Your brain has a long list of reasons you're not ready to become a coach. It's a very convincing list. It's also wrong.
Your brain has a long list of reasons you’re not ready to become a coach. It’s a very convincing list. It’s also wrong.
The Socratic Coaching Method Certification gives you the tools, the training, and the confidence to coach anyone, starting with your very first client.
The Socratic Coaching Method Certification
The only certification built and taught by Master Certified Coach Kara Loewentheil: Yale and Harvard Law graduate, host of the top-charting UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, and author of the New York Times bestseller Take Back Your Brain. So you learn to coach with a level of intellectual rigor most of the industry can’t approach, and you walk away with a license to use her proprietary tools with your own clients.
Psst: If you're already a coach, therapist, or other mental health professional?
Coaching or thought work has changed your life.
And you've been secretly dreaming of becoming a coach.
Making a difference in the world and doing meaningful work?
Living the fulfillment of a purposeful life in a world that needs positive purpose more than ever?
While making more money than you thought was possible for you?
Whether that’s retiring your partner, fully funding college for your kids, buying a vacation home, or creating generational wealth?
From anywhere in the world?
Coaching calls on a laptop in the jungles of Costa Rica? Leading a retreat in a French chateau?
With having total control over your time and your schedule?
Working according to your brain and body’s preferred schedule and your family’s needs?
What’s not to love?
But you’ve got the natural questions and concerns, like:
“Where would I even start?”
“Do I really have what it takes to do this?”
“Is everyone going to think I’m crazy if I try?”
I had all the same questions when I was deciding whether to get certified as a coach.
Plus a lot more, like …
“What if I’m not any good at this?”
“What if someone brings me something serious or scary I don’t know how to handle?”
“Can I really make a living — a GOOD living — this way?”
These are all really good questions to be asking.
And we want to help you answer them.
Many people who want to become coaches hesitate because they worry they won’t be good enough.
They’re afraid that one day, they’ll sit across from a client, feeling out of their element and unsure what to say next.
Other people think the key to success as a coach is tons of experience, being a whiz at sales and marketing, or having a huge social media following.
And they’re all wrong.
The biggest difference between coaches who build thriving practices and coaches who never quite get started is their confidence.
The certainty that when a client walks in, and hands you their mess, you’ll know exactly what to do with it.
When you feel confident in your abilities, you intuitively show up as an expert.
When you show up as an expert, you naturally attract people who want to pay for your expertise to help them solve their problems.
When you have the expertise of a proven process and set of tools, you easily coach your clients to great results.
Your clients get results (and share their stories with others!), you show up with even more confidence, and the cycle just gets better and better and better.
A confident coach doesn’t blink when a client starts crying, shuts down, or says “I’ve tried everything already.”
She already knows what to do next.
- She’s trained in how to handle ANY issue that comes up no matter how complex, difficult, or challenging.
- She’s got evidence- backed tools validated to get results with thousands of clients.
- She follows a process for getting better at her craft every year, on purpose.
- And when her own brain starts acting up mid-session, she can coach herself back to steady before the client even notices.
That future coach is you.
I know it is because that coach was me too. I know the only thing standing between you and the coach you’re meant to be is the training and the decision to start.
Waiting another year is the actual risk. Most women who want to coach never really decide against it. They just keep waiting. For more certainty, more savings, more proof they won’t embarrass themselves.( This was me for a while too.) A year later they’re in the same spot, minus a year.
Other coach certifications teach you some tools for coaching clients.
And … that’s it.
You’re supposed to figure out what to do with them, how to use them well, and how to handle any challenges that come up on your own.
Even if the tools are evidence-based or proven (which they may or may not be depending on the certification), it’s like being a baby bird kicked out of the nest without having been taught to fly.
Or being given a tricycle with training wheels and being sent out to compete in the Tour de France.
But that's not how we roll. (Pun intended.)
We teach you how to coach at an advanced level.
AND how to keep getting better and better over time.
Welcome to the Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
We train confident coaches to deliver reality-based results through the Socratic Coaching Method, using cognitive psychology, social theory, and somatics to change your clients’ lives, and your own.
Enroll now to claim these bonuses:
BONUS 1:
Free Access to “The Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp”
(expires July 10)
This business bootcamp led by Christie Mims will teach you, step-by-step, how to build a coaching business that’s irresistible to clients. Christie’s a certified coach who’s helped over 30,000 coaches learn the business and marketing skills they need to succeed. You’ll plan your niche, offer, and pricing and by the end of the bootcamp you’ll be ready to book your first paying clients!
