4: Somatic Sexology, Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching

• Somatic Sexology
• Somatic Sex Therapy
• Sacred Sexuality
• Coaching Sexual Concerns and Having Better Sex

05 MODULE 5: Coaching Relational Dynamics

• Relationship Coaching 1: Mapping & Assessing the Relational Dynamic
• Relationship Coaching 2: The Relationship Coaching Toolbox
• Relational Shadow Work 1: Illuminating Conflict Dynamics
• Relational Shadow Work 2: Transforming Conflict Dynamics

06 MODULE 6: Coaching for Dating, Break-ups & Grief

• Coaching for Dating
• Coaching for Break Ups
• Generating Self Worth and Coaching Demo
• Coaching for Grief, Dying, and Death

07 MODULE 7: Putting it all together- Embodied Intimacy Coaching Integration

• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 1
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 2
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 3
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 4

What You'll Learn

Skills you'll carry into your practice

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Help clients embrace the uniqueness of their bodies to lead to increased confidence, both in and out of intimate settings.
Various exercises and reflections to discover more about your emotional and physical needs.
How to express and fulfill one's needs to empower and enhance overall self-esteem.
Address and heal from past experiences, traumas, or negative conditioning around intimacy.
Identify and change unhealthy patterns in relationships.
Rebuild trust after experiencing betrayal or harm in past relationships.
How to reignite emotional and physical intimacy.
Understand and balance power dynamics within a relationship, ensuring a healthier, more equal partnership.
By addressing intimacy, individuals often find improvements in other areas of life, such as reduced stress, better mental health, and a sense of overall well-being.
Effective communication skills to better articulate your and your clients’ needs, desires, and boundaries.
Better understand and respond to your own and other people's emotional states.
Improved communication skills help resolve conflicts more constructively and enable active work on cycles of rupture and repair.
Greater body awareness that can lead to more fulfilling sexual experiences.
Skills to have safe and open discussions about sexual needs and fantasies.
How to overcome challenges like low libido, erectile dysfunction, or discomfort during sex.
Address interpersonal and cultural power dynamics, colonization of the body, and internalized shame to help clients be more pleasure-centered and experience greater power and freedom.
Deepen spiritual connection by aligning intimate experiences with personal beliefs and values.
How to maintain intimacy as relationships grow and change over time.

Self-Paced & On-Demand

This certificate program is fully on-demand. All seven modules are available immediately upon enrollment, allowing you to move through the curriculum at your own pace.

Lifetime Access

Once enrolled, you have lifetime access to all course recordings, supporting materials, and downloadable resources — return as often as needed throughout your clinical practice.

Completion Timeframe

Most participants complete the 60-hour curriculum over 3–6 months, though there is no required pace. The program is designed to be integrated alongside an active clinical practice.

Zoom:

The live portion will be offered using Zoom in meeting format, allowing instructors and students to interact and participate in breakout sessions.

Online Learning Platform:

Detailed schedule and reminder emails
How to access via Zoom
All recordings available within 48 hours
Supporting materials including PDFs

Accessibility:

Download video or audio to your computer
Lifetime access to the content
Live captioning and transcripts in English

Requirements to receive the Certificate:

Attend the live sessions or watch the recordings
Complete any required assignments or reflections
Participate in supervision groups (where applicable)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions, answered

Who is this program designed for?

This program is a certification process that distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as: Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals.

This is an education program and not a licenser program.

What are the dates, schedule and time commitment?

This 80-hour certificate program includes 7 Modules, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. There are also 10 hours of bonus material and talks.

All sessions are available to be completed online via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.

MODULE 1 - Embodied Self Intimacy & Self Work
MODULE 2 - Coaching Skills & Trauma Informed Coaching
MODULE 3 - Adult Attachment & Intimacy Repatterning
SPECIAL CLASS - Interview with Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Scott Lyons and Kai Cheng Thom
MODULE 4 - Somatic Sexology, Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching
SPECIAL CLASS - with Dr. Emily Morse
INTEGRATION SESSION - with Cyndi Darnell, Kai Cheng Thom and Dr. Scott Lyons
MODULE 5 - Coaching Relational Dynamics
MODULE 6 - Coaching for Dating, Break-ups & Grief
SPECIAL CLASS - Conscious Uncoupling with Katherine Woodward Thomas
MODULE 7 - Putting It All Together - Embodied Intimacy Coaching Integration

Is there an orientation session?

There was an orientation session offered during the live program.

Do I need to attend live or am I able to watch recordings?

All live sessions were recorded so students may now watch in their own time (more information below). Please note, captioning was only available during live sessions.

How can I interact with the instructors? Will I receive guidance?

During each of the live sessions, the instructors had a Q&A period where students could ask questions. Three community connections were also offered with one of the co-directors of the program and special guests. A private online community forum was also provided for the certificate.

What are the homework requirements?

There were no homework assignments for the program.

Do you offer scholarships?

Scholarships were only available for the live program.

Is there a deadline for registration?

There is no deadline for registration.

Do you offer refunds?

We offer a Registration Guarantee which means that if you register but decide the course isn’t right for you, we’ll refund your course fee - no questions asked - up to 48 hours before the course start date.

How can I access the online course?

ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: Once registered, students receive access to our online learning platform which includes all the information about the certificate, including:

On-demand videos of all the sessions
Supporting materials provided by your instructors

ACCESSIBILITY | Video / Audio: Within our online learning platform, students can watch the videos within their online library or download the videos or audio files to their computers. Students enjoy lifetime access to the content. ACCESSIBILITY | Live Captioning / Transcripts: Captioning was only offered during the live sessions. Transcripts are offered in English. ACCESSIBILITY | Reading Lists: The reading list includes items available at the public library or provided as a PDF wherever possible. PDFs of the instructor’s presentation are also provided.

Is this a summit?

No, this is an integrated curriculum co-created by the faculty. The faculty are colleagues in this program. They are working together to make sure each individual module is cohesive with the entire curriculum. Every teacher is informed about what is coming before and what is coming after and integrating their curriculum based on that information.

Is this a theoretical or practical (experiential) program?

While some theory will be presented to support the learning, the primary focus of the practice is experiential, giving practical tools for the participants.

Will I receive a certificate?

Students receive a certificate of completion once they have

Watched all the program videos.
Completed the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms for each module.
Completed 10 hours of Practice Coaching Sessions outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program.
Submitted full payment.

Will Continuing Education hours (CEs) be offered?

CE’S with the American Psychological Association (APA) 48 hours of Continuing Education for Health Professionals were available for this program. Please note: *Live* attendance was required. Below is more information on the health professionals which may be eligible for CEs through the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program.

CE hours for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.

FROM A DIFFERENT STATE OR COUNTRY? Health professionals from a state or country outside of California need to check with their licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA). DIFFERENT CREDENTIAL? If your credential is not listed, please check with your licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA). The SCA and The Embody Lab are not able to determine your eligibility.

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