Clarify: Coach the Roots of Imposter Syndrome

A complete training in the first phase of Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin’s research-backed 3C’s Methodology

September 29th-October 3rd

You can already spot Imposter Syndrome in a client. This three-week training teaches you what to do once you see it. Learn to assess Imposter Syndrome, trace it to its roots, and help clients rewrite the story that keeps it alive.

2 Modules6 Client Tools1 Live Practicum10.5 ICF CCE Units

$497, single payment. Counts toward Practitioner or Certification.

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You Can Name the Pattern. But Can You Work With It?

Naming the pattern isn't the same as understanding where it came from, what's triggering it now, or what story the client is quietly telling themselves to keep it alive. Without that, it's hard to know where to start coaching, so you end up circling the same insight session after session instead of moving the work forward.

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what you'll unlock for $497

Module 1: Imposter Syndrome Origin Story | Tue, Sep 29 @ 10 a.m. ET, 90 min, recorded

Before you can help a client interrupt Imposter Syndrome, you need an accurate read on how it took shape for this person. Module 1 gives you a structured way to assess severity and trace the pattern to its origin, without ever stepping outside the scope of coaching.

You'll learn to:

Assess Imposter Syndrome and recognize the individual, relational, and sociocultural factors shaping each client's experience.
Use a validated assessment tool to establish a baseline and track a client's progress over time.
Map intergenerational and family-of-origin patterns that are still driving a client's behavior today while staying firmly inside your coaching scope.

Tools you'll walk away with:

Family Genogram: a visual mapping tool for uncovering intergenerational patterns influencing a client's current behavior.
Identifying Imposter Syndrome Assessment: a validated assessment (based on the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale) to identify and quantify Imposter Syndrome at the start of an engagement, and measure change by the end of it.

Module 2: Transforming Triggers and Stories | Tue, Oct 6 @ 10 a.m. ET, 90 min, recorded

Once you understand where the pattern came from, Module 2 shows you how to help a client see it operating in real time and start rewriting the story that keeps it running.

You'll learn to:

Uncover triggers, origin stories, and recurring patterns without moving outside the scope of coaching.
Help clients expand limiting "thin narratives" into more accurate understandings of themselves.
Guide a client through their life story with enough depth that old, limiting beliefs stop holding up against the evidence.

Tools you'll walk away with:

Triggers Tool: provides a step-by-step process for documenting a client's Imposter Syndrome triggers and their origins.
Autobiography Tool: helps clients reframe their life narrative, connecting past chapters to a fuller future one.
Thickening the Narrative: guides clients to add nuance and contradictory evidence to a limiting self-narrative until it can no longer hold.
Statement of Position Map: helps clients articulate where they stand on their own values and beliefs, and where their current actions are and aren't aligned with them.

Practicum 1: Overcoming Resistance and Shifting Narratives | Tue, Oct 13 @ 10 a.m. or 6 p.m. ET, 120 min, live

Reading about a tool and using it in a real conversation are two different skills. In your live practicum, you'll do triad role-play focused on handling client resistance and reframing Imposter Syndrome narratives, guided by a trained facilitator, with feedback from peers doing the same work.

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Clarify is for you if:

You're a coach, therapist, or HR professional with foundational coaching training who regularly works with high-achieving clients or employees showing signs of self-doubt.
You want a structured way to assess and trace Imposter Syndrome, not just recognize it in the moment.
You want a complete toolkit you can put to work with a real client this week, not a preview, not a theory you'll apply someday.

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Dr. Phyllis Clark

Leadership Coach

"Completing the course has significantly enhanced my coaching practice by equipping me with deeper insights and new tools and techniques to support my clients more effectively. I've gained a richer understanding of the root causes of Imposter Syndrome and how it manifests in different aspects of life and work, which allows me to tailor my coaching approach to each client's unique needs."

