Advanced Organizer Coach Credentials
Integrate top-tier coaching and organizing skills to foster lasting, sustainable change.
Level 2 Coaching Credentials
What are Advanced Organizer
Coach Credentials?
Coach Approach Training Institute offers two advanced organizer coach credentials: Professional Certified Organizer Coach (PCOC) and Certified Organizer Life Coach (COLC). These credentials share nearly identical training and requirements, but serve different purposes. Offered at the request of our trained coaches, these credentials reflect distinct ways to communicate the value of coaching—each tailored to resonate with specific client populations.
For decades, professional organizers have been privileged to witness the intimate details of people’s lives—how they live and work in their spaces, share them with others, and support their communities. Organizing is never just about “stuff” or schedules. It touches on deeper priorities: how time is spent, what truly matters, and how clients care for themselves and those they love, whether it’s children, family, or friends in need.
Since organizing, time, and task management intersect every aspect of life, coaching in this field naturally aligns with holistic (whole-person) coaching principles. Whether a coach focuses on helping clients align their organizing efforts with their values or supports broader life goals, the work is deeply interconnected. The unique combination of coaching and organizing expertise is especially impactful for clients navigating ADHD, neurodivergence, major life changes, or overwhelming stress or situations that often disrupt life’s flow. Together, PCOC and COLC coaches help clients design “A Life That Fits”– one that honors their values, strengths, and aspirations.
125 hours of coach training
10 mentor hours
500 client coaching hours
Both credentials reflect advanced coaching mastery, supported by rigorous training and real-world experience. PCOC and COLC coaches go beyond surface-level fixes—they guide clients through transformative change. By using body-based insights, developing sustainable systems, and clarifying patterns, these coaches help clients build environments and habits that reflect their best selves. The result? Clients are empowered to handle responsibilities, nurture creativity, and live purposeful, soul-centered lives.
These coaches create an ongoing, supportive process to help clients balance systems, self-care, and passions while keeping their unique aesthetics and values front and center. The synergy of organizing instincts with advanced Professional Certified Coach (PCC)-level training allows them to unlock profound and lasting changes in their clients’ lives.
After completing foundational training, each PCOC or COLC personalizes their coaching path by selecting advanced electives that best serve their clients’ needs.
All Level 2 Coaching Credentials:
The Path to Becoming an Advanced Organizer Coach
Professional Certified Organizer Coach (PCOC) & Certified Organizer Life Coach (COLC)
Foundation Training
- Complete and graduate from Coach Approach Training Institute’s Foundation Training program
Additional Advanced Training - 125 Hours
Completion of these graduate-level required courses:
- Graduate Book Analysis and
- Holistic Time Coaching and
- Cultivating Coaching Courage and
- Body-Based Coaching
And completion of one of the following:
Approximately 15 additional hours of coach training will be required to reach 125 hours.
Mentor Coaching - 10 Hours
- Completion of 10 mentor coaching hours
- All 10 required hours may be individual mentoring hours with a qualified Coach Approach Training Institute mentor coach
- Up to 7 hours may be from a group mentor/lab course (no fewer than 3 hours must be individual mentor coaching hours)
- The 10 mentor coaching hours must extend over no fewer than 12 weeks
- The mentoring (group or individual) must be with an ICF-credentialed coach who has been trained and designated as a Coach Approach Training Institute Mentor Coach
- Mentoring sessions must address the applicant’s coaching skills and competence in support of a strong certification recording (not marketing, for example)
Coaching Experience - 500 Client Hours
These client hours must include at least:
- 450 paid hours;
- At least 25 clients;
- 400 hours with non-Coach Approach colleagues; and
- 50 hours must be from the last 18 months
Coaching Proficiency
Two (2) 30-60-minute audio recordings, demonstrating PCC-level coaching competency and a verbatim transcription.
Additional Qualifications
The application requests documentation of personal and professional experience which is relevant to and supports the credential focus. Examples include (as relevant) organizer, productivity or neurodiversity education, training or advocacy; summaries of client hours and/or associated business start-up date; and/or life experience, personal or family history, parenting, etc.
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