How much does a life coach cost?
Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 an hour. Twelve sessions cost $960 to $2,100. Certified life coaches charge $90 to $190.
Key numbers
- Most life coaches: $80 to $175 an hour (6,903 published rates).
- Bottom 10% to top 10%: $55 to $250 an hour.
- 4 sessions: $320 to $700.
- 12 sessions: $960 to $2,100.
- Certified life coaches: $90 to $190 an hour.
Life coach rates per hour
| Range | Hourly rate |
|---|---|
| Most (middle half) | $80 to $175 |
| Bottom 10% to top 10% | $55 to $250 |
Life coach rates by country
| Country | Published rates (n) | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,475 | $90 to $180 |
| United Kingdom | 312 | $85 to $185 |
| South Africa | 117 | $50 to $130 |
| Canada | 90 | $90 to $175 |
| Germany | 84 | $100 to $195 |
| Australia | 78 | $90 to $175 |
Do certified life coaches charge more?
| Credential | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Coaching credential listed | $90 to $190 |
| No credential listed | $75 to $160 |
What life coach sessions cost
| Sessions | Cost range |
|---|---|
| 1 session | $80 to $175 |
| 4 sessions | $320 to $700 |
| 8 sessions | $640 to $1,400 |
| 12 sessions | $960 to $2,100 |
Life coaches to compare
A.C. Pickard
A.C. Pickard is an Emotion Mastery Coach in Lake Elsinore, California. A.C. helps high-performing adults handle emotional reactions, stress and relationship conflict. Clients often do well in many areas of life but want to respond differently at home, at work or within themselves. A.C. created the M.A.S.T.E.R. Method, which builds emotional awareness, emotional regulation, self-leadership and practical skills. A.C. is also an author and writes articles on pausing before reacting.
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.
Aliona Börjesson
Aliona Börjesson is a coach who helps ambitious professionals build confidence and calm, steady success at work. She holds a psychology degree from a Swedish university and researches emotions and mindset at work. She hosts the podcast Не учи меня жить, which has ranked first in Russia on Apple Podcasts many times. She has coached for more than 7 years and has worked with several thousand people. Her main program is THE SPACE.
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.
Amanda Star Kingsley
Amanda Star Kingsley is a life coach who helps people process complex feelings after abortion and build a new life. She worked for many years as a birth and postpartum doula before she moved fully into post-abortion support. She hosts a podcast on abortion and has written a book. Her main program, Birthing a New You, pairs six 1:1 sessions with 24/7 Voxer support and a course portal.
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 Logan
Amy Logan is a life coach who helps women trust themselves. Her clients are mostly in midlife or approaching it. Many have done years of healing work and still hesitate to make new choices. Amy has coached for over a decade. She left the Mormon church at 40, and she supports women through post religious life, anxiety, people pleasing and identity shifts. She takes on a small number of clients at a time.
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.
Common questions
How much does a life coach cost per hour?
Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 an hour.
How much do 12 life coach sessions cost?
Twelve sessions cost $960 to $2,100.
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.
How much does online life coaching cost?
Online life coaches charge $120 to $250 an hour.
Where do life coaches charge the most?
United States life coaches charge $90 to $180 an hour.
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Last updated September 2026.