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In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in coaching as a complementary or alternative career path for mental health and therapy professionals. Written in an accessible way, this book is the definitive guide for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists making the thoughtful transition into professional coaching. It explores how therapeutic insight, relational depth, and reflective practice can enrich coaching without crossing into therapy, offering a rigorous and ethical framework for dual-qualified practitioners.
Drawing on decades of training and practice experience and expertise, it addresses the identity shifts, boundary considerations, and professional dilemmas that accompany this move. Through theory, practice, and case vignettes, the book provides guidance on competences, ethics, supervision, and positioning, alongside reflections on trauma, culture, and impact.
More than a practical manual, it is an invitation to engage critically and creatively with coaching as a distinct professional identity that expands therapeutic expertise while honouring integrity and depth.
List of contents
ContentsList of Tables
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Foreword 1 by Series Editor Professor David Clutterbuck
Foreword 2 by Julia Vaughan Smith
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Trish Turner
Chapter 1 Becoming a dual-qualified coach: A shift in identity, practice and perspective
Trish Turner
Chapter 2 Theories, models and frameworks in coaching and therapy
Max Eames
Chapter 3
Becoming a dual-qualified coach: Core competences, training pathways and professional standards
Trish Turner
Chapter 4
Contracting, boundaries and ethics for dual-qualified coaches: Negotiating the psychological space with integrity
Aubyn Howard
Chapter 5
Tools and techniques as a dual-qualified coach
Kim Morgan
Chapter 6
Diversity, inclusion, belonging and cultural competence in coaching
Salma Shah
Chapter 7
Trauma in coaching through a dual-qualified lens
Julia Vaughan Smith
Chapter 8
The psychological lens: From clinical psychologist to coach
Andrea Giraldez-Hayes
Chapter 9
Measuring your impact as a dual-qualified coach
Helen Cottrill
Chapter 10
Helping clients find you: Marketing your business as a dual-qualified coach
Nicola Brown
Chapter 11
A stage development approach to supervising dual-qualified coaches
Katherine Long
Index
About the author
Trish Turner is an EMCC Global Master Coach, coach supervisor, and trainer, combining extensive coaching, leadership, and psychotherapy expertise with academic rigour. Deeply committed to professional standards, she spent several years assessing and accrediting coaches, supervisors, and training providers around the world for EMCC Global. Trish is the Founder and Managing Director of the pioneering Therapist to Coach training programme for therapists becoming exceptional professional coaches.
