Certified life coaches
2,826 life coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 69% of all life coaches. Certified life coaches charge $90 to $190 an hour.
Key numbers
- 2,826 life coaches list a credential (69% of life coaches).
- 247 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
- Certified life coaches: $90 to $190 an hour.
- Life coaches with no credential: $75 to $160 an hour.
Credentials life coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 2,367 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 227 |
| Graduate degree | 212 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 20 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified Life Coach | 156 |
| Certified life coach | 96 |
| MBA | 92 |
| Certified Professional Coach | 50 |
| Certified Professional Life Coach | 49 |
| PhD | 47 |
| CTA Certified Coach | 45 |
| ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) | 41 |
| CTA Certified Life Coach | 40 |
| NLP Practitioner | 40 |
What certified life coaches charge
| Group | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Credential listed | $90 to $190 |
| No credential listed | $75 to $160 |
Certified life coaches to compare
Abby Jane Green
Abby Jane Green is a mindful habits and life coach who runs Simply Thrive Now Life Coaching. She helps clients build steady habits, manage stress, and stop overthinking. Her work blends mindfulness, manifestation, habit formation and energy work. She is certified through The Life Coach School and trained as a faith-based coach. She also holds a Tiny Habits Coach certification from BJ Fogg's academy. She has helped clients with weight loss, time management, parenting and difficult relationships.
Achim Jansen
Achim Jansen is an energy, NLP and active hypnosis coach based in Germany. He helps adults remove limiting beliefs that hold them back from their goals. He works with the subconscious mind and holds NLP Master Practitioner and hypnotherapy training from UK academies. He is also a certified NLP Master Trainer and Active Hypnosis Master Trainer. He offers single sessions and a 7 session package, and meets clients by video.
Adam Griffin
Adam Griffin is a life coach who also works as an executive function and ADHD coach. He spent over 20 years leading instructional technology teams in pharmaceutical and financial services. He worked as an actor on stage and television and was the voice of Comcast for over five years. He trained in ontological coaching in India. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College. He offers a free discovery session.
Aikyna Finch
Dr. Aikyna Finch is a life and social media coach who also trains coaches. She helps people reach their goals and use technology to grow their business. She holds the ICF PCC credential and serves as Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for the International Coaching Federation. She has worked as a professor and dean in higher education. She gave a TEDx talk in 2022 and has written or co-written 12 books. She works from Nashville, Tennessee.
Aimee Tasker
Aimee Tasker is an accountability coach and business coach who works with purposeful leaders, entrepreneurs, highly sensitive people and the LGBTQ+ community. She helps clients gain clarity, turn thoughts into actions and reach real results with more ease. Aimee comes from a background in strategic design and transformation. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Co-Active CPCC credentials. Her sessions are confidential and non-judgemental.
AimeeJo Davis-Varela
AimeeJo Davis-Varela, who goes by AJ, is a grief coach. She helps widowed, divorced and grieving people rebuild their lives after loss. She is a certified Grief Support Specialist, Grief Educator and Resilience Coach. She holds a master's in clinical psychology. Her work follows a framework she calls the Three Pathways of Healing After Loss. She offers workshops, groups and one-on-one sessions, online and in person. She is a widow herself and also coaches LGBTQ+ clients.
Alejandra Molina
Alejandra Molina is an anxiety and confidence coach in Miami. She helps high achievers, working parents, entrepreneurs, executives and physicians manage stress and find emotional clarity. She worked in nonprofits and grassroots development before moving into resilience and early childhood development in Latin America. She has lived in six cities in different countries. She built her own model, The Thriving Self, and runs her practice as The Bliss Well.
Aleksandra Miciul
Aleksandra Miciul is a life and mental performance coach who helps athletes, professionals and women who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She is a former Olympic swimmer who then worked 15 years in corporate real estate in London. She coaches on overthinking, confidence, focus and burnout. She works in London and online across the UK and abroad. Her sessions follow a simple path of clarity, a structured plan and steady action.
