Certified dating coaches
389 dating coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 50% of all dating coaches.
Key numbers
- 389 dating coaches list a credential (50% of dating coaches).
- 21 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
Credentials dating coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 332 |
| Graduate degree | 36 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 20 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 1 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified Life Coach | 18 |
| Certified Relationship Coach | 18 |
| Certified life coach | 13 |
| MBA | 12 |
| PhD | 11 |
| Certified Professional Coach | 10 |
| NLP Practitioner | 9 |
| CTI Co-Active Training Institute | 7 |
| Certified Professional Coach (CPC) | 6 |
| Certified Life Coach Institute | 6 |
Certified dating coaches to compare
Adele Currin
Adele Currin is a relationship coach in Washington, DC. She helps professionals who feel stuck in their relationships. Some want to reconnect, some need to make a hard choice, and some want to separate with kindness. Adele is a former Registered Nurse and holds a Duke integrative health coaching certification. She is also certified in Conscious Uncoupling and Rapid Transformational Therapy. Her work centers on action, not only talk.
Adrienne Everheart
Adrienne Everheart is a dating and relationship coach who helps women build lasting love. He teaches a method he created called the Feminine Energy Mindset Method, or FEMM. His work covers dating again, breakups, separation, pending divorce and winning back a partner. He sells scripts, courses and a card deck, and he offers private coaching. He also runs an AI tool called Adrienne-ish that answers questions using his own course material.
Alex Gay
Alex Gay is a sex and relationship coach who helps LGBTQIA+ people, neurodivergent people, singles and couples build confidence in dating and intimacy. Alex is ICF certified and has extra training in anxiety, depression, CBT, DBT and ACT. Alex hosts The Queer Confidence Podcast and the Kink Curious Podcast, and also works as an on-set coach. Sessions run online worldwide or in person in San Diego. Alex was formerly known as Coach Ray.
Alex Goldstein
Alex Goldstein is a dating anxiety coach for nerds. He helps shy and introverted singles find a serious relationship without dating apps or cold approaches. Alex is a digital nomad who had to learn how to meet and date people in cities where he knew no one. He has interviewed hundreds of nerds on his podcast about how they met their partners. He teaches the friends-first approach that most of those couples used.
Alison Verge
Alison Verge is a relationship and dating coach who helps busy professionals over 40 find lasting love. She runs Path2Love Coaching. She is a certified sexologist and co-author of "Radical Self Love." She also coaches couples who face a sudden shock, such as illness or disability, a challenge she knows from her own life. Her clients can meet a partner with or without dating apps.
Allison Anderson
Allison Anderson is a dating and relationship coach for high-achieving women, including women physicians. She is a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist with an MD and is also a certified life coach. She built her own method after struggling with dating herself. It mixes shadow work, nervous system tools, mindset shifts and practical how-tos. She offers a 3 month private mentorship and an audio dating program made for women doctors.
Amie Leadingham
Amie Leadingham is a dating and relationship coach who helps singles find lasting love. She works in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and is also an online dating expert and author. Her Conscious Dating programs help clients heal old beliefs about relationships that hold them back. She met the love of her life through this method. She also hosts two podcasts.
Amy Schoen
Amy Schoen is a dating and relationship coach who helps marriage-minded men and women over 40 find lasting love. She runs Motivated to Marry and hosts a podcast with the same name. She has been a certified life coach since 2005. Her first marriage ended in her mid-thirties. She now teaches that plan to her clients.
Anina Green
Anina Green is a certified dating and relationship coach who helps women find a committed partner. She founded Upshot-Dating and holds a degree in Clinical Psychology and Counselling. She offers private consulting built on her own Upshot-Dating system. Her clients aim to go from single to engaged, and from an unclear situation to clarity and commitment. She also shares free emails, a blog, ebooks, audio and video materials.
