Life coaches for retirees
Compare 43 life coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are life transitions, retirement and midlife, purpose and direction and stress and overwhelm. They most often work with retirees, professionals and people over 40. Most charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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Jessamina Lanzilotta
Jessamina Lanzilotta is a life and relationship coach who helps busy people manage stress and feel better in their bodies, work and relationships. She has taught group fitness for more than 15 years and was trained as a life and relationship coach by Tony Robbins. She also holds certifications in yoga, meditation and energy medicine. She works with individuals, couples and teams through private sessions, group programs and workshops.
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.
Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy is a life, grief and end of life coach in Michigan. She also coaches on retirement and dating in mid-life. Before coaching, she spent 16 years as Director of Benefits at Stryker, where she led a team that served 18,000+ U.S. employees. She trained through the Co-Active Training Institute and holds ICF and end of life coaching credentials.
Yvonne Victor
Yvonne Victor is a life and business coach who helps busy professionals build a life that fits their values and goals. She spent more than 30 years in corporate administration before opening her own practice. She wrote the book Unstuck: The First Five Steps For Living Your Best Life. She also coaches executives, leads workshops and speaks. Her work is based in Raleigh, NC, and her practice is called House of Champions.
Becca Briggs
Becca Briggs is a life coach in Oregon who helps sensitive, deep-thinking, creative people build confidence and reach their goals. She has worked as a creative freelancer for more than 10 years. She is a Certified Life Coach and NLP Practitioner. She also uses tools like EFT Tapping, Hypnotherapy, Reiki and the Enneagram, and she is studying Human Design.
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.
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.
Gabi Gilliland
Gabi Gilliland is a grief coach and life coach in New Hampshire. She helps people who have been hit by loss find their way through grief and move forward with their lives. Her work began with her own experience of loss. She coaches one-on-one in a 12-week program with weekly sessions by phone or video. She also meets clients in person if they live nearby. She sends questions before each session and a worksheet after.
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.
Lynn Hardin
Lynn Hardin is an anxiety and burnout coach who works with women who want less stress and a growth mindset. She coaches only one-on-one. Lynn is a former school principal who knows the strain of too much work and too little time. Her method focuses on managing the mind instead of trying to manage other people. She works with educators, retired women, and women with anxiety.
Thene Sheehy
Thene Sheehy is an accountability and career coach who helps people change careers, grow into leadership roles, and plan a fulfilling retirement. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach. She is an American who lives on the Silver Coast of Portugal and coaches clients around the world over Zoom. She also works with people who are moving abroad and want to start fresh in a new country. Her first call is a free one-hour strategy session.
Roslyn King
Roslyn King is a retirement coach, hobbies coach and accountability coach. She works with people who are getting ready to retire, people who are already retired, and couples. She builds a Retirement Lifestyle Plan with each client using a 4 step process. The process covers the 4 stages of retirement: Anticipation, honeymoon, disenchantment and reorientation. She holds Certified Master Life Coach and Certified Retirement Coach credentials.
Robert Foley
Robert Foley, known as Bob, is a retirement lifestyle coach in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He helps individuals, partners and couples plan a retirement or reset one that is not working. Bob is a social worker by degree, a former HR executive and a past President and CEO. He founded Retirement Lifestyle Coaching. His work covers the mental, physical, social and emotional sides of retirement, and he leaves the money side to a financial advisor.
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.
Chris Roos
Chris Roos is a life coach who works only with men. Chris founded Project Uhuru in South Africa. The word Uhuru means freedom. Chris helps men let go of beliefs and patterns that hold them back. Chris uses transformational coaching, NLP and mind shifting techniques. Chris also offers accountability coaching and breathwork coaching. Chris's clients include founders, executives, athletes, creatives, retirees and men going through divorce or career change.
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.
Steve Comerford
Steve Comerford is a life coach who helps retirees build a life they love in their third act. He retired at age 55 in 2016 and did not know what to do next, so he made coaching his next career. He also survived a major heart attack, and that shapes how he coaches. His style is friendly and fun, with a nudge to take action.
Adam Scheldt
Adam Scheldt is a burnout, grief and sleep coach based in Kenmore, New York. He works with individuals, couples and groups on stress, major transitions and personal growth. He has more than 20 years of experience across healthcare, non-profit, congregational and education settings. He spent over five years directing a counseling department at a hospice center. He sees clients in person in Western New York and online in the US and abroad.