BONUS 2:
Business Mindset Coaching Calls
(expiring Friday, July 10)
These three group coaching calls are designed to help you practice the beliefs you need to effectively build or grow your business. Each call will focus on a different topic: becoming more visible in marketing, overcoming imposter syndrome, and selling with confidence.
Choose your SCMC experience:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection.
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Small-Group Instruction & Implementation Calls: You’ll meet weekly with your small group to learn tools to use with your clients and practice coaching each other with them, getting feedback and guidance from our certified and master certified coaches.
:: Regular live coaching, Q&A, and teaching calls with Kara: Throughout the program I’ll be hosting regular coaching and QA calls – and I’ll be teaching Phase 3 live biweekly!
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Approach: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment: $10,000
Payment plan option: $1000/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Immersion Event: February 1-5, 2027 in Savannah, Georgia
Add an in-person intensive to your learning experience.
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
:: A Five-Day, Live Immersion Intensive from Feb 1-5, 2027: Dive into five days of in-person learning, skill-building, and practical coaching. You’ll benefit from early hands-on practice and direct, in-the-moment feedback from Kara to sharpen your coaching mastery.
:: Live Coaching Feedback from Kara: Get my personal feedback and guidance during real-time practice sessions. The Immersion Experience is the only place you’ll find this.<>
:: Collaborative IRL Community: Build lasting, face-to-face connections with fellow participants, and a support network that extends well beyond the Intensive.
:: Distraction-Free Growth: Fully unplug from your daily routine and immerse yourself in a focused environment designed to accelerate your learning.
:: BONUS: New Professional Headshots: Celebrate your journey with a beautiful new headshot from our trusted photographer – our gift to you in your next chapter.
Your investment: $18,000
Payment plan option: $1,800/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Coaches who can coach through anything a client brings them, and get real results, set their rates with confidence. Many sell packages in the $2,000 to $6,000 range, so it only takes a few clients to earn back your investment.
You can also make it back through the value you bring to a job or business you already have – because the difference between managing your direct reports to hit their revenue targets (and secure your bonus) or coaching yourself through a business challenge is worth many times the investment.
Either way, the skills you learn keep paying you for the rest of your career.
Socratic Coaching is the only form of coaching that doesn’t just make you a better coach today – it gives you the tools to keep getting better for the rest of your career.
Why Socratic Coaching works, for you and for your clients:
(Click each one for the full story.)
It’s built on cognitive psychology and radical inquiry (so you’re never winging it).
Socratic Coaching isn’t woo, manifestation, or vibrations. It pairs philosophical principles dating back to the Ancient Greeks with modern cognitive psychology to help your clients decide who they want to be and how to get there.
And our work is evidence-based: the core concepts and tools were validated by a peer-reviewed, double-blind study (the gold standard) published in JAMA Network Open.
It’s grounded in reality (so you can confidently coach anyone).
Most coaching pretends life happens in a vacuum, as if the same tidy model works for everyone regardless of their identity and circumstances. But people have different resources, constraints, and realities, and political, social, legal, and financial systems shape all of them. Socratic Coaching teaches you to meet a client where they actually live while still holding the vision they can’t see yet. That’s how you get sure you can help anyone who comes to you.
It’s collaborative (so your clients own their own change).
Traditional coaching, especially when it’s aimed at women, can push clients toward what the patriarchy has told them they should do. Socratic Coaching interrogates the why behind a goal and checks it against the client’s own values, so goal-setting builds their agency instead of their perfectionism. Your clients stop people-pleasing you, stop pretending to understand things they don’t, and stop using thought work against themselves.
It’s anchored in somatics (so you always know what to do when “it’s not working”).
Most clients (and coaches) stall out because they’re disconnected from their emotions, running cognitive change work while ignoring the brain-body connection that actually creates new beliefs. Socratic Coaching connects the two, so you can pinpoint what’s going wrong when a client can’t shift a thought or take an action, and tell them exactly how to fix it. And you’ll never have to wonder whether your coaching is working either, because we teach you how to coach yourself back to confidence, fast, whenever you lose your footing.
