Life coaches for people over 40
Compare 85 life coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are life transitions, confidence and self-esteem, retirement and midlife and purpose and direction. They most often work with people over 40, women and professionals. Most charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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Dawn Griswold
Dawn Griswold is a life, health and fitness coach who helps women, especially those over 40, through midlife change. She holds ICF, nutrition and personal training certifications. In the 1990s she was the first independent training contractor for the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, where she coached military leaders and active-duty amputees. She later ran her own gym on Camano Island. She coaches in person around Albuquerque and online worldwide.
Katherine Pratt
Katherine Pratt is a life coach and hypnotherapist in Oregon who helps women heal their relationship with food and release the emotional patterns that keep them stuck. She blends hypnotherapy, EFT tapping, shadow work and intuitive energy work. She became a certified Shadow Coach in 2025 and created her own method called Truth Tapping. She offers one-on-one sessions and a biweekly group space called Wednesday Wellness.
Lynn Goodacre
Lynn Goodacre is a life and communication coach who helps women 50 and older build a full, active life. She also coaches public speaking, confidence and conversation skills. Lynn began coach training in 2010 and is certified in singles coaching. She has trained in couples coaching too. She is also a Registered Massage Therapist and a Toastmaster of over 12 years. She lives on the west coast of Canada and coaches clients online worldwide.
Nicky Taylor
Nicky Taylor is a life coach who helps female leaders over 40 in financial services. She founded Blow Up Your Life with her sister Stephanie. Nicky spent 16 years in London banking and rose from Assistant Payroll Co-ordinator to Global HR Director. She now helps senior women build a full life outside work without stress, overwhelm or burnout. She is also a property investor and an award-winning entrepreneur.
Sondra Slivon
Sondra Slivon is a life and career coach who helps women through big life changes. She runs Sueño Consulting LLC in New Mexico. She works with women over 40 facing career change, retirement, divorce, or the loss of a spouse. She also coaches high school and college age women on education, career and life plans. Before coaching, she led community programs at United Way of Central New Mexico and worked in teaching and sales.
Connie Challingsworth
Connie Challingsworth is a certified life coach in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She helps people at midlife decide what they want to do with the rest of their life. Her clients include people nearing retirement and people already retired. She founded Positive Life Decisions and works one on one, in groups and in workshops. She has more than 30 years of business experience, many of them in the pharmaceutical industry.
Erich Hofmeister
Erich Hofmeister is a midlife transformational coach who helps men and women in their 40s and 50s find fresh energy, purpose and goals. He has coached and counseled people in midlife for over 20 years. He runs Blue Shore Midlife Coaching from Minnesota and works with clients by video. A heart condition in 2022 changed his own priorities, and he now coaches from that experience. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A.
Funmi Oni
Funmi Oni is a London life and career coach who also coaches people with ADHD. She works with professionals, young adults and neurodiverse people. She spent 30 years as a management consultant and worked with organisations such as IBM and NatWest. She founded Ataraxia Coaching and holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in ADHD. She also works with organisations on neurodiversity at work and in education.
Jo Ann Coker
Jo Ann Coker is an accountability and decluttering coach who works with women over 40. She helps clients clear physical and mental clutter and move through life transitions. She is a licensed massage therapist with over 20 years in healthcare, and she is also a certified Integrative Wellness and Life Coach. Before coaching, she spent over a decade as an international flight attendant, event producer and dance instructor. Sessions are held online.
Karen Midyet
Karen Midyet is a retirement and life coach for older adults. She runs Coaching Aging Adults and helps seniors, baby boomers and the sandwich generation plan for later life and find purpose in it. She is also a clinical psychologist with over 35 years in long-term care, senior services consulting and mental health care. Her practice also offers caregiver education and support, a retirement coaching group and online coaching.
Maree White
Maree White is a private coach, mentor and thinking partner for people around age 50. She helps women, men and couples work through midlife turning points. She trained and certified in the United States with The Life Coach School, then built her own Australian approach. Before coaching, she spent decades developing people, businesses and creative projects. She sees clients in person from her garden studio on the Surf Coast and online worldwide.
