Adhd coaches for students and college ADHD
Compare 54 ADHD coaches who focus on students and college ADHD. Besides students and college ADHD, the most common focus areas are executive function skills, adults with ADHD, time management and focus and autism and neurodivergence. They most often work with students, parents and neurodivergent adults. Most charge $88 to $200 per hour or session.
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Camil Aponte
Camil Aponte is an ADHD and autism life coach who works with neurodivergent teens, college students and adults. Camil founded Harmonic Divergence in Puerto Rico and coaches in English and Spanish. Camil holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Washington and has more than 16 years of experience as an academic, educator, mentor and curriculum developer. Camil is ADHD and autistic, and also parents neurodivergent children.
Caryl Frankenberger
Caryl Frankenberger is an independent educational consultant and the founder of Frankenberger Associates in Branford, Connecticut. She helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Her learning center also offers executive function coaching, social learning programs, tutoring, brain training and assessments. The center has operated for over four decades and has helped thousands of students and families. Support is available in person or online for children, teens and adults.
Christina Steger
Christina Steger is an ADHD and career change coach who owns Balanced Approach Coaching. She works online with college students, graduate students, young adults and perfectionists. She has spent 3 years in counseling, as a school counselor and in private practice, and holds licenses in both. She also worked in a school specialized for students with ADHD. She is working toward Board Certified Coach status. She also coaches people who support loved ones with ADHD.
Erika Gillette
Erika Gillette is an ADHD and burnout coach who works with adults and students going through big changes. Her practice focuses on high-performers, especially professional women in leadership roles. About half of her clients are neurodivergent. She spent nearly a decade teaching and working in university administration before opening her own practice in 2016. She has logged more than 2,500 coaching hours and works from Nevada.
Jennifer Litvak
Jennifer Litvak is an ADHD and life coach who works with teens, college students and adults. She has over 25 years of experience with college students and young adults. She helps them build time management, organization, leadership and life balance skills. She holds an AACC certification from ADD Coaching Academy and a master's in Educational Leadership. She has managed her own ADHD since she was diagnosed at 18. She also coaches parents alongside their teens.
Jessica Clancy
Jessica Clancy is an ADHD and accountability coach. She helps teens, college students, business professionals and families who struggle with focus and follow-through. She brings over 18 years of experience in education and coaching. She is also a certified special education teacher and reading instructor. Her work centers on procrastination, time management and executive function. She also helps people who are moving from college into a career.
Michael Lechner
Michael Lechner is an ADHD and executive coach in Brookings, South Dakota. He helps adults with ADHD perform better at work and school, with a focus on managers and leaders. He is a retired clinical psychologist and has ADHD himself. He has studied and researched adult ADHD for years. His method centers on clear goals and effective action steps. He has also coached leaders through retirement and succession planning.
Rosie Elvin
Rosie Elvin is an ADHD coach who works one-on-one with adults who have ADHD. She focuses on professionals in creative industries and academia. Before coaching, she spent over 16 years as a university academic, where she guided many neurodiverse students. She runs the ADHD Focus practice in Lincolnshire. She also gives talks and workshops for workplaces and universities. A diagnosis is not needed to work with her.
Shelly Lyons
Shelly Lyons is an ADHD and life coach in New Hampshire. She also coaches autistic and dyslexic adults. She works with individuals, groups and couples, plus parents, partners and managers of neurodivergent people. She has 20+ years in HR leadership, disability programs, education, technology and life sciences. She is a former college athlete and coaches current and former competitive athletes. She learned she had ADHD at age 39.
Taylor Allbright
Taylor Allbright is an ADHD and executive functioning coach who helps adults and young adults build sustainable productivity and well-being. Taylor is a former college professor and also worked as a researcher and K-12 teacher for over a decade. Taylor holds a PhD in Education and focuses on college students, graduate students, academics, and K-12 educators. The work draws on strengths and research. Taylor is based in southern California.
Chrissy Nichols
Chrissy Nichols is a certified executive function coach who works with teens and adults who have ADHD or think differently. She helps clients plan, manage time, and start tasks. She has ADHD herself. She is a dual American and French citizen who has lived and worked extensively in France, and she lives in Utah. Her sessions open with a routine called Pride Pong, where clients report five wins. She also offers courses and parent coaching.
