MENSTRUAL CYCLE COACH TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
Become a Certified Menstrual Cycle Coach
Transform your passion for menstrual cycle awareness into a professional skillset.
• Learn to confidently coach clients through their menstrual cycles and female life journey.
• Bring cycle awareness into your existing practice — or build a new career around it.
• Gain the knowledge, practical skills and professional credibility to become a Certified Cycle Coach.
From a Personal Calling to a Professional Qualification
Imagine what becomes possible for your clients when you can teach them to work with their body's rhythm, not against it.
Menstrual cycle awareness is one of the most powerful tools you can bring into your work with women. Cycle Coach School gives you the training and certification to do it properly — professionally, credibly, and with a real community behind you.
There is something magic about the kinds of people who decide to train with us:
You’re the one talking about periods at parties, at work, with friends… whenever you get the chance to do a menstrual deep-dive, you will.
You're fascinated by cycles — lunar, seasonal, creative — and believe cyclic wisdom can change how we live.
You've done your own inner work with your Menstruality, and now you're ready to share it with others properly, with training and credibility behind you.
You're craving a real community of like-minded peers who see the menstrual cycle as the gift it is.
You're done doing work that doesn't feel like yours and you know, somewhere in your body, that this is what's next.
People already come to you for this! They have stories and questions about their cycle, their body, their next chapter. You're ready to meet them properly.
What is a Cycle Coach?
A Cycle Coach helps someone go from "why do I feel like this every month?" to fully understanding — and working with — their body's rhythm.
You teach clients to chart their menstrual cycle, read their hormonal phases, and see their period not as an inconvenience, but as information and even an invitation.
From there, the work opens up. Cyclic wisdom doesn't stop at the menstrual cycle — Cycle Coaches help clients apply cyclic intelligence to their goals, their creativity, the seasons of their entire life.
However you bring it into the world — sacred circles, corporate workshops, products, one-to-one sessions — this is real, meaningful work. And when you hear the call to it, you'll know.
Inside Cycle Coach School:
You’ll finally have the time & structure to learn this properly
The self-paced curriculum is yours for life and the live support calls are flexible for a global classroom. Build real skill as a coach, educator and space-holder, on your own timeline.
Ready-made client library of handouts & resources
You won't be starting from a blank page with your first client. Access our library of handouts, charts and coaching tools — ready to use in your own practice from day one.
You’re taught & mentored directly by Claire Baker
Claire developed the Cycle Coach methodology after coaching thousands of women on their menstrual cycles. She’s a published author and business owner going on 13+ years. These frameworks are built from real clients and real results and her support is invaluable in your process.
You’ll get real answers & expert live support
Six months of live calls with Claire and her team — twice-monthly mentoring, coaching skills practicing and Q&A office hours — so nothing you're learning stays theoretical.
A thriving community of like-minded peers
Listening partners, peer supervision, meet-ups ensure you're never practising this alone. Many stay close long after graduation.
Business foundations, to set you up for success
As you train, you'll also start building the practical foundation to run this as a business with business-focused content woven into your live calls and curriculum.
The confidence & authority to share this work
Knowing this work matters is one thing but being able to hold space for it is another. This training builds that confidence in you, so when you speak, it shows.
A global credential that actually means something
Competency-based certification process recognised by IPHM and IICT — so you can say "I'm certified," not just "I've read about this."
Yours for life, not just for now
Lifetime access to your course materials, a global alumni network to stay plugged in to, and updates as the curriculum evolves — this training grows with you across the seasons.
What this training won’t give you:
The ability to diagnose menstrual disorders, hormonal imbalances or prescribe medical advice.
Education on fertility awareness methods, such as tracking ovulation for contraceptive purposes.
Hear From Our Graduates
Why Choose Cycle Coach School?
EXCELLENCE
We’re one of the very first professionally recognised Menstrual Cycle Coaching trainings in the world, with a world-class curriculum built for people ready to turn a calling into a credential.
With graduates in 29 countries, you're joining a real, global network of coaches — not just completing a course alone. Plus we love an in-person meet-up!
