Elevate Your Impact and Become a Certified Coaching Supervisor This Year
Whether you are exploring coaching supervision for the first time, working toward the ICF Coaching Supervision Specialization (CSS), or seeking advanced professional development as a coaching supervisor, the AoCP offers a range of training pathways to support your goals.
Choose the pathway that best fits your stage of development:
✓ Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision (Self-Paced)
✓ Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision (CSS-Aligned)
✓ Advanced Certification in Coaching Supervision (AACS)
✓ Advanced CPD in Coaching Supervision: Psychology-Informed Practice
Which Pathway Should You Choose?
You Want to Train to Become a Coaching Supervisor
The Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision provides a comprehensive introduction to supervision theory, models, ethics, reflective practice, and supervision skills.
Choose the self-paced pathway if flexibility is your priority. You will earn 40 Continuing Coach Education Units and AoCP Certification in Coaching Supervision.
You Want to Pursue the ICF CSS Pathway
For those interested in the ICF's Coaching Supervision Specialization, the Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision CSS-Aligned Route provides a combination of self-directed learning with live reflective practice workshops.
This pathway has been specifically designed to align with current ICF expectations for coaching supervision education.
You Want Advanced Accreditation-Level Training
The Advanced Certification in Coaching Supervision is our 60-hour advanced pathway and is now approved by the ICF as an Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS) program.
Building on the 41-hour Professional Certification, it provides additional opportunities for applied practice, observed supervision, feedback, calibration, and reflective development. Successful completion provides participants with an ICF-approved advanced coaching supervision education program in support of a Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS) application.
You Already Have Supervision Training
The Advanced CPD in Coaching Supervision: Psychology-Informed Practice is designed for supervisors who want to deepen their practice through coaching psychology and advanced, evidence-informed approaches.
Entry is restricted to coaches who have completed the AoCP Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision or equivalent supervisor training approved by the AoCP faculty team.
Why Train with Us?
We offer comprehensive and practical ICF-approved programs that combine psychological science, reflective practice, and applied supervision to help you supervise coaches with greater confidence, credibility, and professional depth.
Our programs include:
- Curriculum informed by coaching psychology and adult learning theory
- Supervision tools, frameworks and techniques
- Experienced and qualified faculty supporting your learning
- ICF Continuing Coach Education Units (ranging from 30 to 60)
- Small-group learning opportunities on our blended programs
- AoCP Certification in Coaching Supervision upon completion
WHO THESE PROGRAMS ARE FOR
THESE PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED FOR:
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Experienced coaches who are ready to step into coaching supervision as the next stage of their professional development
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Independent coaches and allied practitioners seeking a recognized supervision training pathway
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Consultants, change agents, and learning professionals who support coaches and want to integrate evidence-informed supervision practice
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Credentialed coaches seeking ICF CCE units to support recertification and ongoing professional development (PCC or MCC required if pursuing ICF CSS)
YOU'RE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:
- Are ready to evolve from experienced coach to trusted supervisor
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Value structured reflection, feedback, and supervision as drivers of professional growth
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Want to bring greater rigor and intentionality into how you support other coaches
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Want to work with greater ethical awareness and professional maturity
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Seek to integrate psychological science with real-world supervision practice
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Want a supervision training pathway that reflects a psychologically informed, strengths-based approach
EXPLORE THE MODULES
Core Certification Curriculum
The following curriculum forms the foundation of all Certification pathways.
Each module is designed to build your capability in coaching supervision. Here's what you'll learn:
Foundations and Functions of Coaching Supervision
Understand the purpose, scope, and value of supervision. Explore the developmental, qualitative, and resourcing functions that underpin ethical supervision practice.
Ethical Contracting and the Supervision Alliance
Establish clear supervision contracts and psychologically safe alliances. Learn how ethics, values, and boundaries shape effective supervision relationships.
The Supervisor’s Mindset and Reflective Presence
Develop self-awareness, reflexivity, and mindful presence. Strengthen your ability to stay attuned, grounded, and responsive in supervision.
