Dating coaches for matchmaking
Compare 60 dating coaches who focus on matchmaking. Besides matchmaking, the most common focus areas are dating for men, online dating and apps, texting and first dates and couples and marriage. They most often work with professionals, men and women. Most charge $88 to $165 per hour or session.
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Anna Jorgensen
Anna Jorgensen is a dating coach for men. She runs Wingmam and teaches men how to understand women, build confidence, and find lasting relationships. Anna spent 20 years in real estate sales before she became a dating coach and matchmaker in 2012. She has interviewed hundreds of singles and couples about dating. Her YouTube channel has 400,000+ subscribers, and she also runs a community of 2,700 active members.
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.
Blaine Anderson
Blaine Anderson is a matchmaker and dating coach who helps men find girlfriends. Blaine started Dating By Blaine in 2020 and has worked with more than 7,000 clients. Blaine offers one-on-one matchmaking and coaching, both online and in person. Blaine appeared on Shark Tank in Season 15, where Mark Cuban offered this coach a deal. Blaine also has a YouTube channel with 137K subscribers and more than 1 million followers across social media.
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.
Erika Ettin
Erika Ettin is an online dating coach in Washington, DC. She runs A Little Nudge, which helps people with photos, profiles, messages and dates. Before coaching, she worked in finance for over seven years and left in early 2011 to start the business. She tracked her own online dating results in a spreadsheet and reached a response rate well over 60%. She wrote a book on online dating and writes a weekly advice column.
Francesca Hogi
Francesca Hogi is a love and life coach in New York who helps people find lasting romantic connection. She started as a matchmaker, then became a coach, advisor and author. She wrote How to Find True Love and gave two TED talks that drew 2.2M views. She built the Franny app, which maps how each person is wired for love using her Core Love Codes framework. She also does connection strategy for brands.
Frank Kermit
Frank Kermit is a dating and relationship coach in Montreal who helps singles and couples with love, sex and dating. He has coached for 25 years and wrote over 20 books and 25+ audio programs. He is the official coach of the Absolute Bachelor Club matchmaking service. He teaches his own Emotional Needs Analysis system. His clients come from Canada, the USA, Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He also coaches weight loss accountability.
Gillian McCallum
Gillian McCallum is a London matchmaker who connects singles with partners who fit them. She started as a headhunter for the C suites of global corporations. She then moved into matchmaking at Drawing Down the Moon, the UK's original matchmaking agency. She now runs the coParenting Agency, a global firm that matches people who want to have a child together. She has twice been named Best Matchmaker at the iDate Awards and hosts the podcast Love is Not a List.
Holly McCusker
Holly McCusker is a relationship and emotional intelligence coach who helps ambitious professionals understand the patterns behind how they date and connect. She focuses on attachment, nervous system responses, and partner selection. Before starting her private practice, she worked at Tawkify, the largest matchmaking agency in the US, as a matchmaker and coach. She also led the build of Tawkify's internal coaching program. She created the 5R Breakup Recovery Method and the 5P Conscious Masculinity Framework.
James Preece
James Preece is a dating coach in the UK who helps single men and women find lasting relationships. He has worked as a dating expert for 21 years. He has written 15 books on dating, confidence and attraction. He also coaches for dating agencies and online dating companies. He hosts a weekly dating podcast and runs singles events, speed dating nights and seminars across the UK. Men and women get different, tailored coaching approaches.
Jasbina Ahluwalia
Jasbina Ahluwalia is a matchmaker and relationship coach who helps accomplished singles find a life partner. She runs Intersections Match and has a special focus on South Asian matchmaking. She spent nearly two decades in this work. Before that, she was a lawyer in San Francisco and Chicago. She works with men and women across the U.S. and in other countries.
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.
Katy Clark
Katy Clark is a matchmaker and dating coach who helps successful singles find a partner and date with more confidence. She spent 10 years matching exclusive clients at Cinqe Matchmaking before starting Dating with Katy. She keeps a personal network of tens of thousands of singles. Her work blends dating strategy with fashion and wellness. She has also been a featured trainer in SHAPE Magazine and ran a restaurant in China.