Pam Traynor
Pam Traynor is a life coach who helps women and men through divorce, life transitions and recovery. She founded Traynor Life Coaching and holds a Professional Life Coaching certification plus a dual certification in Divorce, Transition and Recovery coaching. She came to coaching after her own divorce and the death of a partner. She works with clients before, during and after divorce, and with people over 50.
Valerie Mummert
Valerie Mummert is a Christian life coach and accountability coach in Gilbert, Arizona. She helps midlife women move into new seasons, roles and challenges with purpose. She also has 25 years of event coordination experience and works as a retreat host and event planner. She offers a done with you retreat planning service for coaches and experts who want to host in-person retreats, and she handles the logistics so they can lead.
Kirsten Trussell
Kirsten Trussell is a life and wellness coach who works with women in midlife. She helps clients find their purpose and live the life they want. She has a special interest in perimenopause and menopause. Kirsten holds an International Coaching Federation certification and a wellness coach certification. She has lived and worked in and around Brighton and Hove for over thirty years. She coaches online by video call, or outdoors in Brighton for local clients.
Gretchen Bruno
Gretchen Bruno is a certified life coach and self mastery mentor who helps driven women over 40 leave a chaotic, overloaded daily life. She is also a physician who has spent most of her adult life as an obstetrician and gynecologist. Her coaching blends her own experience, modern psychology drawn from ancient teachings, emotional awareness, and intuition. She includes Human Design readings in her work. She has also finished two full distance Ironman races.
Laurie James
Laurie James is a somatic coach and author who helps midlife women heal after divorce, loss, and big life changes. He hosts the Confessions of a Freebird podcast, which has 134 episodes since 2023. He wrote the memoir Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go. He is a certified somatic practitioner. He has lived through divorce and caregiving himself, and he teaches body-based tools for starting over.
Tami Lowe
Tami Lowe is a personal life coach in Orlando who helps clients get calm and feel better. Her goal is that they can make choices and speak up for themselves, using their own intuition for next steps. She is also Publisher of the Helpful Self Anthology book series, which helps people write their stories and heal from them. Her studies are in Human Development, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She meets clients in virtual sessions.
Dr. Elizabeth Sherrell-Davis
Dr. Elizabeth Sherrell-Davis, known as Dr. E., is a life and accountability coach who helps women over 40, entrepreneurs, and leaders. She founded Signature of Excellence Coaching & Consulting Firm. She holds a Ph.D. in Organization & Management. Her work draws on higher education, leadership training, and business consulting. She helps clients regain balance, find clarity, and set boundaries with confidence. She also runs workshops and speaks publicly.
Duncan Rinehart
Duncan Rinehart is a retirement and wellness coach who works with retirees and people getting close to retirement. He holds four coaching and health certifications, including ICF and NBHWC credentials. Duncan is in his 70s and has been a triathlete all his life. He has dealt with injuries, surgeries, personal loss and setbacks, and he uses that experience in his sessions. His coaching looks at the whole person and helps clients shape the senior years they want.
Julie Gaye Murphy
Julie Gaye Murphy is a life, relationship, divorce, blended family and career coach in Brisbane, Australia. She runs MOJO Your Life Today and helps women build confidence, handle big life changes and find a clearer path. She has a strong focus on women over 50, step-moms and women going through separation, divorce or redundancy. She also coaches retirees and small business owners on staff management and teamwork.
Damianne President
Damianne President is a midlife coach who helps women in their 40s and 50s who feel stuck. Damianne works with women who look successful on the outside but feel something is missing. Damianne hosts the Changes Big and Small podcast, with episodes on friendship, love, joy and burnout in midlife. New clients can start with a free 30-minute coaching call.
Robin Rolli
Robin Rolli is a life coach in Tennessee who works with women 50 and older. She helps clients who are moving out of a career or dealing with a change at home. Her focus is mindset and confidence. Her clients are often women who spent years caring for others and now want to make choices for themselves. Robin holds a Lumia Life Coach certification and a chakra certification, and she is ICF trained.
Cole Baker-Bagwell
Cole Baker-Bagwell is a life and mindfulness coach who focuses on mindset. Cole works with people facing life transitions, career pivots, stress, and self-limiting beliefs. Before coaching, Cole spent two decades in enterprise technology in sales, strategy, and leadership roles. Cole has more than 30 years of mindfulness practice. Clients include tech leaders from Amazon, Cisco, Nvidia, and Red Hat. Coaching is virtual across the U.S. and onsite in Raleigh, N.C.
