Certified health coaches
1,039 health coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 66% of all health coaches. Certified health coaches charge $90 to $175 an hour.
Key numbers
- 1,039 health coaches list a credential (66% of health coaches).
- 64 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
- Certified health coaches: $90 to $175 an hour.
- Health coaches with no credential: $70 to $140 an hour.
Credentials health coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 912 |
| Graduate degree | 63 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 61 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 3 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified Life Coach | 47 |
| Certified life coach | 39 |
| Certified Health Coach | 20 |
| Certified Professional Coach | 15 |
| Certified Professional Life Coach | 13 |
| PhD | 13 |
| CTA Certified Life Coach | 13 |
| NLP Practitioner | 13 |
| Certified Hypnotherapist | 12 |
| ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) | 12 |
What certified health coaches charge
| Group | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Credential listed | $90 to $175 |
| No credential listed | $70 to $140 |
Certified health coaches to compare
Alex Ross
Alex Ross is an insomnia recovery coach who helps people with chronic insomnia. Alex is a Certified Sleep Coach trained at The Sleep Coach School. Alex lived with chronic insomnia for years and built the coaching around that recovery. The work focuses on fear, pressure and sleep monitoring, not on more sleep hacks. Clients can start with a free four-lesson course or an eight-week private program.
Ali Novitsky
Ali Novitsky, MD, coaches women physicians on their health, stress and strength. Ali is a physician triple board-certified in pediatrics, neonatology and obesity medicine, and a Master Certified Coach. Ali founded The FIT Collective, a coaching, strength and continuing medical education company. Over ten years, it has worked with 3,000 women physicians. The company is a directly accredited ACCME provider, so doctors can earn required CME credit while getting support for their own health.
Alison Smith
Alison Smith is a burnout and resilience coach for teachers, instructional coaches, and education leaders. She taught 4th grade before leaving the classroom in her first five years. She then spent 10 years doing professional development for teachers and holding thousands of conversations with educators. She founded A Teacher's Best Friend to support teachers with stress, overwhelm, and the emotional side of the job. She is based in Arizona.
Allysha Maragh-Bass
Allysha Maragh-Bass is a leadership and wellness coach for high achievers who feel run down. Allysha is a board-certified wellness coach trained at Emory and a behavioral scientist with a Johns Hopkins PhD. Allysha is also a former Harvard Medical School Fellow. Allysha's work covers burnout, time and energy, nutrition, movement, boundaries and conflict. Allysha's clients have lost hundreds of pounds, reversed prediabetes and prehypertension, and managed chronic conditions. Many also got promoted or funded.
Aly Mang
She coaches women on nutrition, weight loss, energy, digestion and healthy habits. She works from Hoboken, NJ and NYC. Her client work covers pageant contestants, brides and first-time marathon runners. One pageant client she coached won Best in Swimsuit at Miss New York USA 2018. She also offers spirituality coaching and mindfulness meditation.
Alyssa Downey
Alyssa Downey is a certified wellness coach who helps women through grief. She works with loss from a death, the end of a relationship, a change in health, or the loss of a career or identity. Before she focused on grief, she spent years coaching women in midlife and menopause. She holds certifications as a life coach, menopause doula and DPP lifestyle coach. She offers a free 30 minute consultation before you start.
Amanda Dinsmore
Amanda Dinsmore is a physician wellness coach who helps doctors recover from burnout. She is an MD and runs The Whole Physician. Her Wellness 911 program is built for the reality of shift work, call, cognitive overload and emotional labor. Clients get twice monthly coaching calls with a physician coach and monthly masterclasses with other physicians. The program follows a 5-step framework and aims to help doctors feel better within 30 days.
Amanda Johnston
Amanda Johnston is a health, life and career coach in Suwanee, Georgia. She runs Tealonics and calls herself a metaphysical health coach. She has an M.S. in Psychology and more than 20 years in human resources. She mixes chakra clearing, applied numerology and positive psychology to help clients clear stuck patterns, find purpose and restart their lives. She also helps clients land a new job and reach health goals.
