What Do Spiritual Life Coaches Do?
What Do Spiritual Life Coaches Do?
A spiritual life coach is a guide who supports individuals in connecting with their deeper purpose, navigating life’s challenges, and aligning their actions with their values and beliefs.
This work takes a mind-body-spirit-soul approach that integrates personal growth with spiritual awareness. Unlike traditional coaching, spiritual life coaching emphasizes expansion, self-trust, and wholeness, helping clients not just achieve more, but become more of who they truly are.
For a long time, I believed mindset was the answer. Mindset work had taken me far—it helped me and my clients reframe thoughts, push through fears, and keep moving. But eventually, I saw its limits. Mindset could get us to a point, but it couldn’t create the deep, lasting emotional healing we were yearning for.
When we bring in the spiritual element, everything shifts. Suddenly, you’re not just doing mental gymnatics—you’re connected to a knowing far greater than the mind. Something you feel in your heart. The part of you that you feel when you say “ I just know.”
When I left my 13-year teaching career, I was burnt out, pushed out of the only system I’d ever known. My sense of identity, financial stability, what I was going to do with my life - gone.
I had nowhere to turn but inward. That season became a portal, an initiation into my own wisdom, my alignment, and my intuition. As I became more aware of my place in the tapestry of life itself, I felt my purpose clarifying—not just in my head, but in my whole body. I learned to trust the unknown. I started down a path I never could have planned on paper, one that has led me to more support, love and fulfillment than I ever thought possible.
This is what spiritual life coaching does: it opens the door to that deeper connection, so you can live in alignment with your true self—not just a better mindset, but a more embodied way of being.
What Is the Difference Between a Life Coach and a Spiritual Life Coach?
A life coach will help you set goals, build habits, and create accountability. And that’s powerful work. But a spiritual life coach goes beneath the surface.
When clients come to me, they often think they have business problems:
- I need more clients.
- I need to make more money.
- I need a better strategy.
But it’s never just business. It’s always personal.
Maybe it’s an inner child that shrinks away from visibility in networking, terrified of judgment. Maybe it’s a part that procrastinates, trying to protect you from the sting of failure.
When Amanda, a client of mine, began working with her inner child, everything shifted. She started showing up more visibly—online and in networking spaces. And as those younger parts inside her felt safe, her natural confidence emerged. She began attracting clients not by forcing it, but by being more fully herself.
This is the difference: a spiritual life coach isn’t only helping you do more, they’re helping you be more—so that your actions flow from a deeper place of truth.
What Happens in a Session?
On the surface, it might look similar: I ask powerful questions, just like any coach. But I’m not satisfied with the first answer the mind offers. Together, we go deeper.
Many of the women I work with are brilliant analyzers. They’re detail-oriented, responsible, and capable—but those same strengths can harden into rigidity or perfectionism. And while those qualities helped them reach the level of success they have now, they aren’t what will take them to the next level. That requires a different kind of embodiment and capacity, one that goes beyond the mind.
Spiritual life coaching creates that balance by bringing in the wisdom of the heart and soul, not just the mind, so their brilliance is infused with softness, presence, and flow. It’s especially powerful for women feeling stuck in life—because the work gently opens space to reconnect with clarity, self-trust, and possibility never imagined before.
- We ask: What does your inner knowing need right now?
- We use meditation, breath, and guided journeys that bring you into a liminal space—where the subconscious can be observed without the mind hijacking the process.
- We connect not only to thoughts, but to the body, the heart, and the wisdom that lives beyond logic.
It’s not hypnosis, but it can feel a little hypnotic. A soft opening where the truth inside you has space to emerge.
What Becomes Possible
Again and again, I see the same gifts arise when women do this work:
- Space. A widening of capacity, so there’s room to breathe, create, and move without constant pressure.
- Discernment. The ability to clearly sense what no longer feels aligned—and to let it go without guilt.
- Peace. A settling in the nervous system, where women often say they finally feel peaceful in a way they’ve never known.
And most importantly, they become more of who they truly are. For many women, this work awakens not just success in the moment, but the sense that they are here to leave a legacy—to impact their families, communities, and the wider world in lasting ways.
A Buddhist monk once told me: “It’s spiritually lazy to think the work we do in this lifetime is only for this lifetime.” The changes we make reverberate far beyond us.
The real reason spiritual life coaching changes lives is simple: when you live from your true Self, you become magnetic. Authenticity calls in the dreams, the desires, the connections meant for you.
Common Questions About Spiritual Life Coaching
Is spiritual life coaching the same as therapy?
No. Therapy often looks at healing past wounds and addressing mental health challenges. Spiritual life coaching is future-focused, supporting you to expand into your next chapter by strengthening self-trust, alignment, and connection to your deeper purpose.
Who needs a spiritual life coach?
Anyone who feels like mindset work alone isn’t enough. If you’ve read the books, taken the courses, and still feel misaligned or unfulfilled, spiritual life coaching can help you expand into wholeness and live more authentically.
What makes spiritual life coaching different from traditional coaching?
A life coach helps you set goals and create strategies. A spiritual life coach goes deeper—working with the mind, body, spirit, and soul to uncover blocks, connect with intuition, and build self-trust so that your success feels aligned, not forced.
What happens in a session?
Expect powerful questions and deep processes that move beyond the mind. We may use breathwork, guided journeys, or meditative practices to connect with your inner wisdom and the parts of you that hold back. It’s about creating space where your true Self can lead.
What results can I expect? Most clients notice more peace, clarity, and confidence in their daily lives. They gain the ability to say no to what no longer aligns, make decisions with ease, and show up more visibly and authentically in their work, relationships, and purpose.
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Andrea Tessier is a Master Life Coach and Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner who helps conscious, growth-oriented women build deep self-trust, release perfectionism, and step into authentic leadership. With over six years of experience blending psychology and spirituality, Andrea guides clients to reconnect with their true Self and live with clarity, peace, and wholeness. Learn more at andreatessier.com.