Kelleher International
Kelleher International is a matchmaking firm that also offers dating coaching. It serves successful singles who want a lasting partnership, including divorced and widowed people. The firm was founded in 1986 and has teams in 20 cities worldwide. Each client gets a team of three matchmakers: A market director, a relationship manager and a network developer. Members are screened through interviews, identity checks and background checks.
Kimmy Seltzer
Kimmy Seltzer is a dating and confidence coach for singles in Los Angeles. She is a former therapist who also works as a style coach and matchmaker. She helps high-achieving singles and later-life daters stop overthinking and feel sure of themselves in real-world settings. She has been on Inside Edition, ABC7 in Los Angeles and The Tamron Hall Show, and she runs a retreat for women and men who are dating again in their second act.
Lily Womble
Lily Womble is a feminist dating coach who helps late bloomers build a confident dating life. She is a former top matchmaker and runs Date Brazen. She has helped over 400 late bloomers move past shame and self-doubt. She hosts a podcast, wrote the book Thank You, More Please, and leads group programs that last 6 and 12 months.
May Hui
She introduces single men to vetted Asian women who want a serious relationship. She has matched people since 2009 and has over 17 years of experience. Her team has set up 5,061 first dates. She picks matches by hand instead of using algorithms, and she works with a partner network of 300+ singles.
Monica Marie Braun
Monica Marie Braun is a Christian relationship coach for single men and women. She founded Soul to Soul Coaching and created the Intentional Dating & Discernment Method, which is built on Catholic teaching and Ignatian spirituality. She also offers matchmaking and hosts speed dating events. She lives in Southeastern Wisconsin and taught English for 10 years.
Nelly Sudri
Nelly Sudri is a matchmaker and dating coach who works with high-value men and women. She left a sales manager job at a Fortune 500 CPG company in 2020 to coach full time. She is Head Matchmaker for the dating app Blush and hosts the High Value Dating podcast. She appeared on Roku's Match Me In Miami in 2023. Her clients include celebrities, c-suite executives and high-net worth people.
Rachel Greenwald
Rachel Greenwald is a matchmaker and dating coach who works with private clients across the United States and internationally. She is the CEO of Greenwald Executive Matchmaking and an author. She counts 908 marriages from her private clients and from readers of her books who sent her wedding photos. She has appeared on CNN, The Today Show, ABC Nightline and CBS Mornings. She offers matchmaking, coaching and strategy consultations.
Sarah Louise Ryan
Sarah Louise Ryan is a London based dating and relationship expert, psychotherapist and professional international matchmaker. She helps singles find love and helps couples rebuild their bond. She has worked in the dating space since 2011. She founded The Love Collective Global and is founding director of Tailor Matched matchmaking. She also consults for Match Group and appears on the BBC each week to talk about love and dating.
Shannon Lundgren
Shannon Lundgren is a San Francisco Bay Area matchmaker who helps high-achieving, highly educated singles find a long term partner. She runs Shannon's Circle, a boutique matchmaking firm. She graduated from Harvard Business School and began her career working for Warren Buffett. She spent decades in corporate life before moving into matchmaking. She draws on a network of over 8,000 single people in the Bay Area.
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.
Maria Avgitidis
Maria Avgitidis is a matchmaker and dating coach who helps singles find lasting relationships. She is a fourth-generation matchmaker and the CEO of Agape Match in New York. She also hosts the Ask a Matchmaker podcast. Her team learns each client's values, communication style, lifestyle and relationship patterns. Then the team vets and selects matches from a curated community. Agape Match also offers date coaching and online dating management.
Miriam Zeitlin
Miriam Zeitlin is a Jewish dating coach who helps first-time daters and people dating again after divorce or loss. She began as a shadchan, setting people up, then moved into coaching after seeing that daters needed more than an introduction. She holds several dating and life coaching certifications and is a certified kallah teacher. She has coached hundreds of clients and wrote the book Finding Forever: From First Date to Soulmate.
