Dating coaches for texting and first dates
Compare 118 dating coaches who focus on texting and first dates. Besides texting and first dates, the most common focus areas are dating for men, approach anxiety and confidence, online dating and apps and dating for women. They most often work with men, women and professionals. Most charge $88 to $165 per hour or session.
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Brandon Dawkins
Brandon Dawkins is a certified dating coach who helps driven professionals with confidence, conversation and finding a partner. He came to coaching after a career in finance and product management and a layoff. He worked at Spotify and has coached more than 60 dating clients.
Coach Nav
Coach Nav is a dating coach who helps men meet and connect with women. She teaches cold approach, conversation and getting dates. She has 11 years of approaching experience and 8 years of coaching hundreds of men. She worked as a coach for two of the biggest dating companies in the world and became their highest-ranked coach. She has coached men in 25+ cities, including London, Dubai, Miami, Prague and Vegas.
Alex León
Alex León is an Austrian dating coach for men. Alex helps shy, analytical men learn to approach women in real life and turn conversations into dates. Alex built the L.E.O.N. system and has used it with 500+ men. Alex's clients come from 22 countries. Alex also coaches with The Natural Lifestyles. Most of Alex's clients work in tech, finance, engineering or consulting.
Alex Social
Alex Social is a dating and pickup coach who trains men in real social settings. Alex leads live bootcamp immersions in cities around the world. Students approach women in bars, clubs, parks and cafe districts with a coach at their side. Alex has coached students in the field 45 weekends a year since 2007. More than 600 men have joined Alex's immersions since 2015. The programs also cover dating apps and personal feedback.
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.
Carol Fulwiler Jones
Carol Fulwiler Jones is a dating and relationship coach for men and women over 40 in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked as a licensed couples therapist for over 35 years. She holds a Master's degree in Counseling and is also a sex therapist. She now offers the methods she used in her private practice as coaching. She helps clients meet, attract and date people who are right for them.
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.
Craft of Charisma
Craft of Charisma is a dating coaching company for men. It teaches men to meet and connect with women, in person and online. Chris Luna leads the company. It has been in business for 18 years and has taught 574 workshops. Programs run in many US and Canadian cities, and include an 8 week dating bootcamp. Its coaching uses the D.A.T.E. model, which covers moving relationships forward and consent.
Daniel Jacob
Daniel Jacob is a men's dating coach and the founder of Everlasting Confidence. He helps successful single men build real self-confidence and meet high-quality women. He started the Accelerator Program in 2018 and has worked with over 250 men. The program is fully customized. It includes mindset training and live practice calls with female models, where Daniel reviews body language, eye contact, tone of voice and word choice.
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.
Harry Wilmington
Harry Wilmington is a men's dating coach. She helps men with approaching women, texting, online dating, and confidence. She has coached hundreds of men and builds action plans for their dating lives. She runs the Get Girls Academy membership community and hosts a podcast and a show. She also draws on her own experience as a dater and an introvert when she coaches.
Jessica J
Jessica J is a dating coach who helps men with dating, sex and self-confidence. She uses Solution-Focused Therapy principles in her work. She started out training as a marriage and family therapist in Hollywood, then became the resident dating coach and host of the Playboy Radio show The Couch. She was featured on Nightline as one of America's Most Desirable Daters. She also runs an award-winning YouTube channel and offers a free strategy session.
Johnny Cassell
Johnny Cassell is a London dating coach who works with men on dating, attraction and long-term partnership. He has coached since 2005 and has worked with over 2,000 men. He has been featured on BBC, Sky News and The Times. He wrote the bestselling book Elite Seduction. He teaches in real settings with one-to-one training, and also coaches men online around the world.
Julia Malakiman
Julia Malakiman is a dating coach for men in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. She helps shy, analytical men and engineers get better at meeting and connecting with women. All practice happens in person, in real venues like cafes, bars and mixers. She has coached more than 500 men. She hosts The Date Worthy Man podcast and runs Bay Area Dating Cure events. She acts as a wing woman and gives feedback in the moment.
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.
