If you’re searching the term, “relationship coach,” this article will answer all your questions you could have. Whether you’re looking to hire, become, or understand more about relationship coaching, today’s post will answer all your questions.
In this article, you’ll learn:
- What Is A Relationship Coach
- How A Relationship Coach Can Help You
- The Difference Between Relationship Coaching And Counseling
- How Relationship Coaches Help Singles And Couples
- Where To Find A Relationship Coach
- 15 Reasons To Hire A Relationship Coach
- The Costs Of Hiring A Relationship Coach
- Where And How To Get Certified As A Relationship Coach
- How We Can Help
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What Is A Relationship Coach
A relationship coach is someone who specializes in the field of intimate relationships. Whether you’re single, coupled up, or married, a relationship coach can help you.
A relationship can help in these areas:
- Intimacy coaching for single and couples
- Helping revive, improve, and enhance romance among couples
- Communication breakdowns and repetitive patterns
- Bring down the fighting so the couple can talk and bridge a connection
- Ending power struggles, so there is harmony and room to talk
Some coaches specialize in working with singles, couples, or married couples. Regardless, most coaches in this field work with anyone who wants help in romantic relationships.
Relationship Coach Vs. Counselor
The differences between coaches and counselors can be vast or quite small.
Where counselors focus on the psychology and history of issues, coaches tend to focus on goals and where you want to go. A counselor helps you cope and understand the emotional field – while a coach works to help you know where you’re today and what it’ll take to reach your goals.
While it can be hard to distinguish the difference, an excellent way to put is like this:
A coach helps you create goals and action plans to move you forward. A counselor helps you understand your emotions, your psychology, and how to understand yourself best.
The differences can be quite minute. If a coach or a counselor is worth their salt, both will help you move forward. The big difference will be their training, but both should help you better understand yourself to achieve the desired outcome.
Who Relationship Coaches Help
Quite often, relationship coaches work with singles or couples.
Some coaches in this field specialize, but even then, a good relationship can help you in the area of romantic relationships.
If you’re looking for a relationship that specializes, here are some of the areas of specialty:
- Marriage
- Dating
- Creating Deeper Intimacy
- Divorce
- Sexual Connection
Quite often, most coaches in this field can discuss any of these areas with you, and help you get the answers you need.
What Does A Relationship Coach Do For Singles
If you’re single and want to create a healthy and committed relationship, a relationship coach can help you.
By helping you gain confidence and understand what will work best for you to date and find commitment, a relationship coach will help you.
A relationship coach can help singles do the following:
- Get the self-assurance to go on dates
- Enhance your self-esteem, so you take action
- Help you with confidence coaching, so you are more attractive and desirable
- Figure all the different ways to find dates (online, offline, events, etc.).
- Identify who your ideal partner is and how you will find that person.
As a single, a relationship coach can help you identify the roadblocks to finding love, and help you find a mate faster than if you did it alone.
What Does A Relationship Coach Do For Couples
Couples who want to enhance their relationship will do well with a relationship coach.
In sessions, a coach of this kind will help you:
- Identify key issues
- Create goals, as a couple, for the relationship
- Learn tactics to better express and share your feelings
- Talk openly and express what’s going on
- Learn how to use the best to stop fights
- Understand how to create more intimacy and connection
- Identify recurring relationship problems
- Embody new ways to show love and affection
- Learn how you can grow closer through regular date nights
- Cut out toxic patterns and learn new ways to be together
- Gives space for a relationship check in
- Discuss values and desires
- Sexual dysfunctions (if it’s medical you’ll want a sex-therapist)
- Money issues in the relationship
This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the topics a relationship coach can cover, but it gives you a good idea of how a relationship can help.
Much like athletes hire coaches to help them be their best, a relationship coach can help you have the best relationship possible.
If you’re looking for expert advice about building a fulfilling partnership, pick up the Lasting Love Connection Relationship Workbook.
Where To Find The Best Coach
In today’s world of ‘always connected’ online, the best way to find a relationship coach is to do the following:
- Search for the word, relationship coach, and look at the results for coaches.
- Poke around the websites of coaches. See if you like a particular coach’s insights, expertise, background, and see if they’d be a fit for you.
- Call the coaches that look best to you, or book a free couples consult with us.
To find the best coach for you, start looking online. You can also post online to see if anyone in your community recommends someone.
As you poke around, take note of those coaches you like, and proceed by asking the outlined questions in the next section.
Questions To Ask Before Hiring
Before hiring a coach, you’ll do well to email or call and ask a few questions.
When you call, you can have a short conversation, share a bit about your situation, and then inquire about more information.
On your call, you can ask:
- How long have you been doing this?
- How can you help me?