Based on cognitive psychology & radical inquiry
Socratic coaching is not about woo, manifestation, or vibrations. It combines philosophical principles dating back to the Ancient Greeks with modern cognitive psychology frameworks to help your clients decide who they want to be, what lives they want to live, and how to make them happen.
And our work is evidence-based – it was part of a peer-reviewed double-blind study (aka the gold standard of scientific papers) published in the JAMA Open Network***, a leading online medical journal, by two doctors who proved that these coaching interventions worked.
This means that you will be confident in your tools right out of the gate. You will not need to create anything of your own to start coaching, and you won’t just be relying on my word for it – you’ll know the tools are backed by evidence and by a decade of successful utilization with thousands of women all over the world. So you start coaching at a level of excellence most coaches never reach no matter how long they practice.
PLUS we teach you two crucial skills that other certifications don’t even mention:
- How to self-assess to continually improve your coaching skills over time.
- How to coach yourself through the normal mindset drama that comes up when a client seems resistant, someone says no on a consult call, a client ghosts, or a session goes off the rails.
Grounded in reality
Collaborative
Traditional life coaching, especially when aimed at women or other marginalized identities, tends to be aimed at helping clients conform to social norms. Lose weight, get married, keep a perfect home – all goals patriarchy has for women.
Because traditional coaching frameworks operate inside social norms, they simply adopt these goals and try to teach clients how to achieve them, with spotty success (partly because clients and coaches are often subconsciously conflicted about them, for good reason!). Meanwhile the coach becomes an authority figure that the client ends up wanting to please rather than engage in authentic growth.
Socratic coaching is different. It’s a collaborative process in which the coach and client don’t just set a goal – they interrogate the why behind the goal and make sure it aligns with the client’s values, priorities, and authentic self. This process makes goal-setting a pathway to liberation and empowerment, instead of just another way to play out perfectionism and fear of failure. Socratic coaching recognizes a client’s agency and authority and empowers them more deeply than traditional life coaching with its guru/expert model.
Anchored in somatics
The biggest reason that clients (and coaches!) don’t achieve their goals is that they are not connected to their emotions. This means even when they are doing cognitive change work, they are not choosing and practicing new thoughts correctly because they are ignoring the brain-body connection that controls the process of creating new beliefs.
At the same time, coach certifications that focus too much on somatics or intuition can end up leaving clients following unreflective impulses and acting out of flight or fight nervous system activation without realizing it, which means they never get any closer to regulation or achieving their goals.
Socratic coaching connects the brain and the body, allowing the coach to accurately diagnose what is going wrong when a client is unable to change a thought, process an emotion, or take a new action – and can tell them how to fix it. A coach trained in the Socratic Coaching Method never has to worry about what to do when a client says “it’s not working.”
And as a Socratic Method Coach you will never have to worry about thinking that your coaching isn’t working either – because we’ll teach you how to coach yourself whenever you feel insecure, lose your footing, or doubt yourself as a coach. You’ll be able to get back to confidence quickly, not just intellectually but emotionally – so you can show up with confidence and create the coaching career of your dreams.
Here's how it works.
Here’s how it works.
The certification is broken down into three phases:
Foundation & WIRE Framework
You will learn the Socratic Coaching Method, along with our WIRE framework for helping clients connect to their emotions, change their thoughts, and create new habits and actions.
We’ll also be doing deep dives into trauma and nervous system regulation and neurodiversity in coaching.
Phase 1 is taught online, with regular coaching and Q&A calls taught by Kara and integration calls hosted by our program coaches. At the end you’ll take a written test (open-book) to advance in the certification.
Real-World Application
You will learn how to apply these tools to specific areas of your clients’ lives, like work and money, family and relationships, sex and dating, new habits, body image, organization and productivity, and more.
For each topic you’ll learn new tools and exercises, dive deep into the socialization that impacts your clients’ brains, and see how to apply the core Socratic Coaching Method to these areas of clients’ lives.
Phase 2 has two options: Self-study with an online curriculum OR a week in person with Kara in a fabulous venue in Savannah, Georgia (additional investment).
Practicum and Certification
It’s all about application and practice. Kara will be teaching this phase live online, and you’ll also meet in small groups with expert instructors to practice coaching and get personal feedback and guidance. You’ll learn exactly what to do before, during, and after sessions to show up confidently and handle any challenges that arise. You’ll also practice a self-assessment model for continually improving your coaching.