Olga Okunyeva
Olga Okunyeva is a dating coach and certified matchmaker in Ukraine. He helps singles and people struggling in relationships understand why past dating has not worked. He founded the Gaisteris matchmaking agency. Before coaching he worked in marketing and met people in science, academia, corporate, IT and creative fields. He uses tools like the five love languages, attachment types and emotional intelligence, and picks them for each client's request.
Rachel Russo
Rachel Russo is a dating and relationship coach and matchmaker who helps marriage-minded singles find and keep love. Before running her own company, she was Director of Matchmaking for several top NYC agencies. She is also a trained Marriage & Family Therapist, an author and a speaker. Her clients get coaching during the whole matchmaking process.
Renee Richel
Renee Richel is a Christian matchmaker and relationship coach who helps faith-minded singles find a lasting partner. She founded 1 True Match in 2010. The service works with clients around the world. Her team hand-picks each match and builds introductions around faith, values and compatibility. They keep supporting clients after a match is made. The practice also serves busy professionals who do not want to rely on dating apps.
Select Personal Introductions
Select Personal Introductions is a dating agency and coaching service in North West England. It matches single professionals with hand-picked introductions and offers dating and relationship coaching for singles, new couples and long-term couples. The agency has run for over 25 years. Its coaching is led by Alex Mellor-Brook, who is also Vice Chair of the ABIA. Clients get a private consultation, a personality-based compatibility test and honest feedback at each step.
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.
Lunch Actually
Lunch Actually is a dating agency in Singapore that offers dating and relationship coaching for singles and couples. Its coaches build tailored programs for each client. The programs draw on more than 150,000 first dates the agency has arranged, plus surveys on how singles and couples behave and academic papers. Clients can also get image coaching that covers style, wardrobe and personal branding.
Rachel Burnham
Rachel Burnham is a shidduch dating coach who helps marriage minded singles in the Orthodox and frum world. She also guides parents and friends who support singles. Rachel dated for 14 years, with hundreds of men and thousands of dates. She uses that experience to help clients with dating profiles, choosing dates, date prep, and the later stages of a relationship. Her aim is to give clients useful tips within one session.
Robyn Nind
Robyn Nind is a dating coach and matchmaker who runs Blue Label Life in Melbourne, Australia. She coaches single men who feel nervous around women, and she matches busy professional singles with partners for serious relationships. Robyn has a counselling and psychology background. The agency has introduced couples since 2005. It serves Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra and holds accreditation from the Professional Matchmakers Association.
Jack Cohen
Jack Cohen is a dating and marriage coach and Jewish matchmaker based in New York. He works with singles who want to date well and with couples who want a stronger marriage. He is an orthopaedic surgeon by profession and a student of Rabbi Avigdor Miller. He has spent over 20 years helping people with relationships. His work has been seen on the Netflix series Jewish Matchmaking.
Mia
Mia is a matchmaker and dating and relationship coach in Dubai. She runs Find Your Swan and helps high-achieving professionals find lasting partners. She has lived in Dubai for over nine years. Her business has matched over 200 couples and coached over 150 clients. Her database holds over 1000 members. She offers private matchmaking, date coaching, and dating profile makeovers.
Zaid and Hiba
Zaid and Hiba are a married couple who run Halal Match, a matchmaking service for single Muslims in the West. They started it after they married. Zaid spent nearly nine years searching for a spouse before that. They interviewed singles for a few years, then launched the podcast Diary of a Matchmaker in 2024. It has 99 episodes on matchmaking, marriage and nikah contracts. They also wrote The Compatibility Challenge.
Amy Van Doran
Amy Van Doran is a matchmaker and love coach. She founded Modern Love Club, a boutique agency that makes curated introductions and gives personal guidance on love. She has interviewed over 20,000 people about their love lives and works as a dating anthropologist. Her team serves New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, and Europe. The agency works with a select number of clients at a time.
Bela Gandhi
Bela Gandhi is a dating coach who leads Smart Dating Academy in Chicago. The academy helps accomplished women find lasting love through one-on-one coaching. It calls its coaches love strategists. They guide clients on dating mindset, online dating, and checking that a relationship is a good fit. The company has run for 15 years, and Bela has appeared on Today, ABC, Fox News, CNN and NBC.
