Certified spiritual coaches
694 spiritual coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 68% of all spiritual coaches. Certified spiritual coaches charge $90 to $200 an hour.
Key numbers
- 694 spiritual coaches list a credential (68% of spiritual coaches).
- 44 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
- Certified spiritual coaches: $90 to $200 an hour.
- Spiritual coaches with no credential: $75 to $160 an hour.
Credentials spiritual coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 604 |
| Graduate degree | 46 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 42 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 2 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified Life Coach | 43 |
| Certified life coach | 23 |
| Reiki Master | 22 |
| Certified Professional Life Coach | 15 |
| MBA | 15 |
| NLP Practitioner | 10 |
| Certified Spiritual Coach | 10 |
| Certified Spiritual Life Coach | 9 |
| Certified Life Coach Institute | 9 |
| ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) | 8 |
What certified spiritual coaches charge
| Group | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Credential listed | $90 to $200 |
| No credential listed | $75 to $160 |
Certified spiritual coaches to compare
Aleli Carissa Gimena
Aleli Carissa Gimena is a life and spirituality coach in Dubai. She helps lightworkers and soulful entrepreneurs build confidence, live their purpose, and grow aligned businesses. She is a Reiki Master and NLP Master, and she holds a law degree and a master's in education. Her work blends energy healing with practical steps for launching offers and programs.
Alex Gilman
Alex Gilman is a spiritual and life coach who founded Wild Iris in Sonoma County, California. Alex helps people build a spiritual practice and bring their insights into daily life. The work includes one-on-one integration sessions and monthly nature meditation retreats on private land at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Alex holds a master's degree in Continental Philosophy and has taught humanities using the Socratic method.
Alicia Brockington
Alicia Brockington is a Christian life coach in Maryland who helps people move forward after grief, loss, stress and burnout. She runs True Vine Christian Coaching and holds AACC certification as a professional Christian life coach and as a grief coach. She has led group coaching on grief and loss for two years. Her sessions use biblical principles alongside coaching tools, and she offers a free discovery call.
Amber Wood
Amber Wood is a pregnancy loss practitioner who guides women through grief and loss. She founded Scales & Alchemy. Her work centers on the womb, the nervous system and the body. She uses somatic practices, ritual, Reiki, meditation and breathwork. Her own four miscarriages in four years led her to this work. She is based in Costa Rica.
Ang Kostelyk
Ang Kostelyk is a Christian life coach and business coach in Indiana. She helps women get past self-imposed limits and build the life they want with their faith. She also works with entrepreneurs. Ang went through divorce after 21 years of marriage and now coaches other women through that kind of change. She has been an entrepreneur since 2006 and once owned a health and wellness studio.
Angela W Startz
Angela W Startz is a Christian life coach in Plano who helps Christian adults and couples heal from narcissistic abuse, complex trauma, betrayal, and divorce. She founded Called2Rise LLC in 2020. Her coaching is not therapy. She uses Scripture along with tools for nervous-system regulation, plus cognitive, behavioral, and attachment-informed work. She also holds certifications in premarital and marriage programs and trains in military and first responder coaching.
Aparna Vemula
Aparna Vemula is an intuitive coach and Reiki Master in Alabama who helps women let go of old stories and feel lighter and more joyful. She also supports women on hard conception journeys. She reads the Akashic Records and does Soul Realignment work. She teaches clients to connect with their spirit baby through a process she calls Conscious Conception. Her practice is called Whisper Within.
Bev Shaver
Bev Shaver is a Christ-centered total well-being coach who helps clients with emotional, physical and spiritual wellness. She worked as a therapist with LDS Family Services before becoming a Certified Life Coach. She created The STEERING Solution, a 9-week program that mixes teaching modules with small-group coaching. She also offers nutrition consulting and BEMER wellness support. Sessions run over Zoom or in person for Arizona clients.
Brigid Tebaldi
Brigid Tebaldi is a Christian health coach who helps entrepreneurial women repair and regulate their nervous systems. She also coaches moms who had hard births and want to heal and stop fearing future pregnancies. She has worked with women since 2018. She is a board-certified health and wellness coach with an MBA and a Billings Ovulation Method instructor. She blends nervous system work, hormone education, nourishment, and faith into one approach. She runs two businesses of her own.