- What do you charge, do you have packages?
- What’s your guarantee?
- Do you have testimonials?
- How do you work, and what will our sessions look like?
- Other than being certified as a relationship coach, what other experience do you have?
There might be more questions you’d like to ask if so, jot those down as well. These questions will help you determine the coach’s experience, background, and costs.
What It Costs To Hire A Relationship Coach
In the world of coaches, you will find there is a wide range of costs.
Some coaches charge as little as one hundred dollars per session; other experts charge upwards of $1,000 per session. When it comes to costs, it depends on the coach.
Most coaches are likely $100-$500 per session, with a price cut when you purchase a package of multiple sessions. Although some sites give higher estimates, we know that $100-$500 will meet most people’s needs.
To find out what a relationship coach costs, you’ll likely have to call or email and ask.
The best advice is, to poke around the coaches’ website, consume some of their content (videos, blog posts, podcasts, interviews) and then reach out to the coach that sparks your interest.
You can decide if the person fits your budget and needs with a free phone consultation (if they offer that).
Certifications, Regulations, And What You Need To Become A Relationship Coach
Once you dig into the world of coaches, you’ll find this highly unregulated field.
That means the certifications can be a mixed bag.
In some cases, certificates can be gotten over a weekend, a year, or after more stringent guidelines have been met.
This doesn’t mean that all relationship coaches are poorly trained or lack the skills. It means finding a good relationship coach will best be done by calling them and asking the questions outlined in the section “questions to ask a relationship coach.” Similarly, if you’re thinking about becoming a relationship coach, be sure to do your homework.
If you’d like to become certified as a relationship coach, you’ll want to ask schools about:
- The costs
- What the accreditation means
- How the school will help you get clients
- Why their school as opposed to other programs/courses
Getting certified as a relationship can be helpful, but only if you fully understand how the school will train you and help you get clients.
Often, most schools will help you learn useful methods to work in the field but won’t help you get clients. Unfortunately, quite often, the best route to become a relationship coach will be to write about relationships, create a following online, offer free classes, and get hands-on experience. Then, once you have some clients, see if training will enhance your work.
In the case of my work at Lasting Love Connection, I have been trained to work with couple’s via the Gottman Institute, MDRC, Loving Families, Bringing Baby Home, and several coaching institutes.
How We Help You
In the case of Lasting Love Connection, we specialize as relationship coaches in these areas:
Intimacy Issues – If you’re not having the intimacy you’d like (not just sex), Lasting Love Connection we offer intimacy coaching. Having worked with hundreds of couples, we’re confident that if there are issues relating to intimacy, connection, and/or sex – we can help.
Since we use the terms “intimacy coaching” and “intimacy counseling” interchangeably, you can also check out our article on intimacy counseling. Here’s one of our posts about intimacy counseling, what it is, how it helps, and how to know if you need it.
Relationship Coaching – as specialists in helping couples sustain a long-lasting relationship, we specialize in marriage coaching. Here’s some information about our online relationship coaching services. While we focus on married couples, the help we do with married and unmarried couples who want a long-lasting relationship is the same.
Couple’s Coaching – whether you’re married or unmarried, we specialize in helping couples have a happy and successful relationship that lasts. Here at Lasting Love Connection, we use the term’s couple’s coaching and couple’s counseling interchangeably (although there are differences, our work blends the two fields to help maximize a couple’s results).
Divorce Coaching – if you’re on the verge of divorce or are going through a divorce, we can help. Divorce coaching, or otherwise known as divorce counseling, can help you create a game plan through your pre or post-divorce process. In divorce counseling, people can talk about if divorce is the best choice, or how to end things with minimal fighting and litigation consciously.
Financial Coaching For Couples – we aren’t financial advisors here, but having worked with hundreds of couples, we know that money issues are big problems for couples. In our sessions, we can talk about finances and how to get both partners on the same page with finances.
If you’d like to reach out to us at Lasting Love Connection, call us at 425-610-6312 (click the big red button on top of the website), or write us via the contact page.
17 Reasons To Hire A Relationship Coach
- You’re struggling to find a partner
- You can’t seem to make a committed relationship work
- The relationship is going through struggles
- You’d like to learn how to improve the communication
- There are intimacy issues you can’t solve
- You fight with your partner often
- Something is missing in your relationship
- You feel disconnected from your partner
- There are sexual issues
- You’re not dating with confidence
- Not feeling heard in your relationship
- Divorce is a looming possibility
- You feel like your wife/husband isn’t attracted to you anymore
- You’re tired of guessing what your partner is thinking
- You’re sick of dating unavailable men/women
- The future of your relationship looks bleak
- You’d like to renew your marriage vows
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