Life coaches for purpose and direction
Compare 1,265 life coaches who focus on purpose and direction. Besides purpose and direction, the most common focus areas are life transitions, confidence and self-esteem, stress and overwhelm and goal setting and accountability. They most often work with professionals, women and founders and business owners. Most charge $88 to $175 per hour or session.
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Anthony M. Davis
Anthony M. Davis is a life, success and stress coach who directs the Center for Personal Leadership and Development. He helps women who have survived long-term abuse rebuild their strength, and he also coaches on leadership and goals. He served in two military services, law enforcement and the Intelligence Community. He is a bestselling author and a hypnotherapist. Most sessions run by phone or video, and he does not sell long-term subscription plans.
Dan Remon
Dan Remon is a performance and life coach in Bangkok who works with executives, entrepreneurs and business owners. He has coached for 25 years and been in business for 23. He holds a degree in human physiology and psychology and trained at health resorts in Thailand, India, Mexico, the UK and Europe. He also runs corporate training on resilience, energy management and self leadership, and offers a men's fitness and performance program.
Keith Gilmore
Keith Gilmore is a life and accountability coach in Portland, Oregon. He helps people find purpose, get focused, and make clear decisions in life and at work. He has coached since 2014 and has served hundreds of clients. He co-founded two businesses, leads a local nonprofit, and speaks at large conferences. He also spent over two years volunteering on the national suicide crisis line. He sees himself as an advisor more than a coach.
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.
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.
Amy Schuber
Amy Schuber is an energy healer and coach who works with business owners, entrepreneurs and people in life or career transitions. She focuses on releasing inherited and ancestral trauma that holds back personal and professional growth. She left corporate America over 15 years ago and has coached business owners since. She also hosts the Inspired Conversations Podcast, which started in 2014 and has over 525 episodes. She leads healing retreats for groups.
Andrea Morton
Andrea Morton is a life coach who works with moms of teens and empty-nesters, plus a few dads. She helps them build a new chapter after years of parenting. Before coaching, she taught elementary and middle school starting in 1997. She was diagnosed with combined-type ADHD at age 48 and is finishing an ADHD coach credential. She runs Think To Thrive and meets clients online, weekly or twice a month.
Andrea Wall
Andrea Wall is a life, leadership and courage coach based on Canada's West Coast. She helps early to mid-career women who look successful but feel uninspired and unsure of their next chapter. Before coaching, she worked in the non-profit and social innovation sector. She led a multi-million dollar community initiative and ran a youth social entrepreneurship program. She offers a 4-session sprint, a 3-month intensive and a 12-month program.
Angelina Fomina
Angelina Fomina is a life and career transition coach for high-achieving professionals, founders, creatives and women in tech. She helps clients through burnout, layoffs, relationship endings and questions about what comes next. She spent over 12 years building products at Meta, Shopify and BetterUp, and she bootstrapped a SaaS company to $1M ARR. She also has Masters-level training in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which shapes how she works with chronic stress.
Anita Booth
Anita Booth is a Christian and life coach who helps executives, emerging leaders and professionals line up their work and life with their purpose. She spent more than 25 years in corporate roles before she became a certified coach. She built the Purpose-Aligned Living framework and the Aligned Purpose Blueprint. She also works as a leadership advisor and personal brand strategist, and she speaks and publishes a monthly collection on personal growth.
Anna Chin
Anna Chin is a life, career and communication coach. She helps ambitious people find clarity, build confidence and move forward in their careers. She has 15 years of coaching experience and an MBA. She has lived and traveled in 15 countries, including the United States, Spain, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. She speaks 6 languages and understands how hard it is to thrive in a foreign place. She also holds CBT and NLP practitioner certifications.
Anne Thomas
Anne Thomas is a life coach who helps women move through the empty nest stage and other big life changes. She built her own coaching framework, called Momentum that Matters. Before coaching, she worked in business development and corporate training at Xerox, served as a banking vice president in fair lending compliance, and taught K-2 reading recovery for ten years. Her own empty nest shift, when her sons left for college, shaped her work.
Annique Sampson
Annique Sampson is a life coach who helps people stop putting their dreams on hold and take bold action. She has a special focus on women working through fear, procrastination and self-doubt. Before coaching, she was a midwife. She has coached thousands of clients since 2016. She is a trauma-informed Professional Certified Coach who uses somatic work, Internal Family Systems and Solution Focused Brief Coaching, with the nervous system in mind.
