Relationship Coach Certification Study Guide
Pick the right relationship-coach credential, study the cross-program competencies, and run the scope-of-practice line — without the three-month research detour.
PDF · Life coaching · Starting out
What’s inside
Everything this PDF does for you on day one.
- 01Five-program comparison: RCI, Fisher, LPI, The Relationship School, Hendricks — with 2026 tuition, hours, ICF status, and niche fit.
- 02Seven cross-program core competencies for relationship coaches, mapped to ICF's eight when the program is ICF-aligned.
- 03Twenty-five practice scenarios across couples, singles, pre-marital, divorce-recovery, and the high-stakes refer-out moments.
- 04The scope-of-practice line in writing — coach vs. therapist, the seven refer-out triggers, and a usable refer-out script.
- 05Self-recording rubric scoring all seven competencies on a 5-point scale, with the submission threshold most programs use.
- 06Application checklists for RCI (CRCS and CRCC), Fisher, LPI, The Relationship School, Hendricks, and stacking ICF on top.
Who it’s for
You're researching relationship-coach certifications and have realized the field is more fragmented than ICF general coaching — every site sells its own program and none of them help you compare. You need the landscape, the competencies, and the scope-of-practice line in one document.
What you get
A 60-page PDF (A4), printable as a workbook or searchable on a tablet. Inside: a side-by-side of five programs (RCI, Fisher, LPI, The Relationship School, Hendricks) with 2026 tuitions, seven competency study sheets adapted for couples and singles work, a frameworks survey (Imago, NVC, PREP, Gottman, attachment), 25 practice scenarios, the coach-vs-therapist scope section with refer-out script, a self-recording rubric, and program-by-program certification checklists.
