Kara Loewentheil – The Socratic Coaching Method Certification

Here’s What You Get:

The Socratic Coaching Method Certification is the only coaching certification created (and taught live!) by Master Certified Coach Kara Loewentheil — Yale and Harvard Law School graduate, author of the New York Times-bestseller, Take Back Your Brain, and host of the chart-topping podcast UnF*ck Your Brain.

Welcome to: THE SOCRATIC COACHING METHOD CERTIFICATION

We train confident life coaches to deliver reality-based transformation through the Socratic Coaching Method.

We teach you to employ psychology, social theory, and somatics to change your clients lives — and your own.

Phase 1

Foundation & Core Method

In Phase 1 you will learn the core Socratic Coaching Method, along with foundational techniques 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, neurodiversity in coaching, and teaching you the self-practice tools you will use to build confidence in your own coaching.

Phase 1 is taught live virtually by me, with integration calls hosted by our program coaches.

We pride ourselves on creating learning spaces that embody a growth mindset and supportive atmosphere, so wherever you are in your coaching journey you’ll feel right at home and comfortable celebrating your strengths and improving on your weaknesses.

At the end you’ll take a written test (open-book) to advance in the certification.

• Socratic Method Step 1: Learn the foundational Socratic Coaching Method radical inquiry tool, and how to use it on your clients and yourself.
• Socratic Method Step 2: Learn the TEB cycle of cognitive psychology and learn the ARCA model for coaching a client through their reaction to the TEB cycle so they don’t get stuck in shame or resistance.
• Socratic Method Step 3: Learn collaborative goal-setting and how to help clients tap into their life values and make aligned decisions.
• Socratic Method Step 4: Learn how to help clients develop and implement new beliefs, and how to calibrate the thought-change process to make sure it truly creates neural rewiring.
• 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 using coaching to tolerate abuse or 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 able to function 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.
• Deep Dive on Coaching with Confidence: We will be focusing on confidence in your coaching throughout this certification but in this deep dive we’ll work on specific tools you can use to coach yourself when you second-guess yourself and feel insecure about your coaching, as well as our proprietary continual improvement self-assessment.

Phase 2

Real-World Application

In Phase 2 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, as well as 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 me, in a small group learning these concepts and getting live feedback on your coaching (additional enrollment fee applies).

• 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

Practicum and Certification

In Phase 3 it’s all about application and practice.

You’ll be meeting in small groups virtually with expert coaches to practice coaching and get personal feedback on your coaching.

At the end of Phase 3, you’ll submit five recorded coaching calls for review in order to earn your certification.

• Coaching practicum calls
• Live coaching feedback
• Coaching Q&A sessions
• Practice a self-assessment model for continually improving your coaching
• Review of a recorded session by one of our coaches to achieve certification

BONUS 1:

“How to Coach the Scary Stuff”

(expiring Monday, 9/22):

These bonus video trainings (delivered to you during the program when you’re ready to make the most of them) are my advanced systems for handling clients’ experiences of oppression, discrimination, bias, unfairness, and the complex issues that separate confident coaches from scared ones — yours when you enroll by Monday, September 22.

BONUS 2:

The All-Day Business Basics Intensive

(expiring Friday, 9/26):

This all day, virtual, group workshop with me will be held on Sunday, June 7, 2026, and available via replay for those who can’t attend live. Inside, you’ll work through the key pillars of your coaching business, like defining (or refining) your niche, getting clear on the transformation you offer clients, making a plan for your first or next offer and setting your first or next business goal.

BONUS 3:

A free month in “No BS Business”

(expiring Friday, 10/3):

Corinne Crabtree, creator of the “No BS Business” program, is the real deal. She runs a $13 million a year business now, but when I met her, she was charging $29 a client. Since then, I’ve watched her build a powerful, heart-centered, smart and savvy business. Her program will teach you how to do the same. And you can always join to stay on after your free month ends!