Become a Certified Crisis-Informed Relationship Coach
A different kind of training. Because we all deserve to be seen and heard.
Learn real tools and strategy rooted in neuroscience to support couples quickly. Hands-on and affordable.
Certified Crisis-Informed Relationship Coaching™
Are you a wellness professional who has been wanting to expand your reach?
Have you thought about additional training, but 2 - 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars for unpredictable outcomes feels too daunting?
Are you seeking real, scientifically-grounded new tools to better support clients you see struggling?
Struggling to find a program you can trust to feel inclusive, accessible, and full of effective material with real value and impact?
This is a certification for those of you who already have a foundation in one or more wellness or therapeutic modalities, but are ready to level up, expand your reach, and support clients with challenges in communication, conflict, trust, betrayal, intimacy issues, and more through REAL, Scientially-grounded, proven, effective tools.
This training is concentrated, intense, hands-on, and inclusive. Get certified in only two long weekends- in-person in beautiful Southern California- affordable, and earns 20 hours of CE credits.
HOW THIS TRAINING CAN BE VITAL TO YOUR PRACTICE:
Expand your reach and impact
Support clients to have huge breakthroughs
Provide holistic support to clients struggling in multiple areas
Offer neuroscience-grounded tools that quickly deepen communication, trust, and intimacy
Increase your understanding of the dynamics common in neurodiverse couples
Learn rituals you can use in all areas of your practice
Our challenges don’t exist in isolation. Your clients know they can trust you for what you offer. But most of us were never taught some of the most fundamental tools of communication, conflict resolution, and trust and intimacy-building that we cover here.
Have you considered coaching couples but realized it’s so broad and unregulated that you didn’t know where to start?
Or maybe, somewhere along the line, you decided not to work with couples because relationship challenges seemed so challenging and unpredictable, and results too complicated to measure?
Then you’re in the right place.
Why Dawn?
Dawn is a coach, speaker, and the founder of Whole Life Solutions, offering career coaching for professionals navigating major pivots and relationship coaching for couples in crisis, all through an ADHD-informed lens.
- Dawn has supported hundreds of professionals in transition and over 1000 couples at tipping points in their relationship towards deeper clarity and connection,
- She brings over a decade researching mental health, the neuroscience of habits and decision-making, and how we are wired to process time, communication, and problem-solving differently to her work,
- She is a TEDx speaker on why “You Should Never go to Bed Angry” is a lie,
- A contributor to the world-renowned Gottman Institute Blog on Disrupting Outdated Relationship Myths, at Gottman.com,
- And the host of the LA Chapter of the Global speakers’ series, CreativeMornings.
- Her Speaking clients include: The Global Love Institute, ORACLE, VISTAGE, CreativeMornings, the Georgia Hospital Association, the Society for Simulation in Health Care, UCLA, USC, Team Rubicon, Intrepid Health, and UNICEF.
- Dawn is the recipient of Dawn is the recipient of: BusinessRate’s “Best Career Coach, Relationship Coach Legacy Coach in Pasadena” #1 in Pasadena 2025, Pasadena Business Recognition Best of Pasadena Award for Best Marriage or Relationship Counselor 2022 and Best Career Coaching 2023, Atlanta Business Recognition Best of Atlanta Award for Best Counselor 2020, and WeddingWire Bride’s and Couple’s Choice Awards from 2011-2024.
But is this right for you?
WHO THIS CERTIFICATION IS FOR
Ideal trainees:
Experienced coaches wanting a relationship specialization
Therapists and counselors who want structured, behavioral tools
Established wellness practitioners seeking to expand their reach and impact
ADHD specialists wanting relational application
Spiritual leaders and directors
Speakers, authors, podcast hosts in the relationship and wellness space seeking to expand their tool box and authority
Divorce mediators seeking clarity frameworks
Relationship educators
What transformation can you expect your clients will see following incorporating this work:
Clients are able to:
Have clarity quickly on their capacity to navigate their challenges and whether to stay or go
Experience more grace for themselves and their partner through deepened understanding
Problem-solve their conflicts more than they could previously,
focus on the actual issue to resolve rather than on what they perceive as the other person’s intention or responsibility,
find the right time to communicate and problem-solve
Notice fact vs assumption when feeling tense and frustrated
Work more as a team than before,
Have more time for conversations, romance, and appreciation than before
Notice and build on the positives, often more than ever before
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
This program is intended for counselors, therapists, healers, spiritual leaders, and other wellness practitioners with an established foundation in serving clients in a therapeutic and/or healing capacity.
Research consistently shows that roughly 60–70% of daily behaviors are driven by habit, not conscious decision. (Older pop-psych numbers floated much higher percentages; current behavioral science tends to land closer to two-thirds.) That’s not a flaw — it’s neurological efficiency.
If we consciously deliberated every micro-choice, we’d be paralyzed.
Habits are useful.
But unexamined habits — especially in relationships — create:
Default conflict loops full of assumption and misinterpretation
Inherited gender roles
Cultural scripts about money, sex, parenting
Religious or family expectations absorbed without reflection
Shame-based relational rules
We interrupt autopilot.
You’ll learn to support your clients to:
Notice what’s habitual
Decide what’s intentional
Consciously design their own rules
Break generational cycles of conflict and miscommunication
Develop rituals and formulas that consciously create a more connected new normal.
What We’ll Cover
A detailed overview of Crisis-Informed Relationship Coaching, why it matters, how it’s unique, and who it is for
Distinctions between counseling and coaching and the appropriate applications of each
The impact of trauma, background, neurodiversity, mental health and culture on communication and decision-making
The most common client presenting dynamics (Communication, Trust, Intimacy, Neurodiversity, Mental Health) and the corresponding tools,
A Sample Session and Sample Consultation
How to Navigate what comes up in the processing
Incorporating Habit Research, and Building a 90-day Partnership Agreement
Ethics, Boundaries, and Referrals
Integration of techniques and creating sustainable relationship patterns
A Demo Session
Administrative Responsibilities: Maintaining ethical boundaries, Establishing safety and consent, Knowing when to refer or get complimentary support, Note-taking, Ai, and privacy considerations
Marketing and Building Community
Live supervised practice sessions (mock sessions)
Independent practicum with real clients: required minimum of 3 (three) recorded sessions
Post: Follow-up session with Dawn after review of recorded session
Certification
Daily Program Schedule
Saturday and Sunday, for two subsequent weekends. Next cohort: September 5th, 6th, 12th, and 13th, 2026, Pasadena, CA
9-9:30 Morning Networking
9:30-11 Session
11-11:15 break
11:15-12:30 session
12:30-1 Lunch
1-2:30 session
2:30-2:45 break
2:45-3:30 Q&A and discussion