The Developmental Function: Strengths-Based Learning
Use strengths-based and solution-focused approaches to support reflective learning, growth, and professional capability in supervisees.
Relational Presence in Supervision
Work skillfully with power, difference, and relational dynamics. Build trust while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
The Qualitative Function: Enhancing Ethical Practice
Support ethical decision-making and quality standards through reflective inquiry and appreciative challenge.
The Self as Instrument in Supervision
Develop awareness of how intuition, emotion, and embodied responses inform supervision, while maintaining professionalism and balance.
The Resourcing Function Psychological Wellbeing
Explore how supervision supports resilience, wellbeing, and sustainability for both supervisor and supervisee.
Systemic Awareness and Group Dynamics
Broaden perspective using systemic and contextual lenses, whilst enhancing awareness and navigation of group dynamics.
Integrating Learning in Supervision
Consolidate learning, reflect on your supervision practice, and develop approaches to help supervisees integrate and apply their learning.
BEYOND THE MODULES: Continuing Supervision Development to embed habits of reflective practice, ongoing learning, and professional development to strengthen and evolve your supervision practice over time.
Every module builds on the last, guiding you from foundational theory to confident and competent coaching supervision.
CERTIFICATION OPTIONS
OPTION 1: Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision
Fully Online Self-Paced Learning
40 Hours | 40 ICF CCE Units
This pathway does not include live learning and is therefore not intended for coaches seeking CSS-aligned education. However, it is approved for 40 ICF CCE Units (28 Core Competencies & 12 Resource Development) and you will get immediate access to the course upon enrollment.
OPTION 2: Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision CSS-Aligned Route
CSS-Aligned Blended Learning
41 Hours | 41 ICF CCE Units
This blended program is for ICF PCC and MCC coaches, and includes most of the online self-paced learning as well as seven live reflective practice workshops.
Our first cohort has limited spaces and will run weekly every Tuesday 9.00am - 12.00pm Eastern Time (ET) from September 15 to October 27 2026. Please ensure you can attend these dates before enrolling below.
Once you enroll, you will get immediate access to the self-paced online learning content.
Interested in a Future Cohort?
If you're unable to join this cohort, complete the contact form below and we'll be in touch when enrollment opens for future cohorts.
OPTION 3: Advanced Certification in Coaching Supervision
AACS Pathway of Blended Learning
60 Hours | 60 ICF CCE Units
This pathway has been designed for ICF PCC and MCC coaches seeking development as coaching supervisors through an ICF Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS) program.
This blended program builds on the Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision, by including additional opportunities for applied practice, observed supervision, feedback, and reflective development.
Our first cohort has limited spaces and will run weekly every Tuesday 9.00am - 12.00pm Easter Time (ET) from September 15 to November 17 2026. Please ensure you can attend these dates before enrolling.
Once you enroll, you will get immediate access to the self-paced online learning content.
Interested in a Future Cohort?
If you're unable to join this cohort, complete the contact form below and we'll be in touch when enrollment opens for future cohorts.
OPTION 4: Advanced CPD in Coaching Supervision: Psychology-Informed Practice
Fully Online Self-Paced Learning
30 Hours | 30 ICF CCE Units
This CPD course is a psychology-informed, evidence-based online program designed for experienced practitioners seeking to deepen their supervisory practice through advanced reflective, developmental, and applied approaches. The program is approved for 30 ICF CCE Units (19 Core Competencies and 11 Resource Development) and qualifies for 30 CPD hours with the Association for Coaching.
Graduates of AoCP’s Professional Certification in Coaching Supervision are eligible to enroll directly in this course using either of the options below. However, if you believe you have completed comparable supervision training equivalent to our Professional Certification program, you may also be eligible for direct entry. Please use the Contact button below the enrollment options to discuss eligibility with us.
EXPLORE THE ADVANCED CPD MODULES
This 30-hour ICF CCE-approved program develops your mastery in psychology-informed coaching supervision practice. Here's what you'll learn:
The LEARN Mindset for Mastery in Supervision
Adopt an advanced supervision mindset grounded in curiosity, psychological flexibility, and reflective experimentation, using the LEARN framework to guide supervision conversations.