Deborah Levi
Deborah Levi is an academic coach and autism life coach in Maryland. She runs ACES, which stands for Academic Coaching and Educational Support. She helps college students finish their degrees feeling healthy, confident and in control. She is a licensed social worker with over twenty years in higher education. For the past decade she has directed disability services at a public state institution and overseen its academic coaching program.
Dee De La Paz
Dee De La Paz is an ADHD, life and relationship coach in Coeur D'alene, Idaho. She works with teens, young adults and adults on stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD and personal or professional growth. Dee brings over 15 years of experience in social work and counseling. She holds an MA in Counseling and a BS in Psychology. She has also helped clients who faced addiction, developmental disorders and past incarceration.
Kathryn Gerety
Kathryn Gerety is an ADHD and executive function coach in Connecticut. She helps adult women, young adults, college students and high school students. Before coaching, she taught science in middle and high school for more than 15 years, starting in 1998. She holds a master's in secondary education and a biology degree. She gives clients tools and strategies for academic success and daily life, including adults who feel buried by heavy workloads and family demands.
Keith Gelhorn
Keith Gelhorn is an ADHD and executive function coach who helps neurodivergent youth and adults. He founded ADDvocacy in 2012 after a late diagnosis of ADHD, anxiety and learning disabilities at age 34. He still coaches while running the business, and he has coached hundreds of people. His team works with students from high school through PhD, apprentices, entrepreneurs and adults in career change. Every coach on the team is neurodivergent.
Marni Lutz
Marni Lutz is a certified ADHD coach who works with parents, teens, college students, young adults and whole families. She runs Rise Above ADHD. Before coaching, she spent 20 years in Parks and Recreation. She trained at the ADD Coach Academy after learning about ADHD as a parent of three sons with ADHD. She offers a free 30 minute discovery session and uses a framework called the RISE Method.
Ned Snyder
Ned Snyder is an ADHD and autism coach who also does life and career coaching. He works with neurodiverse people of all ages, parents of neurodiverse children, students from K-12 through college, and business groups. He holds a Master's degree in Psychology and has trained in Special Education and Human Services. He has worked as a teacher, a school administrator and in mental health institutions. He holds certifications in ADHD, autism, career, life, CBT, REBT, DBT and NLP coaching.
Paul Rivas
Paul Rivas is an independent educational consultant who teaches study skills and time management to students from middle school to grad school. He runs SMITH RIVAS in Saint Leonard, Maryland. He wrote the book This Book Will Not Be on the Test and built an online course called Better Grades in Less Time. He works with students with ADHD, learning differences, athletes, creatives and high achievers.
Paula Michaeldass
Paula Michaeldass is a coach who helps people with ADHD, job seekers and students with career, school and daily focus goals. She has more than 20 years of combined experience in career counseling, ADHD coaching and college admissions. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership and is a National Certified Counselor. She focuses on 2E clients, who are both ADHD and gifted, and on entrepreneurship. She meets clients online or in Duluth, Georgia.
Stephanie Vargas
Stephanie Vargas is an academic success coach who helps college students raise their grades and build executive function skills. She teaches planning, goal setting and organization. Before coaching, she spent 13 years working with students in college counseling, admissions, financial aid and student success. She holds a master's in educational psychology from Pepperdine University. She was a first-generation college student who studied 3,000 miles from home, and she uses that experience with her clients.
Sam Led
Sam Led is an ADHD and anxiety coach who works with adults and college students. Sam is the author of the book Beyond ADHD and also works as a speaker and group facilitator. Sam lives with ADHD, OCD and GAD and coaches from that experience. Sessions are private conversations that help clients slow down their thinking and see their minds in a new way. The focus is on dropping shame, not on building systems to manage ADHD.
Stacie Vitale
Stacie Vitale is an ADHD and autism life coach who helps neurodivergent high school students, college students and adults. Stacie runs Root Skills Coaching in Michigan. Stacie is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and uses Applied Behavior Analysis to build executive functioning and life skills. Stacie's past work covers schools, ABA centers, community programs, and adult group homes and day programs. Stacie builds a personal plan for each client.
