Readiness quiz
Are you ready for board certification?
You take grief work seriously. The real question is whether board certification fits where you are right now.
Non-clinical grief support helps people living through loss of any kind, and grief coaching is one form of it. If you do this work, under any title, the real question is whether board certification fits where you are right now. That depends on your training, your practice, and what you want the credential to do for you.
The bar
What board certification requires
Documented grief-specific education from any provider, 50 verified practice hours of non-clinical grief support, attestation to a published Code of Ethics, and a passing result on a proctored Board Examination at 80 percent. There is no degree requirement and no licensure requirement.
The standard is published in full, so the requirements themselves are not a mystery.
- Grief-specific education covering the six topic areas, from any qualified provider. Education from more than one provider may be combined, and INBGC provides no foundational training itself.
- 50 verified practice hours of non-clinical grief support provided to grieving people, documented by your signed attestation plus one supporting record. Group sessions count when they can be verified, and clinical treatment hours do not count.
- Attestation to the Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice, which you reaffirm at every renewal.
- A passing result on the Board Examination, at 80 percent across six equally weighted topic areas, taken under live remote proctoring.
No client session is ever recorded or reviewed, and no client is contacted. See the full eligibility requirements and the six topic areas.
The real question
Why timing is the harder question
Meeting the requirements and being ready are not the same thing, and the mistake can run in either direction.
A credential earned before the training and practice behind it are solid does less than it should. The examination is real, the standard is published, and a candidate who is not prepared finds that out at the worst point in the process.
A practitioner with years of grief work and qualifying training may already have the hours. The remaining step can be documenting what has already been done.
Readiness is a question of fit between your training, your practice, and the published standard.
That fit is difficult to see from the inside, because it depends on how your specific training maps to the six topic areas, how your practice is documented, and what you actually want the credential to do. Those are the questions the quiz asks.
Eight questions
See where you stand
Eight questions about your training, your practice, and your goals, and about two minutes to answer them. You get a read on where you stand and the specific next step that fits it, whether that is certifying now, closing one gap first, or building your foundation.
Your result appears on this page as soon as you finish, along with guidance written for that result. No email address is required.
Your result
The three results
Your answers place you in one of three groups, each with next steps matched to where you are.
There is no wrong result. Each one comes with guidance written for that specific position.
Why this exists
An honest answer either way
INBGC is a certifying board rather than a sales funnel. If your answers show that you are not ready, the quiz will say so and point you toward the right next step instead.
The board would rather you certify at the right time than the wrong one.
That is not a courtesy. A credential is only worth holding if the standard behind it means something, and a board that certified everyone who applied would have nothing to offer anyone relying on the credential.
Common questions
Next step
Find out where you stand
Eight questions. One honest answer, whichever way it goes.