Do you need a qualification to become a life coach?

[WatermelonLou]

Been coming across all sorts of healers, helpers online when scrolling. Some who charge the minimum of £100 for a one to one session.. as a life coach. Some even offering a text service for a fee too. Is this even a thing? Do people buy into this? I mean no disrespect at all to anyone who is. But there seems to be a market saturated of life coaches/spiritual coaches. How do they even make a living from this?

There are qualifications that exist and people may have, but anyone can say they are a life coach even if they have nothing.
Some 'qualifications' are a joke, others are more rigorous, but none are formally recognised.
It's unregulated so it's a playground for the mid life crisis person wishing to change direction for better work life balance and feeling they have wisdom to offer.
There are also some excellent ones.
The only way to tell the difference is either word of mouth or trial and error.

Yes! That makes complete sense - thank you!

Easy to set up but not easy to make a living out of without a lot of effort. I think the ones who do best are the ones with specific niches that they focus on eg well being, time management. I only know one in real life, a friend of a friend of a friend, and she is a well being coach but also a qualified nutritionist so being a well being coach is another income stream.

No- anyone can call themself one it's not a protected title - be very careful of unregulated online people! For the same price you could get someone qualified who may have less expertise in social media marketing but hopefully more expertise in helping human beings safely and ethically

There's no regulation, if that's what you mean. No regulation of counsellors either I think - most are accredited but I think anyone could claim to be one.

I'll save you money. They'll ask what your values are, what your goals are, what's stopping you from achieving goals, what small steps you could make towards achieving goals. Where you want to be in five years. You could easily do it yourself with a notebook and some commitment.

I come across them a lot in my work, I do marketing for a particular sector and elements of my job are business coaching. It always seems really fluffy and nonsense to me and I'd be surprised whether many last years or have a sustainable business.