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44 Best + Free Life Coaching Courses & Certificates [2026]
Ranked by Michael Kuhlman, CourseDuck's founder, from student reviews across every provider. How we rank
Our top picks
- Certified Life Coach Training (Beginner to Advanced) [Udemy]
- Professional Life Coach Certification & Guide (Accredited) [Udemy]
- Coaching for Growth and Success [Udemy]
- Happiness Life Coach Certification (Accredited) [Udemy]
- Become a Paid Life Coach Online [Udemy]
- Goal Setting to Success: Life Coach Certification Accredited [Udemy]
- Transformative Life Coaching (Advanced Skills Training) [Udemy]
- Life Coach Certification Masterclass: 3 Certifications In 1 [Udemy]
- Emotional Intelligence Life Coach Certification (Accredited) [Udemy]
- Professional Life Coach Certification PCELC Coach Training [Udemy]
About the best Life Coaching courses
CourseDuck compares the 44 Life Coaching courses listed here, 2 of them free, and ranks them from the 143,000 ratings and reviews their students have left, with the price, length and level of each one side by side. No course pays to be listed or ranked. As featured on Harvard EDU, Stackify and Inc. How we rank
Frequently asked questions
The most-reviewed course in this category is Certified Life Coach Training (Beginner to Advanced) by Kain Ramsay, with about 39,000 reviews at 4.6 as of October 2026. Next is Professional Life Coach Certification & Guide (Accredited) by Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services, with about 26,100 reviews at 4.6.
Life coach training and certification, coaching skills, career coaching, group and relationship coaching, goal setting and happiness coaching, and starting a coaching business.
Paid Udemy video courses include a certificate of completion when you finish; free courses and practice-test-only courses do not. It shows you did the work, but it is not an accredited qualification. Many courses here call themselves accredited; check which body accredits them, and what it requires, before you rely on it with clients.
44 Filtered Courses
1
Certified Life Coach Training (Beginner to Advanced) (2025)
4.6
A 33-hour life coaching course with a psychology slant, covering goal setting, questioning and rapport, plus a certificate and a community group.
Best for: People new to coaching, or working coaches, who want a psychology-based model and a clear session structure.
Pros
Cons
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- Covers the full coaching process, from goals and action plans to designing a series of sessions
- Rated 4.6 across 38,996 reviews, so a very large pool of students backs it
- Updated in 2025, and includes a certificate and an online community group
- Description stresses practicing on yourself and others, not just watching lectures
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- No written reviews are available, so specific complaints are unknown
- At 33.3 hours it is a big time commitment for a first look at coaching
- Nothing in the data says the certificate is recognized by a coaching body
2
Professional Life Coach Certification & Guide (Accredited) (2026)
4.6
A self-paced life coaching course with 21 short sections, from listening and NLP to a business module, plus intake forms and worksheets students use right away.
Best for: Newcomers who want a structured coaching toolkit with ready-made worksheets and intake forms.
Pros
Cons
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- 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
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- 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
3
Coaching for Growth and Success (2025)
4.5
A 75-minute manager's intro to coaching with the GROW model, built around AI role-play practice instead of quizzes and taught by an executive coach who teaches at Wharton and Duke.
Best for: New or mid-level managers who want a quick, practical intro to coaching their team, not a life coach credential.
Pros
Cons
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- Short at about 75 minutes, so a busy manager can finish it in one sitting
- Teaches the GROW model plus how to tell when coaching is not the right move
- AI role play gives hands-on practice, and one reviewer preferred it to a quiz
- Reviewers call it to the point and say the tools apply at work and at home
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- The AI role play is mandatory, and reviewers report audio failures and the AI cutting them off
- Slides can vanish quickly and the video pace is fixed even if you have read the transcript
- Role play covers one leader-to-leader scenario, and one reviewer wanted new hires or low performers
4
Happiness Life Coach Certification (Accredited) (2026)
4.7
A short, structured happiness coaching program built around six layers, from desire to mood, with a certificate and ready made materials for working with clients.
Best for: Working coaches, counselors or speakers who want a ready made happiness program to use with clients.
Pros
Cons
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- Six layer framework gives a clear, step by step path from desire to current mood
- Reviewers call it easy to grasp and practical, with tools they start using right away
- Instructors come across as clear, humble and engaging in the student reviews
- Refreshed in September 2026 and a certificate is included
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- Only about 5.8 hours and no quizzes or assignments, so practice is up to you
- Expects a basic understanding of life coaching, so true beginners may struggle
- About 525 three star ratings show a lukewarm minority, though the sample gives no reasons
5
Become a Paid Life Coach Online (2015)
4.3
A free, six-hour primer on the business side of coaching, focused on finding clients and running sessions rather than on earning a certificate.
Best for: Aspiring coaches who want a free, quick look at lead generation and client sessions before paying for training.
