Professional Life Coach Certification & Guide (Accredited) (Udemy.com)
Become a certified life coach & grow your life coaching business! Done-for-you forms, tools, processes & best practices
Created by: Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services
Last updated September 2026
Our take
Based on the ratings of 26,146 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in September 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.
Joeel Rivera and Natalie Rae of Transformation Services built this as a 12.9 hour video course with 116 lectures across 21 sections. It opens with coach self-awareness, listening and questioning, then moves through goal setting, NLP and emotional intelligence. A long run of process sections covers beliefs, emotions, fear and purpose. The business module follows, then a short wrap-up. It is aimed at people who want to start coaching, and also at counselors, teachers or working coaches adding tools. Nothing is required beyond interest.
Reviewers say it is easy to follow, and one praises the attachments as something that could be used right away. Two say the exercises taught them about themselves before they coached anyone. One reviewer with a psychology degree called it a useful refresher. Complaints are small. One finds some content repetitive, though they add that it reinforced the core ideas. Another wanted more on actually getting a business started, and a third had about four videos that would not play. About 62 percent of the 26,146 ratings are five stars.
The course is a bestseller with 92,759 students, and it was refreshed in September 2026, so the 2016 launch date is not a worry. It has no quizzes or graded assignments, so practice is on you. The business section is only about an hour and a half. It works best as a broad first pass at the craft and the paperwork. If you already coach and want depth on one method, look elsewhere.
Pros
- Downloadable worksheets, intake forms and templates that one reviewer says could be used right away
- Clear, easy-to-follow teaching; reviewers call it easy to understand and one finds it engaging
- Covers listening, questioning, goal setting, NLP and emotional intelligence in one place
- Updated September 2026, with 62 percent of its 26,146 ratings at five stars
Cons
- No quizzes, graded assignments or practice tests, so nothing checks what you have learned
- Business section is only 12 lectures, and one reviewer wanted more on starting out
- One reviewer found the content repetitive, and another had about four videos that would not play
It was easy to understand and came with attachments that could be implemented right away.
Listed as All Levels, but it reads as a beginner course. No prior coaching or training is required.
What you will learn
- Feel confident in your ability to get your clients real results.
- Feel credible and prepared.
- Structure your coaching business, including packages, sessions and your ideal coaching niche.
- Utilize proven life coaching best practices including step-by-step processes and powerful tools.
- Polish your communication techniques so that you can listen to and question your clients to success.
- Learn neuro linguistic programming (NLP) techniques.
- Know how to set expectations, maintain boundaries, and overcome your own fears.
- Use professional done-for-you forms and templates that take the guesswork out of coaching.
- Work with your clients to set achievable goals and action plans and hold them accountable to follow through.
- Develop your emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.
- Help your clients develop awareness and mindfulness.
- Help your clients empower their thinking and self-talk.
- Help your clients take back their power over negative emotions.
- Help your clients eliminate limiting beliefs and stop holding themselves back.
- Help your clients make hard decisions and take actions they've been putting off.
- Help your clients overcome fear of change, failure and risk.
- Help your clients live a life of passion and purpose.
- Create a thriving life coaching business.
- Discover your ideal life coaching niche and design your life coaching package.
- Learn secrets to attracting clients and marketing your life coaching business.
Course content
21 sections · 116 lectures · 13 hours of video 5 articles
- 1FOUNDATION: Introduction to Life Coaching 7 free previews13 lectures · 1.1 hours
- 2FOUNDATION: Self Awareness as a Coach6 lectures · 38 min
- 3FOUNDATION: Getting Started, Structure & Setting Expectations4 lectures · 17 min
- 4SKILLS: Communication Techniques - Listening5 lectures · 33 min
- 5SKILLS: Communication Techniques: Questioning4 lectures · 34 min
- 6TOOLS: Setting Goals9 lectures · 1 hour
- 7Coaching Tools and Techniques5 lectures · 32 min
- 8Coaching Forms and Template1 lecture
- 9TOOLS: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Processes6 lectures · 40 min
- 10MINDSET: Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as a Coach5 lectures · 28 min
- 11MINDSET: Growth Mindset & True Confidence5 lectures · 36 min
- 12PROCESS: Developing Awareness and Mindfulness4 lectures · 30 min
- 13PROCESS: Empowering Thinking & Self-Talk6 lectures · 47 min
- 14PROCESS: Empowering Emotions5 lectures · 39 min
- 15PROCESS: Empowering Beliefs6 lectures · 45 min
- 16PROCESS: Decision Making & Taking Action4 lectures · 20 min
- 17PROCESS: Overcoming Fear of Change, Failure & Risk7 lectures · 44 min
- 18PROCESS: Passion and Purpose3 lectures · 18 min
- 19PROCESS: Rewriting Your Life Story4 lectures · 35 min
- 20BUSINESS: Your Life Coaching Business12 lectures · 1.6 hours
- 21Wrap Up and Next Steps2 lectures · 18 min
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- You want to become a certified professional life coach.