Anne Rae
Anne Rae is a career and life coach who helps mid-life career changers, retirees, women returners and IT specialists. She also works as a redundancy coach. Before coaching, she spent more than 15 years in Human Resources at large multinational organisations, and she later taught primary school. She holds a PCC credential and is a certified Co-Active coach with 7 years of coaching experience. She blends systemic and body-centred methods into her work. She lives in south-west London.
Chivonne Hitchens
Chivonne Hitchens is an accountability and burnout coach in New Jersey. She helps people move from a 9-to-5 job to working full time for themselves. She is a serial entrepreneur, mentor and speaker. She has built life and business plans for clients for over a decade. She went through professional burnout twice, and that shapes how she coaches stress, time and priorities. She also volunteers as a mentor for community groups.
Frederick L. McQueen
Frederick McQueen is a Christian life and leadership coach in Ohio. He works with pastors, church leaders, executives, managers, couples and families. He is also the Senior Pastor of a church in Hamilton, where he has served for over two decades. He has 35 years of management experience and 22 years in training and development. He runs LifeSource LLC, which has a coaching division and a consulting division. He is known as the Shepherd's Coach.
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar is a debt and financial coach in Guelph, Ontario. He helps Canadian families, business owners and pre-retirees plan for retirement, get out of debt and build wealth. He leads the Hexavision team and has spent over 30 years running privately held businesses. He is a licensed broker and advisor in four provinces. He created the Hexavisionary Framework and offers his mentorship at no cost.
Michelle Bracy Medina
Michelle Bracy Medina is a career, life and leadership coach in Washington, DC. She helps recent graduates, mid-career professionals and retirees who feel stuck find direction. She has over 20 years of federal, private and non-profit experience. She works as a Lead Leadership Development Consultant for a large health care organization. She has also held training and professional development roles at the FDA, the VA Office of Inspector General and the GAO.
Peter Dudley
Peter Dudley is a career, life, and executive coach who helps people with career change, retirement, caregiving, burnout, and big life shifts. He built and led teams for 30 years at startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 50 companies. He has coached leaders through three CEO changes and onboarded two CEOs. He has helped more than 300 people from 18 to 85. He also coaches parents of gender-expansive teens and young adults, and he coaches writers on finishing books.
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown is a Christian life coach who helps high-achieving Christian women lead from their faith. She spent 36 years in corporate work and often worked in male-dominated spaces. She founded Her Authenticity, LLC and hosts the podcast In the Arena with Stephanie. She also speaks at corporate events, church events and women's summits. Her work centers on clarifying purpose, leading with bold authority and building a legacy.
William Ingogly
William Ingogly is a career and retirement coach in South Carolina. He helps people who are changing careers and people planning a meaningful retirement. He spent more than 35 years in software process design, management and quality assurance. He later worked as a licensed clinical counselor. He is a Board Certified Coach and runs the private practice Your Remarkable Life. He planned his own career and retirement moves, and he draws on that in his coaching.
David Bottomley
David Bottomley is a leadership, team and personal coach. He helps new, middle, senior and executive leaders learn to lead, not just manage. He also coaches teams and supports individuals facing anxiety, low confidence and procrastination. David spent 30 years as a manager, leader and board member in UK and international businesses. He holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and trained with Barefoot Coaching. He also coaches people through redundancy, retirement and starting a business.
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.
Jesse Erdheim
Jesse Erdheim is a well-being coach who works with individuals, couples, and groups. The coaching is built on positive psychology and mixes neuroscience, mindfulness, and behavior change. Jesse holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and is a Duke-certified Health and Well-Being Coach. Jesse has worked in well-being and personal development for more than a decade. Jesse is based in Durham, NC, and coaches clients online across the United States.
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.
Marisa Singer
Marisa Singer is a career and life coach who helps people through career changes, burnout and big life transitions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who spent a decade as a child and family therapist for marginalized communities. Burnout pushed her to change careers, and she became a certified coach. She now focuses on social impact professionals, helpers and healers who want work that lasts. She also coaches on work/life balance and parenting stress.
