Would you love to incorporate your Christian faith into the work you do on a daily basis? Would you thrive helping people achieve their goals, and gain your own personal fulfilment by offering valuable advice to enable others to live their best lives, aligned with the will of God?
Becoming a Christian life coach is the perfect way to help others while keeping your faith at the forefront of everything you do.
It’s a career that brings so many rewards. Let’s discuss…
How is a Christian life coach different from a life coach?
As a Christian, you have a deep understanding of how faith reflects in all we do and how the word of God can guide us.
Life coaches offer a wealth of practical advice, but rarely do they closely cover any aspect of spirituality.
For example, if a client wants to set out on a new career, a life coach will consider a person’s personality, skills, interests, and experience.
However, a Christian life coach will also consider their client’s Christian faith throughout the process.
For someone with faith, this can be an incredibly important factor when making life choices. A Christian life coach will always offer advice and make suggestions that perfectly align with the life and values of a Christian.
Are there any benefits to offering Christian life coaching services?
Life coaching is an unregulated profession, and this means that there is a large volume of life coaches out there.
Just type ‘life coach’ into Google to see what we mean.
By specialising, and selecting a niche, you may think you’re eliminating a whole entire audience of potential clients, in this case, non-Christians, but in actual fact, when you choose to narrow things down like this, you’re actually offering a more select service that will stand out from the crowd, and catch the eye of your target audience.
Will every Christian choose a life coach that specializes in Christian life coaching? Perhaps not, but this type of service will certainly be attractive to the vast majority of Christians searching for life coaching, as they will know that their values will align with yours, and any advice you offer will take their strong faith into account.
Just as someone who is job hunting may choose a life coach who specializes in career advice, a Christian is likely to choose Christian life coaching when offered this as a choice.
So how do you become a Christian life coach?
Setting up a business as a Christian life coach encompasses all that is required to be a life coach, and then some.
How to become a life coach
As a life coach, you’ll be called upon to offer a wealth of advice that can cover many areas of life.
You may already have some expertise in some areas. Perhaps you’re a great motivator, or you have experience in offering relationship or career advice.
But there’s always something new to learn, and in this industry, you never quite know what your next client will ask of you. It’s important to be able to help every client, in whatever way they need, so building a wide-ranging skill set is vital.
One of the best ways to do this is to take a life coaching certification course. This will ensure you are fully prepared to take on anything that this diverse and varied career can throw at you!
P.S Make the next article you read on this topic this one: How to become a life coach.
What extra skills does a Christian life coach need?
For some of the skills you need to be an excellent Christian life coach, your faith will guide you.
You’ll keep the word of God in mind at all times, and of course ‘What would Jesus do?’ is a mantra you can keep close to your heart.
Because you’re choosing to place an emphasis on Christianity with your work, it’s always worth regularly re-reading the bible, for inspiration and guidance.
The more familiar you are with the passages of the holy texts, the more easily you’ll be able to pick out passages to help guide and motivate your clients.
Which life coaching course should you take?
The type of course you take will be partially dependent on your own needs and circumstances.
If you are not in a position to quit your job and take a full-time course, it doesn’t mean that life coaching courses are out of your reach.
Even if you have a busy life with many time commitments, you will still be able to find a course to suit you.
Search online and you’ll find shorter courses that offer a lot of flexibility, where you can complete your training when it suits you, so you can fit your study time around your other responsibilities.
Consider taking a course that offers certification
One factor that we suggest you take into consideration, is whether or not the course provider rewards its students with a certificate when they’ve completed the programme.
Certification can be incredibly valuable, particularly when you’re new to the industry and don’t have a lot of word-of-mouth recommendations or written testimonials with which to prove your credentials.
It creates a great impression with potential clients, as they can see that you’re a qualified, fully trained professional.
Certification offers peace of mind that you’re serious and competent, which is important in an unregulated industry.
How to grow your Christian life coaching business
When it comes to building up your business, there are some steps that are obvious, such as setting up a website and promoting your enterprise on Facebook and other social media channels, but when you specialize and place a focus on Christian life coaching specifically, your target audience is a little different from a life coach hoping to attract a more general clientele.
For a Christian life coach, you can target your advertising where it will be most effective.
Look for advertising opportunities in Church magazines, or on Christian websites and social media feeds.
Your specialism in Christian-focused life coaching is your unique selling point, so make sure this is obvious at a glance.
Does your logo reflect Christian imagery? Does your business name include words that make it clear you’re a Christian life coach as opposed to a life coach offering more generic services?
Having an eye-catching Christian design across your branding, and prominently featuring your life-coaching certification will set you on the path to success as a Christian life coach.