Ariston Murphy
Ariston Murphy is an emotional wellness and Christian life coach in Ohio. She helps women get unstuck, build confidence and live with purpose. She wrote the book The Courage to Dance Again and founded Midnight Fire Ministries, a nonprofit for at-risk youth and families. She ran a home care business for over 10 years and has worked in mental health and public schools. Her practice is called Revive Her.
Ben O'Brien
Ben O'Brien is a life coach who helps mid-life professionals, first responders and veterans find clarity, steadiness and direction. He spent 26 years in the fire service, working inside high-stakes human moments. His coaching looks at values, body signals and emotions, not just thinking. He also works with young adults who need direction and people facing transitions they did not plan for. Sessions are one-on-one by video or in person.
Bettina M. Jones
Bettina M. Jones is a life and career coach who works with Black women in corporate, non-profit, academic and small business settings. She spent over 20 years in the corporate world, in financial services, tech, consumer goods and academia. She trained as a Master Certified Life Coach through Martha Beck, Inc. Her work centers on finding meaning, building self-leadership and defining success on your own terms. She also offers tiered rates and special rates for college students entering the workforce.
Betty Chatzipli
She coaches women through life change, divorce, career shifts and starting a business. She moved to fully online coaching in 2021 and runs Expert on Your Life. Her earlier work was in business development, education and public relations.
Bill Newgent
Bill Newgent is a burnout and life coach who helps exhausted high-achievers who still feel empty after success. He created the Unlearning Myself Framework, which focuses on releasing false beliefs and identities instead of adding more effort. He is a Certified Jungian Psychology Coach and was mentored personally by Marianne Williamson. He has 36+ years of personal recovery and teaches from his own business collapse and relational loss.
Brendaliz Acosta
Brendaliz Acosta is a life and leadership coach who helps high-impact professionals and startup founders move past burnout and self-doubt. She spent more than 24 years in corporate work, including a director role at Colgate-Palmolive where she led manufacturing strategy for a $3B home care category. Today she runs BA Coaching & Consulting LLC and The Breathing Lab. She blends breathwork, NLP and hypnosis into her coaching to work on unconscious patterns.
Brent Scarpo
Brent Scarpo is a life and career coach in Palm Springs, California. He helps millennials, high school students and college students with career, relationship and life direction. Before coaching, he spent 40 years in Hollywood as an actor and casting director. He cast The Shawshank Redemption, Air Force One and Matilda. He built a program called "Millennials are Amazing" and teaches twenty life lessons he learned while casting Shawshank.
Buck Dodson
Buck Dodson is a life coach and licensed therapist who works with LGBTQ people, couples and creative entrepreneurs. He is also a Board Certified Coach. He has been a licensed therapist for nearly two decades. He created Life Lab, a self-discovery framework for designing a life that fits who you are. He also hosts the Gay Men's Life Lab podcast. His coaching centers on accountability, self-worth, healthy relationships and career goals.
Caren Robinson
She helps people through life transitions, stress, burnout and recovery after a life altering event. She is also a TBI mentor and medical advocacy consultant. Her past work includes emergency medical services, healthcare and advocacy roles. She founded Vital Ability, LLC, which offers one-on-one coaching and workshops for groups and organizations. Her coaching draws on brain-based methods, emotional intelligence and mindfulness.
Caren Young
Caren Young is the founder of The Professional Adult, a coaching and consulting practice in Chicago. She coaches people who are good at many things and want to run them as a planned portfolio career. She also trains teams. She spent over 10 years in product management at Ford, Allstate, Discover and HCSC. She uses product management frameworks in her coaching. She is also an award-winning performer who has taught on four continents.
Caroline Geraci
Caroline Geraci is a life and business coach who helps women live in line with their values and dreams. She founded Intentional Abundance Coaching in Madison, Wisconsin. Her approach draws on positive psychology, which she studied as an undergraduate while doing research for Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania. She was an attorney, a serial entrepreneur and an educational consultant. She also holds an M.Ed. in school psychology and a real estate license.
