Trauma & somatic practice
Clinical psychologist working with complex trauma and dissociation in adult survivors.
New Autumn term lectures now open · Singapore & online
Coaching that knows
where it ends
and therapy begins
A learning community for coaches across Asia who sit with real clinical complexity — and want to know what to hold, what to hand over, and how to tell the difference.
Why we exist
Coaches are already
Coaches are already
in the room. Few were taught what to do there.
Most coach training teaches you to move a person towards a goal. Very little of it teaches you what to do when the goal is a symptom, when the past arrives uninvited, or when the work has quietly become therapy.
So we built the education we kept wishing our clients had received — clinical literacy without the clinical licence, taught in plain language, grounded in Asian family systems and the realities of practising here.
- Know the difference between coaching a problem and treating one
- Recognise trauma responses before they derail a session
- Refer well, without losing the relationship or the client
- Work with shame, duty and family expectation instead of around them
The curriculum
Six tracks. One
Six tracks. One
coherent practice.
Each track is a term of lectures, readings and case consultation. Take one, or take the whole path towards certification.
01
Therapy literacy
What therapy actually does, how the major modalities differ, and what evidence looks like outside a textbook. The vocabulary you need to speak to a clinician without pretending to be one.
02
Trauma-informed practice
Safety, window of tolerance, grounding and stabilisation. What a trauma response looks like in a coaching conversation, and the five things you stop doing once you can see it.
03
Scope, ethics and referral
Where coaching ends. Consent, documentation, duty of care and the referral conversation done in a way that keeps the client safe and the relationship intact.
04
Asian contexts
Stigma, filial duty, shame and honour, collectivist decision-making, faith and migration. Why imported clinical frameworks often miss the actual problem in the room.
05
Applied modalities
CBT, gestalt, ACT, attachment and somatic approaches — adapted for coaching, with clear lines on what you may borrow and what stays in clinical hands.
06
Supervision and practice
Group supervision, case consultation and reflective practice with practitioners who carry a clinical caseload. The part of training almost nobody in coaching provides.
The collective
Built for the way coaching is actually practised in Asia.
0Structured tracks
0Live lectures a year
0Cities represented
0Practitioner-led
The faculty
Asian practitioners,
Asian practitioners,
not imported experts.
Lecturers are practising clinicians, supervisors and researchers from across the region. The 2026 faculty is being announced term by term.
Family systems & filial duty
Family therapist researching intergenerational obligation in Chinese and Malay households.
Gestalt & experiential work
Gestalt practitioner and trainer, twenty years of group work across Southeast Asia.
Shame, honour & stigma
Community mental health researcher on stigma in South and East Asian communities.
Burnout & occupational health
Occupational physician and coach working with clinicians and executives in crisis.
Supervision & reflective practice
Psychotherapy supervisor training coaches in case consultation and ethical reflection.
Named faculty are confirmed and introduced before each term. We do not list practitioners without their consent.
Autumn term
Full lecture calendar
What's next in the room.
04
NOV
NOV
Reading the room before you read the problem
Trauma responses in a coaching session · Dr. Track 02, Lecture 3
11
NOV
NOV
When the goal is a symptom
Differentiating coaching outcomes from clinical ones · Track 03, Lecture 1
18
NOV
NOV
Duty, debt and the family ledger
Filial obligation as a clinical variable · Track 04, Lecture 2
25
NOV
NOV
The referral conversation
Handing over without abandoning · Track 03, Lecture 2
The knowledge base
Written for the coach
All articles
Written for the coach
who wants the real answer.
Trauma-informed9 min
What trauma-informed coaching actually means
Not a certificate. A set of decisions about safety, pace and what you never ask a client to relive for your benefit.
FoundationsRead →
Scope7 min
Therapy or coaching? A line you can actually defend
Four questions that separate a coaching goal from a clinical need, and what to do the moment you notice you've crossed over.
Scope & ethicsRead →
Asian contexts8 min
Stigma doesn't look like shame. It looks like loyalty.
Why Asian clients often refuse therapy for reasons that sound admirable — and how to work with that instead of arguing against it.
Cultural practiceRead →
Membership
Learn alongside people
Learn alongside people
who do this work.
Monthly lectures, case consultation, the full article library and a supervision group that meets whether or not you have a crisis to bring.
No sales sequence. One email with the term outline and reading list.