David Abend
David Abend is a career and life coach in Massachusetts who works with people in transition. He helps clients who feel stuck in a career, are close to retirement, or are looking for purpose. He brings over 40 years of marketing experience and is an expert in personal branding. He also founded The Bucket, an online magazine for people over 50 that focuses on reducing deathbed regrets.
Danielle Lima
Danielle Lima is a life and accountability coach who helps women over 40. She founded Rooted & Rising Space. Before coaching, she taught women to move their bodies for over 20 years. She blends Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) with somatic movement principles. Her clients often feel stuck, disconnected, or ready for change. Sessions run online by video, and she offers a free Discovery Call to start.
Katinka Blackford Newman
Katinka Blackford Newman is a life coach, health coach and personal trainer in London. She helps ambitious midlife professionals who want more fulfilment, better fitness, stronger health and more confidence. Before coaching, she spent more than twenty years as an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is one of the few coaches who mixes coaching with hands-on personal training. Clients can book coaching sessions, PT sessions or a mix of both.
Joe Staszak
Joe Staszak is a life coach in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He coaches men and women over 40 who feel they have lost their edge. His main goal is helping clients get their confidence back. He also offers health and fitness, nutrition, and relationship coaching. Joe holds a Certified Master Life Coach title and a Certified Professional Coach title. He runs a program called "Be The One," which focuses on being unoffendable and letting go of ego.
Nancy Collamer
Nancy Collamer is a retirement coach and author of Second-Act Careers. She helps professionals who are at or near retirement plan a retirement that has meaning. She coaches one-on-one by video through her Retirement Discovery Package. She also writes a blog, sends a monthly newsletter and runs webinars. She offers a free workbook with 25 questions to help people decide what to do in retirement. She also speaks to companies, groups and associations.
David Abend
David Abend is a retirement, career and life coach in Carlisle, Massachusetts. He works with people over 50 who feel stuck. He helps them with career pivots, the move into retirement, and finding purpose. David is also the editor of The Bucket, an online magazine. He writes there about death-bed regrets and how to avoid them. That theme shapes his focus on helping clients make choices they will not regret.
Efie Vogel
Efie Vogel is a life coach in Israel who works with men and women in midlife. Efie helps clients who feel stuck, unfulfilled, or unsure of their direction. Before coaching, Efie worked almost three decades as an accountant and CFO, then left that job after losing motivation. Efie spent years building a system for the specific problems of midlife and is certified through ELC.
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.
Cindy Willems
Cindy Willems runs Midlife Vitality, which helps women 40+ with movement, nutrition and health education through perimenopause, menopause and beyond. She was a professional dancer before she started teaching. She has taught for over 20 years and sees clients at her clinic in Toronto. Most of her work is online, through live Pilates classes and health consultations.
Diana Pipaloff
Diana Pipaloff is a health and burnout coach who helps high-achieving women over 40 through midlife. She founded Svasta Wellness and built the Svasta Method, a system based on the Ayurvedic idea of Svasta. She holds an ACC credential and is a certified sleep coach and a clinical Ayurveda specialist. She also teaches yoga, meditation and breathwork. She works on stress, weight, sleep, hormones and burnout, and she offers a free intro session.
Jessica Sweet
Jessica Sweet is a career coach and licensed therapist in Massachusetts. She helps executives and professionals over 40 who feel stressed, burned out, or stuck at work. She combines career coaching with a clinical background, so she works on mindset blocks and practical job goals together. She trained as a therapist at Harvard Medical School and belongs to the Forbes Coaches Council. She calls herself The Career Therapist.
Jill Rhodes Harvey
Jill Rhodes Harvey is a relationship and dating coach who works with women over 50. She helps women who are divorced, widowed or single and facing big life changes. Her sessions cover emotional intimacy, communication skills, family dynamics and friendships. She trained in counselling and emotional intelligence in 2013. In 2015 she was named one of the top ten UK relationship coaches for the over 40s. She coaches by phone, email, Skype or Zoom, so she works with women worldwide.