Cathryn Peirce
Cathryn Peirce is a life and executive coach who helps founders and professionals build stronger self-trust and reach big goals. She runs Mountain Tops Consulting and leads programming at the Entrepreneur House of San Diego. Before coaching, she was a three-time founder in climate fintech, consulting and fiscal literacy. She has coached 18 professionals and run 200+ hours of executive masterminds, 60 development workshops and 5 leadership retreats.
Charles Christoph
Charles Christoph is a personal and professional coach in Ottignies, in the Brabant wallon region of Belgium. He helps people and teams clarify their direction, get through a transition and find a better balance between work and private life. He also profiles clients with the Enneagram and MBTI. His own path into personal development began in 2016 after a work overload. He coaches in person and online, and he works in French.
Chassie Cox
Chassie Cox is a postpartum coach who helps mothers with depression, anxiety and trauma. She is a certified, trauma informed life coach in Tennessee. She is a mother of 5 and had postpartum depression and anxiety after each baby. She built the Brave Mother Method, a self-paced video course, and runs a 6 month one-on-one program called Brave as a Mother. Her work helps mothers find themselves again after having a baby.
Christiane Drew
Christiane Drew is a life and leadership coach who helps women build confidence and move through change. She holds an ICF PCC credential and an MBA from Penn State University. She has logged over 1000 coaching hours, many with businesswomen going through life transitions. She has lived in four countries and started a new career along the way. Her sessions use brain-based tools, NLP and mindfulness. She also gives talks on confidence and self-worth.
Claire Baker
Claire Baker is a life and career coach who helps lesbians and LGBTQ+ allies build fuller lives and stronger relationships. She runs Practical Change Coaching and has coached since 2012. Before that, she spent more than 30 years leading and managing nonprofits, so she knows cause-based career issues well. She also leads weekly healthy living and weight management workshops. Clients can work with a coach who understands lesbian relationships and does not need a coming out conversation.
Claudia Behn-Eschenburg
Claudia Behn-Eschenburg is a coach who helps people who feel at odds with themselves and do not know who they are or what they want. She works on anxiety, career and personal growth. She has over 35 years of experience in clinics, schools and private practice. She trained in psychoanalysis and the Enneagram and created her own method called inner-strengthening coaching. She coaches in Spanish, German and English.
Crystal R
Crystal R is a life and accountability coach in Maryland who runs Wellness & Woo. She helps people set goals, build a plan, and get past what blocks them. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation and offers reiki and energy readings. Crystal holds a goal attainment specialization and is a Level I and II Reiki practitioner. She has read tarot intuitively for over 30 years. Sessions are held virtually, one on one or in small groups.
Dave S. Wallace
Dave S. Wallace is a career and couples coach who works mostly with men and professionals. He has coached for 17 years, in private and group settings. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist with degrees in clinical and organizational psychology. Before this work, he spent 10 years composing music in Hollywood. His clients include entrepreneurs, producers, artists, doctors, lawyers, principals and veterans. Most of the men he sees are between 16 and 50 and feel stuck in work or relationships.
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.
Debjani Ghosh
Debjani Ghosh is a life and spiritual coach in Mumbai. She helps self-aware professionals, entrepreneurs, and women leaders who keep repeating the same patterns in love, money, purpose, and emotions. She founded SoulQuest and works as an Akashic mentor. Her sessions combine Akashic Records, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and somatic awareness. She is also an author, hypnotherapist, and graphology practitioner.
Dee Carter
Dee Carter is a confidence and life coach in South Carolina. Dee works with high-functioning adults who have lost touch with who they are beneath their roles. Dee founded Dee Carter Collective and created the I.D.E.N.T.I.T.Y. and R.I.S.E. frameworks. Both rest on one idea: Identity drives behavior. Dee has built identity programs for corporate leadership pipelines, government training, youth leadership cohorts, and re-entry populations. Dee also coaches on everyday confidence, dating, and self-presentation.
Denise Johnson
Denise Johnson is a life coach who helps women build confidence, clarity and a stronger sense of self-worth. She founded DCJ Coaching. She is also a licensed clinical mental health and addiction therapist, and she keeps her coaching separate from therapy. She has lived in Africa, Brazil and France. She offers a 3 month self-discovery program and sobriety accountability support for women who feel stuck or are going through change.