Cindy Schmelzenbach
Cindy Schmelzenbach is a Christian life coach and strengths coach who works with leaders, including those in cross-cultural settings. She holds an ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. She spent 19 years in cross-cultural leadership roles with a global ministry organization and launched a Member Care initiative across 46 countries of Asia Pacific. She also serves on faculty at Professional Christian Coaching Institute and offers mentor coaching for other coaches.
Claudine Noel
Claudine Noel is a life and somatic coach who helps Catholic women heal old heart wounds. She is also a double board-certified physician and a Catholic convert. She created Integrative Catholic Life Coaching, a method that mixes faith with trauma-informed, nervous system work. She runs the Heart Safety Circle, a nervous system regulation membership for Catholic women. Her training covers polyvagal work, breathwork, NLP and clinical hypnosis.
Constantine Dhonau
Constantine Dhonau is a coach for individuals and couples who want healthier relationships with themselves and others. He focuses on religious harm reduction for LGBTQIA+ couples and on psychedelic integration. He holds an ICF PCC credential and coaches in Positive Intelligence. He spent over 8,000 hours as a wilderness therapy guide for teens and young adults in crisis. He also studies Daoist texts like the Dao De Jing and the I Ching.
Cyd Holsclaw
Cyd Holsclaw is a Christian life and embodiment coach in Michigan. Cyd helps people who feel something is missing find more wholeness, purpose and peace. Cyd's coaching is trauma-informed and centered on Jesus. Cyd blends neuroscience, embodiment and spiritual practices. Cyd has coached for more than 12 years. Cyd also wrote the book Landscapes of the Soul, which looks at attachment and faith. Cyd works with individuals, partners, groups and teams.
Daniel Cramton
Daniel Cramton is a Christian coach in West Point, California. He helps Christians who love the Lord but feel stuck in their career, relationships, finances, or porn use. He coaches on life and career topics from a faith view. He completed the Certified Professional Coach Program at the Center for Christian Coaching. He is also a head elder at his church and an award winning author. For porn accountability, he plans weekly meetings for one to two years.
Daniel Domaradzki
Daniel Domaradzki is a spiritual and mental coach who teaches meditation, energy healing and mind hacking online. He works with spiritual seekers, healers, therapists and meditation students, and also with athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs. He has meditated since 2000 and became a certified energy healer in 2007. He also trained in strength and conditioning and has coached world champions and record holders in strength sports. His base is Stoke Gifford, near Bristol.
Deborah Conner
These include near-death, out-of-body, after-death communication and psychedelic experiences. She holds an MA in Philanthropy and Development and has consulted for non-profits and small businesses. She is a certified coach and a member of the International Coaching Federation and the International Association of Near Death Studies. She also supports people who feel stuck, unmotivated or held back by self-limiting beliefs.
Elisabeth Manning
Elisabeth Manning is a spirit coach who helps mothers-to-be, artists and entrepreneurs with energy work, creativity and spiritual growth. She started her online coaching business in 2008 after leaving Nike, where she worked directly for founder Phil Knight. Her fertility and conscious conception work is a core focus. She also trains other coaches in spirit and energy tools. She is an author and speaker, and she serves some high profile clients with full privacy.
Emilah DeToro
Emilah DeToro is a career coach and energy coach in Arizona. She helps highly sensitive people, empaths, seekers and introverts through career, relationship and life transitions. In 2010 she created Intuitive Life Coaching, a mix of coaching, intuitive development and energy healing. She has held the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential since 2013. She also mentors people who want to grow their own intuitive and spiritual gifts.
Emily Byrd
Emily Byrd is a certified life and faith coach in Utah. She helps men and women who feel stuck in stress, anxiety, fear, hopelessness and shame. She trained at The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo, then earned an advanced faith based coaching certification with Jody Moore. Her clients bring topics like kids not listening, cheating husbands, difficult family members and questions about faith. She also helps people improve their bond with a partner, children and their spirituality.