At the end of Phase 3, you’ll submit five self-evaluated coaching calls, and have a session reviewed by a coach instructor to achieve certification.
Want more details?
Click to expand for a week-by-week overview of what you will learn in each phase.
Phase 1: Foundational Coaching Tools
- WIRE Step 1: You’ll learn the kinds of powerful penetrating questions to ask clients that get you into their real thoughts quickly.
- WIRE Step 2: The somatic and emotional processing tools in this step are what ensure your clients actually move through the places they are stuck so they can actually change their thinking.
- WIRE Step 3: Learn a framework to help clients understand how their thoughts are creating the outcomes they are experiencing in their lives, so they can take radical responsibility.
- WIRE Step 4: Radical responsibility can’t co-exist with shame. Step 4 teaches you a process to coach your clients through experiences of shame or resistance around new awareness so they don’t get stuck there.
- WIRE Step 5: The skill that changes everything, and that most coach training doesn’t even teach. Learn how to help clients develop and implement new value-aligned beliefs step by step to actually rewire their brains.
- WIRE Step 6: Once they are putting those new beliefs into action, learn how to help clients identify next steps and troubleshoot lack of follow-through.
- Deep Dive on Trauma, the Nervous System and Abuse: Learn how trauma impacts coaching, how to spot and handle nervous system activation in your clients, and how to screen for clients who need additional mental health care, and how to handle those scenarios.
- Deep Dive on Neurodiversity & Coaching: Many coaching clients are neurodiverse (as are many coaches), likely because they grow up in a society that tells them they should be different and they seek out self-help to try to cope with expectations about how they should be that don’t match their lived experience. In this deep dive you’ll learn how neurodiversity can impact the coaching experience and how to best support neurodiverse clients.
At the end of Phase 1 you will complete an open-book test on what you have learned in order to advance to Phases 2 and 3.
Phase 2: Topic-Specific Coaching Tools
- Impact of social messages on thought systems and beliefs
- Dating, romantic relationships & sex
- Family, parenting, & household labor/management
- Eating, movement, & relationship with the body
- Time management & organization
- Career confidence & performance
- Money (earning, spending, saving, investing, & debt)
- Confidence & self-worth
- Coaching on experiences of discrimination
- Numbing & buffering (eating, drinking, shopping, social media, Netflix etc.)
- Habit breaking & formation
Phase 3: Practice & Integration
- Practice coaching with live feedback and guidance from our expert instructors
- Personal feedback from an expert coach
- Learn a self-assessment model for continually improving your coaching
- Submission of five self-evaluated coaching calls, plus review of a session by a coach instructor to achieve certification
Want to go all in, in person?
Join us for the Immersion Experience.
Savannah, Georgia. February 1–5, 2027.
Picture a full week dedicated to nothing but your coaching, at The Malin in Savannah, surrounded by serious coaches, with my direct mentorship at every step.
This is the only place you’ll get live, personal feedback on your coaching from me. You’ll practice coaching out loud early, get real-time input, see your strengths clearly, and work your growth edges on the spot. You’ll also step fully out of your daily routine and into a room of people doing exactly what you’re doing.
Immersion bonus:
Stunning new headshots from our go-to photographer, to mark your new chapter. Our gift to you
And don't miss these time-limited bonuses when you enroll:
BONUS:
Free Access to
“The Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp”
(expires July 10)
This business bootcamp led by Christie Mims will teach you, step-by-step, how to build a coaching business that’s irresistible to clients. Christie’s a certified coach who’s helped over 30,000 coaches learn the business and marketing skills they need to succeed. You’ll plan your niche, offer, and pricing and by the end of the bootcamp you’ll be ready to book your first paying clients!
BONUS:
Business Mindset Coaching Calls
(expires Friday, July 10)
In less than a year, you'll be a Certified Socratic Method Coach.
You’ll have a high-level coaching skill set, with powerful tools, techniques, and frameworks to help clients get the kinds of results most coaches only dream of.
You’ll have rock-solid confidence in yourself as a coach, with theory and practice under your belt, and with a process to use to continue to self-assess and improve year after year.
You’ll be ready to bring the power of socratic coaching to new people, whether you’re starting a business, working as coach for someone else, or bringing coaching into your existing role in another profession.
Choose your SCMC experience:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection.
