How You Could Develop NLP &
Professional Coaching Capability
Most short coaching courses produce coaches who struggle the moment a client presents anything outside the textbook. The reality is that real skills take time to develop.
By integrating foundation NLP, advanced NLP, and ICF-aligned professional coaching practice, the Diploma of Professional Coaching produces graduates with the breadth and depth to handle whatever a client brings.
Grounded in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competencies, the diploma's Certificate in Professional Coaching provides the educational component for those pursuing the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential pathway.
Through a combination of self-paced online learning and live facilitated sessions, you'll begin practising coaching from the start, gradually strengthening your skills, confidence and ability to support meaningful growth in others.
"To me, these programs weren’t about the paper qualification or adding another title to my name; they were about learning powerful, practical techniques to help people whom I deeply care about reach their full potential.
— Padmi D. IAP GraduateStand out as a Complete Coach ICF DIPLOMA OF NLP & PROFESSIONAL COACHING course
The Diploma combines:
- Foundation NLP toolkit (Practitioner)
- Advanced NLP mastery (Master Practitioner)
- ICF-aligned professional coaching practice (Certificate in Professional Coaching)
- Proprietary IAP methodologies refined over 15 years
Participants graduate with the breadth, depth and credentials to be taken seriously in any coaching market.
Evelien is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Master Practitioner of Conscious Hypnosis and a Mental Health First Aider.
She spent eight years at the Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant and project leader before founding Koboda Pty Ltd, where she works with organisations to build strategic capabilities.
Evelien is also the author of Amazon #1 bestseller FlowMasters for Professionals: The Art of Achieving and Maintaining Success and Wellbeing. She brings the perspective of a practitioner who coaches, facilitates and works with clients every day — with more than 500 hours of client coaching sessions.
Evelien believes coaching skills can only develop through experience, and she creates a safe, interactive and supportive learning environment where participants learn by doing and grow through practice.
Gordon is the founder of The Institute of Applied Psychology, a registered training organisation (RTO). As a registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, lead facilitator and published author, Gordon’s primary pursuit is accelerated human change and peak performance.
The only Australian Hypnotherapy Trainer invited to be a faculty member of the inaugural Erickson Online Congress 2012, endorsed by the Milton Erickson Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona.
CREDENTIALS
- Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 25 years of experience
- Creator of Gordian Therapy and Gordian Pillars of Psychotherapy
- Creator of Strategic Hypnotherapy
- Former President — Hypnotherapy Council of Australia (HCA)
- Former President — Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ASCH)
- Former Chair — Australian Board of NLP (ABNLP)
- Former Editor — Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis
- Fellow – International Strategic Psychotherapists Association (ISPA)
Hear From Coaching Graduates
What stood out most was the emphasis on the quality of the coaching conversation itself. The framework provides a clear pathway that keeps sessions focused and intentional, guiding clients from reflection to insight, and from insight to meaningful action. The strategic questioning techniques are particularly powerful, helping clients clarify motivations, challenge assumptions, and find their own path forward. In my work coaching founders and leaders, I consistently draw on this questioning approach. It has shifted the way I facilitate conversations, helping clients surface their own thinking rather than directing them toward conclusions. It is a subtle shift, but a significant one.
HR Consultant & Strategic Coach
Why choose to study with IAP?
The Institute of Applied Psychology (IAP) combines coaching training with expertise in applied psychology and human development.
