> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://strengthen-live.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Advanced alexithymia, RSD & Emotion Discovery Coaching Programme Launching January 2027! - URL: https://strengthen-live.ghost.io/coaching-practitioner-training-launching-january-2027/ - Published: 2026-09-08T11:35:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-18T14:46:16.000Z - Description: If you're looking for CPD in Emotion Discovery, Alexithymia, RSD and Emotional Needs Coaching, take a look at our upcoming Coach Practitioner Programme. Earlybird applications for January 2027 open now. - Author: Andrea Urquhart - Tags: Practitioners, Coach Training Well, it was never on my vision board to be training coaches. But life sometimes has a way of enlarging our vision. That's what the Strengthen Emotion Discovery Wheel™ has done for me! I'm Andrea Urquhart, AuDHD, Emotion Discovery & Positive Psychology Coach, Mentor and Trainer. Once the new wheel resource was under production, I realised I would probably need to create some kind of masterclass to help people understand different ways they could use it to elevate their own reflective practice and their client practice. My top freebie about Alexithymia (difficulty noticing, naming and talking about emotions and feelings) has been downloaded by so many professionals across the world and the link seems to be shared in professional groups. It's been an eye opener for me to realise just how many professionals don't really understand how to coach clients on their unique lived experience (neurodivergent or not). Coaching people with alexithymia and rejection sensitivity includes emotion discovery but also values and emotion needs work too. This is because people with challenges identifying their own emotions also have challenges giving themselves permission to actually make decisions based on their values and what they want. There's also plenty of internalised shame, trying to "be" the right person who is "doing the right thing" and camouflaging behaviours like assimilation and masking that come into play. So although I designed the Strengthen Emotion Discovery Wheel™ as a powerful conversation resource, it's not the only thing we need in our toolkit for best practice in emotion discovery. There is so much more to understand and continuing to discover for us as emotional wellbeing and emotion discovery practitioners. I chatted with my colleague Lauren Richards and asked her if she would like to work with me to create a coaching practitioner CPD programme on emotion discovery. We both have post-grad qualifications in Coaching Psychology & Applied Positive Psychology. We're Certified AuDHD Coaches, experienced teachers, and we also each have additional training and qualifications. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c0d9a-2b3d-4abe-891b-bc4d1bbbfd05/content/images/2026/09/Lauren-Richards-Lark-Coaching-Strengthen-Associate.jpeg) A photo of Lauren Richards on a fuschia coloured background.She is looking upwards. Happily, Lauren said "Yes!" and so our journey to creating an EQA/EMCC accredited training programme is underway! We've met with an EMCC advisor and are putting together the curriculum for an 7 module (plus assessments) Emotion Discovery Coaching programme that will cover alexithymia, RSD and so much more. It's for experienced coaches and new coaches who already have some coaching hours under their professional belt. Our background is very much in evidence based understanding, so this programme will hit the EQA accreditation criteria as well as giving lived experience insight. Our first cohort will run weekly from Friday 8th January 2027 9.30am to 1.30pm GMT three months with a 2 week break in February. To obtain EQA/EMCC accreditation, we need to work with assessors while we run the course for the first time. It is then retro-accredited, once it's completed. So the pilot cohort will receive a Strengthen certificate of completion immediately, and the EQA within a few months after that. We'll also be starting a directory of practitioners who have completed that course. If you're interested in knowing more, please sign up here free to receive occasional updates. If you'd like to join the Strengthen Live Practitioner Community (monthly payment) and join two live, Zoom group calls each month and receive 10% off masterclasses, programmes like the accredited one, and events, then sign up here for our Practitioner Community. There are 6 earlybird seats available now for this programme at a reduced rate of £2.5k (This includes the 10% off for our Practitioner Community member). Full rate will be £3.5\. If you know you want to reserve your seat now, please [complete this form](https://forms.gle/k8TZnJZ5Qor5K9e77?ref=strengthen-live.ghost.io) and we'll send you payment links once your application is accepted. There is an earlybird instalment payment option of five instalments of £500. Alternatively, click the image below to book a 30minute Zoom chat with me to discover more about the programme. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c0d9a-2b3d-4abe-891b-bc4d1bbbfd05/content/images/2026/09/Book-a-30minute-discovery-call.gif) A Clickable image of the back view of a woman in a summer dress and hat watching a hot air balloon climb in the sky. It says Let's do this! Book a 30minute discovery call. [Apply for your earlybird seat now 🎉](https://forms.gle/4tnkUezYhocD7nYD8?ref=strengthen-live.ghost.io)