- You are a life coach and you want to add to your skills and tools.
- You are a counselor, therapist, teacher, speaker, author, or other practitioner who wants to enhance your services by offering life coaching.
- • If you want more expertise and a greater understanding of the life coaching industry.
- • If you want a step-by-step system and powerful tools with proven results.
- • If you want to expand your credibility and build your confidence as a life coach.
What you need before you start
- A desire to become a life coach and learn powerful techniques and tools for helping others.
How it compares
Against the other 56 rated Udemy courses in Life Coaching on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 44% of them
- Reviews26,146#2 of 57 by number of reviews
- Length12.9 hourslonger than 75% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 64% of them
Course Description
*Top-Rated Udemy Instructor with 1,000,000 Students + Earn an Official Life Coach Certification*
Do you want to make a difference and make money doing it?
Have you been dreaming of or considering becoming a life coach?
Are you a life coach who wants to add to your toolbox?
Become a CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL LIFE COACH!
It’s a great time to become a life coach—life coaching is a $2 billion industry and one of the fastest growing industries in the world! Whether you are new to the life coaching field or you have been practicing for years this course is for you as it will take you from foundation materiel to advance techniques and strategies to help transform your clients life.
The best thing about life coaching is that anyone can be a coach! You can coach clients on any topic that you love or any experience that you have, whether it’s to help them improve a skill, achieve their goals, find more meaning and purpose in life, overcome challenges, find true happiness, get healthy, feel more confident, advance their career, start a business, or any other way you feel inspired to help someone transform their lives!
This course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to feel confident as a life coach, get your clients real results, and create a thriving life coaching business! You’ll receive:
Life coaching industry best practices
Professional life coaching skills and techniques
Done-for-you templates, worksheets, and questionnaires
You will develop a strong foundation of understanding of how to be an effective coach, including:
Overcoming your own biases as a life coach
Establishing healthy boundaries and expectations
You’ll develop strong communication skills, including powerful listening skills and vital questioning skills that will allow you to help clients develop a better understanding of themselves.
You’ll learn core life coaching tools, including goal setting exercises and accountability tips to help you empower your clients to follow through and achieve their goals.
You’ll learn popular activities you can use with your clients, like the wheel of life, journaling, affirmations, as well as popular Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques.
You’ll develop the mindset of success including developing your emotional intelligence, learning how to establish rapport with your clients, make sure you and your clients are approaching coaching with a growth mindset, and develop true confidence as a life coach.
And then, you’ll dig deeper with in-depth life coaching processes designed to help you coach your clients to achieve specific outcomes. Processes we will cover include:
Awareness
Mindfulness
Self-talk
Emotions
Beliefs
Decision making
Taking action
Overcoming fear
Creating change
Finding passion and purpose
Rewriting your life story
You’ll also receive a ton of done-for-you templates, intake forms, worksheet activities, and questionnaires.
You’ll have the skills, tools, mindset, and processes to thrive as a life coach and make a difference in people’s lives.
But, we want to make sure that your business thrives too! And, so the course also includes strategies for growing your coaching business, including:
Naming your offering
Structuring your coaching
Determining your value
Setting your price
Identifying your niche
Crafting a magnet message (elevator pitch)
Creating a life coaching package
Offering group coaching
Tips for what actually works when marketing your business!
So, are you ready to have everything you need to start and grow your coaching business and finally follow your true calling? If so enroll now, we look forward to seeing you in the course!
Guarantee: We know you will love this course. However, we offer a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee if the course does not meet your needs for any reason.
So, who are we?
We are Joeel & Natalie, founders of Transformation Services, Inc., authors, speakers, and educators. We have nearly 2 decades of experience in the field of psychology and life coaching. ll of our programs are designed based on our experience in coaching, social services, psychology, and education, as well Joeel’s Masters Degree in Counseling and research on happiness for his dissertation for a PhD in psychology.
We have 1,000,000 students from 200 countries.
