Resources to support life coaching may be found on this page: Coaching Resources
Many veterans and military families turn to non-profit coaching and peer-led programs because they offer a highly accessible alternative to traditional clinical pathways. Community support organizations provide a low-barrier environment with immediate support and no formal diagnosis required. Privacy is also a paramount concern; many individuals worry about the stigma or career impact of a clinical diagnosis on their permanent records and prefer the discrete confidentiality of an outside non-profit. Ultimately, many veterans, spouses, and partners are simply looking for something new or different, shifting away from a medicalized model of illness to embrace a forward-looking, goal-oriented approach centered on personal growth and shared lived experience.
Type of Support: Peer-led support groups and one-on-one peer mentoring.
Description: Blue Star Families is a national nonprofit that helps military and veteran families build connection, belonging, and stability in the communities where they live. Its wide range of free programs and resources includes peer and caregiver support, career assistance, family and outdoor activities, community connections, benefits and discounts, and opportunities for military and veteran families to connect with one another.
Type of Support: One-on-one resource navigation support, peer support, resources, financial assistance.
Description: Elizabeth Dole Foundation (EDF) is the preeminent organization empowering, supporting, and honoring our nation’s 14.3 million military and veteran caregivers—the spouses, parents, siblings, family members, and friends who care for America’s wounded, ill, or injured service members and veterans. Established by Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2012, the foundation works to empower military and veteran caregivers, their families, and their communities through programs, partnerships, and advocacy that drive innovative, impactful, and sustainable solutions. (PDF flyer)
Type of Support: Peer-led support groups and one-on-one peer mentoring.
Description: The Veteran Spouse Network (VSN) provides evidence-based peer support, training, and tools to help military and veteran spouses and families grow through every phase of life. Through connection and shared experiences, we create a community where spouses feel seen, supported, and equipped to strengthen their well-being. VSN empowers military and veteran families with free, proven support programs that help you thrive through every challenge.
The Veteran Spouse Network “Resource” page provides a categorized, curated list of organizations that provide support for veteran spouses nationally.
Type of Support: Peer coaches offering guidance from fellow military spouses.
Description: The Military OneSource BeThere program provides access to the BeThere peer assistance program where spouses can talk with trained peer coaches.
Type of Support: Transition and wellness coaches.
Description: HatchPath offers flexible, virtual wellness and transition coaching designed to support veterans and military families globally. While HatchPath is a commercial well-being platform that normally charges for its corporate and individual coaching services, its military-specific wellness and transition coaching is funded through dedicated nonprofit partnerships (such as its national program with Operation Healing Forces). This means that as long as a veteran, family member, or caregiver enters the platform through one of these authorized military support pipelines, the coaching sessions are 100% free to them.
Type of Support: Non-clinical coaches and dedicated listeners.
Description: With the WWP Talk program, veterans, spouses, and family members can connect via weekly phone or video calls with a dedicated listener for non-clinical emotional support, goal-setting, and coping skill development.
Type of Support: Health and lifestyle coaches..
Description: Whole Health Coaching offers telehealth well-being and lifestyle coaching for enrolled veterans and their eligible circles of support.
Type of Support: Professional transition and executive coaches.
Description: Veterans Coaching Project offers a structured, multi-month cohort program that combines personalized executive coaching with technology integration and professional training. The program is designed to help veterans, spouses, and caregivers reclaim their professional identity, discover their unique value proposition, and build a foundational roadmap for their career transitions..
Type of Support: International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentialed volunteer coaches.
Description: Stand Beside Them connects post-9/11 veterans, transitioning service members, spouses, and caregivers with certified industry professionals for up to 12 free virtual coaching sessions. These individualized partnerships focus on forward-looking growth across several distinct specialties, including small business development, corporate leadership, life and relationships, and overall health and wellness.
Type of Support: Certified trauma-informed coaches, small-cohort peer support, and veteran peer mentors.
Description: Project New Day delivers a structured, 12-week integrative, evidence-informed psychoeducational coaching program via Zoom for combat veterans, with separate groups for their spouses. The program draws on concepts and practices from Internal Family Systems, Coherence Therapy, mindfulness and nervous-system education, positive psychology, neuroscience, and meaning- and purpose-centered approaches. Rather than focusing primarily on pathology or symptom management, Project New Day helps participants understand how their minds and bodies work and learn to navigate their own internal processes, recognizing emotional and protective patterns, responding to stress and difficult experiences with greater awareness, and developing greater connection, harmony, and self-leadership within themselves. Small-cohort peer support and experienced coaches reinforce this learning while participants develop practical skills for healing from trauma and addiction, strengthening well-being and relationships, and creating a more purposeful and fulfilling future. Learn more at about our program here and also visit our Outcomes and Testimonials page.
The following forms are for use by organizations that choose to adopt the Project New Day Program model.
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Form to be filled out explaining the program, the timeline, risks, benefits, etc. |
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The preliminary online questionnaire |
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Explanations of what answers exclude an applicant and how to interpret diagnostics |
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Script for screening personnel to use in the first Zoom interview with an applicant |
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Explanations of standards that must be met in four different categories: mental health disorders, physiological conditions, current medications, and current life circumstances |
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The final screening interview is with a life coach. This document is a "call guide" to help the coach determine applicant’s personal history, motivation, etc. |