Djelani Hamm
Djelani Hamm is a life and career coach who helps creative people and career changers reach personal and professional goals. He has coached for seven years and worked as a credentialed educator for more than 30 years. He holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and an MFA in Film Producing. He also consults with creative organizations on diversity, cultural analysis, and change. His clients include artists, writers, academics, educators, and people in the film industry.
Ela Korjenic
Ela Korjenic is a trauma-informed resilience coach who works with adults facing burnout, major life transitions, loss, or the sense that their life no longer fits. She spent 20 years in HR, helping people through hard conversations, career decisions and workplace change. She runs Grit Beyond Limits and coaches online in English and Bosnian. She works with people who feel stuck, and helps them rebuild trust in themselves and choose a next step.
Elizabeth Woods
Elizabeth Woods is a physician and life and leadership coach for women physicians and women leaders. She helps them recover from burnout, rebuild confidence, and lead in a way that fits their values. She has mentored healthcare professionals for over 14 years and has a background in trauma-informed care. She has helped hundreds of women, including with raises. She runs a program called The Physician Reset.
Ellen Crafts
Ellen Crafts is a life, executive and speaker coach who helps women through career reinvention, leadership challenges and high-stakes speaking moments. She founded Life Crafts Coaching in 2019 and works with clients online across the United States. Before coaching, she worked in social work, corporate marketing and events, and film production. She won an Emmy for the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. She has more than 30 years of experience across boardrooms, production sets and nonprofits.
Enza Richards
Enza Richards is a life, career, and spirituality coach in Orange, Connecticut. She helps people who face a major life change, feel stuck in their career, or want a deeper sense of purpose. She brings over 30 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies and decades of meditation, yoga, and self-inquiry. Her work is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), which sets her approach apart from standard career coaching.
Erica Berejnoi
Erica Berejnoi is a life coach who works with highly sensitive people and empaths. She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability and is a Board Certified Coach. She has coached for more than 5 years. Erica uses psychosynthesis, a branch of psychology that includes the higher Self, in her one-on-one sessions. She is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and coaches clients online around the world in English and Spanish.
Frederick Sanders
Frederick Sanders is a life and leadership coach who works with high-performing, creative men of color. He holds the Master Certified Coach credential from the ICF and a Ph.D. in professional coaching and human development. He has coached for Lyra Health, BetterUp and CoachHub. He also teaches clients to use artificial intelligence to improve performance. A 2019 car crash changed his own life and shaped how he coaches inner work.
Gemma King
Gemma King is a life coach and psychologist who helps adults with anxiety, burnout, low confidence and life transitions. She holds an MSc in Applied Psychology and has training in trauma work. She coaches online worldwide and face to face in Penkridge, Staffordshire. She also offers walk and talk sessions in nature. Her work draws on ecotherapy and Andean wisdom tradition alongside psychology. She has lived through a brain injury and PTSD.
Giustina Ferone
Giustina Ferone is a confidence and emotional intelligence coach in the Netherlands. She helps professionals, entrepreneurs, expats and people in transition find direction and step outside their comfort zone. She is a former biomedical scientist with a psychology degree and a PhD in Life Sciences. She brings science into her coaching. She coaches in English and Italian and uses cognitive-behavioral coaching and assessments.
Greg Furnia
Greg Furnia is a life, executive and career transition coach who works with first responders and their families. He also coaches leaders and professionals who want success at work without losing what matters at home. Greg spent 26 years in federal law enforcement, including special operations and leadership roles. He founded Living the Good Life LLC and coaches clients online across the United States. He also partners with agencies on retirement readiness and leadership training.
Heidi Fossali
Heidi Fossali is a life coach and personal trainer who helps men and women rebuild confidence, health and purpose. She has worked with clients for over 25 years. She holds ICF and NASM credentials and is a beauty and personal style consultant. She wrote the #1 Amazon bestseller From Frightened To Fabulous, which lays out an 8-step plan. She is based on the French Riviera and coaches privately worldwide.
Hitomi Taguchi
Hitomi Taguchi is a life, leadership and executive coach in Suita-shi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She helps clients clarify their vision at work and in private life, then act on it. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and trained with the Co-Active Training Institute. She coaches in English and Japanese. She also works with introverts, people who feel like impostors, and people with many interests who struggle to choose.