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Small-Group Instruction & Implementation Calls: You’ll meet weekly with your small group to learn tools to use with your clients and practice coaching each other with them, getting feedback and guidance from our certified and master certified coaches.
:: Regular live coaching, Q&A, and teaching calls with Kara: Throughout the program I’ll be hosting regular coaching and QA calls – and I’ll be teaching Phase 3 live biweekly!
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Approach: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment: $10,000
Payment plan option: $1000/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Immersion Event: February 1-5, 2027 in Savannah, Georgia
Add an in-person intensive to your learning experience.
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
:: A Five-Day, Live Immersion Intensive from Feb 1-5, 2027: Dive into five days of in-person learning, skill-building, and practical coaching. You’ll benefit from early hands-on practice and direct, in-the-moment feedback from Kara to sharpen your coaching mastery.
:: Live Coaching Feedback from Kara: Get my personal feedback and guidance during real-time practice sessions. The Immersion Experience is the only place you’ll find this.<>
:: Collaborative IRL Community: Build lasting, face-to-face connections with fellow participants, and a support network that extends well beyond the Intensive.
:: Distraction-Free Growth: Fully unplug from your daily routine and immerse yourself in a focused environment designed to accelerate your learning.
:: BONUS: New Professional Headshots: Celebrate your journey with a beautiful new headshot from our trusted photographer – our gift to you in your next chapter.
Your investment: $18,000
Payment plan option: $1,800/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Still have questions? Book a call with our Certification Concierge!
This is a no-pressure, informational call with a certified coach. She doesn’t work on commission. She’s just available to answer your questions.
Meet Your Teacher
I’m Kara Loewentheil, Master Certified Coach and creator of the Socratic Coaching Method. I’m a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and in my former life I was a women’s rights attorney and academic.
These days I teach women how to live a confident life, and train coaches in how to use the Socratic Coaching Method to blow their clients’ minds – and their own. I’m the host of the top-ranked UnF*ck Your Brain Podcast (60 million downloads and counting!), The Future Coach Podcast, and the author of the New York Times-bestseller Take Back Your Brain.
As a coach I’ve coached thousands of women from all over the world, and been featured in publications like The New York Times, Glamour, and Forbes. My company, The School of New Feminist Thought, has created over $28,000,000 in revenue.
I drink iced coffee year-round and when I’m not working you’ll find me reading novels in a hammock by the creek next to my 200-year-old farmhouse upstate, or corralling my family of excitable raccoons (by which I mean husband and step-kids) in a brownstone in Brooklyn. I enjoy cheap pizza, expensive travel, and asking people inappropriately deep questions in social situations.
FAQs:
You've got questions? We've got answers !
Is coaching a real job? Can I really make a career of this? Aren’t there already a lot of coaches?
In order: Yes! Yes! And not really!
Listen, I was raised by a New York Jewish family for whom a graduate degree was as expected as kindergarten. Or as our joke went, you could be anything you wanted as long as what you wanted to be was a lawyer, doctor, or professor. So when I decided to become a life coach – on the INTERNET – it seemed crazy to everyone around me. And to me, a little, to be honest!
But it was the best decision I ever made. And there’s room for so many more coaches to be successful. World-wide there are about 100,000 life coaches…and 8 billion people. We need so many more coaches than we have!
Some people were saying that the coaching market was saturated a decade ago when I became a coach, and they have kept saying it, and will keep saying it – while the rest of us are out here building an incredible career, making money, and loving what we do.
Will this program teach me how to market, sell, and build a coaching business as well?
Having watched a decade of new coaches get trained and develop, I feel very strongly that coaching certifications that try to teach you how to coach AND how to build a business at the same time are doing you a huge disservice.
In order to succeed as an entrepreneur, the most important thing you can have is confidence in your product that you are selling. That is what motivates you to get out there, show up, and make offers. (Think about it – in your personal life, when you really love a product or a service, you naturally tell everyone about it right? The same is true of your own work.)
Trying to teach you how to build a business, market and sell your services before you’re confident in them is a terrible idea, and it leads people to make bad strategic decisions, avoid their business, or get paralyzed and never get going – and then that becomes a whole identity and shame spiral in and of itself so they never get traction.
That’s why we offer a business-building bonus that you can use after you’re certified, but we don’t confuse your brain with teaching you business at the same time as teaching you how to coach.