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Michelle Broomfield

Founder & Executive Coach, CORDET Solutions

“I’d describe this as a transformational and highly practical program that equips you with the tools, language, and coaching structure to confidently help others identify, understand, and overcome Impostor Syndrome. If you’re a coach, therapist, or leader who works with people navigating self-doubt, identity, or limiting beliefs, this course is a game-changer.”

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Sarifa Moola-Nernæs

Coach

"After working through some of the tools with one of my clients, she was able to identify her triggers. She now has a job in her area of expertise in local government after two Masters, a few courses, and many years of trying."

Vanessa Haripersad

Leadership Coach

"I am currently working with a client that has been dealing with Imposter Syndrome for a while but was unable to acknowledge it. As we worked through the assessment tools, he was able to identify his origin story, understand the root cause of his behaviors and create positive strategies to work through it."

Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin is a licensed psychologist and executive coach with around 20 years in practice, specializing in Imposter Syndrome, career advancement, and DEI. She holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College, and co-founded Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting with her husband, Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin.

She is a co-author of three books on Imposter Syndrome and career development: Own Your Greatness (2020), Your Unstoppable Greatness (2022), and Your Child's Greatness (2025).

Own Your Greatness was a finalist, while Your Child's Greatness won the Indies Forward Book Award. She delivered the TEDxDeerPark talk The Imposter Syndrome Paradox, which has reached over 1.5 million views across platforms. She contributed the chapter to the American Psychological Association (APA) volume edited by Kevin Cokley, The Impostor Phenomenon: Psychological Research, Theory, and Interventions.

She is a 2X LinkedIn Top Voice and was named to the inaugural Thinkers50 Coaches50 list.

Imposter Syndrome Clarify

Modules

2 Modules

Tools

6 Tools

Session

1 Session

Demo

1 Demo

ICF CCE Units 1 CCE per learning hour

10.5 Units (5.5 CC + 5 RD)

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One-Time Payment

$497 Full Payment

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Why Timing Matters

A Complete Approach for Coaching the Roots of Imposter Syndrome

By the end of Clarify you can assess how Imposter Syndrome operates in a specific client, trace it to where it took shape, and guide that client through rewriting the story that keeps it alive, with six tools and a live practicum behind you. This cohort runs from September 29th - October 3rd. This is the only cohort scheduled for 2026.

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1. Is this the same content as the full certification, just cut down?

No. It's the actual first two modules and first practicum from the full 25-week Imposter Syndrome Coaching Certification, taught exactly as they're taught inside the full program. You're getting the complete Clarify phase, not a summary of it.

2. Do I need any prerequisites?

You should already be comfortable running a coaching session. This program assumes core coaching skill and builds Imposter Syndrome specific depth on top of it. The program is open to professional coaches, therapists and HR professionals with foundational coaching training. No credential required.

3. Do I need the full certification for this to be worth it?

No. Clarify is built to stand on its own. By the end, you'll have a full set of tools for assessing Imposter Syndrome, tracing its origin, and helping a client rewrite the story sustaining it, plus a live session where you've already practiced using them. Nothing in Clarify depends on buying anything else.

4. What if I want to go on to the full certification later?

Yes, and your $497 counts in full. Practitioner is $1,000 more ($1,497 total, the same as buying it outright); Certification is $1,500 more ($1,997 total). Upgrade any time until Tue, Nov 3, the day Module 4 runs. After that the remaining phases are underway. If you stay with Clarify, you keep your tools, recordings and community access through the cohort.

5. I'm in Europe, Asia or Australia. Do the times work?

Modules run at 10 a.m. ET and are recorded. Practicum 1 runs twice, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET, and is live only.

6. How much time outside the sessions?

Two to three hours a week for the materials and the exercises.

7. Isn't the origin work closer to therapy than coaching?

The Family Genogram and the Autobiography go into a client's history, and Module 1 is explicit about how far a coach goes with that and when to refer.

8. When is the next cohort?

Not scheduled. This is the only 2026 run, and no 2027 date is confirmed.