Jasmin Neuwirth
Jasmin Neuwirth is a life, career and relationship coach in Walnut Creek, California. She helps people who feel stuck in their relationships or their work. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with a master's degree in counseling psychology. She has more than 3,500 hours of individual coaching. She works with clients on breakups, divorce, dating and communication struggles, burnout, and big career moves. Her sessions mix practical strategy with intuition.
Jeff Tomczek
Jeff Tomczek is a certified life coach who helps young professionals, rising leaders, entrepreneurs and creatives design lives that mix purpose with career success. He runs Calibreal Co. in Louisville, Kentucky. Jeff has 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur, brand strategist and marketing leader, including Fortune 100 global leadership roles. He is also studying clinical counseling, which shapes how he looks at habits and behavior.
Jeffrey Sartori
Jeffrey Sartori is a life coach and mentor in Ohio who helps people stuck at a crossroads or facing a big decision. He also offers Christian life coaching and accountability coaching. He brings 35 years of business experience, including management consulting, small business ownership and leadership roles in software. He earned his ICF coach certification in July 2023. His last name is often said without the R, and he ties his approach to the Japanese word Satori, which means a new point of view.
Jen Majors
Jen Majors is a trauma-informed, faith-based life and leadership coach. She helps faith-led women heal from childhood wounds, rebuild self-trust, and live with purpose. She founded Wholehearted Impact and wrote the book Wholehearted Healing. She also hosts a podcast and speaks at workshops and on stage. Her main program is a 3-month private coaching container built on her Wholehearted Coaching Method. She works from Alaska and meets clients online or in person.
Jennifer Collins
Jennifer Collins is a master certified life coach who helps moms of teens and young adult children. She runs Small Jar and hosts The Almost Empty Nest Podcast. Her work centers on what she calls the Empty Nest Straddle, the space between holding on and letting go. She earned her first certification in 2020 and master certification in June 2023 through the Life Coach School. She is also a mom of two teenage sons.
Jimmy Turner
Jimmy Turner is a physician coach who helps doctors who feel stuck or burned out in medicine. He is a practicing academic anesthesiologist and a certified coach. He founded The Physician Philosopher and Money Meets Medicine. He coached hundreds of physicians through burnout, then shifted his focus to the money side of physician life. He co-hosts a physician personal finance podcast with more than 250 episodes and has written two books.
Joel Sacks
Joel Sacks is a life coach, hypnotherapist and team coach based in Vancouver, Canada. He helps people with mindset, habits, procrastination, stress and finding their purpose. Before coaching, he worked in computer programming and co-founded an e-commerce business, where he ran technical operations. He later sold that business. He also coaches teams on communication and trust. All sessions run over Zoom, so clients can live anywhere in the world.
John McKay
John McKay is a confidence and creativity coach who helps artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers. He has coached since 2016. Before that, he was a lifelong musician who played in bands, toured across the USA, owned a mobile recording studio and promoted concerts. He helps clients trust their own wisdom so they can live and create with more joy, make strong work and build career success.
Jonathan Marion
Jonathan Marion is a transformational life coach, consultant and speaker in Arkansas. He coaches accomplished professionals who look successful on paper but feel that something important is missing. He spent more than 20 years as an award-winning cultural anthropology professor and author. He holds an ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and a fellowship at the Institute of Coaching. His practice is called Steps Along The Way. He also teaches Brazilian zouk partner dancing.
Joni Stevens
Joni Stevens is an accountability and leadership coach in Ohio. She helps high-achieving people who feel overwhelmed and overcommitted. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Her own life included a leadership career, advanced degrees and years of balancing many roles. She coaches on boundaries, supportive systems and time that matches what matters most. She offers private sessions and an eight-week group program.
Julia Seal
Julia Seal is a coach for midlife women leaders. She helps them find happiness and plan a good retirement. She has 20 years of executive coaching behind her and holds an MA in Happiness Studies. She founded Happiness-Matters in Cape Town, South Africa. She hosts a podcast on happiness and self-coaching, and she runs a 108-day retirement program called Prime Time.
Kadir Buvan
Kadir Buvan is a coach for artists, writers and creatives, and for people managers. He started his practice, Kolam Creative Collective, in 2021. He first coached tech workers on leadership and career, then moved toward creative coaching, writing and facilitation. Before coaching, he worked as a software engineer and then an engineering manager. He also worked on teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. He trained at the Academy of Creative Coaching.
