NLP Practitioner Coaching Certification: Unlock Your Path to Success
Unlock the secrets of personal success and accelerated learning with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) from Erickson Coaching International, the 2024 ICF Award Winner for Coach Education.
Explore the powerful system of NLP that decodes, creates, and replicates excellence, and earn 40 CCEUs when you complete the certification.
Whether you're an aspiring NLP practitioner, seeking to become one of the leading NLP coaches, or exploring NLP coaching certification options, Erickson offers NLP practitioner certifications. Our NLP practitioner course provides flexibility while teaching the time-tested techniques to master the inner game of success.
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Next Start Date:
- Part 1: Oct 2 - Oct 5 2025
- Part 2: Oct 30 - Nov 2 2025
- Part 3: Dec 4 - Dec 7 2025
Duration: Thursday - Sunday | 7:00 - 13:00 PST
Classes: Online
Facilitators: Heather Parks (Part 1) & Richard Hyams (Part 2 & 3)
Price: $3900 (USD)
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the systematic study of replicating excellence, human communication and how we create our reality. It is also the study of exceptional talent with methods to discern and reproduce the ways outstanding individuals get their results. With NLP, you can develop more talent, learn at an accelerated rate, and further your success.
NLP is a collection of skills and exercises derived from studies of individuals generally acknowledged to be ‘super successes.’ These successful people had naturally created patterns of excellence in their lives and repeated them with consistent, positive results. These patterns of excellence have been translated into a synthesis of practical, reliable and learnable techniques called
NLP.

Richard Hyams
The overarching theme of Richard Hyams' professional life has been a mission to energize others toward mastery of powerful communication skills and to stand in and own their unique contributions as a source of power. As a Performance and Presentation Mentor Coach, he assists others to present themselves powerfully and create well-polished seminars for exceptional results. As a Life Mastery Coach, Richard uses his coaching expertise to support individuals to move through fear, engage their emotions effectively, and become the prime creative force in their own lives.
His credentials include NLP Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, NLP Trainer, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Certification, as well as Certified Professional Solution-Focused Coach. Additionally, Richard has been passionately involved in developing powerful programs in human excellence and evolving a dynamic and energized training style that gives adult learners the capacity to discover that the learning process itself enlivens, empowers, and awakens innate capabilities and resources. He is the creator of the Explore Coaching program and has taught both in-house and online programs.

Heather Parks
Heather Parks is a Professional Certified Coach, NLP Master Certified Practitioner, and International Trainer with Erickson Coaching International, teaching The Art & Science of Coaching and NLP Practitioner programs both on-site and online. She has spent close to twenty years in business consulting, research and strategic planning, business development, and marketing. Heather provides mentoring and skill-building to coaches and is also an Erickson ICF Mentor Coach.
Heather’s credentials include a degree in Business Management, with studies in marketing, consumer behavior, strategic planning, finance, and business development. Additional focus in the human development field includes a BA in Psychology in progress and ongoing studies in behavior development, integrated learning approaches, whole-brain thinking, expert modeling, communication, relationships and interpersonal dynamics.
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What you will learn:
- To quickly establish and maintain psychological trust, safety and rapport with others
- To develop your sensory acuity and level of perception
- To ask powerful questions for clarification and effective communication
- How to clarify, challenge and change limited thinking
Who is this course for?
- Coaches who want additional tools to assist their clients
- Counselors, Therapists, Health and Wellness Practitioners
- Communicators, Leaders, Trainers, Facilitators
- Personal and Professional Development Enthusiasts
- Kindly note that this course will be delivered in 3 parts and learners must attend all 12 days to complete the course.
It is a professional coach training program that teaches Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) skills for improving communication, shifting limiting beliefs, and accelerating personal development.
This course is ideal for coaches, therapists, counselors, facilitators, trainers, and anyone interested in personal and professional growth through NLP techniques.
Because NLP is the study of exceptional talent with methods to discern and reproduce the ways outstanding individuals get their results, many individuals take our NLP course to develop more talent, learn at an accelerated rate, and further their success.
You’ll learn how to build rapport, ask powerful questions, reframe limiting beliefs, develop sensory acuity, and use NLP to facilitate change for yourself and others.
Other key learnings include a newfound ability to:
- Quickly establish and maintain psychological trust, safety and rapport with others
- Develop your sensory acuity and abilities to notice more visually, acoustically
- Notice subtle state changes in others
- Develop your intuitive capacities when communicating with others
- Access chosen emotional states ‘on demand’ in the desired situations and develop emotional power
- Clarify, challenge and change limited thinking
- Discover and modify the internal mental architecture of any memory, experience, emotion or event
- Change the perception and emotional response to any event, activity or person by altering the internal mental representation
- Quickly shift from a limited experience of an event towards and into a resourceful one
- Discover and clarify a sense of purpose and an inspiring vision for life
- Reframe limited self-concepts into more positive ones
- Shift the perception of unpleasant interaction with another into a more empowering one such that future experiences are improved
- Change a limiting belief into a powerful and positive one
Yes, our NLP Practitioner Certification course is delivered live online. Join our Interest List to stay in the loop of upcoming new course delivery dates.
Yes, payment plans and group corporate discounts are available. Talk to our advisors for a customized quote.