Kelsey Wonderlin
Kelsey Wonderlin is a dating coach for women. She is also a licensed therapist. She helps women build confidence, attract quality men, and feel secure in a new relationship. She has coached 4,000+ women and built a system from her own struggles with dating. Her advice has been featured in the NY Times, TIME, NBC and Cosmopolitan. She also shares daily tips with a following of 179K+ on social media.
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.
Moon
Moon is a dating coach for men who want personal growth. He helps clients with dating, social skills, self esteem, and healthy habits. Moon spent 14 years in education, working as an academic coordinator, ESL teacher, auto tech instructor, and learning and development consultant. He holds a master's degree in leadership studies, which led him to coaching. He coaches in person in San Diego and by video worldwide. He also hosts a free men's meetup in San Diego.
Nick Notas
Nick Notas is a Boston dating coach who helps men build real confidence and attract great women. He has coached for many years and has worked with thousands of men in 37 countries. His work covers social anxiety, flirting, and the psychology of attraction. He was featured on DatingNews. He also writes articles and offers a 5-step email course on building attraction on dates.
Nicole
Nicole is a dating, love, and relationship coach based in Vancouver. He helps women who keep attracting emotionally unavailable men. He has coached for 15 years and has worked with hundreds of women around the world. His coaching uses the R.E.A.L. Love Method. It helps clients spot unhealthy dating patterns, state their needs with confidence, and build committed relationships. He also runs a separate coaching track for men.
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.
St. Robert
St. Robert is a dating and daygame coach who teaches men to approach and chat up women in everyday places like streets, cafes, malls and gyms. St. has coached men for eight years, in person and online, in cities across North America, Europe and Latin America. St. teaches a technical, step-by-step system and avoids copy and paste lines. St. also hosts a podcast with more than 150 episodes and has business and team coaching training.
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.
Alyssa Dineen
Alyssa Dineen is a dating coach and profile strategist in New York City. He helps adults in their forties and beyond date with more ease and safety on the apps. He built the Date Vanilla framework, which focuses on choosing steady, kind partners over flashy profiles. He also works as a stylist and hosts The Dating Lab podcast. His clients can get a full profile overhaul, ongoing coaching, or a self-paced course.
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.
Anthony Hustle
Anthony Hustle is a dating coach who teaches men a step-by-step process for meeting women by day and taking a date to sex. She calls it the Straight Line Seduction System. She has written eight books, films her approaches, and runs a podcast. In one London summer she taught four men, and they logged 37 same-day lays and 74 dates that ended in sex. She takes two private students a year.
Cold Approach
Cold Approach is a dating coaching practice for men. It teaches men to meet women in person and through dating apps. The team has five coaches and has coached hundreds of students. It runs in-person bootcamps in US cities and offers 1-on-1 online coaching. It also does done-for-you work like photos, profile rewrites, and texting help. The co-founder has coached men for more than half a decade.
Connell Barrett
Connell Barrett is a New York City dating coach who works with men. He helps them build confidence, flirt with ease, and meet women they want to date. His goal for clients is a girlfriend in 90 days or less. He hosts the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast and has appeared on Good Morning America. He teaches an approach he calls Radically Authentic, and he avoids pickup tricks.
Diane Brandon Moody
Diane Brandon Moody is a dating and relationship coach for women over 50. She runs Fiftysomething Love and hosts a podcast of the same name. She got married for the first time at age 58, and she teaches what she learned the hard way. Her method starts with calming the nervous system. Then she works on feminine energy. Last come the dating tactics, like writing the ad, going on dates and reading what is in front of you.
Elia Canu
Elia Canu is a dating coach who helps busy men in tech find a partner and start a family. She runs Ideal Partner with coach Nela. The program uses a weekly plug and play system built for tech professionals. Elia has coached tech men for 5+ years. Her clients include software engineers and product managers. Support covers dating profiles, Instagram profiles, messaging, and date practice.
Elizabeth K
Elizabeth K is a relationship, dating and life coach based in Italy. She helps singles, dating app users and people going through life changes. She has taught English for over 10 years and holds a double degree in Law and Commerce. That gave her a close view of what modern dating is like. She coaches on profiles, messaging, communication and confidence.
