What Will I Learn in the INCCP?
Gain the clinical, coaching, and leadership skills to become a board-certified Nurse Coach — and to bring this work into practice or healthcare systems.
Skills that transform health and healing
The Integrative Nurse Coach® Certificate Program (INCCP) equips nurses with the theory, practical skills, and professional tools to transform health and healing — individually and systemically. You will learn to:
Graduates meet the contact-hour and coaching-hour requirements to sit for the NC-BC, HN-BC, and HWNC-BC exams through AHNCC.
- Apply the Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching (TINC) for whole-person, relationship-centered care
- Use the Integrative Lifestyle Health and Wellbeing Model across physical, emotional, spiritual, and environmental domains
- Facilitate Awareness and Choice practices for sustainable behavior change
- Apply established behavior change theories and models — including the Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change), Motivational Interviewing, and Appreciative Inquiry
- Use the validated Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment™ in practice and research
- Demonstrate core coaching competencies — presence, deep listening, motivational interviewing, and outcome-based goal setting
The four levels at a glance
- Level 1 — Foundations (14 weeks, 90 contact hours): self-transformation and core coaching skills
- Level 2 — Practicum (16 weeks, 156 contact hours): supervised coaching with pro bono clients
- Level 3 — Board Certification Review (self-paced): the Nurse Coach Board Certification Review (24 contact hours) plus a Holistic Nursing Certification Review (contact hours coming soon), included in every pathway
- Level 4 — Professional Development Branches: the Nurse Coach Private Practice Business Branch (contact hours coming soon) and/or Integrating Nurse Coaching in Organizations (40 contact hours)
Bonus: Integrative Nurse Coaching Interventions ($1,200 value; contact hours coming soon) expands your toolkit with complementary modalities.
Program highlights
- Format: 100% online, cohort-based with live interaction
- Duration: about 7 months plus lifetime access to self-paced modules
- Total contact hours: 270+ across the core levels, plus additional hours from the Holistic Nursing Review, your Level 4 branch(es), and the bonus course
For more detail, visit the Integrative Nurse Coach® Certificate Program page.