Life coaching can be confusing when you’re new to it. There are methods, tools, styles, and endless opinions on what works and what doesn’t.
This page brings everything together in one place, so you can understand how life coaching works, what it can help with, and how to decide if it’s right for you.
Use the resources below to explore the core ideas, frameworks, and practical tools behind effective life coaching.
What Does a Life Coach Do?
A straight answer to what a life coach actually does. No fluff. No mysticism. This guide breaks down the real job of a coach, how they work with clients, and the outcomes people should expect.
Learn about what a life coach does ➡️
Types of Life Coaching
Life coaching covers a wide range of challenges and goals. This section explains the most common types of life coaching, how each approach works, and how to decide which one fits your situation.
Transformational Coaching
Transformational coaching sits at the core of David Craig White’s life coaching work and underpins many of the types of coaching mentioned below.
This guide explains how transformational coaching helps focus on lasting personal change rather than short-term goals or surface-level improvements.
Anger Coaching
Explains how anger coaching focuses on behavioural patterns and emotional triggers rather than emotional suppression or therapy.
Anxiety Coaching
Explains what anxiety coaching is, how it works, who it’s suitable for, and where its limits are compared to clinical treatment.
Burnout Coaching
Explains what burnout coaching is, and how it can help you recover from mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion.
Clarity Coaching
Explains how clarity coaching works to support decision-making during periods of uncertainty, transition, or life change.
Confidence Coaching
Explains how confidence coaching works and helps rebuild self-belief, and feel more secure in how you think, speak, and act in everyday situations.
Executive Coaching
Explains how executive coaching works and helps you sharpen decision-making, strengthen leadership identity, and perform calmly under pressure.
Motivation Coaching
Explains how motivation coaching helps rebuild drive, restore momentum, and move forward when motivation feels low, inconsistent, or completely gone.
Small Business Coaching
Explains how small business coaching helps founders and business leaders gain clarity, improve decision-making, and build a successful business.
Stress Coaching
Explains how stress coaching helps people understand pressure, overload, and burnout in everyday life and work.
Coaching Tools
- Wheel of Life
- Human Needs (Coming soon)
This section is under construction and will be updated soon.
Page last updated: 16 December 2025