Karla J. Noland
Karla J. Noland is a life coach who helps women who have survived loss and trauma rebuild their sense of self. She runs Reveal Heal Thrive LLC in Durham, North Carolina. She is also an author and speaker. Her book The Day My Heart Turned Blue won a 2022 Eric Hoffer Spiritual book award. She blends faith, positive psychology and goal planning in her coaching. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential.
Kate Stirling
Kate Stirling is a life coach in Soho, London who helps people build confidence, mindset, wellbeing and energy. She has coached for 22 years and has worked with hundreds of people in high performance, health, fitness and the creative industries. She is also a professional actor and speaker. She runs corporate workshops and hosts the podcast Club Thrive. Her clients are mostly actors, creatives, entrepreneurs, mums and coaches.
Kathryn Mabbutt
Kathryn Mabbutt is a life coach based in East London. She helps people find clarity, purpose and direction in their personal and professional lives. She began her career in drug and alcohol rehabilitation, where she built counselling skills, and later led charity work for children and families. She moved into coaching in 2019 and became certified in 2020. She offers hourly sessions online worldwide or in person, and some subsidised places for charity workers and people on lower incomes.
Katia Lossano
Katia Lossano is a life, executive and career coach. She helps people set goals, find purpose and grow as leaders. She spent 20 years in Human Resources and held senior leadership roles at multinational companies. She has lived in 4 countries and knows international relocation firsthand. She is a partner at BTF Consulting. She holds degrees in Psychology and Business Administration and is certified by the Integrated Coaching Institute.
Ke'ren Fromayan
Ke'ren Fromayan is a Master Certified Life Coach who helps women through life transitions. She is the founder of Flourish In Color. Her work centers on identity, purpose, boundaries and healing. She built the Five Seasons of Becoming framework, which helps a client find the season of life she is in before choosing next steps. Before coaching, she worked in healthcare and went through burnout and a divorce.
Kelly Arthur
Kelly Arthur is a life coach who works one on one with women in mid-life. She helps them get clear on what matters now and build a life that fits who they are today. She is both a certified life coach and a licensed therapist, with over 25 years of experience. She is a best-selling author of the book She Rises. A stroke in 2019 led her to rebuild her own life, and that shapes how she coaches.
Kerry Iannone
Kerry Iannone is a Christian life coach who helps women take back dreams they set aside for the needs of others. She holds dual graduate degrees in counseling and worked in mental health and education before she moved into coaching 12 years ago. She coaches individuals and groups around the globe. She also gives keynotes and workshops at conferences across the country. Her method is called the REALIFE Process.
Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy is a life, performance and relationship coach in Schenectady, New York. He helps driven professionals, partnerships and teams who feel stuck or are going through change. He has worked since 1996 as a counselor, therapist, supervisor, director, trainer, consultant and professor. He brings that background into coaching, and he states that his work is coaching and not therapy. He also teaches new clinicians.
Kiera Smale
Kiera Smale is a life, leadership and business coach in Delaware. She co-founded Ignite Leadership 360 and works with individuals, business owners, colleges and corporations. She has more than 15 years of coaching experience and has built two coaching businesses. She uses NLP, Reiki, DiSC and leadership development in her work. She also runs a coaching certification and leads firewalking events, which is uncommon among coaches.
Kim Green
Kim Green is a life and leadership coach who helps people through major life and career transitions. She is a retired Navy Commander with 18 years of leadership experience. She has worked in military and professional settings, building workforces and improving global operations. She holds a Masters in Human Systems Integration and an M.B.A. in Human Resources. She uses the Energy Leadership Index to help clients find what blocks them and gain clarity.
Kim Kimball
Kim Kimball is a somatic and embodiment coach who helps women through identity transitions such as motherhood, midlife, career change and faith deconstruction. She worked for 13 years as a Doctor of Physical Therapy before she became a coach. She has guided more than 500 clients and has coached for over 8 years. Her work blends somatics, nervous system tools and parts work (IFS). She works from Virginia and offers a one-day Voxer format.
Kori Rutherford
She founded Inner Healing Garden and blends mindfulness, somatic integration and nature-based ideas in her sessions. She holds an ICF credential and has a corporate leadership background. She also lives as an urban homesteader. Her own method, the Inner Healing Garden Framework, guides clients through stages from seed to bloom.
