Dating coaches for LGBTQ dating
Compare 44 dating coaches who focus on LGBTQ dating. Besides LGBTQ dating, the most common focus areas are couples and marriage, online dating and apps, dating for men and matchmaking. They most often work with LGBTQ+, couples and women. Most charge $85 to $162 per hour or session.
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Jen Solin
Jen Solin is a dating and life coach for lesbian, queer and nonbinary people, and their allies. She is also Outreach Director and facilitator at Conscious Girlfriend Academy, where she talks with hundreds of lesbians each month and hosts support groups on dating and heartbreak. She coaches one-on-one in English and Spanish. Her work covers heartbreak, divorce, dating again and new life chapters. She also helps clients write dating profiles and created a deck of lesbian love and connection cards.
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.
Beau Brummell Introductions
Beau Brummell Introductions is a matchmaking agency for gay men who want a long-term relationship. It was founded by Vinko Anthony and Andrea Zaza, who are partners in life and business. The head office is in Sydney. The agency also works in other Australian capitals, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, London and several US cities. It has matched men for over fourteen years. Every client is met in person, and matches come from a private database.
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.
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.
Eddie Hernandez
Eddie Hernandez is a dating coach and dating photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He coaches men and women on dating apps and offline dating, in person or by video call. He also shoots natural dating photos for apps like Hinge and Bumble. His photos have run in the New York Times, Time and Vogue UK. He has lived in Los Angeles and New York, which shapes how he sees culture and dating.
Julie Ferman
Julie Ferman is a matchmaker and dating coach who helps relationship-minded single men and women find partners. She launched her agency in Westlake Village, California in 2001. She has privately registered more than 40,000 singles and is credited with over 1,500 couples. She serves clients in Los Angeles, Denver and Santa Fe. She also runs a 30-day virtual boot camp for people who want to build their dating skills first.
Katherine Yeagel
Katherine Yeagel is a surrogate partner, somatic sex educator, and queer sex and relationship coach in Western Massachusetts. She works with individuals and couples on intimacy, boundaries, and sexual healing. She has nearly a decade of experience and left a nonprofit job to do this work. Her sessions blend nervous system education, consent practice, and communication skills. She offers online sessions as well as hands-on work, and she has sliding scale rates for priority groups.
Nathan Serrato
Nathan Serrato is a trauma-informed queer mindset coach who helps LGBTQ+ people with dating, relationships and leadership. He founded Queer Conscious in 2017. His expertise is in working with gay men, and he also coaches singles and couples across the LGBTQ+ community. He has guided hundreds of clients, organized over 100 community events, and sits on the board of Pride Point Network. He also hosts a podcast on queer love.
Scott Tsui
Scott Tsui is a relationship coach for gay men. He helps them find a lasting partner and get past the patterns that hold them back. He wrote the Amazon bestseller Lonely No More, and he writes a dating and relationship column for the San Francisco Bay Times. He teaches a method called the 3C Formula and runs the Gay Men Relationship Blueprint, an online course and community. He also coaches one on one.
Amanda Harrigan
Amanda Harrigan is a matchmaker and relationship coach who runs HYTCH in Australia. She helps single men and women find partners through private introductions and dating and relationship coaching. Her team has introduced hundreds of couples across Australia. HYTCH serves Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Clients are often busy professionals, executives and business owners who do not want to use dating apps. Every match is screened by hand and kept private.
Amari Ice
Amari Ice is a gay dating coach who helps gay professionals build the skills to find lasting love. Amari is also a matchmaker, a hypnotherapist and a best-selling author. Coaching covers dating skills, self-sabotage patterns and romantic magnetism. Work starts with a one-on-one Dating Analysis and is built around the Romantic Mastery Method.
Dario van der Kraken
Dario van der Kraken is a gay dating and relationship coach based in London. He helps gay men build healthy, stable relationships. His clients deal with love addiction, toxic relationships, anxiety in love and breakups. He is Italian and calls himself a Londoner at heart. He spent his 20s in painful relationships, and therapy helped him change his patterns. All sessions run online, mostly on Zoom.
Heather Shannon
She is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist with over 12 years in private practice. She hosts the "Ask A Sex Therapist" podcast and is a sex and relationship expert for the Peanut app. Her Intimacy Infusion method runs 90 days and looks at comfort with sex, resentment, emotional safety and grief.
