FAQs

A life coach helps people to get unstuck and move forward in their life. A life coach helps their clients get past obstacles to achieve their goals, thus becoming happier and more content with life.

Yes, anyone can be a life coach. But, to be a great life coach, you must develop the skills necessary to effectively work with clients such as active listening, powerful questioning, and the ability to decipher nonverbal communication.

Life coaches identify and describe current problematic behaviors so the client can work to modify them. Therapists analyze their client's past as a tool for understanding present behaviors. In other words, therapists focus on “why” certain behavioral patterns occur, and coaches work on “how” to work toward a goal.

Generally, people who are seeking to heal inner pain and address past traumas should seek therapy, while life coaching is for people who want to achieve certain goals.

While people may report subjective benefits after seeing a life coach, there have also been studies that have shown that life coaching can be beneficial in a number of areas: One study found that both individual and group coaching was helpful in reducing procrastination and improving goal attainment.