Ayo Lawrence
Ayo Lawrence is a couples and family coach and counsellor in Lagos, Nigeria. She helps engaged couples, married couples and people who are single again after death, separation or divorce. She is Co-Founder and Lead Consultant at EL-Cubed International Limited. She is a certified mediator with a family mediation specialty. She also holds certifications in emotional intelligence, NLP, and addiction and mental health. Her career spans over two decades.
Bea Trost
Bea Trost is a couples and grief coach in Germany. She works with couples and individuals in her own private practice and coaches in German and English. She also coaches leaders and other coaches. Before coaching, she was a Master Furniture Maker and designer who worked in Sydney, Paris and Shanghai. She holds an ICF PCC credential and uses the Developmental Model of couples work by Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson.
Bonnie Bliss
Bonnie Bliss is a somatic sexologist, pelvic specialist and embodiment teacher who coaches women on intimacy and pleasure. She is based in Melbourne, Australia, and all her work is online. She has spent the last ten years focused on the female pelvis. She leads The School of Embodied Pleasure, a 4 month program. She offers private one-on-one coaching and group programs.
Brian Rzepczynski
Brian Rzepczynski is a dating and relationship coach who helps gay men and couples build healthy, lasting intimate relationships. He started his coaching business, The Gay Love Coach, in 2003. He has over 19 years of experience as a psychotherapist and life coach. He holds a doctorate in human sexuality and a master's in clinical social work. He also writes advice columns for gay magazines and speaks at events. He works from Chicago.
Bridgett Blood
Bridgett Blood is a coach for Christian singles who want help with sexual desire, dating, and boundaries. She worked five years as a spiritual formation pastor before she became a coach. She co-hosts the Dating & Desire Podcast and speaks at churches and retreats. She uses the Connection Codes framework and runs the RECLAIM cohort, an online program for Christian adults. She also works with men, women, and engaged couples.
Bryce Bauer
Bryce Bauer is a relationship coach in Utah who works with men and with couples. Bryce has spent 16 years in mental health programs, coaching men on how to show up in their relationships. Bryce coaches men one on one. Bryce's style is direct and practical, and the coach builds in a habit of slowing down. Bryce holds ICF and TRS certifications.
Carla Romo
Carla Romo is a dating and relationship coach in Philadelphia who helps women and men with dating, breakups and life goals. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and has worked with over 1,000 clients. She is an international speaker and wrote the book Caontagious Love. Before coaching, she worked in TV and went through burnout, which shaped her work on codependency and burnout. She coaches by phone or video, one-on-one or in groups.
Caryn Davis
Caryn Davis is a certified matchmaker and dating coach who helps busy professionals find a quality match for a long-term relationship. She runs Exquisite Elite Matchmaking, where she finds matches for clients and also coaches men and women one on one. She coaches singles by video anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. She also hosts the EEM Club Podcast. Clients get homework between sessions, and a free 15 minute consultation comes first.
Christian
Christian is a dating coach and pickup artist who helps men attract women without games or manipulation. He is based in Budapest and coaches in German and English. He is a certified NLP trainer with 15+ years of experience. He mixes pickup principles with psychology and NLP. He also films live infield videos that show his methods with real women.
Christopher Louis
Christopher Louis is a certified dating and relationship coach in Los Angeles. He works with men and women on dating, relationships, and confidence. He is a former international model and professional tennis player. He founded Men.tality and hosts the Dating Intelligence podcast, which launched in April 2020. He has coached for over five years. His style is direct and built on real behavior, not dating clichés.
Cora Boyd
Cora Boyd is a Seattle dating and relationship coach who founded Cora Boyd Enterprises. She teaches flirting, communication, charisma and confidence, with a strong focus on coaching men. She is a former top-performing matchmaker for a Stanford StartX company. She started her consultancy in 2019 and has guided hundreds of clients. She hosts the podcast Pillow Talk Radio and is the recurring dating expert for the CUT Channel.