Laura Fowler
Laura Fowler is a life and wealth coach who helps high-achieving women heal survival patterns that keep them anxious, overwhelmed and stuck. Her work is rooted in somatic healing and nervous system regulation. She holds an MSW and is an Intermediate Level Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She began by coaching women on building businesses, then moved into wealth coaching. She started as a single mother in debt and now runs two businesses.
Laura Spiegel
Laura Spiegel is a life, leadership and performance coach in Vancouver, British Columbia. She works mainly with individuals who want to lead engaged and happy lives. She founded BodyMind Interactive and holds an ICF Master Certified Coach credential. She has a master's degree in counselling psychology and training in Somatic Experiencing. In 2013 she received the first Impact Award from the ICF Vancouver Chapter. Her coaching starts with two questions: What do you want, and why does it matter to you.
Lauren Rapaport
Lauren Rapaport is a life coach who helps adults who feel stuck, lost or unsure where their life is headed. She also works with people living with Type 1 diabetes and parents of children with T1D. Before coaching, she spent 20 years in a corporate career. She has had Type 1 diabetes since 1979. Her private program runs 12 weeks over Zoom and uses a three-step process built on awareness, allowance and action.
Leonora Found
Leonora Found is a confidence coach who helps mothers reconnect with who they are. She began her career in corporate client communications and organisational management. After years of raising three children, she retrained as an ICF ACC coach. She wrote the book I'm Fine, about emotions in motherhood, and added a chapter to The Perfectly Imperfect Family. She coaches on Zoom, Google Meet, Skype or WhatsApp, and in person.
Liisa Wagner
Liisa Wagner is a life coach who helps women and teen girls build confidence, find direction, and make their next move. She runs Mindful Boom from Whistler, BC, and coaches clients online. Her work started with moms who wanted more balance. Their mothers and daughters then joined too. She trained at the Flow Coaching Institute and holds a business degree. Her flagship offer is a 6-week lifestyle program.
Lila Ramsahai
Lila Ramsahai is a life coach in Central London who helps people with anxiety, burnout and emotional issues. She has coached since 2020 and has 17 years of experience helping people with trauma and emotional problems. She is trained in both life coaching and psychotherapy. Her work covers career, relationships, purpose, spirituality, intercultural relationships, dating, debt and work-life balance. She also works as a redundancy coach. Her background includes living and working in several European countries.
Lindsay Lincoln
Lindsay Lincoln is a life and leadership coach, trainer and workshop facilitator who helps individuals, couples, leaders and teams build emotional intelligence. She works with people facing change, such as a career shift or an organizational shift. She has over 20 years of experience in more than a dozen countries, delivering behavior change programs. She holds a Professional Certified Coach credential and is based in Seattle.
Lisa Zappetti
Lisa Zappetti is a life coach who helps women in or entering midlife. She works on goals, confidence, life purpose and accountability. She uses her own ALIGN Action Plan to guide clients. Lisa has worked in education for 30 years as a college professor and advisor. She also leads a support group for women with adult children. Her clients can choose a single session or a program of one, three or six months.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony M. Davis | Goal setting and accountability and Stress and overwhelm | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Dan Remon | Purpose and direction and Mindset and habits | $90 to $180 an hour |
| Keith Gilmore | Purpose and direction and Stress and overwhelm | $100 to $170 an hour |
| AimeeJo Davis-Varela | Life transitions and Grief and loss | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Alina Tanasescu | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $120 to $150 per hour |
| Amy Schuber | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $90 to $180 an hour |
| Andrea Morton | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Andrea Wall | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $95 to $160 an hour |
| Angelina Fomina | Life transitions and Stress and overwhelm | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anita Booth | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $90 to $180 an hour |
| Anna Chin | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Anne Thomas | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Annique Sampson | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Ariston Murphy | Confidence and self-esteem and Purpose and direction | $130 to $190 an hour |
| Ben O'Brien | Purpose and direction and Life transitions | $80 to $140 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a life coach for purpose and direction cost?
Most life coaches charge $88 to $175 per hour or session.
What else do these life coaches help with?
Common focus areas include life transitions, confidence and self-esteem, stress and overwhelm and goal setting and accountability.
Prices and research
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- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.