This training will give you a big-picture understanding of lesbian patterns, so you can give your clients a map they've never had -- and it will also give you tangible tools to help your clients rapidly change problematic patterns in their dating and relationship lives.  

Taking the CGA coach training can be an end in itself, or the first step on your path to applying for CGA certification (additional fees apply.) Once certified, you may also choose to list on our website, and participate in offering CGA courses and events. This is the best way we know of for new LGBTQ coaches to get seen by thousands of motivated potential clients! 

Coaching is a self-regulated profession that offers far more flexibility than psychotherapy, which is one reason that many licensed therapists also develop coaching practices. For instance, coaches may work across state and national lines. Coaches are also more free to explicitly draw from personal experience in their work. CGA coaching lacks the top-down feel of some forms of psychotherapy, and is a client-centered, radically affirming and empowering approach. 

Of course you are. You're human. The good news is that understanding our clients' challenges from the inside actually makes us more effective coaches -- plus, the training will not only prepare you to help others, but will also give you a greater skill-set and community to support you in your own life. 

Yes. You may take the training and decide later if you want to develop a coaching practice.  

We are grateful for our allies! However, at this time the CGA Coach Training is only for self-identified women and adjacent non-binary people who love women, or want to.   

Although Conscious Girlfriend coaching is not a replacement for deep attachment work, somatic trauma healing, or other psychotherapeutic work, it offers a faster, more affordable, skills-based source of help. Plus, just as CG coaching is not a replacement for therapy, therapy is not a replacement for CG coaching. Many women who have done years or decades of therapy still benefit from Conscious Girlfriend skills to help them with lesbian/queer dating and love.

Conscious Girlfriend coaching includes psychoeducation, empathy, insight inquiry, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, brain rewiring tools, and cognitive behavioral work. 

Yes, although working with couples generally requires additional training due to its complexity. 

Yes. However, if you wish to become certified, you must also have or obtain additional certification or licensure in coaching, counseling or therapy. 

This is a 6-month, 60-live-hour training with over 60 hours of additional recorded content. Regular tuition is $3297, but you can save $400 on the early bird registration fee by signing up before the early bird deadline. We also offer scholarships to increase accessibility, so please don't let money stop you from applying. 

This coach training is priced low for its level of live depth. For instance, Coach Training at the Relationship School costs $10-15K for a program of only 32 hours. Training at the Personal Development School costs only $2500 but lasts only 60 days and is almost all pre-recorded. Also, CGA is unique in providing a robust private practice growth path and very strong referral base for our certified coaches.