Leah Carey
Leah Carey is a sex, intimacy and relationship coach in Oregon. He works with individuals and couples, with a focus on adults who grew up in high-control environments. He hosts the podcast Good Girls Talk About Sex. His work covers desire, boundaries, self-trust and communication with partners. He is queer, kink and non-monogamy friendly. His own upbringing in a high-control family shapes how he coaches, and he paces sessions to how each client's nervous system responds.
Samantha Raddock
Samantha Raddock is a couples and intimacy coach who helps adults improve their sexual health and their close relationships. She is a sexual intimacy specialist and sex educator. She trained at the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality and the Somatica Institute, and she holds VITA certification. Her own recovery after cancer treatment shaped her work. She is a trauma-informed coach who uses neuroscience research and body-based methods with people of all sexual preferences and orientations.
Tammy Shaklee
Tammy Shaklee is a certified matchmaker who runs H4M Matchmaking. He helps gay and lesbian professionals find long-term relationships through private, offline matchmaking. H4M began in Austin, Texas in 2012 as a service for LGBTQ singles who did not want bars or dating apps. Clients are matched with vetted singles who share their interests, standards and lifestyle. The service works with clients in cities across the country.
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.
Andre Lazarus
Andre Lazarus is a sex, intimacy and relationship coach who works with individuals and couples. He is a Certified Somatica coach and a certified surrogate partner. He has 10 years of experience and served as a Marine Corps Officer before this work. He appeared as an expert on Channel 4's Virgin Island. He also speaks on podcasts and runs retreats and workshops around the world.
Elizabeth (E) and Li
Elizabeth (E) and Li are partners and relationship coaches who work with queer and polyamorous people. E is the polyamorous relationship coach and is queer. Li is the queer relationship coach and is polyamorous. They coach individuals, couples, throuples, quads and polycules. They also host the QueerLove Podcast, with a new episode every Wednesday. Episodes draw on their own lives, their training and trends they see with clients.
Jordana Michelle
Jordana Michelle is a lesbian love coach who helps women who love women find and keep love. She also coaches women who are coming out. She runs one-on-one coaching for LGBT women, plus a blog and podcast called the lesbian living room. Her own experience with coming out and dating shaped her work. She teaches clients to change the thoughts and habits that get in the way of dating.
Rick Clemons
Rick Clemons is a coach for gay men over 40 who feel stuck in their relationships, careers, or sense of who they are. He hosts the podcast 40+ Gay Men. Gay Talk. and runs a free monthly group chat. Rick is a former corporate executive who walked away from that career. He came out later in life, so he knows the choices his clients face. His private coaching is direct and built around ending stalling and making real moves.
Veronica Dress
Veronica Dress is a sex and relationship coach and certified sexuality educator. She helps people explore their intimate lives with more confidence and joy. She has spent over a decade guiding clients through topics society often calls taboo. She works with people of many identities, genders, sexualities, and relationship structures. Her coaching program, The Dress Rehearsal, centers on education, resources, and creative values exploration.
Bari Lyman
Bari Lyman is a dating coach who helps people find a partner they can marry. He created the Meet to Marry Method and has used it with clients for over a decade. Before he coached dating, he coached career professionals toward better jobs. He works with women and men, including LGBTQ clients, in a two stage process. First clients clear old barriers to love. Then they learn to date with a clear plan.
Maclynn International
Maclynn International is a matchmaking agency that also offers date coaching and relationship coaching. It began in London in 2011 as Vida Consultancy. Founder Rachel Vida MacLynn started in business psychology before moving into matchmaking in 2006. The agency has offices in London, New York City, California and New Jersey. A team of 150 ambassadors helps find matches in cities across Europe and beyond. Clients get a personally assigned matchmaker and hand selected introductions.
Pamela Gort
Pamela Gort is The Lesbian Love Coach. She coaches lesbian women on finding a partner and keeping the relationship strong. She worked 30 years in Pharma and Biotech before she moved into coaching. She also volunteered 5 years on a crisis counseling hotline. She offers one on one and group coaching. She hosts the weekly Lesbian Love Podcast and writes a monthly column as The Lesbian Dating Expert.