Abby Bittler
Abby Bittler is a college admissions consultant who helps students plan for college and move into it successfully. She works with students in regular education and with students who learn differently, including those with ADHD or dyslexia. She started as an independent educational consultant in 2014. Before that she was a teacher, tutor and academic coach. She focuses on colleges in the Southeast, including public and private schools with moderately selective admissions.
April Miller
April Miller is an independent educational consultant who helps neurodivergent students plan for college and apply. She is a speech-language pathologist and began her education career 26 years ago. Before consulting, she spent 15 years in pediatric clinical work and taught at Maalot Baltimore, the University of Washington and Towson University. She runs LD College Expert in Middletown, Connecticut. She also guides students through gap and transition programs.
Caitlyn McGinley
Caitlyn McGinley coaches students and professionals in college admissions, executive functioning and career moves into product management. She leads AI Service Transformation at Natera. She is a former Stanford researcher. She has worked in research, clinical, school and workplace settings for over 5 years and has worked with over 800 people on school and work placement. She also helps people get accommodations at work and in school.
Declan Katwala
Declan Katwala is a career and life coach based in Bristol. He helps university students, emerging professionals and employees who face change, new roles or career decisions. He has worked for more than a decade across education, non-profit and private healthcare settings. He holds a certificate in neurodiversity coaching and uses DISC profiling to explore communication style. He also coaches people from underrepresented backgrounds and works with organisations.
Eric Endlich
Eric Endlich is an independent educational consultant who helps students with college and graduate school admissions. He leads Top College Consultants, a nationwide team that focuses on students with learning differences such as autism, ADHD and dyslexia. His students have received acceptances from over 110 schools. He also spoke at a 2020 college planning conference. His practice is based in Walnut Creek, California.
Lizz Alexander
Lizz Alexander is a student success coach who helps college, university and graduate students build confidence and manage stress. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and has worked with hundreds of post-secondary students, many with ADHD or executive function challenges. Before coaching, she taught, researched and worked as a learning strategist at the University of Victoria. She started her business in 2020 and coaches online from Victoria, BC.
Margreet Adriani
Margreet Adriani is a life, career and ADHD coach who helps high-achieving professionals find balance between work, relationships and health. She has coached since 2013, starting as a lifestyle coach. She holds an ICF certification through UC Davis and a bachelor's degree in Dietetics. She is also a values coach, health coach and personal trainer. She founded Lighten Your Plate. ADHD coaching is one of her specialties.
Smrati Mehta
Smrati Mehta is an executive and leadership coach who also coaches people with ADHD and dyslexia. She works with C-suite and board leaders, neurodivergent professionals, students, and people going through career change. She spent 20 years in corporate leadership, including NSE transformations and board governance. She has also worked as a Licensed Davis Facilitator for 13 years. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MBA, and she coaches from India.
Stephanie J. Marshall
Stephanie J. Marshall is a life and mindset coach in Toronto who also coaches adults and students with ADHD. She has worked with hundreds of women from over 15 countries. That work led her to create the Alignment Coaching Framework. She holds an MBA and is a certified hypnotist trained in the neuroscience of change. Her focus is helping people who already know what they should do but are not doing it.
Bryce Raley
Bryce Raley is an academic coach and SAT tutor who helps students of all ages, from elementary school to college. He has coached for six years and has helped hundreds of students raise their test scores by hundreds of points. He covers SAT, ACT, GRE and GMAT prep, plus AP and college courses. He grew up with ADHD and social anxiety, and he uses that experience to coach students who struggle in school.
Ginny Johnson
Ginny Johnson is an independent educational consultant who helps high school, undergraduate and graduate students plan for college and graduate school. She runs Pathways to Admission LLC in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Her work centers on students headed into allied health fields such as pre-med, physician assistant, physical therapy and nursing. She has visited more than 500 schools and supported more than 18,000 students. She also advises students with ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences.
Judy Bass
Judy Bass is an independent educational consultant in Olney, Maryland. She runs Bass Educational Services, which helps students who learn differently and their parents. The team offers college planning, essay coaching, ADHD and executive function coaching, test prep, and IEP and 504 support. The practice also offers a free Student Success Profile quiz for students in grades 8 to 12. It won Washington Parent Picks in 2021 and 2022.
