TRS Relationship Coaching Professional Code of Ethics

Relationship coaching is a professional relationship that helps people break through their limitations to achieve extraordinary results in their relationships with themselves and other people. The process of coaching encourages clients to deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life through self-discovery and self-empowerment. In each coaching call, the client chooses the focus, while the coach listens actively and reflects back what they hear until the client feels understood. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by validating their experience, providing greater focus and awareness of choice, and challenging them to take responsibility for their experience and take action toward their goals. 

Coaching concentrates on discovering and clarifying goals, values, and eliciting strategies and solutions to get the client on track to achieve their future goals at a pace that is achievable for the client. TRS coaches recognize that results depend on the client’s intentions, choices, and actions as they are supported by the coach’s efforts and application of the coaching process.

Our coaches are trained in Present Centered Relationship Coaching. Read more about that here.

Professional Conduct At Large As a Relationship Coach:

• I will not knowingly make any public statements that are untrue or misleading, or make false claims in any written documents relating to the coaching profession.
• I will conduct myself in accordance with the TRS Code of Ethics in all training and supervisory situations.
• I will purchase and maintain regular Liability Insurance to cover any allegations that a client may make, as well as have the client sign a Coaching agreement form, releasing me of any legal responsibility. 
• I will always be honest about the nature of my title and certification when referring to them with client(s), in the general public, the media, promotional materials and within the confines of our profession.
• I will treat other coaches with respect and refrain from public defamation.
• I will explain and obtain written confirmation(signature) that my coaching client(s) understand all terms of our coaching agreement including, but not limited to, the nature and potential value of coaching, the nature and limits of confidentiality, financial agreement(s) and any additional terms prior to the commencement of services.
• I will accurately create, maintain, store and dispose of any records of work done in relation to the practice of coaching in a way that upholds the strictest levels of confidentiality with all parties. I agree to comply with all applicable laws and communicate with client(s) the conditions under which confidentiality will not be kept. Examples include: imminent or likely risk of harmful behavior to self or others, illegal activity or similar. Clients will know you may need to inform the appropriate authorities in these or similar instances.
• I will remain sensitive to shifts in value to my client(s) with regard to my coaching services and encourage them to seek additional/alternative services and/or make recommendations accordingly. I will disclose to my client(s) the potential for receipt of monies in exchange for a referral to a third party.
• I respect the rights of all parties to end the coaching relationship at any time, for any reason, subject to the provisions in the coaching agreement.
• I will be responsible for setting clear, appropriate, and culturally sensitive boundaries that govern any physical contact that I may have with my clients.
• I will make the physical and mental well-being of each client a prime consideration.
• I will not engage in verbal, physical or emotional abuse of any client.
• I will coach each client within the limits of my training and competence and refer out when outside my skills, training, or capacity. I do NOT work with people who
  1. Don’t make progress with their goals
     1. Stay stuck in blame (self or other) and can’t seem to take any personal responsibility
  2. Have unaddressed mental health challenges that make our style of relationship coaching very difficult or risky
  3. Have unaddressed childhood trauma that needs more support that we are trained to give
  4. Are actively severely depressed and/or suicidal
  5. Have an ongoing addiction or eating disorder that is disrupting their relationships and their life
  6. Are in abusive relationships of any kind (mental, verbal, emotional, physical, spiritual)
• If coaching begins and I learn that my client has any of the above, I will educate them about my training, my limitations and will refer them to a higher level of care immediately.
• I will not become sexually involved with any of my clients.
• I will not discriminate against clients based on race, religion, or sexual orientation.
• I will seek to avoid conflicts of interest between myself and my client(s).