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Nurse Life Coach Academy

Become a
Nurse Life Coach

Take our certificate program and apply to become board certified!

Lead the way in Nurse Life Coaching:

Break The Mold and Own Your Nursing Career.
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Our philosophy

There is a new way to practice nursing.

“We don’t just certify nurse coaches — we launch confident, skilled, and thriving practitioners faster than any other path in the profession.”

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Help us redefine what nursing looks like

Become A Nurse Life Coach

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Immerse yourself in a community of nurses who are all in pursuit of a more aligned career and craving a deeper impact in the world.

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Learn coaching skills that are backed by science so that you can coach with confidence, making a deep impact in your client’s life.

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Cultivate friendships and partnerships with other like minded nurses, who like you, want to do nursing a little differently.

Why nurses make great coaches

As a nurse, you already have training in what it takes to be a coach.

There is no group of professionals better equipped to be a life coach, to walk alongside clients as they undergo deep-level transformation.

You have held the hands of dying patients, you have comforted strangers after a hard diagnosis, you have worked impossible shifts under critical conditions and seen the other side.

And the result?

Nurses are the most emotionally intelligent life coaches in the industry. There is nothing your client could say that would take you by surprise, that would be "too much", or that would scare you away. You can explore the depths of human nature with your clients and not be afraid to go there.

Your background in healthcare sets you apart from the rest of the industry, it is an essence that your clients can feel when they are in session with you, the ultimate-non-judgemental-safe-space for clients to explore the depths of their being, leading to true transformation.

Nursing is changing.

20% of our graduates get their tuition either fully or partially covered by their employer. Nurse Life Coach Training is a comprehensive leadership training.

Our graduates go on to create nurse coach departments supporting New Grads, supporting staff, and improving culture.

Units with a nurse coach program enjoy *5-40% reduction in annual turnover, and report feeling supported by their employer.

Nurse Life Coach Academy Graduates are on a mission.

The included private practice course and mentorship programs results in 40% of our graduates earning income as a professional coach prior to graduation...

and

Lessons on how to bring nurse coaching to your organization, and the ongoing Nurse Coach Residency programs make our grads the MOST successful in professional practice.

Does any of this sound familiar?

As a nurse, you feel the calling for something more.

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  • You put on a brave face for your shift and try to survive it.
  • You've forgotten what it is like to be excited by your career, left wondering "Is this it?"
  • You know you cannot continue down the traditional nursing path for much longer.
  • The other traditional professional paths (Master's Degree, NP School, CRNA) don't appeal to you as they don't solve the root problem

If any of that resonates, you’re not alone – welcome to Nurse Life Coach Academy.

Ready for something different?

Become A Nurse Coach

Newest holistic nursing specialty

With 121 CE credits, Become eligible to sit for your Nurse Coach Board Exam, or Holistic Nurse Exam. We include over 200 hours of optional curriculum.

6 months self paced learning

  • 100% Online w/ 32 Hours of live instruction.
  • Choose your own adventure, made for any nurse’s schedule
  • Expert Instructors - Only the Best of the Best teach on our Team!

Life coaching competencies

Holistic practicum prepares you to coach around all aspects of life, not just health and wellness.

On average, Nurse Life Coaches command 40% in pay more than Nurse Health Coaches.

New!!

Fully included business course!

Excellent business resources to prepare you to work in your organization or launch your private practice. Over 6 Million earned by our graduates!

The newest evolution of nurse coaching - Nurse Life Coaching

Why our approach works best.

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Industry leading curriculum

We Create Practitioners

Our curriculum blends evidence-based coaching methodologies with advanced communication, leadership, and business development skills—designed specifically for nurses stepping into modern, integrative practice. Every module builds real-world confidence, competence, and clinical-meets-transformational coaching mastery so you graduate fully prepared and positioned for success.

The Ultimate Coaching Toolkit

Our Professional Coaching Toolkit gives students exercises, homework assignments and their own materials for professional practice.

Expert-Led with Proven Results

With millions in coaching sales and multiple ICF certifications under their belts, our founders bring an unmatched level of expertise and innovation to the Nurse Coach industry. Their Next-Level Approach is designed to redefine what’s possible for both you and your clients.

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We Build Leaders

Where Visionary Nurses Belong

If you’ve ever felt like the one who thought differently — the nurse who saw beyond the bedside and believed in a bigger way to serve — you’ve found your people.

A Community of Trailblazers

Connect with nurses across the country who are redefining what’s possible in healthcare. Our students and graduates are innovators, disruptors, and compassionate leaders committed to transforming systems, elevating patient care, and forging fulfilling careers on their terms.

Transform Together at Exclusive Live Events

Step into immersive, high-level learning experiences at our signature retreats and live events. Grow your skills, deepen your confidence, and build lifelong friendships — all while learning from elite coaches, visionary leaders, and industry trailblazers. Access premium, curated experiences designed to elevate your identity, voice, and influence as a nurse coach.

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A Home for the Spirit led Nurse

Where Purpose-Led Nurses Come Home

If you’ve ever felt a deeper calling in your heart — a knowing that your gifts extend beyond task-based care and into true healing — you’ve found your sacred community. Here, intuition isn’t dismissed… it’s developed, honored, and integrated into your leadership.

