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Life Coaching Schools and Careers Guide

Life Coaching Certification | Natural Healers Career Resource Center

What is life coaching?
lifecoach talking with a patient

According to the International Coach Federation, life coaching is an on-going partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of life coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life. Beginning with their clients' desires, life coaches use reporting, exploring and a consistent commitment to move the client forward. Life coaching accelerates the clients' progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choices.

In the initial consultation, life coaches concentrate on the client's current situation, then deduce what the client is willing to do to reach the desired goals. This helps provide an overview of what needs to be done and the steps that need to be taken for the client to reach improved quality of life.

Areas of focus can include the following:

How are life coaching jobs practiced?
Life coaching jobs and sessions can be conducted through a number of mediums—here are the most popular:

During each life coaching session, the coach and the client discuss and explore the clients' journey, including goals, wins, challenges and opportunities. They also develop fieldwork for the coming week. Fieldwork consists of action steps to move the client closer toward his or her goals and dreams. The client brings the agenda, and the life coach provides the coaching skills to create a partnership that helps the client advance.

What life coaching certification and degrees are available?
Most life coaching certification programs are conducted as distance learning, whether over the Internet or through the mail, and may cost up to $8,000. Some life coaching programs are offered as part of a college curriculum and require approximately 100 hours, at a cost as low as $1,500.

Life Coaching Laws and Licensure
There is no life coaching job national licensure requirement at this time. Two life coaching certification programs are available: one as a professional coach and the other as an associate coach. These life coaching certifications are available from the International Coach Federation after graduating from an accredited coach training program.

Where can I get training?

Alabama
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Alaska
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Arizona
Bennett/Stellar University - Sedona
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts - Tempe
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Arkansas
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
California
Bennett/Stellar University - San Diego
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Colorado
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Connecticut
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Delaware
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
District of Columbia
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Florida
Bennett/Stellar University - Deerfield/Boca Raton
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Georgia
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Hawaii
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Idaho
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Illinois
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Indiana
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Iowa
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Meta Institute - Training in Edina, MN
Kansas
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Kentucky
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Louisiana
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Maine
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Maryland
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Massachusetts
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Michigan
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Minnesota
Meta Institute - Edina
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Mississippi
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Missouri
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Montana
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Nebraska
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Nevada
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
New Hampshire
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
New Jersey
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
New Mexico
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
New York
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - New York
North Carolina
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
North Dakota
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Meta Institute - Training in Edina, MN
Ohio
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Oklahoma
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Oregon
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Pennsylvania
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Rhode Island
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
South Carolina
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
South Dakota
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Meta Institute - Training in Edina, MN
Tennessee
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Texas
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Utah
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Vermont
Bennett/Stellar University - Burlington
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Virginia
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Washington
Bennett/Stellar University - Granite Falls
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
West Virginia
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Wisconsin
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning
Meta Institute - Training in Edina, MN
Wyoming
Institute for Integrative Nutrition - Distance Learning

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