Carey Gaynes
Carey Gaynes is a dating and relationship coach in Chicago. Carey helps single men and women learn to date with more confidence and understand the people they hope to attract. Carey worked as a matchmaker for many years before coaching. Carey also created the Coffee with Carey YouTube dating show, which began as a show for women over 50. Private clients come from Chicago and from cities across the country, including New York and L.A.
Dream Match Services
Dream Match Services is a Singapore matchmaking agency that also offers one-to-one dating coaching for men. The coaching helps men build confidence, improve communication and create a dating plan. The team also runs matchmaking, singles walking tours and social events, so the coaching draws on that work. It is built for Singapore's dating culture. Clients include busy professionals, expats and men returning to dating.
Gina Hendrix
She has matched people since 2008. Much of her work is for high-net-worth and high-profile men, and she also works with women who want to meet someone. She serves clients in Los Angeles and across the country. In 2012 she founded Models n' Mutts, a group of models who help animals in need.
Lauren Sanders
Lauren Sanders is a matchmaker and dating coach who founded The Love Crush Agency. She helps professional singles find a partner through matchmaking and dating coaching. The agency has run since 2019 and serves clients in all 50 states. Lauren has paired hundreds of singles, and many of those matches ended in marriage. She is also a multi-published Christian author who writes about love and relationships. The agency has a focus on matchmaking for Black professionals.
RizzWizz Toronto
RizzWizz Toronto is a dating coaching studio and singles circle for men in Toronto. It teaches confidence, conversation, presence and style to men of all ages who want a lasting partner. Clients get weekly private sessions, in-field practice days and a style audit. The studio also hosts curated singles dinners, mixers and hiking events across the GTA. It runs a separate track for men dating again after divorce.
Single in the City
Single in the City is a Toronto company that offers date coaching, matchmaking and singles events. Coach Laura Bilotta leads the date coaching and builds coaching packages around each client's needs. The company also runs speed dating nights in Ontario cities such as Toronto, Kitchener, Burlington, Oakville and Vaughan. Events are grouped by age range, and some are set up for professionals or the South Asian community. It also hosts singles hikes and trivia nights.
Tawkify
Tawkify is a matchmaking service for singles who want a relationship. A personal matchmaker meets each client one on one, then picks matches based on values and preferences. Matchmakers search a network of more than 3M singles. Tawkify plans each date and collects feedback after every meeting. Every match goes through a criminal record screening and a video screening. The service accepts only candidates it believes it can match.
Three Day Rule
Three Day Rule is a matchmaking company that also offers dating coaching to singles. Talia Goldstein is the founder. Each client gets a personal matchmaker and a coach. The team has over 50 dating and relationship experts. Matchmakers screen matches by goals, values and lifestyle. Recruiters search for singles in places like yoga classes and cocktail parties. The company works in many US cities, from Austin to Seattle.
Toi & Moi Matchmaking and Dating Coach
Toi & Moi is a boutique matchmaking and dating coaching service in New York City. It helps successful, busy professionals who want a deep and compatible partnership. The team blends matchmaking with coaching and draws on psychology, attachment theory and communication science. Clients can also join group coaching and community events. New clients can book a free 20-minute discovery call and join the matchmaking database of singles.
Lemarc Thomas
Lemarc Thomas is a matchmaker and dating coach in Stockholm, Sweden. Lemarc runs The Matchmaking Agency, which helps single people find a lasting partner. The agency mixes matchmaking with a science-based approach to love. Clients come from many countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Spain. The agency also offers dating and relationship coaching and an online course. A free matchmaking consultation is the first step for new clients.
Lovewell
Lovewell is a Los Angeles practice that offers dating, wellness and mindfulness coaching. Its dating coaching for men covers in-person dating and online dating. Coaches help with profile feedback, messaging and confidence. Lauren Korshak, a marriage and family therapist, founded the practice. The team is a group of wellness practitioners focused on mindful dating and relationships. Lovewell also runs therapy, group workshops and corporate sessions on stress and burnout.
