99 Coaching Niches
Choosing a coaching niche is an important first step to developing your online coaching business. Without a clear niche, you’ll come across as totally scattered to your potential fans. Plus, without the scope that a coaching niche provides, you’ll find that it’s pretty tricky to write a suite of useful information products and online programs to market and sell from your website.
Basically, your niche helps you focus and empowers you to get started on a path! You can spend your life being average at all types of coaching, or you can get serious about a specific coaching niche and be amazing!
A Tool to Help You Focus
Choosing a niche is not really as big a deal as you may imagine. Simply put your niche is a mix of your current skills, passions, and expertise, combined with a specific segment of the market that you can relate to and fully understand.
Ironically, enough, sometimes it takes a while to be honest enough with yourself to get the mix right. And that’s OK. As I am often saying to my Academy clients, some things just take time to figure out, be kind to yourself. 🙂
Your first coaching niche need not be the one you ultimately settle on. You can change your niche as many times as you need to, as you become more in-tune with and confident in yourself as a coach.
Still Figuring Out your Coaching Niche?
If you are still figuring out your coaching niche, and want some help, here is a list of coaching niche ideas to get you thinking.
In my opinion, not one of them is particularly what I would call a, stand-out niche. Stand-out niches are great in the online world where being generic and predictable is boring and often gets overlooked! Stand-out niches get noticed and have the added benefit that they are also usually cheaper to market because they are smaller targets. (Side note: Did you know that with the right product set, coaches can run amazing businesses with just 1000 real fans?!)
If you want to try for a stand-out coaching niche, combine two or more of the ideas on this list and see where it takes you. I’ve found that when you start combining, things quickly become more interesting. See if you can come up with a coaching niche that is something special, is worth noticing, and is uniquely YOU!
List of Coaching Niches
This list has been loosely categorised to help make it easier to read. You may find that some niches belong in multiple categories. for the sake of having 99 different ideas, I’ve avoided duplicate entries.
If you have any suggestions to make on the list, please share them in the comments section below.
Arts and Creativity
1. Acting
2. Dancing
3. Music
4. Singing
5. Writing
6. Drawing
7. Painting
8. Crafts
9. Photography
Career
10. Advancement
11. Career Transition
12. Interview Skills
13. Job Search
14. Retirement
Corporate
15. Executive Coaching
16. Mergers and Acquisitions
17. Strategic Planning
18. Team Building
Emotions, Thoughts, Mindset
19. ADHD
20. Anxiety
21. Addiction
22. Autism
23. Depression
24. Grief
25. Happiness
26. Law Of Attraction
27. Stress Relief
Technique/ Method/ Approach
28. NLP
29. EFT
30. Reiki
31. Re-birthing
32. Yoga
33. Hypnotherapy
34. Journalling
35. Art
Family
36. Adoption
37. Ageing Parents
38. Funeral
39. Living Overseas
40. Military Family
41. Mixed Families
42. Parenting
43. Stay-At-Home Parent
44. Attachment Parenting
45. Alternative Schooling
46. Divorce/Separation
Health, Fitness, Wellness
47. Competitive Sport
48. Exercise
49. Nutrition
50. Raw, Vegan, Or Vegetarian
51. Specific Diet Type
52. Specific Health Problem
53. Weight Loss>
Life Skills
54. Assertiveness
55. Communication Skills (Effective Listening, Questioning, Rapport Building, etc)
56. Self Confidence
57. Time Management
58. Work/Life Balance
59. Financial Management
60. Getting Organized (de-clutter)
61. Interior Design
62. Lifestyle Design
63. Personal Image
Love Life
64. Cross Cultural
65. Dealing With Loss
66. Divorce
67. Gay
68. Marriage
69. Online Dating
70. Better Sex
Performance
71. Goal Setting and Achievement
72. Motivation
73. Productivity
Professional Skills
74. Communication
75. Customer Service
76. Leadership
77. Management
78. Negotiations
79. Project Management
80. Public Relations
81. Public Speaking
82. Sales/Marketing
Small Business
83. Entrepreneur
84. Growing a Business
85. Getting Online
86. Marketing
87. Starting a Business
Spirituality
88. Inner Peace
89. Intuition
90. Life Purpose
91. Meditation
92. Mid-Life Crisis
93. Religion
Shared Common Ground
94. Specific Age
95. Specific Location
96. Specific Nationality
97. Specific Profession
98. Specific Religion
99. Specific Life Experience
Tons more!
These are just a few niche ideas that can be combined together to create thousands more!
I’d like to thank Caren for taking the time to comment with these additional suggestions:
- Transitional Life Coach
- Disability Life Coach
- Brain Injury Recovery Life Coach
- Neuro-cognitive Life Coach
- Parenting
Feeling Inspired
Which ones inspire you?
What other combinations would you like to add to the list?
The important thing is to choose and focus on a niche that taps into your expertise and understanding and then give it your all.
From there, you will grow and learn to trust yourself more and more. By continually following your own positive energy, you will end up with your calling when you are truly ready.
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- How to Find a Coach | Home - […] achieve through coaching. Again, not surprisingly, we have niches. Lots of them. Perhaps needlessly long lists of them. Finding…
I never even realized that life coaches could coach on so many things! Makes me want to hire one for all aspects of my life. 🙂 How many life coaches can one person have do you think?
Good one Jenny! If it’s working with a coach one-to-one probably one coach at a time is enough otherwise your brain might explode! If you are getting coaching through apps, online courses or books then maybe you can stretch that to one business and one personal. Anyone else have any thoughts?