Craig and Maria Meyer
Craig and Maria Meyer run Ultimate Assist Coaching in Jacksonville. They are a married couple who coach couples and individuals on relationships, habits, and healing from the past. They are certified life coaches and breathwork facilitators. They rebuilt their own relationship after infidelity, and that shapes their work. They teach a mindset approach called LIT, which stands for love, intimacy, and trust. They also lead RESET Breathwork sessions for individuals and couples.
Dave Schaaf
Dave Schaaf is a Christian life coach and couples coach based in Idaho. He helps couples who serve in church leadership, including pastors and church staff. He was the marriage pastor at his church for 20 years. He holds a Master's degree in Counseling and is a Board Certified Coach. He has worked with 100s of couples. His training includes the Gottman 7 Principles and Conversational Intelligence.
Dawn A. Ross
Dawn A. Ross is a relationship, life and family coach in Port St. Lucie, Florida. She works with couples and individuals on communication, intimacy and finances in their relationships. She also focuses on narcissistic abuse, helping people spot it and leave. Before coaching, she worked in corporate IT abroad and practiced natural healing in Germany and Austria. She founded Thoughtward Academy and coaches clients around the world by video.
Donna Barnes
Donna Barnes is The Love Coach. She coaches people on dating, relationships and breakups. She has worked with hundreds of clients since 2007 and holds a New York University life and love coach certification. Before coaching, she co-hosted 205 episodes of a talk show about sex and relationships and wrote a magazine column. She also wrote the book Giving Up Junk-Food Relationships and hosts the Broken to Brave video podcast. Clients can reach her by phone or video, including nights and weekends.
Donna Piper
Donna Piper is a love coach and Akashic Records healer who helps women heal old trauma and build healthy relationships. She has 20 years of experience. Before coaching, she earned an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy with a focus on PTSD. She is certified in NLP, EFT, Reiki, and Yoga Nidra. Her goal is to support 1000 women using a system that shifts relationship patterns. She also runs meditation retreats.
Ed Bell
Ed Bell is a certified dating and relationship coach who works with gay, bi and queer men. He runs Better Gay Dating and hosts a podcast on the topic. His focus is helping men get past the blocks that stop them from finding real love and connection. He teaches practical tools for apps and meeting people in person. He also works on self-worth and dating-related shame. He describes his style as part empathetic friend and part no-nonsense therapist.
Eileen Chao
Eileen Chao is a sex and relationship coach and surrogate partner who works with high achievers on intimacy issues. She has more than a decade of experience. She is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and holds a master's in psychology. She acts as a practice partner and works with clients in real time, so change is felt and not only understood. She sees clients in person in San Francisco, by telehealth, or in a hybrid model.
Elizabeth K
Elizabeth K is a dating, relationship and life coach based in Italy who runs That's Amore Coaching. She helps singles, dating app users and people in relationships. She has taught English for over 10 years and holds a double degree in Law and Commerce. She used dating apps daily for 7 years, so she knows the process first hand. She also offers dating profile makeovers with photo feedback.
Elizabeth Sullivan
Elizabeth Sullivan is a dating and relationship coach in London who helps women, mostly career-focused ones, find love and build lasting relationships. She runs Love Mentor and also offers career coaching. Before coaching she was a Chartered Accountant. She reports 22 weddings, 8 engagements, 14 couples living together and 12 babies among her clients. She uses one-to-one sessions and trains in NLP and clinical hypnotherapy.
Elle Wilson
Elle Wilson is a certified dating coach who helps ambitious singles date with more skill and more fun. She founded Met Through Friends, a company that helps singles meet offline, and has hosted thousands of single people at in-person events. She has worked with 60+ dating clients. She pairs a Stanford management science background with 10 years in hospitality to build a strategic approach to dating.
Common questions
How many dating coaches are certified?
50% of dating coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
What is the top dating coach credential?
The International Coaching Federation's MCC is the highest coaching credential, followed by the PCC and ACC.
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Last updated September 2026.