Admissions consultants for therapeutic and gap year
Compare 53 admissions consultants who focus on therapeutic and gap year. Besides therapeutic and gap year, the most common focus areas are college admissions, boarding and private school, students with learning differences and financial aid and scholarships. They most often work with parents, students and teens. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Allison Henderson
Allison Henderson is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She runs A+ College Consultants in the San Diego area of California. She has counseled over 1,000 clients across the country and abroad. Her work covers college search, applications, essays, deadlines, and merit-based aid. She also writes a blog with data-driven advice on admissions. She holds a college counseling certificate from UC San Diego.
Ann Rossbach
Ann Rossbach is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through college admissions. She has worked with students for 18 years and has helped hundreds of them. Before consulting, she taught community college reading, English and study skills. She served 15 years on two Boards of Education, 12 as president. She also teaches educational consulting at the University of California, Irvine, and works from Rumson, New Jersey.
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.
Calli Christenson
Calli Christenson is a college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. She helps students and parents choose colleges and apply to them. She has worked in admissions and advising for over 15 years and started in undergraduate admissions at a small college in Southern California. She has visited over 200 colleges and spends several weeks each year on campus visits. She has led college counseling as a Director at a Houston-area private school.
Marilyn Engelman
Marilyn Engelman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose colleges, schools and therapeutic programs. She leads Educational Directions in Westborough, Massachusetts. She has worked as a special educator since 1971 and has taught at several universities. She has advised 1000's of students of all abilities. Her practice also offers psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessments, which is rare for an admissions consultant.
Melissa Masland
Melissa Masland is an independent college admissions consultant in Walnut Creek, California. She helps high school students and their families choose colleges and complete applications. She started her practice in 2010 and earlier worked as a college counselor at Orinda Academy. In most years, about half of her students have learning challenges such as LD, anxiety or dyslexia. She has worked with students admitted to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA, and with students who need schools with strong support.
Pam Tedeschi
Pam Tedeschi is an independent educational consultant in Potomac, Maryland. She helps students and parents find the right day school, boarding school, or therapeutic program. She has worked in the field since 1999 and is a Certified Educational Planner. She meets with the child first, before the parents, to learn the child's strengths and needs. She is the only consultant in her office, so clients speak with her directly.
Shari Piracha
Shari Piracha is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and application process. She runs YouQuest College Advising near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and works with clients in person and online. She has been an educator for over 27 years. She has a master's degree in special education and has guest lectured for the UCLA College Counseling certificate program. She focuses on students who do not fit the usual mold.
The Ivy Institute
The Ivy Institute is a college admissions consulting firm that helps students and their parents apply to selective colleges. Its team works with families on academic planning, essays, interviews and final application review. The firm has more than 10 years of experience. It offers the Top-Eight Promise on senior-year packages. Families pick eight colleges. If the student gets into none of them, the final payment is not due.
Annie Reece
Annie Reece is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents find and apply to boarding schools. She runs Right Fit Educational Consulting in Topsfield, Massachusetts. She works with families across the country. Her work covers traditional and junior boarding schools, athletic admissions, and schools for students with learning differences. She also advises on gap years and summer programs. She builds a school list for each student after detailed meetings with the family.
Ben Mason
Ben Mason is an independent educational consultant who runs Mason Associates in Shelburne, Vermont. The firm helps young adults, teens and children find the right school or treatment setting when their current one is not working. Services include boarding school placement in the U.S. and abroad, therapeutic school and wilderness program placement, and college guidance for students in recovery. The practice has served families since 1987.
Cammie Bertram
Cammie Bertram is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose and apply to boarding and private schools. She runs Campus Direction from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. She has worked with students at the junior, secondary and college levels for nearly thirty years. She also advises families whose child needs a therapeutic environment. She is a Certified Educational Planner and an IECA Professional member.
Claire Law
Claire Law is an independent educational consultant in Charleston, South Carolina. She helps high school students and their parents choose and apply to the right college. She also guides families toward boarding schools and special-needs programs. She founded Educational Avenues in 1999. Every family gets a financial aid affordability review. She wrote a book on controlling college costs using the Affordable Family Contribution.
Claire Mangrum
Claire Mangrum is an educational consultant who guides students and their families through high school, college, and career decisions. She runs Bright Futures Consulting, a boutique firm. Before that, she spent 5 years as an Assistant Director of Admission at St. Edward's University and 1 year in the same role in New York City. She also worked for a year at a gap year program in Ecuador. She has run her own practice for 5 years.