A Community Aligned With Meaning & Mission

Connect with nurses across the nation who believe that nursing is not just a profession — it’s a spiritual vocation. Our students are visionaries and healers who blend science, compassion, and inner wisdom to elevate patient lives and transform healthcare from the inside out.

Expand Your Spirit & Your Voice at Transformational Retreats

Experience retreats and gatherings designed to nourish your soul, activate your leadership, and reconnect you to your purpose. Through reflection, ceremony-style connection, coaching, and learning, you expand not only your skills — but your capacity to serve, lead, and live in alignment with who you’re here to be.

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Start where other grads end up

Trusted by the Entire Profession

We’ve mentored graduates from every other nurse coaching program in the country. And while we proudly support the broader field, our native graduates consistently go farther, faster thanks to the depth, structure, and spirit of our training.

Proven Success & Industry Influence

Our grads have generated $5.3M in revenue and built thriving practices across the country. Our Youtube trainings watched by thousands.
And our mission is amplifying fast — The Successful Nurse Coach™ Podcast is the #1 nurse-coach podcast in the nation, inspiring thousands of nurses to lead with purpose and pursue work that matters.

Where Nurse Coaches Continue to Rise

Certification is only the beginning — lasting success comes from mentorship, community, and continued growth.

We are the only program that offers ongoing mentorship and support in our Nurse Coach Residency program. We don't want to create students, we want to create Professional Practicing Nurse Life Coaches!

What you can expect

Experience-based learning

Hands-on experience where you will learn everything you need to know to help your clients in every situation.

The Coaching Toolkit has endless coaching tools and client homework assignments designed for reflection and insight outside of sessions, decreasing the chances of leaving growth opportunities on the table.

Since this certification was born after coaching 400 clients, we hope to shorten the learning curve for you so that you graduate with confidence in your coaching skill.

Soul Filled Community

If you have ever felt like the black sheep in healthcare, you have officially found your crew!

Meet and be immersed in a community of nurses who get it, sharing the desire for radical change in how we support each other and our patients.

Life-long friendships, business partnerships, and amazing networking opportunities are a part of this community, we are so excited to welcome you in!

High-Quality Leadership

Every Nurse Coach on the team here at NLCA is a board-certified nurse coach with years of independent experience, coaching a wide variety of clients.

Each team member is passionate about this work and excited to share their knowledge with you!

Guidance in the Next Steps

You will always have access to the learning materials and access to your communities, as well as access future in-person events!

Many Nurse Coaches graduate certification and wonder, "What's next for me?"

As you enter the final stages of your certification, the next steps, no matter the path you wish to take, will be laid out for you with your team cheering you on!

Become a nurse life coach today.

Uncover the deeper reasons why you became a nurse in the first place.

If you are the nurse everyone is relieved to see when you clock in for your shift? You likely are already coaching and don't even know it!

If you are a nurse who is a natural leader, loves patient education, loves mentoring other nurses, or has advanced degrees and loves growth...Welcome Home.

If we had to guess, we could assume that there is something special about you and that you got into nursing to do meaningful work in the world. Nurse Coaching is the newest and most innovative nursing specialty that allows you to do just that. It also sets you apart and elevates your career.

After completing our program, and meeting all requirements from AHNCC, you can APPLY and sit for two board certifications. Nurse Coach Board Certified (NC-BC) & Holistic Nurse Board Certified (HN-BC).

Discover a meaningful way to Practice, while unlocking unlimited earning potential!

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Graduate stories

Here’s What Other Nurse Coach Clients Had to Say About Working With Us

"The road of entrepreneurship is the most liberating journey I have ever committed to~ and I would NOT have been able to step into it with the same intentional energy and confidence without the support of Laura and my amazing mentor group.

On paper, my biggest accomplishment has been signing 8 clients within my first 6 months of practice. But it's SO much deeper than that~ I would say my true biggest accomplishment is the fortitude I have gained; the grounded and centered confidence I have cultivated not only as a coach, or mother, or wife, or friend, or woman~ but as a human soul on this earth. I feel completely aligned with the work I do because it elevates me: mind, body, and spirit."

MRMeghan Ruttan

Meghan Ruttan, RN, BSN, NC-BC

www.ruttancoaching.com

"My biggest accomplishment so far has been having my practice be 2/3 of the way full within 6 months of starting my business. I more than doubled my bedside nursing income last month. I have also seen a lot of growth in my own mindset around things like success, money and how to find joy in the journey.

I cannot explain how much I have enjoyed these past 6 months in the mentorship. There is no way I would be where I am in my business right now without Laura and all the other amazing nurse coaches in this community. I probably would have given up by now or not have had as many clients as I have so far. It has been a life changing experience for me and I cannot imagine doing this without the support of the mentorship and all the other resources that I have access to with The Successful Nurse Coaches."

TMTaylor McGuire

Taylor McGuire

[email protected]

"In working with TSNC team, I found the most value in having a community to turn to and hold me accountable every single day. I have people and an amazing coach to lean on, challenge me, hype me up and encourages me to be the best version of myself. I have been able to step into my own power, and become a leader and trailblazer in the nurse community by sticking by my unwavering faith that this is what I was made to do on this planet. I refused to give up despite the struggles the first few months of my practice and it has absolutely paid off.

I truly would not be where I am or the same person without TSNC community and mentorship..."

RSRachel Synkelma

Rachel Synkelma, RN

[email protected]

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