One coach can work in many areas. One of the fundamentals of coaching is recognizing where clients goals are and guiding toward helpful resources.
How many therapist does it take to change a light bulb? Just 1, but the lightbulb has to be willing to change.
Just read this and I see it’s a few years back but I just had to answer. I use the wheel of life. This tool helps the client determine what they most want to work on first. It’s works! It’s fun because we get results.
That’s right Jenny… A coach for every aspect…. In my experience it’s better to get coaching on the aspect that is most important to you at the time…. There are also coaches like myself that do both personal and business coaching too…. It’s more of a holistic approach… And because I love helping my business clients with their personal lives… So I do both.
I want to coach my clients in both personal and business, as you do, but do not know the best title to call what that is.
What type of coach do you say you are?
Namaste,
Indeed a Holistic Lifestyle or Transformational Coach can really help you on any major areas of your life.
Even coaches have their own coaches and it’s perfectly ok to have a few since life is a journey and we all are always learning & growing for the highest good.
I would say, Start with one coach and get a feel first.
Love & light,
Your Holistic Consultant.
Expertise in Health, Wellness & Reiki Coaching
I’m looking into coaching. And I need coaching on narrowing down a niche!! I love travel, holistic, Christian faith, building relationships and parenting…
Any thoughts on how to combine or narrow?
Exciting times Sarah! You totally need to do my “Find Your Coaching Sweet Spot” Workbook! Other than that, if you are just starting out, the best thing to do it to start coaching people. After about 200 hours of coaching, your niche will find you 🙂
I love this advice. So happy I came across this page.
Thanks Charliie!
Great answer!
Hi Benay!
I really enjoyed this article and found it very informative and helpful! Right now I’m a registered nurse, but I always find myself trying to coach my patients in a way that nurses just aren’t on the platform to do.
My dream is to start a coaching business, and after brainstorming, I’ve come to the conclusion that I absolutely LOVE talking about the following with anyone who will listen, and can’t get enough of giving advice on the same: Law of attraction, self-transformation, self-empowerment, following your passion, abandoning limiting beliefs, increasing your self-worth, re-vamping your personal image, goal setting, finding peace within yourself through holistic practices.
Any ideas on how I could put this all (or at least, some) together to form a cohesive and inclusive name for the niche I’d be choosing?
Thanks so much!!
Lexi
Hi Lexi.
I was just responding to a new comment on this blog post saw that you posted in 2018 AND I DIDN’T RESPOND… !
So sorry about that.
What did you end up doing? Are you still nursing? Are you a passion and purpose coach?
Update please!
Hi getting into becoming a life coach ; but I want to do it as work life balance and stress management so what should I call what I do for both
My niches cross from helping gospel music artists to teaching etiquette for children. How do I find a common ground?
Great Question Teirrany. When you are starting out and building a name for yourself as a coach, you’ll be most effective when you focus on one thing. So, I’d suggest choosing one. Once you have a profitable busienss that you love, and if you have capacity to start another niche, then do that. xox – B
I have decided to focus on helping Creative Individuals (Writers, Artist and entrepreneurs) develop their idea, get unstuck, improve motivation and confidence. Is this good for a start or do you have could you assist me with a professional suggestion?
I read and I like this article. Thank you so much 🙂
I really appreciate this list. I have practiced as a general life coach but seem to attract more women wanting to start their own businesses but need to push to start and the motivation to stick with it.
Sounds like the universe is sending you a message Janice! If you don’t have a signature program (a step by step process) or helping women start their business, I’d suggest working on that. Really helps with motivation.
Happy Coaching!
Benay
my niche for starting a coaching business would be (Spirituality and Life Skills). However, I am not sure how to connect the two into a business name. Do you have any ideas of how I can connect the two niche into a business name.
Thank You,
Hi Nancy. Congratulations on starting your coaching business – it’s such an exciting time!
I don’t believe the business name is really that important. I changed my business name four times in my first 3 years while I was settling on my niche and developing my coaching skills.
So my advice is to not get hung up on the name. Choose something and start coaching.
If no name comes to you, then use your name.
Good luck!
Benay
There are also these categories:
Transitional Life Coach
Disability Life Coach
Brain Injury Recovery Life Coach
Neuro-cognitive Life Coach
Parenting
Nice additions – Thank you Caren! – B
Thanks Caren! We’ll get these added in! – B
Hi Benny!
I am considering shifting careers and becoming a coach. But I can’t choose the specific niche that would benefit from my knowledge.
I work as sales engineer in Real estate industry and I also study marketing. I have volunteering experience in coaching speakers on public speaking skills, in addition to volunteering experience on social entrepreneurship.
I’m considering being a public speaking coach for executives and pitching coach for entrepreneurs. what do you think? and how shall I start since I have professional experience of 3 years only?
Thank you,
Yassmine
Hi Yassmine – thank you for your question! Exciting times ahead for you!
If I were you I’d get a few gigs in the space you are thinking about (public speaking coach for executives and pitching coach for entrepreneurs). Keep your job while you test out the waters and get a feel for how you like the work.
Having professional experience of 3 years is a great leg up! Just make sure you are pitching at people with 0 years experience – as long as you keep expanding your skills set they can’t catch up to you 😉
I hope this helps. If you have more questions, join my Facebook group for Online Coach Entrepreneurs and post your questions. I’m in there several times a week to help where I can.
Happy Coaching!
B
P.S. Just sent you an invitation to the FB group 🙂