Pros
Cons
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- Free, so trying it costs only about six hours of viewing time
- Rated 4.3 across roughly 6,070 ratings, a solid score for a free course
- Covers the business side: lead generation, running sessions, building a client base
- Beginner level with no listed prerequisites, so no coaching background is needed
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- Last updated in 2015, so the online marketing advice may be badly dated
- No certificate, so it won't count as formal coaching credentials
- Sells on the instructor's own income claims, which the page can't back up
6
Goal Setting to Success: Life Coach Certification Accredited (2026)
4.8
Learn Life Coaching industry best practices. Help clients be successful, achieve their goals, and reach their dreams!
What You'll Learn
- Understand the psychology of what creates long term success
- Learn coaching best practices, techniques and tools to help your clients achieve life goals
- Utilize a prove, step-by-step system with all the material needed to coach your clients
- Be able to teach what you learn with confidence
- Increase your credibility
- Enhance your coaching business
- Offer new services to current clients
- Provide workbook materials to your clients
- Add additional sources of revenue to your bottom line
7
Transformative Life Coaching (Advanced Skills Training) (2025)
4.7
Learn a complete life coaching process, from goal setting and action planning to boosting productivity + people skills.
What You'll Learn
- Practical Insights: How to build empowering life coaching relationships on empathic acceptance & trust.
- Practical Insights: How to develop collaborative life coaching relationships around clearly-defined goals.
- Self-Knowledge: Understand a broad range of modern applied psychology-based theories & principles.
- Coaching-Influence: Cultivate acute listening skills and learn how to ask influential coaching questions.
- Social-Influence: Learn how to positively influence negative, detrimental attitudes or a victim mentality.
- Self-Awareness: Understand the psychology behind people's beliefs, habits, behaviour and worldviews.
- Social-Influence: Master your communications by learning effective people skills and language patterns.
- Social-Efficiency: Learn how to help people make peace with their past & create compelling future plans.
- Practical Insights: Gain the insights needed to pinpoint and challenge limiti
8
Life Coach Certification Masterclass: 3 Certifications In 1 (2025)
4.7
Life Coaching Certification, Health Coach Certification & Wellness Coaching Certification In 1 Course | 3 Certificates
What You'll Learn
- Earn 3 CPD Accredited Certificates: Life Coaching, Health Coaching & Wellness Coaching Certificate
- Coach Others With Personal Development & Goal Setting
- Learn Proven Coaching Models & Exercises
- Create Individual Client Programs
- Start Your Own Life Coaching Business
9
Emotional Intelligence Life Coach Certification (Accredited) (2026)
4.7
Emotional Intelligence: Help life coaching clients master emotions, reduce stress, and develop emotional intelligence
What You'll Learn
- The biological and psychological aspects of emotions (and how to teach this to your life coaching clients)
- How thoughts and emotions work to create your life experience (and how to teach this to your life coaching clients)
- How you (and your life coaching clients) can manage emotions and take back your power
- How you (and your life coaching clients) can develop emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Coach your life coaching clients to develop self-awareness / emotional awareness
- Use NLP techniques with your life coaching clients to shift their emotions
- How to use emotional intelligence tools to help your coaching clients reduce stress
- How to use emotional intelligence tools to help your coaching clients to increase motivation and personal power
- How to use emotional intelligence tools to help your coaching clients improve interpersonal relationships
- How emotional intelligence impacts almost every aspect of life
10
Professional Life Coach Certification PCELC Coach Training (2026)
4.6
Life Coach Training Graduates PCELC Ready-To-Work Prepared Professionals in Life Coaching
What You'll Learn
- September 2026 Course Updated + All Inclusive Certification on Udemy Level 1 Completion Certificate + Level 2 Practicums in Life Coach Training.
- Life Coach Training 21+ Hour Interactive Video Tutorials, 335+ Resources, 3 Ready-to-Use Sessions + Skills Training to Excel as Professional Life Coach.
- Master 9 Life Coaching Techniques to Empower Clients' Success Plus Receive Professional Life Coaching Sessions for the Top 6 Life Coaching Clients.
- AI Integration: AI-driven role-play simulations for coaching skill-building and 24/7 real-time Q & A assistance for more responsive practical hands-on learning.
11
Relationship Workshop Certification (for Life Coaches) (2026)
4.7
Empower others to create enlightened relationships by conducting group life coaching through relationship workshops.
What You'll Learn
- Utilize a proven, step-by-step system with all content, outlines and materials needed to facilitate successful relationship workshops
- Receive detailed activities to use with your clients, on topics such as roles, beliefs, communication, love languages, forgiveness, happiness, vision and more
- Explore relationship workshop topics and forms of delivery
- Learn the secrets to true, lasting, fulfilling love relationships
- Understand the science and biology of love and why love and drama are addictive (and how to stop the cycles)
- Understand how the unconscious mind drives our relationships and how to reprogram beliefs, patterns, habits and triggers
- Learn how happiness affects relationships and how to create happy relationships
- Learn practical communication strategies that really work to create low-conflict, highly intimate conversations
- Explore the power of forgiveness and effective strategies for letting go, as well as ap