Kelly Scherr
Kelly Scherr is an independent educational consultant who helps students and families with college planning. She runs College Way Consulting in Potomac, Maryland. She matches student and family priorities with colleges that fit. She reserves part of her practice for students with ADHD, ASD and other learning differences. She also has experience as a one-on-one Executive Function Coach. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master of Education.
Lainie Donnell
Lainie Donnell is an educational therapist and college counselor in Westlake Village, California. Lainie helps middle school, high school and college students, and their parents, with learning challenges and college admissions. Lainie works one on one with students who have diagnosed and undiagnosed learning issues, including dyslexia, ADHD and executive function deficits. Lainie is a professional member of the IECA. Lainie's goal is to give students a set of skills they can use in school and in life.
Marci Schwartz
Marci Schwartz is an independent educational consultant who leads Thrive College Counseling in Los Gatos, California. She helps teens and their families plan the move to college. Her team focuses on students with autism, ADHD, and other learning differences. They build college lists, guide applications, and teach executive function and college readiness skills. The same team member who does a student's test prep stays on to provide the college counseling.
Michelle Alessandria
Michelle Alessandria is an independent educational consultant in Lafayette, California. She guides students and parents through college admissions and runs an executive functioning program through OPEN EDvantage. She has 30 years of teaching experience and holds credentials in special education, English and history. She also trains new teachers at St. Mary's College and has taken college counseling courses through UCLA.
Stephanie Frumkin
Stephanie Frumkin is an independent educational consultant who helps families of bright students with learning differences. She runs Exceptional Educational Solutions in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her focus is twice-exceptional (2e) students in grades K-12 across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. She helps families with school placement, advocacy, homeschooling and educational alternatives. She is a professional member of IECA and works with gifted, neurodivergent and 2e children who struggle in their current school.
Tracy Coffin
Tracy Coffin is a college admissions counselor who helps students with learning differences and their parents. Tracy founded 504U in Austin, Texas. Tracy's clients include students with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism. Tracy holds a UCLA certificate in college admissions counseling and has guided over 100 students. Tracy visits at least 20 campuses a year. Tracy has dyslexia and works with families from early planning through the move from high school to college.
Aparna Venkateswaran
Aparna Venkateswaran is an independent educational consultant and coach who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Malakite Coaching & Education Consulting in San Jose, California. She also offers executive function coaching for teens and young adults, plus life coaching for teens and adults. Her services include the Highlands Ability Battery. She is a professional member of IECA. She starts by learning a student's skills, strengths and challenges before helping pick a fit school.
Beth Bressler
Beth Bressler is an independent educational consultant in Morristown, New Jersey. She guides students and parents through college admissions and focuses on students with learning differences. These include ADHD, executive function disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, and autism spectrum disorders. She runs GPS College Consulting and works one-on-one with each student. She starts with a review of the student's educational history and learning profile, then builds a plan. She also helps families find post-secondary programs.
Lucy Pritzker
Lucy Pritzker is an independent educational consultant who helps families place children, teens and young adults in the right school or therapeutic program. She founded Elm Street Placements in Pittstown, New Jersey, and serves as its senior consultant. Her team travels the country to visit boarding schools, wilderness programs, residential treatment centers and assessment centers. That gives them first-hand knowledge of each program they recommend to families.
Traci Clark
Traci Clark is a life coach and ADHD coach in Ohio who runs Stronger Future. She works with adults, including adults with ADHD, and with students. She is a lifelong educator with a psychology degree and a master's degree in education. She became a Certified Life Coach during the pandemic. Her work centers on building habits and setting goals. She also runs focused sessions for women in transition and academic coaching for students and their families.
Caroline Mug
Caroline Mug is an accountability and career coach in Missouri. She helps professional women get clear on their priorities and goals. She also coaches students on executive function skills like organization and time management. Before coaching, she taught 5th grade at an international school in Venezuela. She then moved into corporate learning and development, where she built leadership programs and coached employees on career growth. She holds an MBA and a graduate certificate in Organizational Psychology.
