Clarify: Coach the Roots of Imposter Syndrome

A complete training grounded in Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin's 3C's Methodology

You can already spot Imposter Syndrome in a client. This training teaches you what to do once you see it. This is a three-week, comprehensive training course for assessing Imposter Syndrome, tracing it to its roots, and helping clients rewrite the story that keeps it alive.

2 modules6 client-facing tools 1 live practicum15-day money-back guarantee

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

You can name the pattern. But naming it isn't the same as understanding where it came from, what's triggering it right now, and what story the client is unconsciously telling themselves to keep it alive. And 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.

Clarify is for you if:

You're a coach, therapist-adjacent practitioner, or HR/Talent leader 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.

This is not the right fit if:

You're new to coaching and still building core session skills. This training assumes you can already hold a coaching conversation.
You want a single script or one quick "aha" exercise, this is two full modules plus live practice, built to be worked through, not skimmed.
You are looking for therapy training. The methodology stays in the coaching scope by design.

If the first list sounds like your practice, you are who this was built for.

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what you'll unlock for $497

Everything Included in Clarify

Unlock 2 live training modules, 6 practical client-facing tools, and 1 hands-on, facilitated role-play practicum.

Module 1: Imposter Origin Story, Family Dynamics & Culture

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.
Qualitative Imposter Syndrome Scale: 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

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, empowering 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: empowers clients to reframe their life narrative, connecting past chapters to a more empowered future one.
Thickening the Story Tool: 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.

The Practicum: Try It Out Loud First

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.
You don't just leave with notes. You leave having already run the conversation once.

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Nathalie Baron

Nathalie Baron

ICF-PCC Coach, Career and Leadership

"I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot. I feel well equipped to enrich my coaching programs and sessions with my clients."

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Andrea Donnor

Founder and CEO

"I have usable tools and frameworks that I've already started using with clients."

Crystal Clay

Executive Coach

"My client, a CEO, saw how his actions from imposter syndrome were affecting the employee climate. Once he recognized it, he called key stakeholders right in the middle of the coaching session."

Janine

Participant

“An outstanding program that provided a comprehensive learning journey into Imposter Syndrome, and how to coach your client to a place of confidence and resourcefulness. ROI tenfold!”

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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, she was able to identify the triggers. She now got a job in her profession in local government after two Masters, a few courses, and many years of trying."

Molly Plumley

Molly Plumley

Executive & Leadership Coach

“I didn’t know what I didn’t know… and now I do. This program set me up for success in working through, not hiding from or brushing off, imposter syndrome. I’m comfortable working with clients here now, where I was previously apprehensive.”

Shana Shallenberg

Leadership Coach

"This course should be a part of every coach's training. It has changed the way I coach and deepened my self-awareness and personal healing."

Angela

“It came on my radar at a time when I was feeling adrift in my coaching career. Dr. Lisa’s program gave me the shot in the arm I didn’t know I needed so now I am fired up to take these concepts and wisdom to the clients I plan to serve.”

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 famous 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 Certification

Imposter Syndrome Practitioner

3C's Curriculum A comprehensive training in the 3C's Methodology.

11 Modules

7 Modules

Client-facing Coaching Toolkit Practical tools to use with your clients immediately.

24 Tools

13 Tools

Guided Practicums Live peer practice in pods with trained facilitators.

3 Sessions

3 Sessions

Real Coaching Demonstrations Watch the 3C's in action with expert commentary.

3 Demos

3 Demos

Tag-Team Coaching Sessions Live peer coaching a real client with trained facilitators.

4 Sessions

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Bonus: The Imposter Syndrome Case Diagnostic Exercise + Audio A layered case where four patterns fit and only one explains it and a full session narrated out loud.

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Bonus: How to Design Effective Imposter Syndrome Discovery Calls Dr. Orbé-Austin's approach to the call that decides whether the work happens at all. 60 minutes.

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Money-Back Guarantee

15 Days

15 Days

ICF CCE Units 1 CCE per learning hour

56 Units (31 CC + 25 RD)

30 Units (17 CC + 13 RD)

Designation *Earned through passed Capstone Project and attendance thresholds.

Certified Imposter Syndrome Coach

Imposter Syndrome Coach Practitioner

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A Complete Approach for Coaching the Roots of Imposter Syndrome

By the end of Clarify, you'll be able to accurately assess how Imposter Syndrome operates in a specific client, trace it to where it took shape, and guide that client through actively rewriting the story keeping it alive — with six tools and a live practicum behind you. That's the whole job of the Clarify phase, complete, for $497.

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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.

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?

You can. Clarify is the first phase of the full 3C's Methodology, so completing it puts you underway on the full program if you choose to continue.