Rhona Berens, PhD, PCC
Rhona Berens, PhD, PCCRhona’s professional expertise spans niches and skillsets. She’s a Professional Individual & Relationship Coach who works with Leaders, Parents, Co-Parents, Couples, and Business Partners to increase relationship fulfillment and effectiveness in personal and professional Relationship Systems. A relationship system is any grouping of two or more people.
In addition to her work as a compassionate, fun and inspiring coach, Rhona is a skilled Speaker and Trainer. She delivers workshops to parents, birth professionals, educators, and teams. As an author, a recovering academic—Rhona was an Associate Professor at UC-Irvine for nine years—a former senior executive, and business consultant, Rhona brings a breadth of experience to her coaching.
Rhona is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, she received her certification from The Coaches Training Institute, and is a graduate of the Center for Right Relationship’s prestigious program in Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching. Rhona is an Educator for the Gottman Institute’s Bringing Baby Home program, a Leader for Gottman’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (based on the bestselling book) and a Trainer & Consultant for Toolbox Project®—a research-based K-6 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program. Rhona is also a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, a Certified Trainer for SANITY SCHOOL® Live—Parent Management Training for parents of complex kids—and a provider for the Enhanced Gottman Relationship Checkup. Rhona recently completed Level 1 of the Developmental Model Training Program at The Couples Institute. Additional trainings include: BeAbove Leadership’s Seven Levels of Human Relationship, and segments one and two of Neuroscience for the Advanced Coach. Rhona also completed the Neuroscience of Change program at Coaches Rising, as well as Shirzad Charmine’s Positive Intelligence program. She holds degrees in Communications & Media Studies from McGill University & UCLA.
With her friend and colleague, Tina Stanley, MSW, LCSW, Rhona co-authored Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-To Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection (due date: Spring 2023).
Rhona Berens, PhD, PCC
Rhona’s professional expertise spans niches and skillsets. She’s a Professional Individual & Relationship Coach who works with Leaders, Parents, Co-Parents, Couples, and Business Partners to increase relationship fulfillment and effectiveness in personal and professional Relationship Systems: any grouping of two or more people. In addition to her work as a compassionate, fun and inspiring coach, Rhona is a skilled Speaker and Trainer. She delivers workshops on a range of topics to parents, birth professionals, educators and teams.
As an author and recovering academic—Rhona was an Associate Professor at UC-Irvine for close to a decade—and a former business executive and consultant, Rhona brings a breadth of experience to her coaching.
She is credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach, and graduated from The Coaches Training Institute, and The Center for Right Relationship’s prestigious program in Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching. Rhona is an Educator for the Gottman Institute’s Bringing Baby Home program, a Leader for Gottman’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, and a Trainer & Consultant for the Toolbox Project®—a research-based K-6 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program. She is also a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, a Certified Trainer for SANITY SCHOOL® Live—Parent Management Training for parents of complex kids—and a provider for the Enhanced Gottman Relationship Checkup. Rhona recently completed Level 1 of the Developmental Model Training Program at The Couples Institute. Additional trainings include: BeAbove Leadership’s Seven Levels of Human Relationship, and segments one and two of Neuroscience for the Advanced Coach. She also completed the Neuroscience of Change program at Coaches Rising, and Shirzad Charmine’s Positive Intelligence program. Rhona holds degrees in Communications & Media Studies from McGill University & UCLA.
With her friend and colleague, Tina Stanley, MSW, LCSW, Rhona co-authored Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-To Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection (due date: Spring 2023).
