i have not found a chess teacher

Well, it isn't so much about the title, it's how a coach teaches you. College professors with PhD's are often  terrible teachers. I get to the gist of things. How to develop properly. How not to weaken your position. How to exploit an advantage and not let your opponent back in the game. there are reasons I currently carry over 30 recurring students. It's because they learn from me and their game improves. One student of mine played in his first USCF event after taking weekly lessons from me for 9 months. His first rating is 1920. Check my videos out, particularly video lesson 001 where I show you what you need to do to improve, and my game analysis videos.

Playing skill and teaching skill are distinct.  Just because someone is a GM or has a high rating does not necessarily mean that he/she would be a good coach/teacher.  Your coach should know more than you do, but that does not even necessarily mean that your coach must have a higher rating.  Notably, once you get to a certain level, your coach almost necessarily will have a lower rating.  (For example, who could possibly coach Carlsen given that he is higher rated than everyone else.)  At the highest levels, your coach is there more to help you with a training regiment, giving you advice on how to study, and perhaps teaching you about the psychology of the game.  For many GMS, their coaches likely can't beat them (at least not consistently), but nevertheless their coaches provide value.

Focusing too much on titles or ratings is a bad way to choose a coach.  It's more important that the coache communicate well and is good at evaluating your strengths/weaknesses, your playing style and your learning style.  If your coach can help you improve, it does not matter if your coach has a low rating.

@pt22064: I could have not put it better. My firsth and most helpfull lesson from a mentor (never had a coach) was short: "You must allways look what your opponent can do." Baby steps, my friends!

Books are better than any coach. I started chess at seventeen and my first USCF rating 1162. In three years with no coach and just studying chess books only I became an expert. Books can teach you what a coach cannot.

My friend who was 1400 USCF, always use a coach to try to improve and his rating never improve.  I suggest three books,1.  Logical Chess: Move by Move. Every Move Explained by Irving Chernev and 2. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played; 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev  and finally 3. Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman; by studying these books my friend rating shot to 1800 USCF. All the money my friend wasted on chess coach and by buying three chess books his rating jump to 400 points, a lot cheaper too.

If your rating is not improving there is something wrong with your coach approach and methods.

Different approaches work for different people.  Your approach is no better, or worse than someone elses.

My dad taught me very well and would like to teach he was the one that taught me so well so that i have qualified for 3 all american youth teams so far!  Message me if you want to have my dad coach you :)

CM StormGiant58, is your dad a grandmaster? Can I ask you a question: how can a player earn a CM title?

I_Am_Second, that is true. Some player do better with a coach, anything a player can do to get better and improve their skills and add to their enjoyment. I stand corrected. I mention chess books because it did help me.

 I think your approach is all wrong, if you are just studying for the SAT it makes no sense to want a PhD for a teacher. Is not even a matter of overkill, is just a bad choice, the PhD was likely someone who always had an easy time in school and simply has no way of understanding the difficulties of the average student. Is the same thing with a GM, an average GM was 2200 at 14 and can hardly understand the situation of a 25 year old A Class player (for example). It is much more productive to have high school teacher to help you at the SAT and is much more productive to have, say, a FM whos main occupation is coaching to teach you than a GM who teaches only to get some extra cash between his tournament endeavors

Books, videos, software, coaches, playing, teaching ,etc.  If it works then use it :-)

What is your OTB rating and age? This matters a lot.  It makes sense if someone was 9  years old and had an expert rating in chess to hook up with a GM,because they can potentially become  GM themselves.

Now if your in your the 20-30s age group and your OTB rating is say 1700. Why would you need a GM at 3x the cost to coach you when a NM or even an Expert can teach you the same things? Its a very long climb from 1700 to 2200 at that age and the older you the are the more difficult it is.

And as others have said, teaching skill is far better then a "Title" unless you can find both together. but you will pay an arm an leg for something you can essentially get for far cheaper with a NM 

you my friend is wrong i just recently had a lesson with this master player

which is a womens grandmaster.

HERE IS an example i played her, the lesson i had with her was very horrible, she missed to many things in the game and i had a chance. all she did in her lesson was just type on her computer and not showing me no critical points of the position at all.

this is the reason why i choose grandmaster coaches because they actually show your mistakes with in depth analysis, obvious the player rate 2100 did not know how to plan things out and just made bad moves.

in her lesson all she did was consume her time by not saying anything. even with the homework she gave me it was not in pgn format.

tbh a lot of your annotations made no sense.

tell me what would you do better in the position then if you were playing her?

I said a lot of your annotations, i.e. your odd condemnation of theoretical moves and such.

excuse me sorry your not a d4 player

And yet somehow I know more Catalan theory/ideas than you...

actually i have a catalan book so whats your point?

My point is that I have no idea why you're criticizing her 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th moves when they're all theory. Also 12 Bg5 makes little sense, as does your explanation for it. As well I'm not sure how exactly ...h6 is "weakening" and I could go on but I honestly don't have the time nor inclination. 

yureesystem

to get CM title there are two ways...

1 the way i got it was i tied for first in the North American youth.

2 u can get it by being 2200 fide.

by the way if u r interested in my dad coaching u just make a private message to me