Ruth Schwartz
Ruth Schwartz is the director of Conscious Girlfriend Academy, an online school and community for lesbian, queer and non-binary people. She wrote the book Conscious Lesbian Dating & Love, which has reached readers in 25 countries. Her academy teaches dating, love, attachment and healing from past heartbreak. She also runs a coach training and certification program and leads a team of certified coaches. Ruth hosts optional Deep Dive group coaching sessions for members.
Sophia Spallino
Sophia Spallino is a matchmaker and dating coach for lesbian and queer women. She runs Queer Women Rising and hosts a podcast by the same name. She founded The Queer Country Club, a dating platform for monogamous lesbian and queer women. She has worked in this field for five years. She offers private matchmaking, coaching sessions, and hosted in-person gatherings for single women. She is also a harpist who writes spiritual harp music.
Adam Fitzgerald
Adam Fitzgerald is a relationship, sex and intimacy coach. He works with singles, couples and polyamorous groups on shame, pleasure and closeness. Before coaching, he spent more than two decades directing theatre, where he helped performers connect with their physical and emotional truths. He now uses those skills in embodied, somatic coaching. Sessions run online by video or in person in Torremolinos, Spain. He holds a certification from The Embody Lab.
Angie Enger
Angie Enger is an intimacy and pleasure coach who helps women feel at home in their own bodies and desire. She is based in Maplewood, New Jersey. She worked in marketing for 15 years before she turned to coaching. She holds a master's degree in counseling and worked as a sex educator at a teen clinic in Minnesota. She built her own three-phase framework, Come Home, Expand, Flow. She is LGBTQ+ affirming, kink-aware and ENM-positive.
Ariella Serur
Ariella Serur runs Queer Dating Coach and helps queer, trans and non-binary people date with less fear. Ariella holds two life coaching certifications and a 500 hour yoga teacher training. They are studying sexuality, women and gender at Columbia University with a focus on LGBTQ issues. Ariella came to dating from musical theatre and once went on a date for every audition. They now offer select sessions through a waitlist.
Michel Grey
Michel Grey is a relationship coach who runs Relational Sovereignty Coaching. Michel helps people who feel they carry too much of a relationship, including lesbian and queer women in dating. The main offer is a 75-minute one-on-one session called Relational Field Mapping. It looks at the pattern under a single conflict. Michel also hosts a podcast called Relational Field Radio and is a Conscious Girlfriend certified coach.
Buck Dodson
Buck Dodson is a life coach and licensed therapist who works with LGBTQ people, couples and creative entrepreneurs. He is also a Board Certified Coach. He has been a licensed therapist for nearly two decades. He created Life Lab, a self-discovery framework for designing a life that fits who you are. He also hosts the Gay Men's Life Lab podcast. His coaching centers on accountability, self-worth, healthy relationships and career goals.
Constantine Dhonau
Constantine Dhonau is a coach for individuals and couples who want healthier relationships with themselves and others. He focuses on religious harm reduction for LGBTQIA+ couples and on psychedelic integration. He holds an ICF PCC credential and coaches in Positive Intelligence. He spent over 8,000 hours as a wilderness therapy guide for teens and young adults in crisis. He also studies Daoist texts like the Dao De Jing and the I Ching.
Lizzy Kurtzer
Lizzy Kurtzer is a life coach in Edinburgh who works with women and queer people. She helps clients who feel stuck, worn out, or unsure what comes next. Her one-on-one coaching focuses on confidence, self-trust, and clarity. She also uses menstrual cycle awareness as a tool. She hosts The Period Lesbian podcast and offers coaching to lesbian and queer couples and singles on dating. She works UK-wide and online, and also coaches within organisations.
Alison Jamison
Alison Jamison is a life and weight loss coach who works with women physicians. She helps them get time back, lose weight, and feel like themselves again. Before coaching, she worked in program management, business advising and leadership development across healthcare, technology, manufacturing and banking. She also coaches with Weight Loss for Doctors Only. She is a certified Fair Play facilitator, and she also coaches women coming out as bi or pan later in life.