Dana Doering
Dana Doering is an independent educational consultant in Seattle, Washington. Dana helps students and parents with boarding school and private school admissions. Dana is the Executive Director of Dean Doering & Associates and its lead therapeutic educational consultant. Dana is also the senior psychiatric mental health clinician on the team. The practice has more than 75 years of combined experience and works with families on placement and planning.
Dick Baroody
Dick Baroody is an independent educational consultant in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He helps young adults, teens, children and their families find schools and therapeutic programs that fit. He is a four-time headmaster and college dean with 54 years of work in education. For the last 15 years he has focused on traditional, therapeutic and transitional living placements. He works with families across the U.S. and takes no pay from schools or programs.
Jill Corbin
Jill Corbin is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents find universities that fit. She works with the US, UK, and European systems. She has 20+ years of experience in admissions, financial aid, and application planning. She also helps families who need a gap year plan or other options after high school. Her practice is based in Oklahoma. She describes her service as a college and transition concierge.
Jodi Glou
Jodi Glou is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents in Maryland, Washington, DC and Virginia. She runs Custom College Consulting and works with families from 9th grade through senior year. Her services cover college lists, applications, essays, interviews and paying for college. Her clients have been accepted to schools such as Duke University, Purdue University and the United States Naval Academy. She is a member of HECA.
Joyce Draper
Joyce Draper is an independent college admissions consultant who runs Draper College Consulting. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, starting as early as ninth or tenth grade. She also works with college students who want to transfer. Joyce visits many college campuses each year and meets with students and admissions officers. She uses those visits to guide families. She works from the Washington, D.C. area and serves clients across the country by video or phone.
Karen Mabie
Karen Mabie is an independent educational consultant in Glencoe, Illinois. He helps parents find therapeutic boarding schools, teen residential treatment programs, and wilderness therapy programs for their children. He runs The School Solution, a practice founded over 20 years ago. He also guides families to young adult programs. Therapists refer to him when a child is hard to place. He is a professional member of IECA.
Kristina Campodonico
Kristina Campodonico is an independent college admissions consultant in California. She helps teens and their parents plan for college, from early high school through applications. Her process starts with interest and aptitude assessments and values work, then builds a Student Profile and an Education Roadmap by semester. She also guides essays, college lists, and financial aid. She holds HECA and NACAC credentials and works to line up parents and students.
Marta M Miskolczy
Marta Miskolczy is an independent college advisor who runs Prep to Enroll in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She helps students and their families with high school planning, boarding schools, college placement, gap year plans and college transfers. Her recent students earned acceptances at Brown, Tufts, Colby College and the University of Colorado Boulder. Some won large scholarships, including $82,000 at Santa Clara University. She builds each plan around fit, match and cost.
Milton Little
Milton Little is an independent educational and therapeutic placement consultant with Burke-Little & Associates in Durham, North Carolina. He helps families find the right school or treatment program for a child, teen or young adult who is struggling. The practice has offices in Durham, Richmond and Nashville. It has worked with families across the country and abroad for thirty years. It takes no payment from the programs it refers to.
Rachel Sobel
Rachel Sobel is a Certified Educational Planner who helps families choose colleges and other next steps for students with learning disabilities. She founded College Possibilities, LLC in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and has more than 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist, college counselor and educator. She visits colleges and therapeutic programs around the country and works with students across the United States.
Rose Ellen Mocombe
Rose Ellen Mocombe is an independent educational consultant in Oviedo, Florida. She runs Beyond Ivy Educational Consulting and helps students and parents with college admissions. She uses a method called the Inside-Out Method, which starts with who the student is. She has firsthand experience as a homeschool parent and an athletic-recruiting parent. She works with families as early as 9th grade and gives monthly guidance at each grade level.
Sandy Furth
Sandy Furth is an international educational consultant who helps students and parents find the right school or program. She runs World Student Support from Chicago, Illinois. Her services cover university search in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Europe, plus K-12 schools, boarding schools and gap year options. She has lived and worked in other countries, which shapes how she guides families through overseas applications, visas and health insurance. Her clients come from many nationalities.
Ani Arakelian-Sahakian
Ani Arakelian-Sahakian is an independent college admissions consultant in Massachusetts. She runs College Gates Advising and works with students and their parents. Her clients include domestic and international high school students and students who want to transfer. She builds a plan from each student's academic profile and interests. She helps with the college list, campus visits, timelines and interview skills. She also advises students who want a gap year before college.
Bar Clarke
Bar Clarke is an independent educational and therapeutic consultant in Southport, Maine. Bar runs Loeta Consulting Group and helps families find the right school or program for a child or loved one who is struggling. The work covers placement and case management. Bar has visited hundreds of programs across the country. Educational work is limited to grades 8 to postgraduate, and the focus is on the match between student and school, not on getting into a school.
