Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Child and Family Therapeutic Coaching
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At Advanced level, you are not learning new strategies. You are developing the professional judgement, critical thinking, formulation skills and leadership capacity to work with the full complexity of child and family life — and to be part of advancing the field itself.
The Advanced Certificate is for experienced practitioners who are ready to deepen their professional capability, engage critically with evidence and theory, and move towards advanced specialist or leadership-informed practice.
This is a demanding, intellectually rigorous qualification. It expects you to think beyond frameworks and techniques, to hold complexity without reducing it, to critically evaluate your own assumptions and biases, and to develop a coherent advanced professional philosophy that you can articulate, defend and build upon.
This is a demanding, intellectually rigorous qualification. It expects you to think beyond frameworks and techniques, to hold complexity without reducing it, to critically evaluate your own assumptions and biases, and to develop a coherent advanced professional philosophy that you can articulate, defend and build upon.
✅ Developed by Dr Sam Ballington
✅ Full Tutor Support from Sam and the Team
✅ Flexible Learning to meet your needs
✅ Personal Learning Plan developed by you
✅ TQUK and ACFC Certifications
✅ Interactive Online Learning you can access anywhere
✅ Coming soon... WhatsApp Community of Practice
✅ Full Tutor Support from Sam and the Team
✅ Flexible Learning to meet your needs
✅ Personal Learning Plan developed by you
✅ TQUK and ACFC Certifications
✅ Interactive Online Learning you can access anywhere
✅ Coming soon... WhatsApp Community of Practice
Unit 1: Advanced Theories and Integrative Models in Child and Family Therapeutic Coaching
This unit operates at a genuinely advanced level. You will critically analyse the theoretical frameworks that underpin advanced practice — not just what they claim, but the evidence base behind them, their limitations, and the populations and contexts in which they do and do not apply. Attachment, relational and systemic theories are examined for their contribution to advanced practice, alongside the integration of neuroscience into therapeutic coaching. You will critically evaluate contemporary research across diverse settings and populations, and develop your own integrative framework — a principled, evidence-informed model for your own advanced practice that draws on multiple theoretical sources.
Unit 2: Advanced Formulation and Case Conceptualisation
Formulation is one of the most sophisticated professional skills in this field, and this unit develops it in depth. You will study what formulation is and how it differs from assessment and interpretation — examining how presenting issues may mask deeper relational, developmental or systemic needs that simple problem-solving approaches cannot reach. You will develop the ability to construct formulations that integrate child, parent, relational and contextual factors, assess risk, protective factors, strengths and barriers, and justify advanced intervention priorities from a formulation basis. Crucially, you will also develop the habit of reviewing and refining formulations as new information emerges — and critically examining how your own bias as a practitioner may shape what you see and what you miss.
Unit 3: Trauma, Adversity and Relational Repair in Advanced Practice
Trauma and adversity are woven throughout child and family work, and at Advanced level you engage with them at a correspondingly advanced level. You will critically analyse the impact of trauma and adversity on children's development, behaviour and relationships, examining how trauma presents differently across age, context and family experience. Research-informed trauma-aware approaches are evaluated in depth, including the relationship between trauma, regulation and relational safety that is foundational to all effective work in this field.
Advanced trauma-aware practice is developed practically: how to create genuine safety and trust in complex work, how play, creativity, movement, sensory approaches and relational support can be used in trauma-aware contexts, the importance of pacing, consent and responsiveness, and how to involve parents and carers in trauma-aware work appropriately. You will develop an advanced intervention proposal for a trauma-affected case, justifying your strategy against evidence and formulation, and evaluating its limitations and ethical considerations.
Advanced trauma-aware practice is developed practically: how to create genuine safety and trust in complex work, how play, creativity, movement, sensory approaches and relational support can be used in trauma-aware contexts, the importance of pacing, consent and responsiveness, and how to involve parents and carers in trauma-aware work appropriately. You will develop an advanced intervention proposal for a trauma-affected case, justifying your strategy against evidence and formulation, and evaluating its limitations and ethical considerations.
Unit 4: Advanced Neurodiversity, Disability, Inclusion and Equity
This unit strengthens advanced practitioners' ability to respond to diversity, disability, neurodivergence and structural inequity. Inclusion and equity are examined not as aspirational values but as professional commitments with concrete practice implications — barriers to access and participation, the impact of intersectionality, and the influence of policy, systems and services on who gets support and on what terms.
Advanced neurodiversity-affirming practice is developed through critical examination: what affirming practice actually requires at advanced level, how sensory, communication, processing and physical differences should influence intervention design, the tensions between compliance-based and genuinely affirming approaches, and how practitioners can work in ways that uphold dignity, autonomy and the strengths of neurodivergent children and families. You will design an inclusive intervention or service adaptation for a complex case, justify it using equity principles, and evaluate its likely effectiveness.
