Certified Holistic Life Coach · San Diego, CA
Holistic Life Coach training in San Diego.
In San Diego, Holistic Life Coach attracts people facing a big pivot of their own: Navy and Marine Corps members approaching separation, military spouses who have restarted careers with every new set of orders, and biotech scientists in Sorrento Valley weighing life outside the lab. The Certified Holistic Life Coach program spends 18 in-person days building contracting, deep listening, and powerful questions into dependable habits.
San Diego cohort at a glance
- Tuition
- $6,500
- Format
- 100% in person
- In-person teaching
- 18 days · 144h
- Personal study
- ~115h
- Cohort size
- 10 students
- Credential
- CHLC
Same tuition in every city
In San Diego, CA
8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days
Between sessions, on average
Fixed cohort, start to finish
Private certification, not a state license
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Jun 11 – Nov 14, 2027
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 18 teaching days in 6 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jun 11–13
- Module 2Jul 16–18
- Module 3Aug 13–15
- Module 4Sep 17–19
- Module 5Oct 8–10
- Module 6Nov 12–14
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the San Diego venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
May 21, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Holistic Life Coach in San Diego?
Many graduates coach the communities they come from, helping transitioning service members translate their experience into civilian goals or supporting military families through relocations. Others work with hospitality and tourism staff from La Jolla offices or by video to Carlsbad and Chula Vista. Coaching sits comfortably beside the region's veteran resources once you define your lane: goals and accountability belong to you, and combat-related trauma belongs with licensed clinicians.
San Diego's wellness market has two distinct pillars: the military and veteran community (the metro hosts the largest Navy presence in the U.S., and Veterans Affairs San Diego runs significant integrative-medicine programs), and the tourism and hospitality industry, which produces a steady pipeline of service-worker career-changers. The biotech corridor in La Jolla adds a third, smaller but growing, student stream.
For students of Holistic Life Coach specifically, San Diego's scene is a particularly good match: strong military-veteran community. tourism industry pipeline. growing biotech. The local cohort runs in venue partners around North Park, Hillcrest, La Jolla, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
San Diego students are often 30-50, with strong representation from military and veteran communities (active-duty separating, military-spouse career questions, post-deployment integration), tourism and hospitality, and biotech. The military-veteran pipeline brings unusual depth to trauma-informed practice work.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Holistic Life Coach as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Life coaching is a goal-directed professional partnership in which the coach supports a client in clarifying what they want, identifying what is in the way, and taking specific actions toward what they want to create. The work is forward-focused (rather than dwelling in the past), client-centered (the coach asks more than they tell), and structured (clean contracts, defined arcs, measurable outcomes). It is non-clinical: clinical mental-health work belongs to licensed professionals.
What distinguishes a "holistic" coach from a purely cognitive coach is the willingness to work with the whole person — body, energy, emotion, and reflection — rather than only the conceptual mind. A holistic coach may begin a session with a brief somatic check-in, may use breath or simple movement to support a client through a stuck place, may use reflective writing or imagery as part of the coaching arc. The work is still coaching (forward-focused, goal-directed, client-centered) but the toolkit is broader than talk alone.
The Holistic Life Coach curriculum in San Diego: 18 in-person days.
Eighteen days from your first question to a coaching practice with your name on it.
- Teaching days
- 18
- Teaching hours
- 144h
- Cohort size
- 10
days, 7h each
in the room
in your San Diego cohort
| Day | Theme |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 · Days 1–4Presence | |
| 01 | What coaching is, and what it asks of you |
| 02 | The coaching mindset and the art of presence |
| 03 | Deep listening and reflecting back |
| 04 | Powerful questions that spark awareness |
| Chapter 2 · Days 5–8The session | |
| 05 | The coaching agreement and the discovery call |
| 06 | Trust, safety and the client's values |
| 07 | From insight to action |
| 08 | The complete session and the GROW model |
| Chapter 3 · Days 9–13The whole person | |
| 09 | The whole person, every dimension of a life |
| 10 | The body in the session: awareness and breath |
| 11 | Emotions, stress and sensitive moments |
| 12 | Reflective and creative tools |
| 13 | Life transitions and career change |
| Chapter 4 · Days 14–18Your practice | |
| 14 | Your niche and the clients you serve |
| 15 | Launching your coaching business |
| 16 | Ethics, legal scope and professional growth |
| 17 | Real sessions with volunteer clients |
| 18 | Final assessment and certification |
Signature moment of the program
When Holistic Life Coach cohorts run in San Diego.
San Diego cohorts run year-round; the climate supports consistent scheduling. Outdoor practice components are routinely scheduled May through October.
Who this San Diego cohort is for.
Career-changers and wellness practitioners who want a serious, competency-based coaching foundation that complements other holistic skills.
Where your San Diego training leads.
- Open a private holistic coaching practice (CHLC)
- Specialize in career, transition, wellness, or relationship coaching
- Combine coaching with NLP, hypnosis, breathwork, or energy work
- Map your next step toward a professional coaching credential, if you want one
$6,500 for the full 18-day Holistic Life Coach program in San Diego.
Same tuition whether you study in San Diego or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the San Diego cohort.
Tuition and financing details$6,500
144h of teaching · 18 in-person days
Holistic Life Coach: questions students ask first.
- How to Become a Life Coach in the U.S.: 7 Steps, Costs and TimelinesHow to become a life coach in 7 steps with the cost and time of each: niche, training ($400 to $16,000), practice hours, credential, business, first clients.8 min read
- How to Start a Life Coaching Business: Structure, Pricing, ContractsHow to start a life coaching business in 8 steps: entity, $600 to $2,500 startup costs, the 7 agreement clauses, packages vs hourly, discovery calls.10 min read
- Life Coach License: Do You Need One, and What the Term Really MeansNo U.S. state licenses life coaches. What 'life coach license' really means (business license, certificate, ICF credential), the 3 lines a coach cannot cross.9 min read
Holistic Life Coach certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Holistic Life Coach in San Diego.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Holistic Life Coach cohort starting in San Diego, CA. Free, online, one hour.