Hayley Quinn
Hayley Quinn is a UK-based dating coach who helps men and women meet partners in real life. She has coached for over 15 years and has worked with thousands of clients around the world. She runs in-person dating bootcamps in London and online programmes for men and women. Her bootcamps have been covered by Cosmopolitan and The Independent. She also offers private one-to-one coaching.
Julia Malakiman
Julia Malakiman is a dating coach for men in Silicon Valley. She works with shy, analytical men and engineers who want to get better at meeting and connecting with women. She has coached more than 500 men. All of her practice happens in person, in real venues like cafes, bars and mixers, where she acts as a wing woman and gives live feedback.
Laurel House
Laurel House is a dating and relationship coach in Los Angeles who works with men and women. She is known as a celebrity dating coach and has hosted Date My Wife on E! and Esquire. She also hosts the Man Whisperer podcast. Her work turns confusing mixed signals into clear steps. She teaches a framework called PrioriDating and starts every client with a private assessment called the Relationship Blueprint.
Max
Max is an online dating coach based in New York City who runs Match Up Online Dating Coaching. Max helps clients pick the right apps, build strong profiles and message their matches. Max started at Coffee Meets Bagel in San Francisco, where Max helped thousands of users improve their profiles. Max has spent 5 years learning every major dating app and has coached hundreds of clients. Clients in the New York City area can also get photos shot by Max.
Mike Ke
Mike Ke is a dating and confidence coach for men in STEM and Asian and minority men. He is a former engineer and has coached full time in Las Vegas since 2012. He has taught more than 1,200 students. He runs weekly bootcamps and a 12 week mentoring program that meets in person and online. His clients work in science, tech, engineering, medicine and business.
Ruby
Ruby is a dating coach who helps good-hearted men get quality dates and find lasting love. Ruby runs Good Gentleman and has almost a decade of experience as a private dating coach. Ruby has also worked with It's Just Lunch and eHarmony. Ruby gave a TEDx talk on why getting the right date is so hard. Ruby also hosts meetups for men in Southern California and runs a free support community.
Stephen Manas
Stephen Manas is a coach who works with actors on their careers and with dating clients on confidence and self-presentation. He is also an international actor, best known for his work on Ted Lasso. He has lived and worked in Europe, the US and Asia, and he once worked at Apple. His coaching grew from years of giving advice to friends and fellow actors. It later became a private practice with one-on-one and group work.
Susan Edelman
Susan Edelman is a dating expert and board-certified psychiatrist who helps single women over 40 with love and dating. She has worked in private practice in Palo Alto, California for more than 35 years. She teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine and wrote the book Be Your Own Brand of Sexy, which won 14 book awards. She offers private consultations and a dating quiz that gives each woman a custom video.
The Asian Dating Coach
The Asian Dating Coach helps single Asian and South Asian men date with confidence, in person or online. The coach works on mindset, self-confidence, anxiety, grooming and style, body language, first dates, dating apps and texting. Clients include software engineers, doctors, cybersecurity consultants and a few lawyers. The coach was a shy man who was never encouraged to date, and teaches the lessons learned from that path. Local coaching is offered in Austin, Texas.
Vee Mindful
Vee Mindful is a modern dating strategist who coaches mature singles over 40 and over 50 who want a real, lasting partner. Vee has more than 16 years of coaching experience. After a long marriage ended, Vee went on over 200 dates and spent 10 years studying the psychology of attraction and commitment. Vee created the From Situationship to Soulmate program and teaches a vetted protocol for choosing a partner.
Date Him Honey
Date Him Honey is a dating coaching practice for women who want lasting love and struggle with anxious attachment. The coach is a licensed trauma therapist and somatic dating coach with 12+ years in the work. More than 900 women have received support. The focus is on resetting old dating patterns in the nervous system so clients stop chasing unavailable men and start choosing men who show up. Offers include a 6-Step Secure Method, 1:1 coaching, and a 12-week group program.
Ed
Ed is a dating coach in London who teaches men to approach women during the daytime. This style is called daygame. Ed works with beginners, including men who deal with mild to severe social anxiety and find it hard to start conversations. Most sessions happen in central London, in a spot the client picks. Ed also coaches men from outside the UK, either at Ed's location or in the client's country. Ed runs an online video course as well.