Amruti Borad
Amruti Borad is a physician coach who works with doctors and medical students. She is a Family Medicine Physician with a coaching certification. She has served as a Clinic Medical Director, Department Wellness Director and Department COVID-19 Lead Physician. She coaches on burnout, career transitions and practicing medicine with fulfillment. She is also a TEDx speaker, wellness blogger and event organizer. Sessions are one-on-one, by video or in writing, through Vorcis Physician Coaching.
Amruti Choudhry
Dr Amruti Choudhry is a life and weight loss coach who helps professionals lose weight for good. He is also a physician in London. He teaches clients to manage their minds so they stop relying on willpower. He lost 42kg himself and has kept it off. He offers one-on-one coaching, women's and men's group coaching, and a course called MIL. He also runs a podcast and a free guide on overeating during festivals.
Amy Corey
Amy Corey is a Christ-centered health coach in Maine. She helps busy moms with energy, weight and gut health problems. She also works with people facing brain fog, chronic fatigue and autoimmune issues, including Lyme. She is a certified integrative nutrition health coach. Her 12-week group program mixes gut health, nutrition, mindset, movement and gratitude with a biblical focus. She also offers gut health focused wellness supplements alongside her coaching.
Amy Kuretsky
Amy Kuretsky is a breathwork facilitator and health coach who helps small business owners with stress, anxiety and their overall health. She is also a licensed acupuncturist in Minnesota and co-owns Constellation Acupuncture and Healing Arts in Minneapolis. She has spent over a decade coaching solo business owners and has led in-person breathwork groups across the US. Her work links physical and emotional health to how a business runs.
Andrea Anderson
She helps people with pain and inflammation improve their food and lifestyle choices so they can regain their health. Her work began after her own breast cancer diagnosis, which she faced while pregnant. She teaches food as medicine through four pillars: Real foods, lifestyle choices, detoxing and mindset. She runs Nutrition Commission, LLC, and offers one-on-one coaching, meal plans and nutrition education.
Andrea Caprio
Andrea Caprio is a nutrition coach who helps people stop emotional eating and lose weight. She founded Wellness Methods and created the Food Freedom Formula. The method is built for busy people with cravings who want to lose 20 pounds or more without big changes to their diets or workouts. She holds a Master Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach credential and offers a free workshop, a 10 day reset and one-on-one coaching.
Angie Gross
Angie Gross is a certified life and weight loss coach who helps military service members pass height, weight, and PT tests. She also works full time for the military. She lost 65 lbs twice using life coaching tools and has kept the weight off. Her work focuses on mindset instead of strict diets or extreme exercise. She works with clients who want to lose anywhere from 20 to 100 lbs and have more energy.
Anna Javellana
Anna Javellana is a work, health and life balance coach for career driven property managers. He runs Addicted to Busy. Anna worked his way from leasing consultant to property manager in four years and won two MHA MADACS awards. He also served as an Executive Counselor for the Minnesota IREM Chapter. He left property management to coach after his own struggle with burnout and overwork. He also offers a time blocking course for property managers.
Anna Lavenhar
Anna Lavenhar is a life and health coach in Parker, Colorado. She helps high-performing women in the tech industry deal with stress and anxiety, rebuild their energy, and improve their well-being. Anna spent over 25 years in corporate business and management, including the technology sector. She holds certifications in both life coaching and health coaching. Her work centers on long-term habit change, clear goals, and personal wellness plans.
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams is a health coach, life coach, nutritionist and personal trainer based in Dallas. He helps clients build new habits and make changes that last. He works as an interpreter and advocate for people who deal with a medical system that has little time to listen or explain treatment plans. He trains competitors as well as people who want a healthier lifestyle and a change in body composition. Coaching starts with a 1:1 call.
Anya Hricko
Anya Hricko is a somatic and embodiment coach in Connecticut who helps people calm their nervous system and feel more at home in their bodies. She holds a doctorate in Somatic Psychology and is a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She has more than 35 years in mind-body healing. She also holds a certification as a Highly Sensitive Person coach. Sessions are offered as coaching, not psychotherapy, and are held online.