Alexander Lovell
Alexander Lovell is a life and executive coach in Utah who helps people with burnout, confidence, purpose and career questions. He has coached for over 12 years. His clients include executives, students, couples and entrepreneurs. He holds a PhD and is a certified life and executive coach. He offers a free 25 minute meeting so a person can decide if the fit is right before starting.
Alina Tanasescu
Alina Tanasescu is a life, business and career coach in Bucharest, Romania. She helps people leave a 9-to-5 job for work of their own. She focuses on money blocks and the fear of being seen. Before coaching, she worked at a state company and a corporation, then ran her own audit and accounting firm. She trained in systemic coaching at Metasystème, so her sessions look at the family and work relationships around each decision.
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.
Alita van Zyl
Alita van Zyl is a life, career and relationship coach in Cape Town, South Africa. She helps individuals, couples, leaders and teams who struggle with miscommunication and recurring conflict. Before coaching, she spent decades in corporate IT, leading teams and managing big changes. She is a certified Neethling Brain Instrument practitioner and uses that tool to show clients how they and others prefer to think. Her work centers on clearer communication and stronger connection.
Allyson Regis
Allyson Regis is a life and burnout coach who helps professionals with job dissatisfaction, career uncertainty, imposter syndrome and identity-based issues at work. She is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Liberated Professionals, LLC, a career coaching and organizational consultation business. She has worked with clients for 10 years. She also trains counselors as a professor and internship supervisor. All of her services are offered virtually.
Althea Dent
Althea Dent is a relationship and life strategy coach in Virginia. She helps individuals and couples build stronger personal and work relationships. She founded LiveWell Advising, LLC. Her training is in behavioral science and professional counseling, and she is a certified Cultural Intelligence facilitator. She works on three areas: Your relationship with yourself, your close and social relationships, and your work relationships. She coaches and does not act as a therapist.
Amanda Richey
Amanda Richey is an accountability and life coach in Nevada who helps women get unstuck. She works mostly with women solopreneurs who feel overwhelmed, doubt themselves, or lack direction in their business. She runs a quarterly program called Business Goal Bootcamp and hosts a free weekly accountability check-in on Instagram Live. She holds an ICF coach credential and a master's degree in anthropology. She left a career she had outgrown to build her own coaching business.
Amber Grauer
Amber Grauer is an anxious attachment and life coach who helps women stop overthinking and feel good enough in their relationships. She has coached women on anxious attachment for four years. Before coaching, she taught special education and general education for twelve years and earned a master's degree in education. She became a Certified Life Coach through The Life Coach School in 2021. Her work centers on calming the nervous system and building secure self worth.
Amy Boyd
Amy Boyd is a coach who helps doctoral and master's students finish their dissertations and theses. She also trains new coaches. She is a former K-12 educational leader. Since 2018 she has helped over 17,000 students make progress on their writing. She works from Maryland and runs three brands, including a podcast for high performing women.
Amy Brainard
Amy Brainard is a habit and life coach who helps women make changes that last without relying on willpower. She blends habit design, life coaching, and values and vision work. Her main program is eight private 50-minute sessions over eight weeks. She is a certified Tiny Habits Coach and a Lifebook Leader. She also runs a free 5-day course where clients choose and practice three new habits with daily feedback by email.
Amy Koch
Amy Koch is a life coach who helps teens build lasting confidence and ease anxiety. She also coaches their parents. She runs Find Your Mind Coaching and meets clients by video, one-on-one or in small groups. She holds a social work degree from Brigham Young University and is certified in mental health first aid.
Amy Miller
Amy Miller is a life coach who helps people work through the loss of a loved one to suicide. She coaches anyone who lost a child, spouse, parent, sibling or friend. She lost her younger sister to suicide in 2017, and that loss led her to coaching. She is certified through The Life Coach School. She runs Survived to Thrive Coaching, hosts a free weekly podcast, and leads a free Facebook group for survivors.