Ed Bell
Ed Bell is a certified dating and relationship coach who works with gay, bi and queer men. Ed runs Better Gay Dating and hosts a podcast on the topic. Ed's focus is helping men get past the blocks that stop them from finding real love and connection. Ed teaches practical tools for apps and meeting people in person. Ed also works on self-worth and dating-related shame. Ed describes Ed's style as part empathetic friend and part no-nonsense therapist.
Joshua Morris
Joshua Morris is a communication and confidence coach for adults who want to feel calmer in conversations, dating, friendships and daily social situations. He also works with single men building dating confidence. He built his own skills through real-world conversation practice, improv, public speaking and solo travel. Sessions run online by Zoom. He teaches genuine conversation, social awareness, consent and handling rejection, and he does not teach manipulation.
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.
Alex Ray
Alex Ray is a sex and relationship coach who helps LGBTQ+ individuals and couples build confidence in dating and intimacy. Alex works with clients on anxiety, communication, kink exploration and deeper connection. Sessions are available in San Diego and online. Alex hosts two podcasts, The Queer Confidence Podcast and the Kink Curious Podcast. Clients include neurodivergent people, couples and performers. Alex also offers workshops and an Intimacy Type quiz.
Andrew Gung
Andrew Gung runs Core Confidence, a men's dating coaching practice in Australia. The team helps men overcome approach anxiety, improve their online dating profiles and build confidence with women. Coaching started in 2018 and has reached more than 700 men. Sessions run in person in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide, or online. A consulting psychologist works alongside the coaches.
Brock Olsen
Brock Olsen is a dating coach based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He helps men and women handle modern dating and current relationship problems. He hosts the Dating Today podcast and appears in a radio segment. He also runs Singles Connect, a free private Facebook group where he leads talks on personal growth and sets up local outings. He offers one-on-one coaching, workshops and retreats, and coaches clients around the world.
Denzel Jones
Denzel Jones is a dating coach who helps men get better with women. He works in the field, which means he coaches in real dating settings. He is also a School of Attraction coach based in Sydney, Australia. He has been featured on Sydney radio to talk about Tinder. He hosts The On-Call Wingman Show, a podcast with 25 episodes. He offers coaching by Skype and an advice line for men around the world.
Mia
Mia is a matchmaker and dating and relationship coach in Dubai who runs Find Your Swan. She helps high-achieving professionals find a lasting partner. She has lived in Dubai for over nine years and knows its dating scene well. Her business has matched 200+ couples and coached 150+ clients. Her database has 1000+ members. She offers private matchmaking, date coaching, dating profile makeovers, and events.
Social Coach
Social Coach is a dating coaching team for men over 35. The team has 5 men and 13 women. They have helped men meet, attract and date women since 2006. Clients practice in hands-on drills with female trainers, then go out and try the skills in real life. James, a former financial analyst, started the practice after learning to date later in life. The team works with hundreds of men one-on-one and in bootcamps.
Thomas Crown
Thomas Crown is a daygame and dating coach who helps men get better at approaching women during the day. He started daygame in October 2016 and now runs regular weekend bootcamps in London. He coaches in person in the UK and Europe, and online worldwide. He has also written books on daygame and texting, including a beginner's guide, and hosts a podcast.
Alina Rae
Alina Rae is a female dating coach who helps men with texting and flirting. She has read thousands of conversations between men and the women they liked, and she uses the patterns she saw to teach better messages. She wrote The Art of Texting Women, an 85-page book with 50 ready-to-use texting examples. She also shares advice with men on Instagram, where she has 16.9K followers.
Amy North
Amy North is a dating and relationship coach and best-selling author in Vancouver, Canada. She helps women from around the world find and keep a partner. She created two online programs, Text Chemistry and The Devotion System. Together they have sold 100,000 copies. Her blog covers texting, attraction, commitment and how men fall in love. Her work centers on women's dating.
Andrew Gung
Andrew Gung runs Core Confidence Coaching in Melbourne, Australia. He coaches shy and introverted men and women on social and dating confidence. He hosts the Dating in the Digital Age podcast, which has 39 episodes on social life, dating, sex and relationships. He and his team also built Spark, an AI dating coach that helps men with text conversations, dating app bios and photo ranking.
