A collaboration between
BNA & Abetter Way

This 3-hour workshop will cover practical skills and ethical concerns around coaching clients experiencing suicidality.

MONDAY — November 17, 2025
9 am - Noon PT / Noon - 3 pm ET

Starting with new perspectives on suicidality based on the latest research, you’ll learn to apply coaching techniques to address this and other red flags – all while staying in scope. You will see a demonstration of this approach as well as practice having these crucial conversations in a low-stakes environment.

Upon completion of this course, you will: 

  • Have different perspective on suicidality that honors client agency, and is more empowering and encouraging for the client.

  • Know when and how to access higher level support for you and your clients.

  • Have increased capacity to support those experiencing distress within scope of practice.

  • Understand how to coach a client to greater self-efficacy in accessing support and envisioning a future worth living.

This course is open to all coaches. The workshop includes participation in breakout rooms and group discussion.

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Instructors

Betsy Salkind, BNA

Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a certified health coach with expertise in team, mentor and leadership coaching. She trained at the Mayo Clinic and was Associate Director and Lead Mentor Coach for ADAPT Health Coach Training Program. She worked at Ginger (now Headspace), a healthtech company providing mental health coaching, and in her role as Associate Director and lead mentor coach at ADAPT, she developed training for addressing red flags, which she also offered to the volunteer coaches at Health Coaches without Barriers. Betsy holds an MS in Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Iris Fernández, Abetter Way

Iris Fernández, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a certified coach with expertise in mental health coaching with a specialty focus on creative fulfillment and community integration. She was trained at Wellcoaches and has ample clinical experience working closely with counselors, psychologists, and physicians to build robust evidence-based and ethically-scoped coaching services in the health-technology sector. At One Medical she supported the launch of Mindset, a Virtual Coaching and Therapy program, serving both as the clinical operations coordinator and as a stress management group coach. Later, as a lead coach at Wave Life, Iris co-developed an evidence-based and ethically robust suicide ideation response protocol. Iris is also an experienced coach trainer, having designed and facilitated classes for trauma-informed and culturally-responsive coaching at both Wave’s and Wellcoaches’s NBHWC-approved mental health coach training programs. She holds a BA in Computer Science from Brown University.