When you join the Socratic Coaching Method Certification you get complimentary access to Christie Mims’s “The Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp.” This business bootcamp will teach you, step-by-step, how to build a coaching business that’s irresistible to clients. Christie’s a certified coach who’s helped over 30,000 coaches learn the business and marketing skills they need to succeed. You’ll plan your niche, offer, and pricing and by the end of the bootcamp you’ll be ready to book your first paying clients!
I don’t know if I want to be an entrepreneur and/or a professional full-time coach. Is this certification still for me?
Once upon a time, before coaching was a bit more mainstream, the only way to be a life coach was to become an entrepreneur and business owner too. And for those of us who crave that level of autonomy and adventure, it’s an incredible life.
But these days it’s not the only way to be a coach!
You can be a staff coach in another coach’s business. You can do employee or performance coaching in-house in a corporation or non-coach-related business. You can bring coaching concepts and tools into your existing role in HR, mentorship, or employee development.
You can also use these tools as a therapist or other mental health professional. Like Katy Delagardelle, a LCSW, who went through a previous version of this program shared with us that “After I started implementing this perspective a client said to me: Where did you learn how to be a therapist? Because I’ve been in and out of therapy and I’ve never done it like this.”
A therapist named Sasia Lile, MSW, went through that same prior program and shared with us: “The lens Kara brings is not taught in any of the places I gained education from, and I’m very skilled with CBT and DBT, those were my core curriculum. This brought an entirely new layer to my practice. I specialize in addictions and trauma and this work transformed my relationship with myself and empowered me to facilitate deeper transformation with my patients.”
I’m already a certified coach. Is this certification for me?
Absolutely. The Socratic Coaching Method is a proprietary coaching method I’ve developed, honed, and tested over the last decade – it’s not taught anywhere else.
Whatever coach training you have already completed, this will expand your knowledge base, sharpen your skills, and give you access to and license to use an entire new set of tools and techniques that are not otherwise available for you to use with clients.
Learning to improve your confidence as a coach and learning how to self-assess and improve will also up your coaching game long-term and help you show up more powerfully as a coach.
Here’s what a coach who had been certified by another school who went through a previous iteration of this program said: “I now understand coaching in a way that I was unable to before this program. I can recognize patterns in my clients with their thinking, what they fear and where they’re holding back and now I know why. Before, it felt like I was coaching on the surface and now I can recognize the deeper cause of their issues. This deeper understanding has made me one thousand times more effective as a coach.” – Sandy
I love coaching but I’ve experienced a lot of privilege-blindness in coaching spaces. Is that going to be a problem in this certification?
No space is entirely privilege-blindness-free, but The Socratic Coaching Method is built around bringing an intersectional feminist lens to the coaching world.
We call our coaching method reality-based because it takes into account social, political, legal, and financial systems of power and oppression and teaches coaches how to make space for those realities in their coaching while also empowering clients to see new possibilities for their lives.
Here’s what a student in an earlier version of this program said about participating in it as a woman of color:
“Right from the beginning of this course I felt seen and heard as a Black woman. I honestly did not expect it. As a woman that belongs to a number of marginalized groups it was amazing to see myself reflected back in this curriculum and have acknowledgement of my experience in the world! If you’re thinking about doing the program then the answer should be HELL yes! It has truly upleveled my coaching!” – Dr. Sonia Wright
I know Kara’s work directly with clients focuses on feminist confidence coaching. Is this only for people who coach women and/or only open to women students?
This certification is open to anyone of any gender identity who coaches any kind of human!
The first phase of this certification focuses exclusively on foundational coaching tools and processes that applies to anyone with a human brain. And honestly, that phase on its own is worth the cost of admission.
Phase Two of the certification focuses on how social messages impact people’s brains, and how to apply that theory to various areas of clients’ lives. This phase does focus more on gender socialization than other factors, but also covers socialization along identities like race and ethnicity, neurodiversity, body size, age, gender identity and sexuality, etc.
If you plan to coach people socialized as women in whole or in part, it’s invaluable as-is. If you plan to coach exclusively people socialized as men, the concepts will be very useful as a framework for developing your own understanding of how men are socialized and how that impacts their thought patterns.
