The 6-month certification · Next cohort begins March 3, 2027

The first internationally accredited training that combines professional coaching, women's health, and embodiment.

For accomplished women ready to coach women beyond mindset. Within six months of training, you graduate a certified Women Empowerment Coach, with a proven method, a real credential, and your practice taking shape.

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Mona and Laura, founders of the Embodied Coaching Institute

If you've been feeling it too

You already know this feeling.

You're the capable one. The one who has it together, the one everyone leans on. And you know what it's like to be tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix.

By every outside measure, you're successful. And quietly, in a way you can barely admit, it doesn't feel like you anymore.

You've done the books, the courses, maybe the therapy. You understand everything, and it has changed less than it should.

You keep feeling pulled toward something more meaningful, work that would use what you've lived through, and no training you've found goes deep enough to hold it.

And some part of you is tired of saying "not yet."

If you found yourself nodding, you're exactly where you should be. That feeling isn't random. It's worth listening to.

70ICF-accredited
training hours
2International
accreditations
20+Countries our students
join us from
2021Founded by
Mona & Laura

The Women Empowerment Coach Training

You graduate not just
with a certificate.
You graduate as a different
woman holding it.

Who this training is for

IS THIS for YOU?

No. 01 · The corporate professional

You're in a corporate or professional role, feeling the pull toward more meaningful work, and ready to explore coaching, alongside your career or as your next chapter.

Mona and Laura of the Embodied Coaching Institute

No. 02 · The health professional

You're a nutritionist, therapist, yoga teacher, or practitioner, ready to add real coaching and behavior-change skills to the work you already do with women.

No. 03 · The practicing coach

You're already coaching, and you know there's a whole layer, the body, the nervous system, what's really driving your clients, that your training never reached.

No. 04 · The creative

You're a photographer, teacher, guide, or artist working with women, and you want to hold them more deeply than your craft alone can.

Four different women, one thing in common: each senses that what she's lived through was meant to help other women, too. And coaching experience? Not required. If you recognized yourself just now, this training was built with you in mind.

Within six months of training

BY GRADUATION, you WILL…

01

Hold your certification as a Women Empowerment Coach, built on 70 ICF-accredited training hours.

02

Coach with the Embodied Transformation Framework, one complete method for the whole woman.

03

Sit across from any woman with the confidence to know exactly how to help her.

04

Understand her hormones, her nervous system, her rhythms, the layer almost no certification teaches.

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Have practiced until coaching stops being theory and becomes second nature.

06

Have done your own transformation along the way. Because you can't take a woman where you haven't been yourself.

07

Belong to a sisterhood across 20+ countries, with an open path toward your own ICF credential.

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From the women who walked it

THEY WERE where YOU ARE.

Different countries, different careers, the same quiet pull. Here's where it led them.

Hayley McLaren

Women's Health & Wellness Coach · UAE

Hayley spent over two decades at some of the world's top tech companies. Law degree, big career, the capable one. And underneath: wired at the wrong times, flat at others, never quite able to switch off. There was no single breaking point. It was slower than that. The rebuilding wasn't another plan or more discipline. She stopped asking "how do I do more" and started asking "what can I actually hold." Today she coaches capable women to rebuild their foundations, through her own practice, Inner Architect.

"If you are here, just know you are in the right place."

Ariane Schuessler

Female Leadership Coach · Germany

Ariane had lived an extraordinary life already: thirty years in Canada, a career that took her from anthropology to sales and marketing all the way to Vice President, before moving her family back to Europe. She had decades of depth and experience, but she wasn't a coach, and no clear path to use everything she'd gathered. Through the training, something clicked. She found her niche, her direction, and she felt deeply held while she did. Today she runs her own coaching practice for women in leadership transitions, in two languages, across two continents.

"One of the best decisions I've made."

Tanja Pleis

Female Empowerment Photographer · USA & Germany

Tanja came to us as a photographer working with women navigating big change and intense health challenges. Her photography was already powerful, already healing, but it brought deep emotions to the surface, and she wanted to hold that more deeply than the lens alone could. What she didn't expect was how powerful the somatic and embodied work would be. Today, the women in front of her camera aren't just photographed. They're held, guided back into their bodies. Her craft didn't change. It deepened.

"The best decision I made last year. It just feels like a true sisterhood."

"I found the real me again."

Natalia Kasnakidis · Mind-Body Performance & Leadership Coach · 35 Women Under 35 · UK

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"The body answers first, and the mind follows."

Maja Todorovic · University Professor turned Senior Women Leadership Coach · Netherlands

"Was it worth it? YES. Did it change my life? YES. There is really something happening on a deeper level."

Kalliegh Pheasant · Wealth Coach · USA

"I have never felt so confident in my entire life of 61 years."

Jacqueline de Louw · Nutrition & Embodiment Coach · Netherlands

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"Finding this course changed my life."

Francesca Margiotta · Data Analyst, Coach & Consultant · Italy

"I listen differently. I see differently. My relationships have improved."

Qanita Smith · Dancer & Embodiment Coach · South Africa

"The thing I missed the most in my healing journey was the body being implemented in coaching. That this training implements the body is what made me decide to join."

