Article: Look what Carole Caplin and Cherie started: now 100,000 Britons have life coaches Want to earn up to pounds 60,000 a year interfering in other people's lives? With Middle England in the grip of `personal development' fever, there's plenty of opportunity out there. Jonathan Thompson investigates

Britain has a new motto for 2005: don't get a life, get a life coach. The ranks of advisers, coaches, therapists and gurus who claim they can turn your stressed existence around are swelling so fast that the numbers are set to double within a couple of years.

What was once considered the indulgent prerogative of wealthy celebrities such as Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow is now a widespread phenomenon. Experts estimate that more than 100,000 Britons have consulted a life coach, a new breed of guru whose popularity is driving the astonishing boom in the therapy trade.

Life-coaching sessions are fast becoming a Middle England status symbol. Even airlines have got in on the act: Virgin Atlantic ...

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