Amy Schloerb
Amy Schloerb is a life coach who helps actors with mindset, confidence and mindfulness. He has worked as a professional actress for 20 years in TV, film and commercials. He also produced his own award-winning web series. He coaches under the name The Aligned Actor and uses mindfulness and neuro-linguistic programming. His work centers on auditions, self-doubt and the ups and downs of an acting career.
Amy Schuber
Amy Schuber is an energy healer and coach who works with business owners, entrepreneurs and people in life or career transitions. She focuses on releasing inherited and ancestral trauma that holds back personal and professional growth. She left corporate America over 15 years ago and has coached business owners since. She also hosts the Inspired Conversations Podcast, which started in 2014 and has over 525 episodes. She leads healing retreats for groups.
Andelina Chong
Andelina Chong is a life coach in Singapore who helps female professionals aged 30 to 45 through life transitions. He coaches on emotional wellness and money beliefs through his practice, Rewrite Stories Coaching. He has over 20 years of work experience in healthcare and financial services. He is an ICF ACC certified coach and a seasoned mediator. He also trains healthcare teams in high-stakes conversations and has facilitated 800 learners.
Andre Costa
Andre Costa is a resilience coach who helps professionals handle pressure and avoid burnout. He works with people in high-stakes roles, with a focus on legal professionals in London. Before coaching, he spent years in demanding corporate environments. He took part in a reverse mentoring programme and built in-house training for teams. He offers one-to-one coaching, a six-week programme, and team workshops for law firms.
Andrea Arledge
Andrea Arledge is a therapeutic shadow coach who helps women reconnect with parts of themselves they learned to hide, and helps women in business become more visible. She worked 16 years as a registered nurse before moving into healing work full time. She founded Inner Alchemy Consulting in South Carolina. Her work blends Jungian shadow work, parts work, somatics and brand strategy for healers, nurses and practitioners.
Andrea Morton
Andrea Morton is a life coach who works with moms of teens and empty-nesters, plus a few dads. She helps them build a new chapter after years of parenting. Before coaching, she taught elementary and middle school starting in 1997. She was diagnosed with combined-type ADHD at age 48 and is finishing an ADHD coach credential. She runs Think To Thrive and meets clients online, weekly or twice a month.
Andy Fish
Andy Fish is a trauma-informed coach and author. He works with people whose past experiences still shape how they respond today, including after difficult relationships, grief and separation. He brings over 25 years in senior management, including project management and leading diverse teams across industries and agencies. He also holds mental health first aid and trauma-informed coaching certifications. He wrote the book Walking the Grey and publishes articles on psychology and emotional health.
Angel Canada Granoff
Angel Canada Granoff is a life, career and leadership coach in Riverside, Rhode Island. She helps people communicate clearly and handle hard conversations at work and at home. Angel spent 25+ years in the Consumer Products Industry and also works as an executive coach and trainer. She has lived in over fifteen states and Europe. She is a certified Myers Briggs practitioner and uses that assessment with clients.
Angelina Fomina
Angelina Fomina is a life and career transition coach for high-achieving professionals, founders, creatives and women in tech. She helps clients through burnout, layoffs, relationship endings and questions about what comes next. She spent over 12 years building products at Meta, Shopify and BetterUp, and she bootstrapped a SaaS company to $1M ARR. She also has Masters-level training in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which shapes how she works with chronic stress.
Angie McIntyre
Angie McIntyre is a youth life coach in Minnesota. She helps teens and young adults with study habits, time management, planning for the future, identity, and relationships. She runs Clear Trails Youth Coaching, which she started in 2021. Angie is also a licensed school psychologist with a degree in educational psychology. She holds an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation and was trained by the Youth Coaching Institute.
Common questions
How many life coaches are certified?
69% of life coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
Do certified life coaches charge more?
Certified life coaches charge $90 to $190 an hour, compared with $75 to $160 for life coaches with no credential.
What is the top life 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.