Laura DeMarco
Laura DeMarco is a strength coach and life coach in Reston, Virginia. She runs Berkembang Coaching and helps clients with strength training, nutrition, and health and wellness coaching. She has coached since 2005 and has owned CrossFit gyms. Her background includes Olympic lifting, bodybuilding, kettlebells and yoga. She also offers reiki and life coaching. She focuses on clients in their 40s, 50s and 60s who want to stay strong and active.
Marni Battista
Marni Battista is a dating and relationship coach who helps successful women find lasting, loving partnerships. She founded Dating with Dignity and The Institute for Living Courageously in Los Angeles. She holds a Master's Degree in Education and a coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation. She was married for 17 years, divorced, and dated again before she remarried. That path led her to build a process for women who keep ending up with unavailable men.
Natalie Jill
Natalie Jill is a fitness and fat loss coach who helps women in midlife. She works on belly fat, hormone shifts, sleep, energy and strength. She is a Certified Personal Trainer and Licensed Master Sports Nutritionist. She hosts the Midlife Conversations podcast and wrote two best-selling books. She created The 7 Day Jump Start and Total Body Thrive, which are built for women in midlife. She coaches online.
Nicole Ternay
Nicole Ternay is a weight loss coach for women over 40. She works on the habits and thinking that sit under weight struggles, not just food and workouts. She has coached women for 24 years. Before that, she was a professional ballet dancer and worked in physical therapy. She is ACE-certified, has given two TEDx talks, and hosts a podcast on weight loss for women over 40. Her main program is a 12-week course called The Jumpstart.
Shana James
Shana James is a love and dating coach who works with men and women over 40. She helps people who are dating, healing from divorce or heartbreak, or trying to bring more intimacy into a long-term relationship. She wrote Honest Sex, hosts two podcasts, and gave a TEDx talk on the divide between men and women. She holds a Master's in Psychology.
Shanna Pyzer
Shanna Pyzer is a Christian life coach in Boise who also coaches online. He helps Christian women in midlife decide what comes next and follow through on it. He holds a master's degree in school counseling, which he earned after going back to school at 45. He started his coaching business at 48. He lost 82 pounds in under a year and now coaches on weight loss, mindset, and habits with a Bible-based approach.
Sue Christensen
Sue Christensen is a life and weight loss coach who helps midlife women, including empty nesters, stop obsessing over food and lose weight. She holds board certification in health and wellness coaching and is also an Integrative Nutrition Coach. Her work focuses on cravings, emotional eating, and hormone challenges. She works from Alaska. Sue has struggled with her own weight and food habits, and that shapes how she coaches.
Tamara Wrenn
Tamara Wrenn is a Christian life and wellness coach who works one-on-one with women in midlife. She helps them with the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual changes that come in their 40s and beyond, including perimenopause and postmenopause. She is a certified personal and executive coach with a master's degree in guidance and counseling. She also founded Just Us Women Productions and wrote a book on faith and childbirth.
Tara James
Tara James is a career and life coach who helps accomplished professionals plan their next chapter. She founded MacGuffin House, a coaching and strategic communications practice. Before coaching, she worked as a private investigator and then spent over twenty years in child and youth policy. She holds a master's degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her work starts with what a client wants from life, then builds the career and communications plan to match.
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.
Elizabeth Sherman
Elizabeth Sherman is a Master Certified Life and Health Coach who helps women in midlife build health habits that last. She has coached for over 20 years and hosts the Total Health in Midlife podcast, with over 250 episodes. Her work covers nighttime eating, sugar cravings, and the start-over cycle. She builds a bare-minimum plan for hard days and a clear plan for what to do after a slip. She also speaks at corporate and industry events.
Jeanette Logan
Jeanette Logan runs Youthful Hearts, a fitness class and coaching practice for adults over 50. She has more than 35 years in fitness. Her classes cover strength, stretch, balance, low impact aerobics, line dancing and chair exercise. Members range in age from 50 to 99. She teaches in person at the Margaret Todd Senior Center in Novato, California, and live on Zoom. She also offers one-on-one coaching.