Advanced neurodiversity-affirming practice is developed through critical examination: what affirming practice actually requires at advanced level, how sensory, communication, processing and physical differences should influence intervention design, the tensions between compliance-based and genuinely affirming approaches, and how practitioners can work in ways that uphold dignity, autonomy and the strengths of neurodivergent children and families. You will design an inclusive intervention or service adaptation for a complex case, justify it using equity principles, and evaluate its likely effectiveness.
Unit 5: Leadership, Supervision and Multi-Agency Practice
Advanced practitioners do not work in isolation. This unit develops your capacity to lead, support less experienced practitioners, and work effectively within and across professional systems. You will critically analyse the role of leadership in promoting safe, ethical and effective practice, examine the leadership responsibilities that come with advanced practitioner status, and develop evidence-informed strategies for addressing the challenges that arise when leading or influencing practice in complex professional environments.
Supervision is examined both as something you receive and something you may provide: how supervision supports safe decision-making and ethical accountability, the relationship between supervision and reflective practice, and how to mentor or guide developing practitioners. Multi-agency working is addressed practically: how to lead collaborative work around a child or family case, how to make and justify communication, boundary and information-sharing decisions in collaboration, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-agency approaches.
Supervision is examined both as something you receive and something you may provide: how supervision supports safe decision-making and ethical accountability, the relationship between supervision and reflective practice, and how to mentor or guide developing practitioners. Multi-agency working is addressed practically: how to lead collaborative work around a child or family case, how to make and justify communication, boundary and information-sharing decisions in collaboration, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-agency approaches.
Unit 6: Research, Evaluation and Evidence-Informed Practice
Advanced practice requires an engaged relationship with evidence — knowing how to find it, evaluate it critically, and use it to improve what you do. This unit develops your ability to assess the strengths and limitations of different forms of evidence (including the particular challenges of evidence in this relatively young field), engage critically with current literature, and navigate the ethical complexities of research involving children and families.
You will conduct a small-scale practitioner enquiry or evaluation: developing a research or evaluation question, reviewing literature, designing an appropriate approach, and presenting and interpreting findings. The unit then asks you to do what the best practitioners do with their findings — use them. You will analyse the implications of your enquiry for intervention and service improvement, recommend changes based on evidence and reflection, and critically evaluate the limitations of your approach and the directions it opens up.
You will conduct a small-scale practitioner enquiry or evaluation: developing a research or evaluation question, reviewing literature, designing an appropriate approach, and presenting and interpreting findings. The unit then asks you to do what the best practitioners do with their findings — use them. You will analyse the implications of your enquiry for intervention and service improvement, recommend changes based on evidence and reflection, and critically evaluate the limitations of your approach and the directions it opens up.
Unit 7: Advocacy, Service Development and Professional Influence
Advanced practitioners have a responsibility to the wider field, not just to individual clients. This unit develops your capacity to advocate for children, families and the profession — to present evidence of effectiveness to different audiences, to influence policy and provision, and to contribute to service development. You will develop a proposal for an advocacy, awareness or service development initiative, justify it using evidence and identified need, evaluate its feasibility and likely impact, and present recommendations for implementation and review.
Unit 8: Advanced Reflective Portfolio in Child and Family Therapeutic Coaching Practice
The Advanced Reflective Portfolio is the summative unit that draws together everything in this qualification into a coherent account of your advanced professional identity. You will critically analyse your own development as an Advanced Child and Family Therapeutic Coach, examine the influence of your values, assumptions and lived experience on your practice, and reflect honestly on the ethical, relational and professional dilemmas you have encountered in advanced work.
You will synthesise your advanced learning — demonstrating how theory, formulation, ethics, inclusion and evidence inform your own practice model — and present a coherent personal philosophy of advanced child and family therapeutic coaching practice. The portfolio closes with an advanced professional development plan: where you are going, why, and how your continued development will strengthen your practice and impact on the children and families you work alongside.
You will synthesise your advanced learning — demonstrating how theory, formulation, ethics, inclusion and evidence inform your own practice model — and present a coherent personal philosophy of advanced child and family therapeutic coaching practice. The portfolio closes with an advanced professional development plan: where you are going, why, and how your continued development will strengthen your practice and impact on the children and families you work alongside.
Choose your specialist pathway
At Advanced level, you choose one of five specialist pathway certificates to complete alongside the core diploma:
At Advanced level, you choose one of five specialist pathway certificates to complete alongside the core diploma:
- Parent Coaching Practice
- Creative Therapeutic Arts with Children and Families
- Neurodiversity Family Coaching
- Child and Young Person Therapeutic Coaching
- Therapeutic Play Coaching