Manchester Matchmaking
Manchester Matchmaking is a matchmaking and dating coaching practice for relationship-minded singles in Manchester, UK. The team searches for, screens and interviews matches before showing them to the client. Clients keep the final say, and there are no blind dates. The practice also offers one-on-one Self Discovery sessions that review past relationships, emotional readiness and expectations. Client information and photos stay private, and no online profiles are used.
Eiléen
Eiléen is a certified matchmaker and date coach who runs Dubai Matchmaker. She helps ambitious expat professionals in Dubai who want serious, lasting relationships. She screens and meets every match herself through a vetted network. Before matchmaking, she worked as a business consultant in personal branding and spent over 10 years as a global scout for an elite London and New York agency. She has lived in 9 major cities.
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.
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.
Michelle Jacoby
Michelle Jacoby is a matchmaker and dating coach who runs DC Matchmaking. She helps commitment-minded singles in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia meet the right partner. She founded the firm after a hard time dating in DC herself. Before that she worked in sales and PR. She offers one-on-one matchmaking, and she also coaches clients to build a custom dating action plan and become their own matchmaker.
Eddie Hernandez
Eddie Hernandez is a dating coach in San Francisco who works with men and women looking for relationships. He also serves the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, including introverts and engineers. He combines coaching with photography. He has over a decade of experience as an online dating photographer and takes natural, candid photos with a phone at custom locations like cafes, bars and art openings. He also reviews profiles on apps like Hinge and Bumble.
Anika Rashaun
Anika Rashaun is a professional matchmaker and dating coach who runs AskAnika. She helps men and women with online dating, first dates, and relationship problems. She offers a service where she manages your dating profiles, swipes for you, starts chats, and sets up dates. She also runs mock dates with feedback on conversation and body language. New clients start with a free 20 minute consult call.
Jean-eva Dickie
Jean-eva Dickie is a dating coach and matchmaker in Canada who helps single people find a romantic partner. Jean-eva began by introducing singles to one another, then moved into coaching when observing that an introduction alone often falls short. Jean-eva hosts The Book of Love podcast, which passed 100 episodes in January 2024. Jean-eva's team includes an in-house matchmaker and an event coordinator. Jean-eva also offers dating lessons on Patreon.
Mirabela Executive Dating
Mirabela Executive Dating is a matchmaking firm and date coaching service in Australia. It helps men and women improve their dating skills and find a partner. The team serves Sydney, Gold Coast and Melbourne. Coaches join clients on real dates and give live guidance on body language and conversation. After each outing, clients get feedback. The firm also offers personal styling and professional photography alongside coaching.
Suzanna Mathews
Suzanna Mathews is a relationship coach in Wichita, Kansas. She helps professional, growth-minded singles, both men and women, find love and social connection. She also lists life coaching and business coaching. Her training includes NLP Comprehensive, and she has a link to the Matchmaker's Alliance. She writes articles on first date manners, including how to use them in digital dating, and on finding love in a smaller city.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Jorgensen | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Beau Brummell Introductions | Matchmaking and LGBTQ dating | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Blaine Anderson | Dating for men and Online dating and apps | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Caryn Davis | Matchmaking and Texting and first dates | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Erika Ettin | Online dating and apps and Matchmaking | $90 to $160 an hour |
| Francesca Hogi | Dating for women and Matchmaking | $115 to $210 an hour |
| Frank Kermit | Dating for men and Couples and marriage | $100 to $170 an hour |
| Gillian McCallum | Matchmaking | $85 to $150 an hour |
| Holly McCusker | Attachment styles and Breakups and heartbreak | $90 to $230 an hour |
| James Preece | Dating for men and Dating for women | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Jasbina Ahluwalia | Matchmaking and Dating for men | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Julie Ferman | Matchmaking and Texting and first dates | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Katy Clark | Matchmaking and Texting and first dates | $110 to $250 an hour |
| Kelleher International | Matchmaking and Couples and marriage | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Kimmy Seltzer | Online dating and apps and Dating over 40 | $100 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a dating coach for matchmaking cost?
Most dating coaches charge $88 to $165 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include dating for men, online dating and apps, texting and first dates and couples and marriage.
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Last updated September 2026.