Jennifer Dent Brown
Jennifer Dent Brown is a weight loss and life coach for women in midlife. She helps clients link hormones, metabolism, habits and identity so weight loss works again. She is a certified health and wellness coach and a certified life coach. She also worked as a management consultant at Ernst & Young and Deloitte. She coaches women who are on a GLP-1, off one, or who chose not to take one.
Jonathon Aslay
Jonathon Aslay is a dating and relationship coach for mid-life women. He runs Understand Men Now, which offers one-on-one coaching, audio programs and workbooks. His topics include spotting commitment-ready men, finding the right men online and why men pull away. He wrote the book What The Heck Is Self-Love Anyway? His work now also covers self-love, since he sees low self-worth as a common issue for singles.
Lisa Duke
Lisa Duke is a weight coach and personal trainer for women over 40 on the Treasure Coast in Florida. She lost 50 pounds at age 46 and has kept it off. She holds Life Coach School and NASM certifications. She wrote a book on the ACE Methodology. Her coaching looks at why clients overeat, not only at food and exercise. Her first program runs 4 months.
Lisa Dupree
Lisa Dupree is a fitness and health coach who helps women over 50 lose fat, build muscle and gain energy. She has worked for two decades as an exercise physiologist and health coach. She built the Lean & Strong Method, a 4-part framework she first used on herself at 59. She also competed in a competition at 59 and hosts the Midlife Mojo podcast.
Lori Michiel
Lori Michiel is a NASM certified personal trainer who coaches active adults and seniors in their homes. She runs Lori Michiel Fitness with a team of certified trainers across Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Orange Counties. Lori uses functional assessments to measure fitness in clients with and without cognitive impairment. She then builds corrective exercises to lower injury risk and improve strength, mobility and independence. Her team also works with clients after rehab and with Parkinson's disease.
Mairi Macleod
Mairi Macleod is a dating coach who helps women over 50 find a lasting relationship. She holds a PhD and works as a behavioural biologist. She runs Dating Evolved, which teaches women to use science to choose better partners. Her online course and group program cover mindset, online dating profiles, and where to meet men.
Nicole Moress
Nicole Moress is a fitness coach who helps women in perimenopause and menopause. She runs N-Gage Fitness and has coached women over 40 for more than 13 years. Her programs mix strength training, nutrition, and personal coaching. She works with clients on belly fat, low energy, and changes in confidence. Coaching is online with weekly Zoom calls, and she also runs a free private Facebook group for midlife women.
Ralph
Ralph runs The Dating Stoic, a dating and relationship coaching practice for middle-aged men and single dads. He builds his coaching on Stoic philosophy. He went through the end of his own marriage a decade ago and raised two teenagers as a single parent. He helps men date again after divorce and improve their current relationships. He also writes a blog and offers one-on-one sessions and packages.
Tasha Cook
Tasha Cook is a health and accountability coach in Oregon who helps midlife women understand what is happening in their bodies. She holds a perimenopause and menopause coaching certification from IWHI and trained as a menopause doula in England. She is also Co-Active trained. Her own rough midlife, with over 30 symptoms between ages 40 and 45, led her to this work. She coaches anyone over 40, before, during or after menopause.
Tracea Jay
Tracea Jay is a weight loss coach for women over 50 who want to stop bingeing and overeating. Tracea runs the 50 Over 50 Weight Loss Program, a 12 month program built around mindset and skills, not calorie counting or food restriction. Tracea lost over 100 pounds at age 50 after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and now uses that same process with clients. Tracea's work focuses on rebuilding a person's relationship with food, body and self.
Vanesa Castillo
Vanesa Castillo is a leadership and career coach for professional women in corporate roles and entrepreneurship. She works mostly with women 40+ who feel stuck, burned out, or undervalued. She spent 25 years leading high-performing teams in corporate before she started coaching. She uses her own five-step CLEAR Method and offers a 90-day executive coaching program with 12 private sessions for senior women leaders.
Claudia Rossi
Claudia Rossi is a career, entrepreneurship and life coach in Roswell, Georgia. She helps mid to late career professionals who want a change. Some want a new job. Some want a new career. Others want to leave the corporate world and build their own business. She has reinvented her own career many times, and she uses that experience to help clients position their value and tell their story.