INTEGRITY
EXPERIENCE
Since 2019, we've trained 350+ coaches, and our founder Claire has been working in this field for over a decade. Our mentors and guest teachers work across female wellbeing, birth, fertility, menopause, feminine embodiment, pelvic care and more.
COMMUNITY
Our curriculum and certification process is recognised by the International Institute for Complementary Therapies (IICT) and the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) — so your credential means something, wherever you practise.
OUTSTANDING
CURRICULUM &
SUPPORT
You already know quite a lot about the menstrual cycle. What you're looking for is the confidence to hold space and coach others on their menstrual path. Our in-depth, skills-based lessons and live practice coaching calls are built to do exactly that.
FLEXIBLE ENROLLMENT
Enrol anytime, there’s no waiting for the next cohort as we run calls year-round. Pay in full or spread your tuition over six months.
We’re Ready When You Are
Enrol anytime and start your training the moment you're ready.
Investment:
Cycle Coach School enrolment and certification is $2,997 paid in full or spread across 6 months at $549 a month.
Everything is included in this fee, from day one of your curriculum, through your support calls to certification, and lifetime listing in our website directory.
All prices are in USD.
A Note From our Founder
Hi! I’m Claire.
Over the past 14 years, I've worked with thousands of women as they've become the authority in their own lives, through learning how to work with their menstrual cycle.
That’s the 'secret' behind this training: we are doing so much more than simply teaching someone how to chart their menstrual cycle.
Living cyclically helps women cultivate more self-acceptance, safety, confidence, and a transformative sense of belonging and ease in their own skin.
I’ve also seen the interest and appreciation for menstrual cycle awareness grow in a BIG way over the past decade. People are waking up to the need to understand and work with the natural changes of the female mind and body. It’s such an exciting time to be in this growing and promising industry!
And this is what you have been called to do: to help other women build this same foundation in their lives. I see you! And I'm so glad you're here.
— Claire Baker
Founder of Cycle Coach School & author of ‘50 Things You Need To Know About Periods: Know Your Flow & Live in Sync With Your Cycle’ (2020)
The
Curriculum
Here’s an overview of what you’ll be learning:
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As soon as you enrol, you'll land in your Welcome section. Start with a short welcome video, then complete your onboarding form so we can get to know you and your intentions for the journey.
You'll move into your Opening Ceremony, a space to connect with your "why" and set yourself up to get the most from the training ahead.
This is also where you'll make the training your own: add all upcoming community calls straight to your calendar and get immediate access to our private community space to connect with others training alongside you.
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Every lesson has space for comments and questions, with Claire and the team actively engaged to support you.
Alongside the self-paced curriculum, you’ll have access to twice-monthly live calls with Claire and her team for six months. These are a mix of teaching, practice coaching, business support and open Q&A, with built-in dark months to rest and integrate.
You'll be matched with a listening partner and can join peer supervision, so you're never learning this alone. All calls are recorded.
You'll get to:
Practise your coaching skills and receive feedback in real time.
Ask the questions that come up as you apply what you're learning.
Build genuine relationships with the peers you're training alongside.
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This opening module introduces Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA) as both a personal practice and a professional framework. Before turning to how you'll support clients, you'll go through your own guided reflection on your Menstruality journey and be introduced to the Cycle Wisdom Map. This is a unique tool you'll come to know through lived experience in the training first, not just theory.
You'll learn how to:
Get clear on the four hormonal phases of the menstrual cycle, the foundation for everything that follows.
Apply our four key frameworks for reading a cycle: seasonal, archetypal, lunar and elemental. These are the lenses you'll draw on to meet each client where they are.
Map your own menstrual journey to uncover the power and meaning held within it.
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This practical module focuses on the art and skill of holding space for others. You'll learn to guide clients in developing their own menstrual cycle awareness practice, through charting, coaching conversations, and real client case studies you won't find outside this training.
You'll learn how to:
Teach clients to chart their cycle using our practical tools and frameworks, so it becomes something they can return to for life.
Apply our signature coaching tools — the Menstrual Maps, Menstrual Eco-System and Circle of Life — to guide real client conversations.
Help clients apply this cyclic wisdom beyond their cycle and into their work, relationships and the fullness of their life.
And more...
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This module focuses on the art and skill of holding space across every season of your clients' lives, from the pill and pregnancy to perimenopause and beyond.
