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People Pleaser Life Coach Certification (Self-Care) (Udemy.com)

Life coach training for self-care, confidence and self-esteem by overcoming people pleasing and codependency behaviors.

Created by: Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services

Last updated October 2026

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What you will learn

  • Understanding people pleasing behaviors and origins
  • Understanding the connection between people pleasing and codependency
  • How to support self or life coaching clients with the Stages of Change for people pleasing recovery
  • Develop a life coaching program that addresses people pleasing recovery
  • Help clients identify their people pleasing style using the The Pleasing Scale™ assessment
  • Learn tools for validation, including boundary setting, self-talk, accountability, inner work, triggers

How it compares

Against the other 56 rated Udemy courses in Life Coaching on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 44% of them
  • Reviews230#38 of 57 by number of reviews
  • Length4.9 hoursshorter than 64% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2026more recently than 85% of them

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Course Description

*Top-Rated Udemy Instructor with 1,000,000 Students + Earn an Official Life Coach Certification*

Help clients develop self-love, self-care, and confidence and STOP self-sacrifice!

If you've been watching the news, reading the news, listening to books or on social media, any time in the 21st century, you have more than likely heard the phrase people pleaser.

I (instructor and coach Stephanie D. McKenzie) must confess to you that I am a recovering people pleaser. Yes, me right here.

However, before I became a recovering people pleaser, I was in my people pleasing seasons and my people pleasing behavior was much like that of some of your clients:

  • Making sure that everybody is well when you're not

  • Doing what was best for others and not what was best for you

  • Seeking external validation at a ravenous rate

  • Compromising your own belief systems

  • Working to be worthy, to be liked, to be loved, to be accepted and even to be compensated

And these are just a few of the challenges that I myself as well as my clients and your clients have and are currently facing. The reason why it's so important for us to support them as they decide to move from their people pleasing behavior into their recovery is because IT’S NOT AN EASY JOURNEY!

In this course, you will learn:

  • What people pleasing is, as well as the origins of these behaviors.

  • The similarities between people pleasing and codependency.

  • How to help clients develop their own self care plans

  • How to hold them accountable for the life and the changes that they so truly desire.


You will receive tools, including:

  • An assessment tool called The Pleasing Scale, to help clients identify their dominant people pleasing style.

  • Questions and journal prompts to help clients go deeper in understanding themselves.

  • Printed materials and exercises to use with your clients.


Many of you have been serving clients for quite some time and this may be just the course that you're needing to serve those clients that you have identified as people pleasing. The beauty of serving others where you have been is that you are very well acquainted with the challenges that they are going through. Coaching is an amazing opportunity for you to support those as they seek to transform their lives in new and exciting ways.

I'm very excited that you're taking this course and I look forward to the work that you're going to put into the world.


MEET THE INSTRUCTOR:

This course is brought to you by Transformation Academy, a life coach training company with over 800,000 students. They are excited to have collaborated with instructor Stephanie D. McKenzie, an award-winning marketer, TEDx Speaker, author, and multi-certified empowerment coach.

She has worked with celebrity clients such as Lisa Nichols/Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul, Debbie Allen, Shaquille O’Neal, DeVry University, Wrigley’s, and the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. She has been featured in national and international media outlets, including FOX, CBS, Cosmo, Black Life Coaches, eHarmony, HowAboutWe. GalTime, Shape Magazine, Singles Warehouse, Women’s Day, WVON Chicago, Yahoo, and YourTango.

Stephanie is best known for serving multi-passionate high-achievers and recovering people pleasers with
branding and marketing for their missions and coaching that empowers.



THIS COURSE IS PART OF OUR MASTER RELATIONSHIP COACH  CERTIFICATION (ALONG WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, ATTRACT LOVE + RELATIONSHIPS AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT + RELATIONSHIP GROWTH COURSES).

THIS COURSE IS PART OF OUR MASTER SELF-CARE + BOUNDARIES COACH CERTIFICATION (ALONG WITH OUR SELF-CARE COACH, EMPOWERMENT SELF-DEFENSE COACH, EMPOWERMENT COACH AND CONFIDENCE COACH CERTIFICATIONS).

This course is also accredited by internationally recognized Continuing Professional Development Standards Agency (Provider No: 50134), and 10 CPD/CEU credits are available upon request.