Anna
Anna is a dating coach for men in Miami who runs The Daily Flirt. She helps men improve their style, grooming, dating profiles, social media and dating strategy. The goal is to attract the women they want and turn those connections into real dates and relationships. Anna offers a 1x1 VIP program, a Skool community with weekly calls and challenges, and five free guides on approaching, texting and ghosting.
Anna Elizabeth
Anna Elizabeth is a relationship and dating coach who also works as a life coach. She has coached for 10 years. She helps clients present themselves better on dates, get better results, and find the right people. She builds their self esteem first, then helps them keep those relationships strong. She has studied psychology, though she is not a therapist. Some of her clients are high level individuals, and she has signed NDAs for a few of them.
Ariella Serur
Ariella Serur is a dating coach who helps queer, trans and non-binary people date better. They run Queer Dating Coach and use the pronouns they/Ariella. Before coaching, Ariella studied musical theatre and set out to go on a date for every audition to get past a fear of rejection. That habit taught them to ask people out and to keep moving through nerves. Ariella now offers select sessions through a waitlist.
Austen Summers
Austen Summers is a dating coach for men. He helps clients cut the anxiety that holds them back and build a real dating life. He offers three main paths: An 8-week online mentorship, a 7-day live immersion, and a self-paced online course with 240+ lessons. His work covers in-person approaches and texting. Clients get video analysis of their live approaches and their text conversations, plus a personal action plan.
Beck Thompson
Beck Thompson is a dating and relationship coach in Australia. She helps singles and couples over 40 and 50 find lasting love. She is an award-winning coach and an international bestselling author. She hosts The Relationship Circle podcast, which began in 2023 and has 66 episodes. Each week she covers topics from first dates to long-term relationships, and she brings in other coaches and experts as guests. She also runs a free Facebook community.
Christian Hudson
Christian Hudson is a dating coach for men and the founder of The Social Man. She wrote the Girlfriend Activation System. Her brand is based in Austin, Texas. The Social Man publishes articles and videos on meeting women, starting conversations, texting, and handling rejection. Members can join a VIP Texting Club. One post describes how she was bad with women early on and could not stay in a relationship past a month.
Corey Wayne
Corey Wayne is a dating and relationship coach who helps men with attraction, getting a girlfriend, and winning back an ex. She also offers life and peak performance coaching. She coaches by phone and video sessions. Her men's dating YouTube channel has 624K subscribers. She publishes articles, a newsletter, free eBooks and an audio course on pickup, dating and relationships.
Dan Bacon
Dan Bacon is a dating coach who helps men attract women. He runs Master Attraction, an online membership where men learn new non-physical attractive traits every month. Members get video lessons, a community, live Q&A with Dan, and a library of 124 traits. He also offers phone coaching. His teaching centers on what triggers attraction in women and the mistakes that turn women off.
Dawson Skow
Dawson Skow is a life coach in College Station, Texas. He coaches on dating, relationships, marriage and conflict. He founded Dawson Skow Life Coaching. He runs a program for married couples who want to work through conflict and rebuild peace and closeness. He is a native Texan and a Texas A&M graduate from the class of 2000. He also coaches on confidence, communication and healthy dating habits.
Desi Dating Coach
Desi Dating Coach helps South Asian, Asian, Latino, Black and Arab men build confidence, hold better conversations and meet women. The coaching covers cold approach, attraction and online dating. Sessions run in person in NYC, LA, Vegas and Florida, and online from anywhere. Clients get live approach feedback and help with Hinge, Bumble and Tinder profiles. The program also includes weekly coaching and a client community for accountability.
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.
Gloria
Gloria is a dating coach and image consultant in Washington, DC. She runs Dating Decoded and helps professional singles in the DC area build real connections. She coaches dating skills and dating strategy. She also offers mock dates at a local cafe or bar, where a client practices with her or an actor. Her services include wardrobe audits, personal shopping and makeovers. She coaches one-on-one or as a couple.
Lovewell
Lovewell is a practice that offers online dating coaching for men. Coaches help clients build confidence, improve online dating profiles and messaging, and prepare for first dates. Sessions mix mindfulness, self-reflection and practical tools. Lovewell also runs therapy, wellness coaching and mindfulness coaching under one team, and offers a free 15 minute consult call. Many clients are men who struggle with dating and with keeping a relationship going.