STUDENTS WHO COMPLETE EVERY LESSON IN THIS COURSE WILL RECEIVE AN OFFICIAL LIFE COACH CERTIFICATION FROM TRANSFORMATION SERVICES, INC., AS WELL AS THE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL LIFE COACH LOGO TO USE IN HIS/HER MARKETING MATERIAL. SEE THE FINAL LESSON IN THIS COURSE FOR INSTRUCTIONS.
THIS COURSE IS PART OF OUR MASTER COACH CERTIFICATION (ALONG WITH OUR HAPPINESS COACH, GOAL/SUCCESS COACH, AND LIFE PURPOSE COACH CERTIFICATIONS).
Copyright Transformation Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
26,146 Reviews
Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services
Joeel A. Rivera, M.Ed. and Natalie Rae are pioneers in the life coaching field and co-founders of Transformation Services – the leading online course marketplace for life coaching, personal development and entrepreneurship. They’re the only life coach training organization in the world with 60+ niche coaching certifications, providing completely self-paced, done-for-you coaching programs offered at accessible prices.
They have PROUDLY served nearly 1,000,000 happy students from 200 countries and territories.
Using the science of psychology and human potential, they train leading edge entrepreneurs, leaders, and life coaches how to master their mindset and create a purpose-driven business so they can monetize their passion and live life on their terms.
Joeel A. Rivera, MEd: From an early age, Joeel faced adversity, including failing his first year of college and losing his brother to a car accident at the age of 19. This experience transformed his life and instilled a deep sense of purpose by inspiring him to give his brother Daniel's name a meaning by helping others find their true path. He returned to college, earning a Master's Degree in Counseling and all but the dissertation for his Ph.D. in Psychology, and later became a psychology professor.
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Reviews
By Angelina Love Cooke on 8/27/2026
This course was everything I was looking for and more. Through completing the worksheets and coursework I learned so much about myself, gained clarity, feel more prepared to start my business, and excited! I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to start their coaching business. Fantastic!
By Kindra Martinenko on 8/7/2026
A good primer on how to become a life coach. Some of the content seemed repetitive at times, but did help in reinforcing core concepts and reframing elements in different ways to gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to be an effective life coach that can be applied to people from all walks of life.
By Catherine Reilly on 6/26/2026
the info is great ........... the parts that play..... have had about 4 vid that would not play all or part of the vid.
By Lucia Sandaal on 6/16/2026
Great and informative course. Would have loved to see an actual coaching session though. That's the only thing that was missing, but I learned a lot as a beginning coach. I already purchased my next course from these teachers.
By Timothy Richards on 5/14/2026
This is a fantastic resource! I am working on teaching my own Art Therapy classes, and as an artist and someone who used art to get through some very hard times, this course gave me great information on sharing my own story and getting my business off the ground!
By Satvinder Singh on 4/3/2026
Because it was easy to understand and realistic. It was to me, an unknown territory. Concepts were simply explained with very relatable examples and what was great was that the sessions were short and precise, though were packed with a lot of information and knowledge.
By Sonia Bond on 4/2/2026
I am a retired MA Psychology graduate student. My career portfolio has included jobs such as: Live-in Ministering House Parent (teen males) Social Service Coordinator (senior adults) Head Preschool Teacher I want to earn certification as a Life Coach so that I can officially support people who want to make life decisions at any stage of development.
By Melony Lynch on 3/30/2026
Excellent course filled with lots of great information. It’s presented at a pace that’s easy to understand and follow along to without being overwhelmed. I appreciated that there were lots of optional worksheets to do more critical thinking and examination of the coaching aspects and skills that were being presented.
By Carol Wood on 3/24/2026
I have really enjoyed the course and it has cemented a lot of what I have been doing for many years. I have a passion for finding out what makes people tick and helping them find their purpose, and this course has given me the structure to be able to guide them through the process. I am excited to be able to offer one-on-one coaching as well as group coaching. I will add all my other modalities that I have used through my years of self exploration to this course in order to offer a unique package to my clients. Thank you.
By Luz Mery Rocha Correa on 3/9/2026
Me gusto mucho la metodología! Las sesiones tienen un tiempo adecuado para ser entendidas y completadas satisfactoriamente, los instructores explican muy bien los conceptos y gracias a los ejemplos y los recursos de trabajo es posible interiorizar el aprendizaje! Muchas gracias!
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Overall Score : 92 / 100