MyTeenLife Coach
MyTeenLife Coach is a coaching practice that helps teens, young adults and their parents through school, career and life changes. The team has 30+ combined years of experience. Founder Liezel has coached teens for over thirty years and is also an award-winning dance teacher. Sessions cover resilience, stress, time management, tech overuse and ADHD. Parents and teens can both get support.
Sharon Thomas
Sharon Thomas is the director of MAIA Education Resource Center in New York. She helps students and parents with college admissions counseling, school placement, test preparation and executive function coaching. She co-founded MAIA with Keith Haber and named it after their daughter. The center also offers tutoring from kindergarten through college, parent consultations, professional referrals and workshops. Sharon is a member of IECA.
Laura Barr
Laura Barr is an independent educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. He helps high school students and their parents with college admissions and boarding and private school admissions. His practice, Emerging Educational Consulting, serves students nationwide. The team uses a step-by-step curriculum for the application process. It also offers executive function coaching, ADHD support, academic mentorship, and test prep for the ACT, SAT, and AP exams.
Scott Garbini
Scott Garbini is a college and career consultant. He helps students and families find the right college or career. He is the owner and lead consultant of Garbini Education and Career Consulting LLC. He works with students who have anxiety, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or who are on the autism spectrum. He also helps LGBT students find schools with strong support services. He coaches families and students on executive function and life skills.
Carolyn Weirick
Carolyn Weirick is a college admissions counselor in Pasadena, California. She works with students and parents through Capstone Education Advisers, a team-based practice that also helps students with learning differences. She is a member of IECA. Capstone counselors have helped students gain admission at more than 160 colleges and universities. Each family works closely with one counselor and also draws on the wider team's backgrounds.
Priyanka
Priyanka is the founder of Thryve Resilience & Wellness in Irvine, California. She coaches teens, high school and college students, and young adults on executive function skills and resilience. Before coaching, she spent more than two decades as a global HR leader. Her clients are ages 14 to 27. They work on school stress, confidence, and big life changes. Sessions are one-on-one, and she works with clients in Southern California and online across the USA.
Patti Schabinger
Patti Schabinger is a college admissions consultant and licensed learning specialist in Northbrook, Illinois. She helps students and parents with the college search, essays, applications, scholarships and interviews. She has over thirty years of experience teaching students from elementary school through adult. She works with students of all abilities, including those with learning differences and ADHD. She also builds executive function skills and coaches on ACT and SAT test taking.
Alex Ellison
Alex Ellison runs Throughline Guidance, a college and career counseling practice. The practice helps high school students, college students and early career professionals choose colleges, majors and career paths. Every plan starts with an aptitude assessment that maps a student's natural strengths. The practice also offers executive function coaching and college transfer guidance. For the Class of 2026, students were awarded over $11M in scholarships, and 70% received at least one merit scholarship.
Rachael Schaller
Rachael Schaller is a coach in Nevada who helps students, parents and professionals plan for the future. She has more than 13 years of experience counseling and coaching people through the K-12 school years and beyond. She is a licensed school psychologist with two master's degrees, in organizational behavior and school psychology. She built a coaching program that helps young adults plan for independence after high school and college.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Camil Aponte | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Caryl Frankenberger | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $105 to $175 an hour |
| Christina Steger | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Erika Gillette | Adults with ADHD and Women with ADHD | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Jennifer Litvak | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Jessica Clancy | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Michael Lechner | Adults with ADHD and ADHD at work | $100 to $325 per hour |
| Rosie Elvin | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Shelly Lyons | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Taylor Allbright | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Chrissy Nichols | Adults with ADHD and Teens with ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Deborah Levi | Students and college ADHD and Executive function skills | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Dee De La Paz | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $75 to $100 per hour |
| Kathryn Gerety | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Keith Gelhorn | Adults with ADHD and Students and college ADHD | $100 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an ADHD coach for students and college ADHD cost?
Most ADHD coaches charge $88 to $200 per hour or session.
What else do these ADHD coaches help with?
Common focus areas include executive function skills, adults with ADHD, time management and focus and autism and neurodivergence.
Prices and research
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Last updated September 2026.