Coaching
The term coaching has expanded from its traditional athletic framework to include professionals or experts who share knowledge relevant to a subject area, specialty, industry, or profession and encourage improved performance in their clients.
Coaches provide research and support to anyone needing skill development for meeting particular performance goals, including the challenges, transitions, and decisions that concern processes or activities of daily life. Coaches encourage athletic achievement, as well as improved performance on the job, in social situations, and in life. Coaches act as counselors who assist people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career decisions and issues.
Several programs at JFK University support your interest in becoming a coach.
JFKU’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) offers the PsyD degree, as well as the MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy that prepares you for future practice as a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT). Specializations are available in addiction studies, child and adolescent therapy, couples and family therapy, expressive arts therapy, and sport psychology. The MA in Organizational Psychology teaches both theory and practice for the field of organizational change. Our certificate program in Coaching fosters the skills you need to enable your clients to achieve the dreams and objectives they hold in their personal and professional lives. The MA in Sport Psychology program, one of only a few in the United States, integrates counseling psychology with sport psychology to explore areas such as optimal performance, coaching techniques, social issues, and substance abuse, in addition to child, adolescent, and family counseling. Our PsyD program prepares you in depth as a psychologist ready to serve communities in multiple roles: clinician, program administrator and evaluator, consultant, educator, supervisor, assessor, and critical consumer of psychological research.
The School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) at JFK University offers several programs that may be useful to professionals who are interested in becoming coaches: the Essentials Coaching certificate in partnership with the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching; a BA in Psychology; a BA in Science, Health, and Living Systems; a BA in Social Ecology; a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT); and several teaching credential options.
Related programs from JFKU’s School of Holistic Studies (SHS) serve professionals interested in coaching with a holistic, whole-person approach that integrates body, mind, spirit, and culture. The MA in Integral Psychology encourages personal, social, and cultural transformation through self-inquiry, academic study, and personal experiential research. The MA in Counseling Psychology offers three specializations (somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology, and holistic studies) that emphasize self-exploration and personal growth combined with critical thinking and the acquisition of clinical skills. In addition, the MA in Holistic Health Education may serve as the basis for becoming a health or wellness coach.
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