Take it from Matt, a current SCMC student:
“As a Gay Gender Nonconforming Man (he/him), I’ve always related to Kara’s content so much even though I don’t fit the phrase ‘people socialized as women.’ When SCMC began accepting its first group, I worried I’d be turned down but signed up anyway – to my delight, I was welcomed in and the community (of many intersecting identities) has been incredible to learn from, and connect with. The Patriarchy affects everyone after all.”
Bottom line: If you plan to coach people with brains, this certification will make you better at doing it.
I’ve taken some of your programs and I know how to coach myself. Can’t I just use those tools as a coach without going through a certification?
No, that’s not a good idea.
If you haven’t been certified by a coaching program, you don’t technically have a license to use their intellectual property in your business. Which brings us to our next question.
Do I get a license to use the Socratic Coaching Method tools with my clients?
Yes. When you successfully complete the Socratic Coaching Method Certification, you receive a limited license to use the SCMC tools and materials in your own private coaching practice with your clients (but not for certifying or training other coaches).
Because enrollment in the Socratic Coaching Method Certification is limited, alumni become part of an exclusive group of professionals with access to Kara’s proprietary coaching tools and frameworks. These tools are designed to help coaches create deeper client breakthroughs and more effective coaching outcomes in their own private practices.
How do I know if I can make enough money to [quit my job, support my family, live my dream life]?
It’s going to be impossible to convince your brain that’s a sure thing at this point.
BUT you don’t have to. Because all you need to believe is that if you get certified, you can sign 3 or 4 coaching clients in the course of your life. If you do that, you’ve made your money back – PLUS you’ve learned a life-changing set of skills for any professional or personal challenge you have.
After that, it’s pure profit, in more ways than one.
Still have questions? Book a call with our Certification Concierge!
This is a no-pressure, informational call with a certified coach. She doesn’t work on commission. She’s just available to answer your questions.
The Socratic Coaching Method has changed the lives of thousands of people all over the world.
Now it's time to be part of the movement —
and maybe even create your own.
Choose your experience and enroll now:
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Get certified from anywhere with a wifi connection.
This includes:
:: The Full Socratic Coaching Method Certification Program: Complete access to our proprietary, evidence-based curriculum designed to make you a masterful coach.
:: Weekly, Small-Group Instruction & Implementation Calls: You’ll meet weekly with your small group to learn tools to use with your clients and practice coaching each other with them, getting feedback and guidance from our certified and master certified coaches.
:: Regular live coaching, Q&A, and teaching calls with Kara: Throughout the program I’ll be hosting regular coaching and QA calls – and I’ll be teaching Phase 3 live biweekly!
:: Private Student Community: Connect with a dedicated community of peers for practice, support, celebration, and collaboration throughout your certification journey.
:: Comprehensive Resource Library: Access a full suite of workbooks, scripts, and tools to support your learning and client work.
:: Reality-Based Coaching Approach: Learn to coach within an inclusive framework that acknowledges systemic power structures and real-world client experiences.
:: Final Certification Assessment: Demonstrate your mastery and earn your official Socratic Coaching Method Certification.
Your investment: $10,000
Payment plan option: $1000/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Socratic Coaching Method Certification
IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
Starting September 8, 2026
Immersion Event: February 1-5, 2027 in Savannah, Georgia
Add an in-person intensive to your learning experience.
This includes EVERYTHING in the Online Experience, PLUS:
:: A Five-Day, Live Immersion Intensive from Feb 1-5, 2027: Dive into five days of in-person learning, skill-building, and practical coaching. You’ll benefit from early hands-on practice and direct, in-the-moment feedback from Kara to sharpen your coaching mastery.
:: Live Coaching Feedback from Kara: Get my personal feedback and guidance during real-time practice sessions. The Immersion Experience is the only place you’ll find this.<>
:: Collaborative IRL Community: Build lasting, face-to-face connections with fellow participants, and a support network that extends well beyond the Intensive.
:: Distraction-Free Growth: Fully unplug from your daily routine and immerse yourself in a focused environment designed to accelerate your learning.
:: BONUS: New Professional Headshots: Celebrate your journey with a beautiful new headshot from our trusted photographer – our gift to you in your next chapter.
Your investment: $18,000
Payment plan option: $1,800/month for 10 months
We begin September 8, 2026
Still have questions? Book a call with our Certification Concierge!
This is a no-pressure, informational call with a certified coach. She doesn’t work on commission. She’s just available to answer your questions.
**Some testimonials on this page were provided by graduates of earlier iterations of this program.