How to Choose the Life Coach?

Posted by Sumit Agarwal on May 11th, 2018

Do you want professional advice before making major decisions in your life? Are you at the crossroad of your life and planning for the next step? A professional personal development coach can help you in all these situations. A life coach carefully listens to your life story, asks challenging questions, and opens up avenues of ideas from a different perspective. You can find a life coach in your locality who can help you with all your life questions. However, there are certain points that you need to keep in mind during your search for a life coach.

Look for a life coach who specializes in your area of improvement

Life coaches specialize in different areas. You need to find a life coach who specializes in your area of improvement. If you are looking for a life coach to help manage your child’s ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), then you need to look for a life coach who has experience working with children. On the other hand, if you need to consult a life coach to deal with the emotional trauma and stress in a relationship, you need to search for a coach who works with couples.

Look for training and reviews

After you have decided on the area of specialty, check out the training and experience of the life coaches. Google about the life coaches, see if you can get any professional detail about the life coach. Look for customer reviews - they will give you a clearer idea of the expertise of the life coach.

Ask for references

You are going to be giving all your personal and private information to the personal development coach. So, it pays to play it safe. Ask for references, maybe their former clients who can vouch for their authenticity and confidentiality. 

Ask for a sample session

It is very important that you and the life coach be on the same wavelength. Any discordance will only add to your problems. Your views and perspectives on life events may be different from that of the coach, but the coach needs to understand and accept your views to help you. Any personality clash may be detrimental to you. So, ask for a sample session. If you feel comfortable with the personal development coach and confident of his/her ability to help you, go ahead and book for the consultation.