Carole Cummings
Carole Cummings is an independent educational consultant in Montclair, New Jersey. She helps students and their families with the college search and application process. She has more than ten years in the field. Her students have won acceptance and scholarship funding at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. She runs Cummings College Consulting and offers help with essays, transfers, and gap years.
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.
Marcia Kramer
Marcia Kramer is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded and directs Plan the Path in Montclair, New Jersey, and has worked as a consultant for over 20 years. Her team covers college counseling, essay coaching, postsecondary placement and educational crisis management. They work with traditional high school students, students with learning differences and students in therapeutic programs. Each student picks up essay skills through one-on-one writing coaching.
Rebecca Claster
Rebecca Claster is an independent educational consultant in Washington, DC. She runs Claster Educational Services and helps students and parents through the college admissions process. She guides families from the college search to the final decision. Her work covers course choices, test planning, college lists, essays, financial aid and gap year planning. She is a professional member of IECA. She looks past rankings and statistics to find schools where each student can succeed.
Andrew Bryan
Andrew Bryan is an independent educational consultant in Seattle, Washington. He runs Emerge Educational Consulting and helps teens, college age students and their parents. His work covers college advising, career guidance, and school and program placement. He advises students who have faced emotional, behavioral or learning challenges. He also leads 10-day Trek Epic walking adventures and adult pilgrimages, and offers a self-guided Gap Year program.
Chris Kocurek
Chris Kocurek is an independent educational consultant in Austin, Texas. Chris helps students and parents with boarding school and private school admissions. Chris works with Academic Answers, a national firm started in 1998 that also offers therapeutic consulting, academic coaching, college counseling and parent coaching. The firm's team has over 200 years of combined experience. Chris is a professional member of the IECA.
Daria Rockholz
Daria Rockholz is an education consultant who helps teens and young adults get into the right school, college or therapeutic program. He runs Daria Rockholz Consulting in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is a member of IECA. His team includes educational and clinical specialists. He works with gifted students, students with learning challenges, and students in between. His practice also covers special needs placement, teens at risk, and SSAT flex testing.
Kristin Kajer-Cline
Kristin Kajer-Cline is an independent educational consultant in Issaquah, Washington. She helps parents and young people find boarding schools, private schools and therapeutic programs. She works through Educational Connections, a team of therapeutic consultants. In the last 20 years, the team has served more than 1,000 families. Clients range from ages 10 to 32, and most are ages 13 to 23. She is a professional member of IECA.
Mary Killay Lavayen
Mary Killay Lavayen is an independent educational consultant who helps parents and students find the right day school or boarding school. Mary works with Independent School Options, a practice that has served families since 2001. The practice covers Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC, and places students from pre-kindergarten through high school. It also offers therapeutic placement support and gives the SSAT Flex Test. Mary's team has worked as teachers in both private and public schools.
Nancy Foushée
Nancy Foushée is an independent college consultant in Maine who runs Nancy Foushée & Associates. She guides students and their families through the college search and application process. Her services cover transcript review, test planning, college lists, interview practice, essays and a final check of each application. She also helps with financial aid questions and offers gap year planning. She is a member of the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Sadrail Saint-Ulysse
Dr. Sadrail Saint-Ulysse is an independent college consultant in New Jersey who helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs SSU Educational Consulting, LLC. The practice puts college fit and affordability first. It also covers SAT and ACT prep, career counseling, and college transfer. He is a speaker who gives talks on education and civic involvement to schools, churches, community groups and corporations.
Laura Seese
Laura Seese is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose schools and programs, including boarding, college and wilderness placements. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and has worked as a school psychologist, assistant principal and special education director. She serves on the board of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Her firm, Educational Advancement Associates, is based in East Granby, Connecticut.
Peter Wright
Peter Wright is an independent educational consultant in Norwell, Massachusetts. He helps students and parents with school and college placement, learning differences, and therapeutic placements. He also offers life and executive function coaching for children, teens and college students. Wright is a former teacher at boarding, day, parochial and public schools. He has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities for over a decade. He meets clients in his office, at agreed locations, or online.
Sarah Reese
Sarah Reese is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with school, college, university and graduate school admission. She is the executive director of Informed Educational Solutions in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Before consulting, she worked as an admissions officer at Wellesley College and as an admissions director at Dana Hall School and Baldwin School. She also served as a college counselor at schools in Massachusetts and Madrid. She works with families in the US and around the world.