Georgina Quinn
Georgina Quinn is a weight loss and life coach who helps women over 40 lose weight without dieting. She works on hormone balance, metabolism and daily habits. She teaches a process called The Decoding Method and runs a 12 week program. She wrote a free ebook on how dopamine affects weight and cravings.
Kristyn Hall
Kristyn Hall is an Alberta-based dietitian who runs Energize Nutrition. She coaches midlife men and women on nutrition, habits and mindset. Her clients want to manage cravings, hot flashes, low energy and body changes. She offers one-on-one coaching, meal planning and a 12-lesson cooking course. She also runs corporate wellness and consulting services. A local internal medicine specialist in Calgary refers to her work as a resource for her patients. Sessions are held by video for people in Alberta.
Marc Miller
Marc Miller runs Career Pivot, a career design firm in Austin, Texas for people in the second half of life who want a career change. He helps clients move toward a new career in small, practical steps instead of one big leap. He wrote Repurpose Your Career and hosts a podcast by the same name. His one-on-one package centers on the Birkman/AboutU assessment and three feedback sessions.
Jennifer Hurvitz
Jennifer Hurvitz is a relationship expert and dating coach who helps divorced women and singles over 40 find love again. She hosts the Doing Relationships Right podcast and is a best-selling author. Her book Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda. is one of her titles. She has been through divorce and dating herself, and she uses that experience in her coaching. Her work covers online dating, life after separation, and dating in midlife.
Liz Georges
Liz Georges is an accountability, burnout and sleep coach in Indiana. She helps women, including women over 40 and over 50, who feel exhausted, stressed or overweight. Liz worked in healthcare, then built a six-figure career in auto sales before she moved into coaching at 45. She is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, so she looks for hidden causes behind health problems. Her own fatigue and early perimenopause shaped how she coaches.
Patty Martin-Guerra
Patty Martin-Guerra is a Christian life coach for single women over 40. He helps women heal after divorce, let go of old patterns, and meet the right man. His method has worked with hundreds of women. He runs the Mujer Renuévate podcast in Spanish and the Rising After Divorce podcast. He also offers a healing membership and women's retreats. His own story began with years of dating apps that brought clarity but no real connection.
Kathy
Kathy runs Phase Two Fitness, a coaching practice for women over 50 who want to get fit and build lasting health habits. She is over 60 herself and finished a 5K at age 61. Her work centers on mindset, food, and exercise. She helps clients spot the pattern behind why they keep starting over, then build small habits that hold up in real life. She offers The PAUSE Plan and The Willpower Reset System.
Mark Langford
Mark Langford is a relationship coach who helps men and women in midlife find and keep love and intimacy. He has more than a decade of experience and has coached over a thousand clients. His work covers self-esteem, anxiety around the opposite sex, online dating, boundaries, heartbreak and infidelity. He also works on communication and conflict resolution in lasting relationships. Clients start with a consultation.
TRINITY Transformation
TRINITY Transformation is a coaching business for busy professional women over 40 who want to lose weight. The team focuses on hormone balance and the changes that come with menopause. They say they have helped more than 7,000 women drop 1 to 2 dress sizes. The main offer is a 12-week private coaching program that avoids heavy cardio and extreme dieting. They also host the Fit Over 40 Podcast.
Buffy Owens
Buffy Owens is a breathwork and embodiment coach who helps midlife women and men feel at home in their bodies. She supports women going through menopause, and men in midlife who want more purpose. She has spent over two decades guiding somatic movement, breathwork and meditation. She holds a Feldenkrais practitioner certification and two health coach certifications. Her work centers on living fully in the body.
Karen Bigman
Karen Bigman is a certified intimacy and relationship coach and sex educator who helps men in midlife and beyond 50. She runs Taboo to Truth and hosts a podcast called Taboo to Truth: Life and Sex After 50. Her work covers desire, changing bodies, and how relationships shift over time. She also built Men Meet Menopause, a course that explains menopause and its effect on intimacy to male partners.
Alisa Bell
Alisa Bell is a confidence coach and dating coach. She helps men over 30 who face relationship challenges and women over 40 who deal with relationship issues. She is an ICF certified life coach with over 13 years of experience. Her work centers on mindset strategies that help clients reach their goals. She also coaches on goal setting, relationship building and dating advice, and she uses creative coaching techniques shaped to each client.
