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Best Life Coaches in Oakland, CA

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Emeryville, CA 94608

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5.0 (23)

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Previous and current clients of Pooja Dang recommend her services to others because of her highly motivating one on one sessions, her professional and friendly demeanor, her encouragement to each of her customers, and her prompt responses to questions. Ms. Dang strives to help people create lives they love through motivation, the establishment of goals, and the development of tools to reach these targets in a reasonable timeframe. She encourages her clients to love and believe in themselves to reach their desired location in life. People considering working with Pooja Dang can request a 30-minute free consultation to determine whether or not her quality and style would cooperate with them. She helps people in the San Francisco Bay area and the surrounding communities.

Walnut Creek, CA 94507

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Sherry Ellingson is a highly praised yoga teacher and life coach, based in Walnut Creek, who focuses on using her superb skills to coach women in areas such as self-care and body image, career, relationships and parenting. She is certified in her yoga training through Stellarflow, and has been evolving her knowledge in individual and business coaching for the past 20 years, with a multitude of previous occupational experiences. Sherry focuses on stress reduction at work, parenting, mindful parenting, time management, creative vision board designs, and general self-care practices. Her business is well acknowledged and reviewed for offering conveniently low prices, including discounts for new patients.

Oakland, CA 94620

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5.0 (2)

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Attuned Living was founded by Kamala Itzel Berrio and offers relationship coaching services and life coaching to the Oakland, California area. Kamala is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT) and Certified Yoga Therapist who works with Dr. Dean Ornish to provide yoga and meditation practices to hospitals across the country. This program is used as a method to lessen the impact of heart disease. At Attuned Living, Kamala offers coaching to clients recovering from addiction and abuse as well as other trauma. She also offers relationship coaching for couples who are dissatisfied with their connection and intimacy levels. Attuned Living also provides yoga therapy courses.

Oakland, CA 94602

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5.0 (11)

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She Thrives is a professional coaching business focused on women that specializes in business and leadership coaching. Additionally, the company provides life and career transition coaching. Founder and director Christina Sanders is a certified coach, mediator, and facilitator with a background as an attorney and human rights advocate. A member of the International Coaches' Federation, Christina Sanders is certified as a Personal and Professional Coach by the Coaches Training Institute. She Thrives is located in Oakland, California and provides prospective clients with a free Breakthrough Session. The company can be contacted by phone or email for booking purposes and offers various retreats and events throughout the year.

Oakland, CA 94602

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5.0 (1)

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Featuring the work of Adriana Diaz, Creative Life Coaching is a professional life coaching company in California. The company offers a variety of services, including individual life coaching techniques, workshops, retreats, arts mentorship, special focus coaching on self-image, and more. A teacher since 1968, Adriana Diaz created the Women Write Now! program in 2014. The program features small, five-woman classes geared toward writing. Adriana Diaz is a published author, a Certified Professional Coach, and holds a Master's Degree in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University in Oakland, California. She can be contacted by phone or email for appointments.

Walnut Creek, CA 94596

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5.0 (1)

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Gina Vance is a personal coach based in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in life coaching, stress relief, and the healing of trauma and pain through mind-body methods. She helps clients through coaching, hypnotherapy, meditation, and spiritual guidance. Gina has been providing her services for nearly two decades and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, as well as being listed as a qualified therapist by Psychology Today Magazine. She has helped survivors of trauma, people requiring professional life coaching, and clients needing emotional healing. Gina Vance has three offices in the Bay Area in addition to providing coaching over the Internet. Her offices accept all major payment methods.

Oakland, CA 94577

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5.0 (1)

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Casey McCarrol, M.A is a professional life coach, mentor, educator, and wilderness guide who serves the Bay Area of California. Casey earned his Master’s Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is also a licensed marriage and family therapist. He has more than 20 years of experience in coaching and mentoring teens. His Launch Coaching and Guidance for Young Adults helps teens find personal and professional direction before, during, or after college. His rate is $145 per hour. He also co-leads nine-day group wilderness trips with Wilderness Reflections that cost between $1,075 and $1,450.

Compare our Top Life Coaches

NameExpertise RatingAddressPromotionsLearn more
Pooja Dang
Emeryville, CA 94608
Sherry Ellingson: Yoga Teacher & Life Coach
Walnut Creek, CA 94507
Attuned Living
Oakland, CA 94620
She Thrives
Oakland, CA 94602
Creative Life Coaching
Oakland, CA 94602
Gina Vance
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Casey McCarrol, M.A
Oakland, CA 94577