Ilse Mok · Teacher turned Coach · Netherlands

"I am more confident to be and embody myself fully, to put myself out there… and it brought me my new job."

Jana Denker · High-Stakes Speechwriter & Embodiment Coach · Germany

"The body holds so much wisdom. I love how my world has opened up to somatics and embodiment."

Angela Hayes · Perimenopause Embodiment Coach

"Saying this training was life-changing is like saying the sun sets and rises every day. It was a door to a whole new chapter in my life."

Zuza Zuber · Leadership Coach · Tech Industry

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Full curriculum, dates and structure inside

What makes this training different

The mind understands.
The body transforms.

You can know a pattern completely and still live inside it. Because insight lives in the mind, and change lives in the body: in the nervous system and the hormones that shape how a woman feels, decides, and shows up. Almost no certification trains you to work there. This one does. That's why our graduates create change that talking alone never could.

Pillar 01

Professional coaching

The credentialed craft: core competencies, real practice, and an ICF-accredited foundation under everything you do.

Pillar 02

Women's health

Her hormones, her cycles, her nervous system. The layer that drives how a woman feels and functions, and that almost no training includes.

Pillar 03

Embodiment

Somatic skill, the craft of working with the body itself, where the deepest change actually happens.

The first ICF-accredited training that combines professional coaching, women's health, and embodiment.

Double-accredited

THE GOLD STANDARD, officially.

This training is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the gold standard in professional coach education, often called the Ivy League of the coaching industry, and by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM), recognizing excellence in holistic health worldwide. Your 70 ICF-accredited training hours also count toward your own ICF credential as a professional coach, via the ACC path.

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Who's guiding you

MEET your FOUNDERS.

This didn't start as a training. It started with the two of us.

Laura found this work the hard way, through a health crisis in her early twenties, when no one could explain what her body was doing, until she learned how a woman's body actually works and rebuilt her health from the root. Years later, Mona came to Laura as a client: a woman in the corporate world, exhausted, dealing with hormonal imbalances, sensing her body was trying to tell her something no one had taught her how to hear. What we learned together was that knowledge alone is never enough. To actually change, it has to be felt, and lived in the body. So in 2021 we built the training we couldn't find anywhere: real coaching skill, women's health science, and embodied practice, professionally accredited.

Mona Hassan and Laura van de Vorst, founders of the Embodied Coaching Institute

Mona Hassan (1986) is an ICF certified PCC coach (+500 coaching hours) and brings 10 years of corporate experience in the field of Marketing & Sales Leadership. In 2020 she decided to leave the corporate world to start her own business as a coach and trainer. She now holds coach certifications from six different schools, including somatic, embodiment and health coaching. Her coaching style is holistic, integrating the mental, emotional, physical and energetic dimensions into the coaching process. Alongside co-founding Embodied Coaching Institute, Mona also leads transformational programs in the fields of embodiment, consciousness and energy work. She lives between Vienna & Nice and speaks English and German.

Laura van de Vorst (1989) is a certified holistic nutritionist, FMCHC, hormone health expert, and successful wellness entrepreneur. She co-founded healthcoachFX back in 2014 and has since then helped thousands of women across the globe live healthier and happier lives free from hormone imbalances. Laura has a Master's Degree from the Copenhagen Business School and has been featured in Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, Business Insider, Brain Effect, MindBodyGreen, and Lululemon. Alongside co-founding Embodied Coaching Institute, Laura leads 1500+ active members in her own natural living community & mentors 40+ other health experts. Laura lives in Switzerland and speaks English, Dutch, and German.

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The curriculum

WHAT'S inside THE TRAINING.

Six modules across six months: 70 ICF-accredited hours, live core lessons and practice pods every two weeks, and self-study in your own rhythm.

Module 01

Essence

You'll know all the elements that need to be in place in your coaching process, so that client transformation can actually happen.

Module 02

Make room

You'll create an empowering space in which you help your client explore their mind patterns, so that there's self-exploration and room for a new reality to unfold.

Module 03

Balance

You'll know the art of coaching, balancing being and doing and tapping into both feminine and masculine qualities, so that you show up with confidence, communicate effectively, and truly empower your clients to reach their goals.

Module 04

Optimize

You'll coach more effectively, so that your coachee actually implements insights and takes action, and you'll hold the frameworks women need to optimize their wellbeing at every stage of life, so that they can live in harmony with their cyclical nature instead of fighting against it.

Module 05

Dare

You'll dare to include the body, applying the most effective tools from mind-body medicine, functional nutrition, embodiment and somatic coaching, so that you can tap into the body's wisdom and reach new heights of breakthrough in your sessions.

Module 06

You

You'll feel confident about your coaching offer and empowered to get started, so that you can spread your gift and make an impact with your newfound skills, practice, and knowledge.

The Embodied Transformation Framework

WHERE IT ALL comes TOGETHER.

Every module builds one layer of a single method: the framework our graduates use to create change that lasts, for their clients and for themselves.

The Embodied Transformation Framework

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