Become a Certified EBT Coach

Learn practical, neuroscience-based tools to help clients reduce stress, build resilience, and change maladptive patterns by addressing the root cause.

What This Certification Is

Our EBT Coach Certification equips you with the clinical skills to give your clients what they need to change their responses in daily life, so they are naturally healthier and happier. They will see remarkable changes right from the start, as the tools directly impact their brain and biochemistry in ways that solve their problems—all actionable, empowering, and based on brain science.

Who It's For

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EBT Coach Certification* is designed for coaches who want deeper skills for supporting emotional regulation, behavior change, and long-term well-being, especially when stress is getting in the way.

We currently accept applications from:

  • National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching Certified Health & Wellness Coaches
  • Life coaches with approved training programs

*At this time, EBT Coach Certification is offered to U.S.-based participants only.

Why Coaches Choose Emotional Brain Training

  • Goes beyond mindset to address brain-based stress patterns
  • Teaches clients self-regulation tools so they can follow through with the next best step
  • Practical tools that fit into real coaching sessions
  • Supports lasting behavior change
  • Backed by neuroscience and decades of clinical development

EBT gives coaches a way to work directly with the emotional brain—where habits and stress responses actually live.

Your Training Pathway

Because coaching backgrounds vary widely, EBT maintains specific preparation standards to ensure safety, effectiveness, and training quality.

Step 1
Build EBT Skills
Build EBT Skills and Complete Prerequisites Through Personal Practice
Step 2
Apply for Level 1
Apply for Level 1 Certification
Step 3
Complete Level 1
Complete Level 1: 12-Week EBT for Coaches
Step 4
Continue Levels 2 & 3
Continue Levels 2 & 3 Master EBT Coaching Skills

Coaches move through this pathway at their own pace. Certification is granted after completing the full training program.

For coaches without clinical credentials, prerequisites include:

  • Completion of the following EBT personal programs: EBT Basics, EBT Essentials, Rewiring Basics, Freedom From the Big 4, and Sanctuary
  • Recommendations from two EBT Providers
  • Approved coach training program (NBC-HWC preferred)

EBT Caoch Training Levels

Your first step in certification is to learn how to coach EBT confidently, with training on the EBT Neurophysiologic Resilience Algorithm. This process requires the 5 major causes of stress overload: situational, reactive, chronic, grieving, and trauma. This combination of one-hour videos, live experiential training, and Zoom lab sessions speeds your learning and integrates personal and professional work for an exciting training experience. You will be certified to apply the EBT Algorithm for patients for self-regulation and rewiring stress overload, but not trauma circuits.

Included:

  • 12 one-hour on-demand videos
  • 12 one-hour weekly experiential telegroup sessions
  • 12 one-hour weekly labs (live via Zoom)

Pricing: $399/month for 3 months

The second level of EBT for Coaches training is a 12-week program designed to deepen your EBT skills, using the EBT Neurophysiologic Resilience Algorithm with clients in more challenging presentations. Listen to a series of sessions with the latest EBT techniques so you can apply them in your coaching practice. Continue with your experiential training and lab sessions, including using role plays and demonstrations of advanced techniques.

Pricing: $399/month for 3 months

The third level of certification is a 12-week program in which you will learn advanced skills and the complete set of tools applying the EBT Neurophysiological Resilience Algorithm, and have access to a broad range of training tapes and personalize your program to meet the needs of your coaching practice. Once you complete your experiential program and lab sessions, you will be certified to coach clients using the EBT Algorithm for self-regulation and rewiring stress overload and trauma circuits for all EBT Programs.

Pricing: $399/month for 3 months

Have Questions?

Laura Bransfield
Laura Bransfield, MPH, RDN
Director of EBT Professional Training
Laura@EBTSolutionFoundation.org
Cassidy McCorkle
Cassidy McCorkle
Manager of EBT Professional Training
Cassidy@EBTSolutionFoundation.org