Michelle Bracy Medina
Michelle Bracy Medina is a career, life and leadership coach in Washington, DC. She helps recent grads, mid-career professionals and retirees who feel stuck find direction and purpose. She has more than 20 years of federal, private and nonprofit experience. She now works as a Lead Leadership Development Consultant for a large health care organization. Before that, she held training and professional development leadership roles at the Food and Drug Administration and the VA Office of Inspector General.
Tiffany Shaklee
Tiffany Shaklee is a certified Christian life coach who helps people work through life transitions and grow in their faith. He runs Sacred Space Coaching in Northern Colorado and meets clients in person or online. He is also a certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise. Tiffany blends coaching tools with Inner Healing tools, and he sees clients who want purpose, healing and accountability.
Claire Bankole
Claire Bankole is a Christian leadership coach and life coach. She helps leaders and people of faith make lasting changes. She runs a small youth and community charity as its CEO. She has given more than 20 years to the not for profit sector as a full time volunteer. Before that she worked as a paediatric doctor. She has a special interest in leaders of schools, churches, health care teams, and community groups.
Louise Love
Louise Love is a budget and accountability coach who helps professionals bring order to their money. She also coaches retirees, small business owners, self-employed people, college grads and young professionals. She is a YNAB Certified Budget and Personal Finance Coach. She pairs practical money strategies with work on the mindset and emotional habits that make money stressful. She has a special focus on therapists whose income is uneven and whose finances feel messy.
Linden Wolbert
Linden Wolbert is a virtual business and career coach who helps dreamers, retirees, side hustlers and solopreneurs turn their ideas into real work. Linden quit a 9-5 job in 2005 and built a career as a professional mermaid. That path grew into a product line, a YouTube channel with over 50 million views, two utility patents and a podcast. Linden also chairs a global ocean conservation non-profit.
Debra Gelinas
Debra Gelinas is a leadership, career, and accountability coach who helps people going through professional transitions, including retirees. She owns Breadwinner Coaching & Consulting. Before coaching, she spent 20 years in higher education leadership, where she managed teams, built partnerships, and created skill-building programs. She holds a doctorate in education and a master's degree in counseling. She is also trained in mediation and human resources management.
Trie Angeleva
Trie Angeleva is a career and retirement coach in Jersey City, New Jersey. Trie helps college students, new grads and professionals find and prepare for careers they like. Trie also helps people in or near retirement plan a purposeful next chapter. Before coaching, Trie served as a Deputy Mayor, ran a business, worked as a CIO and taught career preparation at a Big 10 university. Trie has helped hundreds through The Love Monday Method.
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.
Judi Lansky
Judi Lansky is a career and executive coach who leads Lansky Career Consultants in Chicago. She helps people look for a new job, change careers, explore a second career, or review their career path. Her clients include executives, recent graduates, retirees, and people who are unemployed or self-employed. She offers a one-day, five-hour Career Boot Camp where she works one-on-one with a client. She also coaches by phone and online.
Ginger Terrell
Ginger Terrell is a career and business coach in Asheville, North Carolina. She works with high school and college students to save thousands in tuition costs. She also helps mid-career transitioners and people nearing retirement find work they care about. She holds a BS, an MA and an MBA. She states clearly that she is not a headhunter, so she does not place people in jobs.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jessamina Lanzilotta | Stress and overwhelm and Work-life balance | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Lynn Goodacre | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Mary Murphy | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Yvonne Victor | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $115 to $190 an hour |
| Becca Briggs | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $130 to $190 an hour |
| Connie Challingsworth | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $115 to $190 an hour |
| Karen Midyet | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Gabi Gilliland | Life transitions and Grief and loss | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Duncan Rinehart | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Julie Gaye Murphy | Confidence and self-esteem and Life transitions | $95 to $160 an hour |
| Lynn Hardin | Stress and overwhelm and Purpose and direction | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Thene Sheehy | Life transitions and Retirement and midlife | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Roslyn King | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Robert Foley | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $350 to $500 per hour |
| Katinka Blackford Newman | Confidence and self-esteem and Life transitions | $80 to $159 per hour |
Common questions
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Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include life transitions, retirement and midlife, purpose and direction and stress and overwhelm.
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Last updated September 2026.