Counselling Courses

CPCAB Level 4
LC-L4 Diploma in Life Coaching

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Duration

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Duration

30 Days - includes 1 Saturday. Breaks during school holidays

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9:30 am - 1:30 pm

Course Dates

Fri 3 Oct 2025 to 12 Jun 2026

Lady smiling in front of laptop lifecoaching This is a Level 4 CPCAB Diploma course leading to a nationally recognised coaching qualification. The course is specifically designed for those in helping roles or who aim to be in helping roles working from a humanistic integrative orientation and who wish to become an independent life coach, without compromising their underpinning principles of practice. These principles include the importance of Rogers’ core conditions, being authentic in relationship and respecting the client’s own resources and potential for change, without the need for an ‘expert’ or external locus of evaluation.

Successful completion of this course means that candidates will to either work as an independent life coach or integrate coaching skills and knowledge into their helping practice.

Course Content

The qualification includes training on how to:

- Work within an ethical framework for independent life coaching practice

- Apply a relational approach to life coaching practice

- Apply understanding of diversity to life coaching practice

- Support clients to cope with life’s challenges and engage with opportunities to flourish

- Apply learning from self-development to enhance life coaching practice

- Apply a coherent body of knowledge and skills to enhance life coaching practice

- Use reflective practice to develop and inform life coaching work

This course is aimed at those who have achieved a Level 2 and Level 3 qualification in a helping discipline, or equivalent and who wish to become independent life coaches or integrate coaching skills and knowledge into their helping practice. The course is particularly suited, but not limited, to qualified counsellors who wish to broaden their practice to include life coaching.

Progression to Year 2 is subject to successfully completing Year 1 assignments and tutor approval.

Entry Requirements

Assessments

Fees and Costs

Application Process

Previous training

Students must have already undertaken counselling skills training of 90 hours or more, for example the CPCAB Certificate in Counselling Skills. They also must have completed study training of 90 hours or more e.g., CPCAB Certificate in Counselling Studies or its equivalent.

CPCAB Requirements

Students also need to meet the generic CPCAB requirements and be aged 19 years or older. The specific criteria for this course, based on CPCAB guidelines, will also be considered in selecting applicants for the course.

Students are assessed by portfolio and externally assessed case review (3,000-3,500 words)

Client Work

A minimum of 30 supervised client hours need to be completed. You are required to have completed 6 hours of personal life coaching whilst you are on the course.

Reasonable adjustments are available to students who need them e.g., non-native English speakers or students with learning difficulties.

The tuition fee is £1,750 plus CPCAB Registration fee £285. If the tuition fee is paid by 27th July 2025 a discount of £150 will apply reducing the tuition fee to £1600.

Additional Costs

BACP Membership

You will need to become a student member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). The cost of this is currently £90 per year.

Textbooks

Students will need to buy course textbooks which can be ordered from bookstores such as Waterstones, as well as Amazon.co.uk. The total cost of the course textbooks is approximately £140.

Client work

Depending on your readiness to start client work you can expect to start client work by the end of year 1. Once you start client work you will need to arrange your own personal indemnity insurance.

Before your placement starts, we will need to obtain a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (formerly Criminal Records Bureau – CRB) check.

This will cost £65 which will need to be paid before the check is carried out.

You will also need to budget for 2 SD cards for digitally recording role play sessions.

Approximately £10 in total

1. Complete the ‘Register Your Interest’ form below and we’ll send you the application form.

2. Fill in the online application form with your personal statement.

3. If you meet the initial entry requirements, we will offer you a conditional place on the course and send you a Training Contract.

4. To accept your offer of a place you will need to sign and return your Training Contract together with a £500 non-refundable deposit.*

5 We will then seek a reference from your Level 3 course tutor and arrange an interview with one of our Level 4 tutors.

* The deposit is non-refundable unless either i) the course is cancelled or ii) The Level 3 course reference is not satisfactory/the interview is not successful. In these cases, a refund will be issued.