Admissions consultants for therapeutic and gap year
Compare 52 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 college essays. They most often work with parents, students and teens. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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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.
The Competitive Edge
The Competitive Edge is an independent college admissions consulting practice in Georgia. It helps students and families with college lists, essays, interviews, financial aid and career direction. The consultant works with students from 9th grade through college and into a first career. Past work includes teaching public speaking to executives and writing speeches. Sessions happen in person or over Skype. The practice also helps students pick a major early to graduate on time.
RCHI Education Group
RCHI Education Group specializes in helping students with a range of mental health, ASD, and learning differences transition to college, providing transitional support that continues until the student reaches campus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Erin Jensen
Erin Jensen is a college coach who helps students with admissions, transfers, graduate school and paying for college. She runs Golden Ratio Northwest College Coaching. Erin has more than 15 years in college recruitment and admissions. She focuses on non-traditional students, including gap year students, working adults, veterans and foster youth. She also helps first generation students and high school students. Her rates change to fit each student's situation.
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.
Karen Mabie
Karen Mabie is an independent educational consultant in Glencoe, Illinois. She helps parents find therapeutic boarding schools, teen residential treatment programs, and wilderness therapy programs for their children. She runs The School Solution, a practice founded over 20 years ago. She also guides families to young adult programs. Therapists refer to her when a child is hard to place. She is a professional member of IECA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daria Rockholz
Dr. Daria Rockholz is an education consultant in Greenwich, Connecticut. She guides teens and young adults through school and college applications, and helps families find the right educational or therapeutic program. Her team includes educational and clinical specialists. She works with gifted students, students with learning challenges, and teens at risk. She also offers SSAT flex testing support. Her clients include students who applied with IEPs and students in recovery who returned to college.
Andrew Bryan
Andrew Bryan is an independent educational consultant in Seattle, Washington. He helps students and parents with college admissions and with planning the next step after high school. His firm, Emerge Educational Consulting, also offers career assessment, gap year counseling, college life mentoring, and support for neurodiversity. He leads walking treks and 10-day pilgrimages for young adults who want to find their core gifts and purpose.
Ben Mason
Ben Mason is an independent educational consultant in Shelburne, Vermont. He works with Mason Associates, a team that helps families find the right school or program for a child. The team places students in traditional and specialized boarding schools in the U.S. and abroad. It also guides young adults leaving treatment into college and graduate school. The practice has served families since 1987.
Calli Christenson
Calli Christenson is an independent educational consultant in Houston, Texas. She runs Sage Education Group and helps students and parents with college admissions. Her work covers finding colleges that fit a student, guiding the application phase, and advising on specialized learning options and therapeutic placement. She is an IECA Professional member. Her firm's students have been admitted to schools such as Amherst College, Bates College, Baylor University and Barnard College.
Cammie Bertram
Cammie Bertram is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. She runs Campus Direction from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. She guides families through school selection and the application process. She also serves children and families in crisis. She builds working relationships with high schools across the country so she can match each student to a school that fits.
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.
Matt Gray
Matt Gray is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose colleges, private secondary schools and graduate programs. He runs Academic Counseling Group in Glencoe, Illinois, which started in 1978. The practice looks at each student's strengths, weaknesses, needs, interests and finances before matching them with schools. It also keeps a large library of school view books, brochures and DVDs, and it works with teens whose emotional difficulties affect their schooling.
Rebekah Jordan
Rebekah Jordan is an independent educational consultant in Salisbury, Connecticut. She runs Crossbridge Education Consulting with a partner consultant. The team helps parents and students with boarding school, private school, and therapeutic program placement. They also offer IEP advocacy. The team visits and evaluates more than 100 schools and therapeutic programs each year. They serve children, teens, and young adults across the U.S.
The Ivy Institute
The Ivy Institute is a college admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents plan and win admission to selective colleges. It works with a team of consultants and has more than 10 years of experience. It offers resources for transfer students, international students, gap-year students, and pre-med and BSMD applicants. It also runs a Summer Admissions Academy and offers an Acceptance Commitment tied to a student's top eight colleges.
John Catalano
John Catalano runs Catalano Advising, an admissions practice in Locust Valley, New York. He helps students and parents with medical school, health professions school and college admissions. He takes on a select number of clients each year. His work starts well before the application and runs to the end of the admissions cycle. Clients range from first-year high school and college students to students in gap years.
Kristin Kajer-Cline
Kristin Kajer-Cline is an independent educational consultant in Issaquah, Washington. She works through Educational Connections, a team of therapeutic consultants. They help parents, teens and young adults find boarding schools, therapeutic programs and other care that fits their needs. Over the last 20 years, the team has guided more than 1,000 families. They serve young people ages 10 to 32, and most clients are ages 13 to 23.
Marilyn Engelman
Marilyn Engelman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions and school placement. She runs Educational Directions in Westborough, Massachusetts, with a second office in Newton. Her team covers college planning, boarding schools, day schools, learning disability placement, gap year options and therapeutic programs. The staff has over 100 years of combined experience in school, college and therapeutic settings.
Meg Lahey
Meg Lahey is an independent educational consultant in Westport, Connecticut. She helps students and parents with college admissions. The firm also guides families on private and boarding schools, graduate programs, gap years, transfers, and therapeutic placement. It keeps a low consultant-to-family ratio. Meg is a Professional member of the IECA.
Ann Rossbach
Ann Rossbach is an independent educational consultant in Rumson, New Jersey. She helps high school students and their parents through the college admissions process. Her practice looks at each student's needs and goals and weighs several options. She is a Professional member of the IECA. Her services include interest and personality inventories, interview prep, and support for students with learning differences. She also advises student athletes and recommends gap year programs.
Chris Kocurek
Chris Kocurek is an independent educational consultant in Austin, Texas. Chris helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Chris works with Academic Answers, a national consulting firm that offers school consultation, therapeutic consultation, college counseling, parent coaching and young adult services. Chris is a Professional member of the IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Marcia Kramer
Marcia Kramer is an independent educational consultant in Montclair, New Jersey. She helps students and parents with college admissions through her practice, Plan the Path. The practice advises on where to apply, edits application materials, and manages the whole process. Her team has backgrounds in journalism, publishing and teaching. The practice also works with students with learning differences and students in therapeutic programs.
Stacy Colwell
Stacy Colwell is an independent college consultant who helps students and their families get through the college application process. She works with freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Her services cover college list creation, career and major exploration, essay development, financial aid guidance and application support. She also researches summer and gap year programs and helps with high school course selection. She mentors parents on financial aid issues.
Mindy Goodman
Mindy Goodman is an independent educational consultant and certified parent coach in Reisterstown, Maryland. She helps families who face therapeutic, mental health and school decisions for a child or young adult. She guides them in finding the right fit for residential placement. She also coaches parents who feel worn out from years of advocating for their child. She runs New Chapters Consulting & Coaching and works with families in Maryland, Delaware, across the country and online.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Claire Mangrum | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| The Competitive Edge | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| RCHI Education Group | Students with learning differences and Therapeutic and gap year | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Allison Henderson | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| April Miller | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Laura Seese | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Pam Tedeschi | Boarding and private school and Students with learning differences | $110 to $550 per session |
| Peter Wright | College admissions and International students | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Sarah Reese | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Annie Reece | Boarding and private school and Athletic recruiting | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Claire Law | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Dana Doering | Boarding and private school and Therapeutic and gap year | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Dick Baroody | Boarding and private school and Therapeutic and gap year | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Erin Jensen | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Jill Corbin | College admissions and International students | $150 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for therapeutic and gap year cost?
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 college essays.
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Last updated September 2026.