Locating Purpose: Hope, Meaning, and Direction in Supervision
Explore how purpose and meaning shape effective supervision. Use hope-based approaches to support motivation, ethical goal-setting, and professional direction.
Exploring Perspectives and Cognitive Flexibility
Develop multi-perspective awareness through psychologically informed inquiry. Learn to work with complexity, context, and alternative viewpoints in supervision.
Solution-Focused Dialogue in Supervision
Refine your supervision conversations through solution-focused and appreciative questioning that shifts reflection from evaluation to exploration.
Acknowledging Positive Factors: Strengths-based Supervision
Encourage supervisees to balance positive factors with developmental challenge to support meaningful growth using strengths-based approaches.
Confidence in Context: Building Self-Efficacy
Learn how supervision can strengthen professional confidence by building capability through evidence-based reflection.
Reviewing Pathways: Flexibility and Forward Momentum
Support supervisees to design and review practical learning pathways to promote flexibility, ownership, and professional growth.
From Insight to Action: Learning from Experience
Translate reflective insight into meaningful changes in practice, supporting supervisees to connect learning with real-world supervision outcomes.
Noticing Progress: Reflecting on Development
Strengthen reflective capacity by noticing progress over time, supporting motivation, confidence, and sustained professional development.
Evolving Supervision Practice and Identity
Integrate learning, articulate your supervision philosophy, and plan your ongoing development as an psychologically informed coaching supervisor.
Meet Your Course Leader:
DR. KATIE CRABTREE
Katie is a Master Practitioner Coach, Accredited Coaching Supervisor, and Educator with over 20 years’ experience guiding coaches, leaders, and professionals toward meaningful change and sustainable results.
Katie was among the first to become Chartered as a Coaching Psychologist, and holds a PhD in Population Health Sciences and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. Katie developed this course from both rigorous research and extensive hands-on coaching supervision experience, along with a strong desire to equip fellow practitioners to translate psychological theory into real-world impact.
ENROLL NOW
What our recent graduates have to say...
Pamela King, US
"I am extremely satisfied with this phase of the program. The content was rich, practical, and deeply reflective, and it helped me move from understanding coaching supervision conceptually to beginning to embody a more grounded, ethical, and reflective supervisory presence. The integration of theory, practice sessions, and reflective assignments created meaningful growth in my confidence, self-awareness, and developing identity as a coaching supervisor." Recommends program 10/10
Anonymous
"This program provides the depth needed to better understand the complexities of supervision while providing the flexibility of learning where and when is optimal for the student. Looking forward to the next level." Recommends program 10/10
Why Our Programs Are Different
Our programs go beyond supervision methods to cultivate ethical maturity and reflexive practice, grounded in psychologically informed approaches to learning, development, and supervision.
Informed by Psychology:
Grounding supervision practice in established coaching psychology research on adult learning, behavior, resilience, and change.
Strengths and Capability:
Applying positive psychology principles to build self-efficacy, capacity, and sustainable professional growth in supervisees.
Reflection and Reflexivity:
Using psychologically informed reflection to deepen awareness, insight and ethical decision-making in supervision.
Sustainable Depth:
Self-paced learning designed to deepen your supervision practice without overwhelming your professional workload.
Credibility with Recognition:
Earn certifications alongside ICF CCE units and AC CPD hours, contributing to recognized professional development.
Step Into the Next Stage of Professional Growth
Our pathways are designed for coaches who are ready to supervise with psychological depth, ethical maturity, and professional presence.
Supervision is not simply an expansion of service.
It is an expansion of responsibility.
If you are ready for that progression, our programs provide the structure to support it.
“I created these supervision pathways to reflect how I believe coaching supervision works best; grounded in psychology, strengths, reflection, and human connection.”
— Dr. Katie Crabtree
Course Creator | Chartered Coaching Psychologist | Supervisor