You'll receive our 'Magical Menstrual Bag of Tricks', a living resource of tools and practices built from over a decade of real client work, not a textbook.
You'll learn how to:
Support clients through pregnancy, perimenopause and other life transitions with confidence and effective holding, not just dumping information.
Facilitate group coaching, circles and workshops of your own.
Build the pricing, structure and self-authority to run this as a real practice, through live feedback and mentoring, not guesswork.
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This module focuses on the practical coaching and communication skills that inspire and motivate clients, and bring Cycle Coaching to life.
You'll learn to structure sessions, ask powerful questions, and hold space through the full emotional range of the menstrual experience, with multiple real and recorded client sessions to learn from.
You'll learn how to:
Structure coaching programs and one-to-one sessions with purpose and flow, using tools like OARS and the Coaching Triad Model.
Ask powerful cycle coaching questions that open insight and self-trust.
Build confidence holding space for the full emotional range of the menstrual experience, and adapt sessions to where your client is in their cycle.
And more...
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Certification is built into your Cycle Coach School experience, but it's yours to pursue when you're ready. Some trainees come purely to learn, others certify for the added credibility and confidence.
If you choose to certify, you'll complete an assessment with theory, case studies, practical assessments and personal reflections, designed to test your understanding of Cycle Coach principles and let you practise and demonstrate your skills as a facilitator.
Upon completion and a pass, you'll receive your Cycle Coach certificate, be eligible for professional membership and insurance through the IICT or IPHM as a Menstrual Cycle Coach, and be featured on our Cycle Coach School directory.
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We know that working as a facilitator often means running a business.
That's why part of your curriculum and live call time is dedicated to business guidance and mentoring with Claire Baker, lead teacher at Cycle Coach School, a published author and respected coach with 13 years' experience.
Together, you'll cover pricing, marketing, positioning, and the relationships that carry your practice forward.
Graduates tell us, year after year, that the relationships and professional network built through this training made the real difference in getting their Cycle Coaching business off the ground!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Scholarships
We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion in the fields of menstrual cycle awareness, coaching and women's health.
Each year, we offer two half-scholarships places to people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour (BIPOC), a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, living with a disability, or facing socio-economic disadvantage.
We're committed to constantly evolving our school to create equity for all. Offering this scholarship is one of the actions we're taking to work towards this.
Click ‘learn more’ below to receive scholarship updates over email.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A: Certification is available to everyone who trains with us, but it's optional. Some trainees come purely to learn.
If you choose to certify, it's earned through call attendance and our competency-based assessment process — theory and practical reflection of your skills.
Once you've completed and passed, you'll receive your Cycle Coach certification, plus eligibility for professional membership and insurance through the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT), and accreditation with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM). You'll also get a profile on our directory as a certified practitioner.
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A: Not at all. This training works well alongside other modalities, but it's also a great place to start if you're new to client work. Enrol wherever you're starting from.
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A: Yes. We've had many trainees who weren't menstruating, whether postmenopausal, pregnant, breastfeeding or something else. A past or present experience of a natural cycle helps, but if you're not currently cycling, you'll bring a valued perspective to the group.
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A: No. This training doesn't cover fertility awareness or give guidance on conception or contraception.
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A: Six months of live calls with Claire and her team — twice-monthly coaching, practising and office hours — plus a listening partner, peer supervision, and an active training community where you can ask questions, celebrate your wins and get support when you need it.
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A: Pay in full or spread your tuition over six months, so you can start training today and pay as you go.
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A: Calls run twice-monthly — alternating between coaching calls, community connection, practising skills, office hours and Q&A — with two built-in "dark months" through the year where no calls run. Every call is recorded, so you won't miss anything if you can't make it live.
If you're pursuing certification, a percentage of live call attendance is part of the requirements. Full details are in the syllabus.
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A: Most of our graduates come to us with an existing practice. We’ve trained counsellors, coaches, yoga teachers, naturopaths, creatives, teachers, doulas, and more.
Cycle Coach School is built to sit alongside what you already do, giving you an accredited framework for menstrual cycle awareness you can bring into your existing work.
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A: Get in touch, we're always happy to chat. Email us here.