Cost of Life Coaching?

[coldel]

Just sticking a poll out there guys, Life Coaching. This is something where a trained coach/facilitator spends usually an hour per session speaking with people to help them improve their confidence, set and achieve goals, tackle difficult problems etc. could be about careers, social challenges, financials, anything really that someone feels they need help tackling. Question is, what would you pay per session for that?

[Stutopia]

I’ve replied with a northern price, southern results may vary.

[Ekona]

I went with £50-£60, but only because I had the figure of £50 in my head. That's what an average non-specialised psychiatrist charges round our way, so I figured that's got to be in the ball park.

[rabbitstew]

A friend of mine does this for a living and she charges around £50 an hour. Where she makes her money is that after the first session she usually recommends the client comes back for 2 or 3 further sessions. She has a lot of repeat custom and then gets new clients mainly through word-of-mouth. She makes some very good money out of it.

 

After speaking to her, I can see where some people would benefit from it, but from what she says she basically just sits there and lets someone tell them their problems. Then she asks them what they feel the solution is and lets them answer their own problems etc. Theres more to it than that, shes fully trained marriage guidance and all that kind of stuff too so she knows what shes doing.

[coldel]

Thanks guys 

[colesl4w]

I would be very cautious about who you employ for that. Take a good look at their own CV. I'm always sceptical of people who market success when they themselves may not have achieved it. 

[coldel]

Most coaches go through an accredited training programme learning about basic psychology techniques plus coaching techniques like NLP, Transactional Analysis and the like. It well worth ensuring any coach is qualified and or has equivalent professional experience in coaching.