Felicia LaBoy
Felicia LaBoy is an accountability coach and Christian life coach in Illinois. She helps Christian business owners, leaders, churches and community groups lead from their faith. She founded The Orchestrated Effect, LLC, a coaching and consulting company. She is a former Fortune 100 company leader with 30+ years of organizational leadership. She has coached and trained hundreds of clients and has written five books, including Unstuck.
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.
Greg Woodard
Greg Woodard is a Christian life and leadership coach who works with value-driven leaders. He spent 22 years as a Marine and Navy Chaplain before becoming an author, spiritual director and coach. He holds a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership Renewal and Coaching. His coaching blends spiritual formation, emotional intelligence and daily rhythms. He also uses the Enneagram. He helps leaders find their calling and avoid burnout.
Heather Clark
Heather Clark is a Christian life coach who helps women who feel worn out by perfectionism and people pleasing. She is also an ER physician with an MD. She runs Sunflower Christian Coaching and is a double-certified life coach. Her work teaches clients to listen to their inner critic with curiosity and to replace shame with what she calls God's truth. She offers single sessions, a five-session pack, and a 6-month one-on-one program.
Holly Davis
Holly Davis is a Christian life coach and burnout coach in South Carolina who works with women. She holds the ICF Associate Certified Coach credential. Before coaching, she spent 15 years overseas as a youth pastor and missionary. She came home, hit a breakdown, and needed two years to recover. She now guides clients through three phases she went through herself: Acceptance, authenticity, and abundance.
Jennifer O'Sullivan
Jennifer O'Sullivan is a confidence and embodiment coach in Virginia. She guides seekers, space holders, healers and social change-makers through their inner world. She has spent 20 years teaching yoga and Buddhist mindfulness. She is also a Certified IFS Practitioner and uses Internal Family Systems Parts Work in her sessions. Clients can start with the body, the breath or Parts Work, depending on what fits them.
Jill M. Lillard
Jill M. Lillard is a Christian coach who works with women and couples on their relationships with themselves, God, and the people they love. She blends biblical teaching with brain science. Jill is a licensed professional counselor and a Gottman Certified Couples Therapist. She also holds a life coach certification from The Life Coach School and a brain health certification from Amen Clinic. She offers private couples coaching, one-on-one coaching, and two signature programs for women.
Jim Miller
Jim Miller is a Christian life coach in Illinois. He helps people who want a closer relationship with God and people working through struggles and challenges. He spent 40 years in pastoral ministry. He then worked 17 years as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor. For the last 8 years he has run his own substance abuse counseling center in Cicero, Illinois. Jim focuses on people who have struggled with addiction.
John Duke
John Duke is a faith-based life and accountability coach in Louisiana who helps men rebuild after relationship damage, divorce, and personal loss. He runs Altar'd Life Coaching and also works with women. He is a Certified Life Coach Minister through the Christian Leaders Institute. He has led Bible studies and recovery groups. His coaching centers on faith, daily discipline, and leading well at home.
John Stamper
John Stamper is a Christian recovery coach in Kentucky who helps men break free from pornography and unwanted sexual behavior. He is a Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional and an ICF Professional Certified Coach. He has more than 500 hours of coaching experience. He also leads online groups for The Freedom Fight. He draws on his own recovery, which began when he turned to God and asked another person for help.
Karen Brownfield
Karen Brownfield is a Christian life coach and burnout coach in South Carolina. She helps burned-out Christians and high achievers move from driven striving to a restored, balanced life. She coaches in person and over Zoom. Each client gets a personal Resonant Path Roadmap with tools for course-correcting. Karen holds ICF Associate Certified Coach and PCCI Certified Professional Life Coach credentials. She is also a certified advocate for victims of domestic abuse and coercive control.
Common questions
How many spiritual coaches are certified?
68% of spiritual coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
Do certified spiritual coaches charge more?
Certified spiritual coaches charge $90 to $200 an hour, compared with $75 to $160 for spiritual coaches with no credential.
What is the top spiritual coach credential?
The International Coaching Federation's MCC is the highest coaching credential, followed by the PCC and ACC.
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Last updated September 2026.