April Likins
April Likins is a board certified health coach and stress management coach in Virginia. She helps ambitious professionals recover from exhaustion and burnout without giving up their careers. She trained at Duke Integrative Medicine and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She also holds a HeartMath certification for stress and emotional regulation. She has recovered from burnout herself, and her writing has appeared in Better Humans and Authority Magazine.
April Neufeld
April Neufeld is a stress and trauma recovery coach who helps people with burnout, chronic stress and anxiety. She uses somatic and mindfulness methods that focus on the body and nervous system. She worked 20 years in the tech industry before she became a coach. She burned out there and recovered through somatic practice. She runs her practice under the name A to Zen and offers one-on-one, group and community programs.
Archana Shrestha
Archana Shrestha is a physician and weight loss coach who helps busy physician moms lose weight and stop stress eating. She is an emergency physician who lived through what she calls double burnout, from work and from parenting. She lost weight herself by changing how she handled stress and emotional eating. She teaches a free 45 minute mini course that shows doctors how to end the dieting cycle without counting calories.
Ash Rotonto
Ash Rotonto is an intuitive eating and body image coach who also works with people facing disordered eating. Ash is an art therapist with an anti-diet view of food and bodies. Clients include chronic dieters, yo-yo dieters and emotional eaters. Ash coaches online across the U.S. and in person in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sessions can use non-clinical art therapy tools, and the practice runs under the name Not A Before Coaching.
Belinda Norton-Smith
Belinda Norton-Smith is a bioenergetic educator and fitness trainer who works with women and parents on health, habits, and family routines. She has 26 years in the wellness field and has written nine books, including Fit Mama. She writes on fitness for Wellbeing Magazine and presents on Wellbeing TV. She created The Humanness Method, a skill-based program on body function, routines, and lifelong habits. She also offers one-on-one sessions and parenting support.
Betty McLean
Betty McLean is a certified life and burnout coach who helps nurses manage stress and recover from burnout. She is a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and years of healthcare work behind her. She lived through burnout herself before she became a coach. Her work is built for nurses who want to stay in their careers, including those on night shifts and 12-hour days.
Brandice
Brandice runs Grace Filled Plate. He is a personal trainer and nutrition coach who helps Christian women find peace with food. He has coached hundreds of women over 10 years. He wrote a Bible-based book on binge eating and hosts the Grace Filled Food Freedom podcast. His own decade of all-or-nothing eating shaped his approach, which puts faith and grace ahead of diet rules.
Brittany Kolb
Brittany Kolb is a certified life and weight loss coach for women in advanced healthcare roles and busy moms. She is a nurse anesthetist (CRNA) with more than 9 years of anesthesia experience. She lost weight herself without surgery or medication. Her program, Weight Loss By Brittany, mixes group and one-on-one coaching. It covers emotional triggers around eating, easy movement, and family-friendly recipes. She also hosts a podcast for CRNA moms.
Brock Bumgarner
Brock Bumgarner is a burnout and mental performance coach who helps sales professionals, business professionals and athletes. He holds a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and is trained in sport and performance psychology. Over the past 5 years he worked as a corporate wellness coach with four Fortune 100 companies. He uses neuroscience-based tools and guided meditations to build confidence, focus and burnout resilience. His work is coaching, not therapy.
Caitlin Clarke
Caitlin Clarke is a somatic coach who works with highly sensitive, ambitious women. She helps clients ease stress and overwhelm, understand what holds them back, and find purpose in their work. She has coached individuals and groups for a decade. Before coaching, she was the brand director for a global startup and spent 15 years in creative marketing in San Francisco. Her trauma-informed style draws on mindfulness, applied neuroscience and Buddhist principles.
Candace Alley
Candace Alley is a recovery and trauma coach who helps women overcome addiction and work through the trauma behind it. She has coached over 300 women, including survivors of complex PTSD. She is also an addictions counselor and the founder of Addictions Training Academy, which trains addiction professionals. Candace is in long-term recovery herself. She coaches online with English-speaking clients around the world.
Common questions
How many health coaches are certified?
66% of health coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
Do certified health coaches charge more?
Certified health coaches charge $90 to $175 an hour, compared with $70 to $140 for health coaches with no credential.
What is the top health 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.