Dana Massey
Dana Massey is a life, health and wellness coach who helps busy people build lasting habits so they can live longer and healthier lives. Dana works with busy professionals and with men and women 40 and older. Clients come for help with lifestyle habits, diet, movement, limiting beliefs and chronic health conditions. Dana holds two health coaching credentials and draws on personal experience in a demanding corporate career.
Kelly Keelan
Kelly Keelan is a weight loss coach who helps women over 40 lose weight and balance their hormones. She is a registered nurse. Her own struggle with unexplained weight gain and exhaustion led her to study how hormones control metabolism. Her coaching avoids restrictive dieting and long workouts. Clients get a personalized Hormone Reset Plan built around their lifestyle, metabolism and hormonal needs. She also coaches on mindset and the way clients think about food.
Melissa Maxx
Melissa Maxx is a mindfulness coach who works with women 40 and older. She helps them feel more present, authentic and strong in their lives. She also specializes in coaching women who live with Hashimoto's Disease. Her work looks at both the physical and emotional sides of the illness. She teaches tools for mindfulness, stress management and personal growth, and works online.
Amy White
Amy White is a nutritionist and life coach who helps women over 40 lose weight, calm cravings, and regain energy. She also trained as a life coach and uses Positive Intelligence mindset tools. Amy has 15+ years of professional experience. She runs The Simplicity of Wellness program and meets with clients on Zoom calls.
Karen Meier
Karen Meier is a personal trainer for women over 50 in Scottsdale. She also works as a nutrition coach and a certified life coach. She did not start working out until she was 52, so she knows what it is like to begin later in life. She designs training around strength, balance, mobility, and energy. Clients work with her one on one, and she gives them an app that shows each exercise with a timer.
Alicia Jones
Alicia Jones is a fitness and weight loss coach for women over 50. She runs Alicia Jones Healthy Living and works with clients online. She has coached women in this age group since 2006. She has also kept off her own weight loss for 20 years. Her programs cover fat loss, strength and healthy eating for midlife. She shares free weekly workouts and short workout videos on her site.
CareerCycles
CareerCycles is a career counselling and coaching practice in Toronto and Vancouver. Its team of career counsellors and executive coaches has helped 5,000+ clients with career change, job search, retirement planning and outplacement. Clients meet online across Canada or in person. The practice uses a narrative career assessment built on a client's own stories. It also has published outcome studies and book chapters on its work.
Claudia Rossi
Claudia Rossi is a career coach in Roswell, Georgia. She helps mid to late career professionals who want a change, such as landing a new job, switching careers, or leaving corporate work to build a business. She has worked with more than 500 clients. She has changed her own career many times, and she uses what she learned about telling her story and selling her value to guide her clients. She is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC.
Lynn Sederlof-Airisto
Lynn Sederlof-Airisto is a strength training coach for women in midlife, perimenopause and menopause. Lynn runs Be Fit After 40 and has helped hundreds of women start lifting and keep going. Lynn's programs teach women to build muscle and strength, with options for home or gym. Lynn hosts the Menopause Strength Training & Fitness podcast and offers a free 10-day live challenge for new lifters.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn Griswold | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $115 to $175 an hour |
| Katherine Pratt | Confidence and self-esteem and Mindset and habits | $130 to $190 an hour |
| Lynn Goodacre | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Nicky Taylor | Purpose and direction and Confidence and self-esteem | $90 to $180 an hour |
| Sondra Slivon | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Connie Challingsworth | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $115 to $190 an hour |
| Erich Hofmeister | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Funmi Oni | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $115 to $160 an hour |
| Jo Ann Coker | Life transitions and Stress and overwhelm | $150 to $200 an hour |
| Karen Midyet | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Maree White | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Pam Traynor | Life transitions and Divorce recovery | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Valerie Mummert | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $115 to $175 an hour |
| Kirsten Trussell | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $100 to $135 an hour |
| Gretchen Bruno | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $80 to $150 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a life coach cost?
Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
What else do these life coaches help with?
Common focus areas include life transitions, confidence and self-esteem, retirement and midlife and purpose and direction.
Prices and research
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
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- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
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Last updated September 2026.