Marni Kinrys
Marni Kinrys is a dating coach who helps men meet and attract women. She runs the Wing Girl Method, a dating advice brand with a team of wing girls in the USA. Her YouTube channel has 1.46M subscribers. She teaches how to flirt, how to approach women, how to talk to women, and how to avoid the friend zone. She also offers home study courses, including the F-Formula, plus coaching and a podcast.
Michael Lee
Michael Lee is a communication and relationship coach who helps people with dating, friendship and work. He holds two master's degrees, one in Behavioral Science and one in Interpersonal Communication. He was once very shy and afraid to approach women. He tested what he studied in more than 3,000 real conversations and reviewed what worked and what did not. He teaches a program called The Connection Science Intensive.
Richard La Ruina
Richard La Ruina is a dating coach for men based in London, UK. He founded PUA Training in 2007 after overcoming his own shyness. The company teaches men how to build self confidence and get better with women. It offers written guides, boot camps and methods, and says thousands of men worldwide have used them. He also created the video game Super Seducer. His content covers attraction, text game and first dates.
Sharon Lamar
Sharon Lamar is a faith-based dating and life coach for single women, mostly LDS and Christian. She helps them enjoy dating and choose a husband. She is a certified life coach and an AACC Mental Health Coach. She hosts The Single LDS Woman podcast. She did not marry until she was 52, so she knows the challenges of being single later in life. She teaches simple mindset tools for dating with clarity and confidence.
SyberSue
SyberSue is a dating and relationship life coach who helps men and women with dating, breakups and love. SyberSue also writes as the advice columnist Dear Sybersue. SyberSue shares videos and posts on topics like staying friends with an ex, dating after heartbreak, texting and dating checklists. SyberSue offers online dating advice for women over 40 and has a breakup coaching page.
TextingPrince
TextingPrince is a dating and texting coach for men. The focus is helping men text women in a way that builds attraction and turns chats into real dates. The brand runs a dating blog, a podcast hosted by Adam Jordan, and a free eBook on 15 texting mistakes that more than 10,000 men have downloaded. It also offers courses, a VIP bundle, a 5-week seminar, and coaching.
The Legends Academy
The Legends Academy is a dating and confidence coaching practice for men, based in Melbourne, Australia. It teaches men how to meet women, handle rejection, and get better results with texting and online dating. It runs live in-person weekend workshops in Brisbane and also offers an online only program and private coaching. Its founder wrote The Natural Attraction Blueprint, a dating book that is also an audiobook.
Wan Ting
Wan Ting is a dating coach for men in Singapore. She founded portmanteau and works with men who want to find a life partner. She is a trained ICF coach and a certified image consultant. Before coaching, she worked in HR and recruiting. Her sessions are private and honest. She gives feedback and practice on profiles, first dates, communication and confidence. She does not teach pickup lines or games.
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.
Carlos Xuma
Carlos Xuma is a dating coach and author who gives dating advice to men. He teaches guys how to get a girlfriend and how to attract women. His content covers mistakes that kill attraction, having a clear reason when approaching a woman, and breaking the touch barrier. He shares his tips through videos, articles and a newsletter.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Dawkins | Approach anxiety and confidence and Online dating and apps | $75 to $145 an hour |
| Coach Nav | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Alex León | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Alex Social | Dating for men and Online dating and apps | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Alison Verge | Dating over 40 and Online dating and apps | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Carol Fulwiler Jones | Dating over 40 and Couples and marriage | $100 to $225 an hour |
| Cora Boyd | Dating for men and Dating for women | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Craft of Charisma | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Daniel Jacob | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Eddie Hernandez | Dating for men and Dating for women | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Harry Wilmington | Dating for men and Online dating and apps | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Jessica J | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Johnny Cassell | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Julia Malakiman | Dating for men and Approach anxiety and confidence | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Julie Ferman | Matchmaking and Texting and first dates | $80 to $130 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a dating coach for texting and first dates cost?
Most dating coaches charge $88 to $165 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include dating for men, approach anxiety and confidence, online dating and apps and dating for women.
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Last updated September 2026.