Erin Jensen
Erin Jensen is a college coach who helps students with admissions, transfers, graduate school and paying for college. Erin runs Golden Ratio Northwest College Coaching. Erin has more than 15 years in college recruitment and admissions. Erin focuses on non-traditional students, including gap year students, working adults, veterans and foster youth. Erin also helps first generation students and high school students. Erin's rates change to fit each student's situation.
Martha Jones
Martha Jones is a college admissions consultant and founder of Jones College Counseling in Petaluma, California. She helps high school students and their parents plan for life after graduation. She has guided families through college admissions for more than a decade. Her work covers college search, deadlines, standardized test plans, applications, financial aid and scholarships. She also helps students who plan a gap year, attend trade school, transfer, or join ROTC.
Moira Caserio
Moira Caserio is an independent educational consultant in Winnetka, Illinois. She runs Tree Street College Consulting and helps high school students and their parents through college admissions. She guides students in any year of high school, college students who want to transfer, and gap year students who want to apply or reapply. Her services cover early planning, college fit, applications, essays, resumes, and test choices. She is an IECA Professional member.
Teri Thompson
Teri Thompson is an independent college admissions consultant in Seattle, Washington. She helps students and parents plan for college and apply. Her firm, Thompson College Consulting, has worked with more than 1,000 students over 17 years. Those students have been admitted to more than 100 colleges. She supports families at each stage, from high school course planning to senior year applications. She also advises on applying to colleges in the UK and Europe.
Gwynne Hales
Gwynne Hales is an independent educational consultant who helps parents and students choose a boarding school, summer camp, or special needs school or program. She runs Great Lakes Educational Consulting in Northfield, Illinois, and works with families across the United States and abroad. Her team knows hundreds of schools, camps and programs first-hand. The firm takes no pay from any school or program.
Jeffrey Quebec
Dr. Jeffrey Quebec is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding school, day school and therapeutic placement. He is in his fourth decade of working with families from around the world. He also hosts an internationally recognized podcast. His work covers PK-12 day schools, post graduate and gap year programs, athletic recruiting, and visual and performing arts. He is based in Westford, Massachusetts.
Michael Wilner
Michael Wilner is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and secondary school admissions. He runs Wilner Education from Putney, Vermont. His work covers school research, applications, essays, tours, interviews, and financial aid. He also helps families with gap years, transfers, and crisis situations tied to health, discipline, or family issues. He keeps tracking student progress after placement and supports students once they are in college.
Maureen O'Loughlin
Maureen O'Loughlin is an independent educational consultant in Westport, Connecticut. She helps students and parents find and apply to boarding and private schools. Her firm, OLoughlin Associates, covers regional day schools, traditional and junior boarding schools, special interest schools, learning difference schools and therapeutic programs. She is a professional member of the IECA. Families work with her from the first school search through the application and interview steps.
Karen Kindler
Karen Kindler is an independent educational consultant in San Francisco. She helps students and parents with college admissions and school placement. She works with the MBRKA team, which also covers elementary, day and boarding, secondary, and therapeutic schools. The team bases its advice on regular school visits and close ties with schools across the Bay Area and the U.S. Karen is a Professional member of IECA.
Stacy Colwell
Stacy Colwell is an independent college consultant who helps students and their families get through the college application process. Stacy works with freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Stacy's services cover college list creation, career and major exploration, essay development, financial aid guidance and application support. Stacy also researches summer and gap year programs and helps with high school course selection. Stacy mentors parents on financial aid issues.
Mindy Goodman
Mindy Goodman is a parent coach and independent educational consultant who helps families choose therapeutic and educational options for their children. She runs New Chapters Consulting & Coaching in Reisterstown, Maryland. Before this work, she had a career in accounting and business. She helps families find residential placements and school options, and she coaches parents of children and young adults with emotional, behavioral, educational or mental health challenges. She serves clients in Maryland, Delaware, nationwide and online.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Allison Henderson | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Ann Rossbach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| April Miller | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Calli Christenson | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Marilyn Engelman | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Melissa Masland | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Pam Tedeschi | Boarding and private school and Students with learning differences | $110 to $550 per session |
| Shari Piracha | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| The Ivy Institute | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Annie Reece | Boarding and private school and Athletic recruiting | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Ben Mason | Grad school and PhD and Students with learning differences | $70 to $225 an hour |
| Cammie Bertram | Boarding and private school and Students with learning differences | $225 to $350 an hour |
| Claire Law | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Claire Mangrum | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Dana Doering | Boarding and private school and Therapeutic and gap year | $170 to $310 an hour |
Common questions
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Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include college admissions, boarding and private school, students with learning differences and financial aid and scholarships.
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Last updated September 2026.