MacLaine DeFelice
MacLaine DeFelice is a certified life coach who works online with LGBTQ+ people and allies. Coaching centers on self-confidence, body image, dating and relationships, and healthy habits. MacLaine is a gay man who knows what it is like to hide who you are and fear being seen. Sessions run 50 minutes. Clients can book a single session or a package, with text, email or voicemail check-ins between weekly sessions.
Michael DiIorio
Michael DiIorio is a certified life and wellness coach who works mainly with gay and bi men. He runs Wellismo, a coaching and education platform in Canada. He coaches on confidence, identity, relationships, and gay dating. He offers private coaching over Zoom and group programs through the Wellismo Academy. He also hosts the Gay Men Going Deeper podcast. His groups are curated for queer, bi, and gay men and hold 10 to 15 people.
Morgan Willey
Morgan Willey is a life and relationship coach in Maine who helps people with codependency, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. She teaches The Adult Chair model and is a certified Adult Chair coach. She is also a certified yoga teacher and a level II Reiki practitioner, and she adds breathing and energy work to sessions. She works with clients one on one online, and she has personal experience leaving a narcissistic relationship.
Nicki Monahan
Nicki Monahan is a Toronto based Professional Certified Coach who helps people through life transitions. She coaches on work, relationship and health changes, and also works with lesbian, queer and gender-diverse people on dating. She has over 20 years of professional experience and a master's degree in counselling psychology. She also mentors other coaches and designs and leads workshops for organizations.
Risa August
Risa August is a creativity and life coach who works one on one with people going through a shift and ready to embrace it. She is also an author, TEDx speaker and Gestalt practitioner. Her book tells the story of her bike ride from Canada to Mexico after brain surgery for a pituitary tumor. She is a Conscious Girlfriend Academy certified coach and has coached couples. Sessions run by phone or Zoom.
Phyllisia Moore
Phyllisia Moore is a life coach and couples coach in Gulfport, Mississippi. She also works as an accountability coach, an organizing coach, and a charity volunteer work coach. Her clients build self love, self compassion, and confidence in themselves. She is LGBTQIA friendly and holds a certified caregiver credential. She grew up in a small town in Gulfport and began coaching at a young age.
Hayden Dover
Hayden Dover is a life and relationship coach in San Diego, California. Hayden coaches couples on communication, conflict resolution and sexual intimacy, and helps individuals through hard life transitions. Hayden is also a somatic sexologist with over 15 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. Before coaching, Hayden worked as a massage therapist and personal trainer. The practice welcomes people of all sexual preferences and orientations.
Sarah Freburg-Carrasco
Sarah Freburg-Carrasco is a life, love and intimacy coach who works with LGBTQIA women and femmes. She runs a practice called Queer Life Coach. She came out as lesbian at age 43, and that shapes how she coaches. She holds certifications in LGBTQIA relationships, habit building, goal setting, confidence building, emotional intelligence and cognitive behavioral life coaching. She is also working toward a counseling degree.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jen Solin | LGBTQ dating and Breakups and heartbreak | $90 to $230 an hour |
| Alex Gay | Couples and marriage and LGBTQ dating | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Beau Brummell Introductions | Matchmaking and LGBTQ dating | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Brian Rzepczynski | LGBTQ dating and Couples and marriage | $100 to $170 an hour |
| Donna Barnes | Breakups and heartbreak and LGBTQ dating | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Eddie Hernandez | Dating for men and Dating for women | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Julie Ferman | Matchmaking and Texting and first dates | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Katherine Yeagel | Couples and marriage and LGBTQ dating | $225 to $250 per session |
| Nathan Serrato | LGBTQ dating and Dating for men | $140 to $215 an hour |
| Scott Tsui | Dating for men and LGBTQ dating | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Amanda Harrigan | Matchmaking and Couples and marriage | $85 to $150 an hour |
| Amari Ice | Dating for men and LGBTQ dating | $115 to $210 an hour |
| Dario van der Kraken | Dating for men and LGBTQ dating | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Heather Shannon | Couples and marriage and LGBTQ dating | $100 to $170 an hour |
| Leah Carey | Couples and marriage and LGBTQ dating | $110 to $200 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a dating coach for LGBTQ dating cost?
Most dating coaches charge $85 to $162 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include couples and marriage, online dating and apps, dating for men and matchmaking.
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Last updated September 2026.