Life coaches for retirees
Compare 42 life coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are life transitions, retirement and midlife, purpose and direction and goal setting and accountability. They most often work with retirees, professionals and executives. Most charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Lynn Goodacre
Lynn Goodacre is a life and confidence coach who helps women in their 50s, 60s and beyond build a full and engaging life. She also coaches singles and couples. She began coach training in 2010 and holds a Singles Coach certification from the Relationship Coaching Institute. She also holds certifications in life purpose coaching, group leading, and public speaking and workshop facilitation. She lives on the west coast of Canada and coaches clients online around the world.
Sandra Crosasso
Sandra Crosasso is a yoga teacher and life coach based between Geneva and Annecy. She helps individuals, active women, seniors and company teams build well-being through movement and coaching. She spent 7 years in marketing research at L'Oréal and later traveled the world solo. She has been a certified yoga teacher since 2011 and holds the E-RYT500 level. She also runs yoga programs for companies focused on quality of life at work.
Chris Roos
Chris Roos is a life coach who works only with men. He founded Project Uhuru in South Africa. The word Uhuru means freedom. Chris helps men let go of beliefs and patterns that hold them back. He uses transformational coaching, NLP and mind shifting techniques. He also offers accountability coaching and breathwork coaching. His clients include founders, executives, athletes, creatives, retirees and men going through divorce or career change.
Duncan Rinehart
Duncan Rinehart is a retirement and life-wellness coach. He works with retirees and people close to retirement who want to shape their senior years. He is in his 70s and has been a triathlete all his life. He holds four coaching and health certifications, including ICF and NBHWC. His own history of injuries, surgeries and personal loss shapes how he coaches people through the challenges of ageing.
Julia Seal
Julia Seal is a coach who helps midlife women leaders plan a happy retirement and handle big life changes. She has 20 years of executive coaching behind her. Her work mixes the science of human flourishing, neuroscience, and philosophical and spiritual wisdom. She runs a 108-day program called 108-Days with Julia. It helps clients sort out what comes next and build their own version of happiness in retirement.
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.
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.
Karen Midyet
Karen Midyet is a retirement and life coach who helps aging adults plan the next chapter of their lives. She is also a psychologist. Her practice, Coaching Aging Adults, serves seniors, baby boomers and the sandwich generation. She works on life purpose, major transitions and what to expect as clients grow older. She also offers a caregiver coaching service and coaching on dating after 60, which are rare add-ons for a retirement coach.
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.
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.
Yvonne Victor
Yvonne Victor is an accountability coach and life coach for busy professionals. She works with C-suite executives, mid-level and young professionals, small business owners, empty nesters and retirees. Before coaching, she spent more than 30 years in corporate administration. She now blends that business background with practical life experience. Her style is laid back, direct and free of judgment. She also speaks and leads workshops, and she offers a free sample session.
Ken Russell
Ken Russell is a life, business and career coach in Massachusetts. He works with individuals, executives, business owners and companies of all sizes. He helps clients set goals, plan career moves and grow their businesses. Ken is a certified life coach who has run his own business and worked as a technologist. He also offers business consulting alongside his coaching. His clients include board members, team leaders, new grads, mid-lifers and retirees.
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.
Thene Sheehy
Thene Sheehy is an accountability coach and career coach based in Portugal. She helps people change careers, recover from corporate burnout, and move through big life changes. She also works with people preparing for retirement and people moving abroad. She coaches clients worldwide in English. Her clients include technology professionals, new and existing executives, and new coaches. She holds the ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and offers a free first call.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar is a debt and financial coach who helps Canadians build wealth and plan for retirement. He is a licensed broker and advisor in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Ontario. He has over 30 years of experience leading privately held businesses. He has helped 100s of clients and coached agents. He also holds business analysis and project management certifications and has lectured on personal finance.
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.
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.
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown is a Christian life coach and mindset coach who helps Christian women live out their God-given purpose. She holds a Master Christian Life Coach certification and is also a Maxwell Method DISC consultant. She works with professional women, retired women and women entrepreneurs. She also coaches teams and speaks to audiences about personal and professional growth. Her focus is helping clients find their purpose and move through life transitions.
Adam Scheldt
Adam Scheldt is a breathwork and burnout coach who helps clients find calm during stressful times. He works with people on personal goals, strengths, stress and work-life balance. His clients include lawyers, physicians, teachers, social workers, students and retirees. He is also a Spiritual Director. Adam works mostly online. He also meets clients in person in Western New York. Helping others has been his career for two decades.
Djessica Duchatelier
Djessica Duchatelier, who goes by DJ, is a career coach and purpose coach. She helps college graduates, young adults, mid-career professionals, empty nesters and retirees. She also helps people going through major life transitions. She holds certifications in career coaching, mindset coaching and professional goal setting. DJ is an entrepreneur and creativity expert. She offers resume writing alongside her coaching, so clients can get both services from one person.
Judith Lansky
Judith Lansky is a career and executive coach who heads Lansky Career Consultants in Chicago. She helps people change careers, look for a new job, explore a second career, or review their career path. Her clients include executives, recent college graduates, retirees, and people who are unemployed or self-employed. She serves clients nationally by phone, email, and in person. Her LinkedIn profile is ranked in the top 5% most viewed.
Tiffany Shaklee
Tiffany Shaklee is a certified Christian life coach. She helps people move through life transitions and build up their faith. Her clients include empty nesters, moms, and retirees. She also works with people who want accountability as they make changes. Her coaching focuses on helping clients move forward with a sense of freedom and wholeness.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Murphy | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Robert Foley | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $350 to $500 per 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 |
| Katinka Blackford Newman | Confidence and self-esteem and Life transitions | $80 to $159 per hour |
| Lynn Goodacre | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $100 to $190 an hour |
| Sandra Crosasso | Stress and overwhelm and Work-life balance | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Chris Roos | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Duncan Rinehart | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Julia Seal | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Julie Gaye Murphy | Confidence and self-esteem and Life transitions | $95 to $160 an hour |
| Nancy Collamer | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Karen Midyet | Retirement and midlife and Life transitions | $110 to $175 an hour |
| Lynn Hardin | Stress and overwhelm and Purpose and direction | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Steve Comerford | Retirement and midlife and Purpose and direction | $80 to $130 an 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 goal setting and accountability.
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Last updated September 2026.