I just did a huge expose on them and in fact it was banned from when I exposed life coaches for what they really are and in particular one person by the name of Molly Luffy in Ohio. No biggy. I am working on a website that will discuss this further. There are a small handful of legit Life Coaches (they specialize in either family, career, etc…) but be sure to do a very, very thorough background check on the person and do not be fooled if they are registered with the ICF or any other organization (there are two others.) This means nothing. You merely have to take an 6 month course online! Additionally and more importantly this field is not governed or overseen by any State of Federal agencies (except Colorado as of last year.) In one particular case I found a woman who was in federal prison obtained the L.C. certification and offering her services as a family advisor. Why was she in prison? For abusing her 4 children and murdering 1. I found a chite load of information on them online… Dig and you'll find even more than what I have shared with you.

Wow redvelvet,

Those are some scary situations! I'm just curious - based on your research, do you know about how many life coaches there are in the US? And about what percentage of them are frauds?

Hi there, you could go to the International Coach Federation site where they have information on the coach industry. My website is