What It Means to Be a Certified MAP Practitioner (MAP-CP)
Becoming a MAP-CP signifies that you’ve trained, practiced, and been evaluated to deliver MAP Method™ coaching with skill, integrity, and care. MAP stands for Make Anything Possible—a structured, evidence-informed coaching approach that helps clients release both conscious and subconscious patterns to create lasting change.
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MAP-CPs uphold a professional Code of Ethics, a clear Scope of Practice (depending on licensing and education), and standards for quality and client safety.
Learn MoreThe Path to Becoming a MAP-CP
Find or Verify a Certified MAP Practitioner
Before booking a MAP session, please make sure your practitioner is officially certified in the MAP Method™.
We strongly recommend that you do not work with anyone offering MAP sessions, or a variation or imitation of the MAP Method™, who is not a certified MAP Practitioner.
Individuals who are not certified may still be students completing their training, may have been removed from the Certification Program, or may never have received official MAP training.
To ensure you are working with a properly trained practitioner, please use our official directory to find or verify their certification status.
Find or Verify a Certified MAP-CPScope of Practice & Ethics (In Brief)
MAP-CPs:
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Work in a coaching capacity, helping clients define goals, manage thoughts and emotions, and plan their action steps.
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Do not diagnose, treat, or replace medical/mental health care.
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Refer out when needs fall outside coaching scope (e.g., physical or mental health diagnosis, mental health crisis, untreated psychiatric conditions).
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Protect client confidentiality and data in accordance with legal and ethical guidelines.
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Communicate fees, expectations, and limits with transparency and care.
How MAP-CPs Work With Clients
MAP-CPs Do:
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Clarify goals and context – create a safe, client-centered space for exploration.
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Gain informed consent – ensure clients understand the process and agree before beginning and continuing with sessions.
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Facilitate MAP sessions – guide clients to identify triggers, explore them safely, and reduce cognitive or emotional intensity of identified topics, and help reinforce positive self-empowering thoughts.
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Encourage integration – support clients with reflection, action steps, and follow-through.
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Maintain ethical standards – uphold confidentiality, respect boundaries, and work within the practitioners individual scope of practice.
MAP-CPs Don’t:
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Diagnose conditions – no medical or mental health diagnoses.
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Replace therapy or medicine – MAP is a coaching method, not treatment nor a medical intervention.
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Provide crisis intervention – refer clients in immediate crisis to qualified professionals.
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Overstep boundaries – avoid imposing personal beliefs or making inappropriate suggestions.
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Guarantee results – outcomes are individually varied and cannot be promised. If given statistically valid data they can provide a general hypothesis but can not promise exact results within an exact period of time.
Report an Ethical Concern
At the MAP Coaching Institute, we take our ethical standards seriously and are committed to protecting individuals who work with the method and maintaining the integrity of the MAP Method™ and the practitioners who represent it.
If you believe a certified MAP Practitioner has violated our ethical standards, and you or someone you know has been personally affected, we encourage you to contact our team. Please provide as much specific information as possible about the situation, including what happened, who was involved, and any relevant details that may help us understand your concern.
We will review the information provided and do our best to investigate appropriate cases. When concerns involve certified practitioners, we may work directly with them to address the situation and encourage compliance with our ethical standards.
Please understand the limits of our authority. We cannot regulate individuals who are not certified in the MAP Method™. Even with certified practitioners, our ability to take action is limited. If a practitioner is unwilling to address serious ethical concerns or comply with our standards, we may revoke their certification, but we cannot directly control their independent professional activities.
This is one of the reasons we strongly encourage you to work only with certified MAP Practitioners, whose certification status and adherence to our ethical standards can be reviewed by the Institute.
If you have an ethical concern, please contact our team with the details of your case by emailing us at [email protected] with the subject title "Report an Ethical Concern"
Celebrating the Community
MAP‑CPs span 10+ countries, hundreds of session hours, united by rigor, care, and transformation.
“I was wanting a career change. I experienced tremendous healing and made friendships. I feel more empowered personally. ”
– Amanda, MAP-CP