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Instructor Details

Joeel A. Rivera, M.Ed. and Natalie Rae are pioneers in the life coaching field and co-founders of Transformation Services – the leading online course marketplace for life coaching, personal development and entrepreneurship. They’re the only life coach training organization in the world with 60+ niche coaching certifications, providing completely self-paced, done-for-you coaching programs offered at accessible prices.

They have PROUDLY served nearly 1,000,000 happy students from 200 countries and territories.

Using the science of psychology and human potential, they train leading edge entrepreneurs, leaders, and life coaches how to master their mindset and create a purpose-driven business so they can monetize their passion and live life on their terms.

Joeel A. Rivera, MEd: From an early age, Joeel faced adversity, including failing his first year of college and losing his brother to a car accident at the age of 19. This experience transformed his life and instilled a deep sense of purpose by inspiring him to give his brother Daniel's name a meaning by helping others find their true path. He returned to college, earning a Master's Degree in Counseling and all but the dissertation for his Ph.D. in Psychology, and later became a psychology professor.

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Reviews

4.6

230 ratings on Udemy

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By Christopher Crane on 2/20/2025

Very informative course. It dangled on the edges of secular humanism which was concerning. Yet, it did remain fairly balanced and honest. All in all definitely worth the time money and energy. I'm looking forward to helping others, by sharing these great insights.

By Rhonda Soap on 10/13/2024

The information has helped me personally wake up and move beyond in my own recovery and it is defiantly valuable to me in the line of work I do. The explanations are real and educational at the same time. Thank you for an excellent course! It is worth my money.

By Jace Devaux on 5/30/2024

Stephanie is great! Very easy to follow along. I will say, however, that she repeats herself quite a bit. I understand that repetition is a strategy to reinforce important information. But I feel that this course could have been half the length. If I don't catch something, it's my responsibility to rewatch what I missed, and not have another video repeating what I essentially already saw. All in all, great quality content. Thank you!

By Alissandra Moon on 5/2/2024

So far, so good. Easy to listen to and keeps my attention. She is a good teacher. Update-Really cant stand the AI videos scattered throughout the course,but i will persevere because the rest is SO good. Hopefully an alternative to those is on the cards- a written document or human video or even just a link to read up on the subject.

By Peter Ackermann on 3/21/2024

Stephanie ist eine hervorragende Trainerin und man kann den Ausführungen gut folgen. Die Inhalte sind überwiegend gut strukturiert und direkt anwendbar. Vielen Dank. Es sind einige Sequenzen/Videos rein durch KI erstellt - die sind etwas schwierig und schlecht verständlich. Hinzu kommen einige Videos, die scheinbar als Livestreams aufgezeichnet wurden und Stephanie dort mit Teilnehmern interagiert. Das bin ich so auch nicht von Schulungen auf Udemy gewohnt.

By Monika Meziani on 2/23/2024

Many valuable informations and a great way of presenting them by Stephanie. My only concern are some videos "unfinished", cut in the middle of the sentence, as well as some sounding "robotic" AI created additions being a bit disturbing...

By Emily Sylvia White on 1/28/2024

This has so much relatable information for me as a new coach and a recovering people pleaser. I love how the content is explained in a down to earth way not using terminology or common catch phrases but information born of obvious research and experience.

By Dr. Aviva Ainbinder on 12/9/2023

This course was one of the most helpful ones I have taken so far. The only reason why I took half a star off was because some of the videos were AI/voice-over (computer generated - or so it sounded). Some were recordings of Zoom/Facebook lives, which I found very disturbing because the presenter commented on what people said in the feed, and we can obviously not see that. Otherwise, loved it!

By Ina Web on 5/25/2023

This is one of the better courses I have come across here in Udemy. Instructor Stephanie is well researched, well prepare and has true experience on the topic. I thank her for her honesty and how she introduced the topic of with such clarity, vigor, and convictions. It gave me a lot of food for thoughts as a coach and working with clients.

By Wanda D Proctor on 4/22/2023

This course has been very informative and has just confirmed and inspired me to continue the course of being the vehicle in assisting others who are actively seeking change. Content is clear and applicable. Understanding that we are in recovery was most helpful to me and i will be able to pass this on to my clients.

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