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Compare 240 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are career clarity and purpose, new grads and students, career change and resume and linkedin. They most often work with parents, students and professionals. Most charge $95 to $200 per hour or session.
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Amelia Chan
Amelia Chan is a college admissions counselor who works with homeschooled and non-traditional students. She also helps students in traditional schools. She has a math degree from UC Berkeley and did graduate studies at Columbia. She worked in finance as an investment banker and software engineer before moving into education. She has helped more than 60 college clients. Her students have gained admission to Ivy League schools, highly selective colleges and UCs.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
Elizaveta Shafir
Elizaveta Shafir is a personal finance coach who helps women, mothers, immigrants and their families build clear, steady money habits. She is the founder of Intentional Money and an AFC candidate. She spent six years in Google Supply Chain and earned two promotions. She studied at MIT and has worked with 10+ personal finance clients. Her work covers cash flow, money mindset, family finances and long-term wealth.
Gala Jackson-Dobbins
Gala Jackson-Dobbins is a career and leadership coach who helps people line up their goals with their values. She guides leaders through career pivots and life transitions. She is an executive leadership coach and consultant and the author of Courage, Clarity, and Confidence. Her TED Talk has reached 2 million viewers. She founded the BOLD Collaborative and the BOLD Career Collective, two membership communities for women going through change. She offers flexible session times for working parents.
Jigisha Doshi
Jigisha Doshi is an independent college admissions counselor and the founder of Sojourn Consulting LLC. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, from building a college list to finishing applications. She holds a UCLA certificate in college counseling and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. She also uses the Birkman assessment with students. Her students have been admitted to schools such as Stanford, Rice, Duke and Carnegie Mellon.
Kate Coffman
Kate Coffman is a private college admissions counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She helps students and their parents with the college search, financial aid and applications. She has over twenty-five years of experience in admissions and financial aid. She worked in admissions at four Indiana schools, including Butler University and Indiana University. She also ran a state-wide college counseling program for school counselors. She works with families in Central Indiana and with students online across the country.
Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski
Kim Chorosiewski is a college and school planning counselor at McMillan Education. She helps students and families find the right school or college, with a focus on athletic recruiting. She spent 25 years as an educator, coach and administrator in schools and colleges. She also chairs the firm's Athletic Recruiting College Planning area. She was an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse and played for the US National Team in both sports.
Lea Baechler-Brabo
Lea Baechler-Brabo is an independent college consultant who guides students and families through college planning. She runs Great Choices College Advising and serves students in Berkeley, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She began as a college student advisor. She later worked as an education consultant for the Berkeley Unified School District on college and career readiness. She has advised students on college and career paths for over five years.
Melissa Shapiro
Melissa Shapiro is a life, career and executive coach based in Seattle, Washington. She helps people at transition points feel less alone and more confident. Her clients include senior executives, new front-line managers, technical leaders and parents returning from leave. She spent over 20 years in talent development at large multinational companies and started in engineering and product roles. She also lived and worked in Asia for 2 years and co-founded Together We.
Rufaro Jarati
Rufaro Jarati is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan their path from freshman year of high school to college enrollment. Rufaro has coached over 100 students, both from the US and from countries like China, South Korea, South Africa and the UAE. Past roles include strategy consultant at Crimson Education and head admissions consultant at PrepStart, where Rufaro led a team. Clients have gained admission to schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt and Northwestern.
Shellee Howard
Shellee Howard is a college admissions consultant who helps middle and high school students and their parents get ready for college. She is the founder and CEO of College Ready and has worked as a paid independent college consultant for 13 years. She helps each student build a Stand Out Strategy and find a good academic, social, athletic and financial fit. She also wrote a book on paying for college and has appeared on FOX, CBS and NBC.
Susan Lawson
Susan Lawson is an educational consultant in Oakville, Ontario. She helps students apply to universities and colleges in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has worked with 466 clients in the past 8 years. She knows NCAA rules and has worked with many elite athletes. She also interviews applicants for The Loran Scholars Foundation, a national scholarship program. Her clients include high school students, graduate school applicants and young adults who need a new path.
Elisa Anderson
Elisa Anderson is an independent college and career consultant who helps students and their parents through the college admissions process. She founded Crossroads Mentors in 2016 and works with families in Western Washington and Central Texas. She is a certified Career Direct consultant and a former admissions counselor at Northwest University. She also edits essays each season for College Coach, reviewing more than 30 a week. She meets students in the evenings and on Saturdays.
Joan Lockwood
Joan Lockwood is a college admissions consultant and career coach for students and young adults. She also coaches on confidence and life skills. Her practice is based on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and she serves the Boston area and beyond in person and online. She has worked with over 300 students. Of those, 99% were accepted to one of their top three schools. She starts with guided assessments and honest conversations.
Kathy Griswold Fine
Kathy Griswold Fine is an independent educational consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina. She helps students and parents with college admissions and also coaches executive function skills. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a professional member of IECA. She holds a Ph.D. and is a published author. Her firm, Fine Educational Solutions, also offers career counseling and test planning, including help choosing between the SAT and ACT.
Lori Rosenberg
Lori Rosenberg is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. She runs College Steps Consulting in Tarzana, California. She has worked with students for over 7 years. Her work covers course planning, college lists, essays, applications, financial aid and choosing the best fit school. She also helps transfer students and graduate school applicants. She gives families a step-by-step plan to keep the process organized.
Melissa Mieyr
Melissa Mieyr is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She runs InfoQuest College & Financial Solutions. Before consulting, she taught business and technology and then worked for over a decade as a high school counselor. Her firm ties the admissions plan to a financial plan, so parents understand what college will cost. Her team offers career path assessments, essay and resume help, and application tracking.
Kate Harmer
Kate Harmer is a college counselor who helps high school students through the college admission process. She runs Catalyst College Counseling in Atlanta with Jon Harmer. Students work with her one on one. She covers pre-college planning, major exploration, building a college list, essays, applications, and scholarship and financial aid searches. She holds an MBA and an MPH and is a HECA member. Her firm also serves the parents of college-bound students.
Angela Byrd
Angela Byrd is an independent college admissions consultant in Gastonia, North Carolina. She runs Next Level Consultant, LLC and works one-on-one with students and their parents. She helps families build balanced college lists, plan applications, and shape essays. Her focus is college fit, cost, and long-term success, not prestige. She also offers career counseling that links college choices to a student's intended career path. Clients get a mobile-friendly Custom College Planner.
Nikki Moriarty
Nikki Moriarty is a life coach who helps people dealing with burnout, stress, and overwhelm. She also offers career, executive, and leadership coaching. Nikki spent more than a decade in a high-pressure corporate job before she became a certified life coach. She hit a breaking point in April of 2019 and changed her path after that. She now uses her experience as a mom and former corporate leader to help clients rebuild their energy and purpose.
Tira Harpaz
Tira Harpaz is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the whole application process. She runs CollegeBound Advice. She reviews applications line by line and helps students make their extracurricular activities stand out. She works with homeschooled students, students with special talents and students with learning disabilities. Her students aim for Ivy League and top 50 colleges, and also for less competitive schools that fit them well. She keeps cost in mind and helps families find affordable schools.
Diane Overman
Diane Overman is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their families through the admissions process. She owns Overman College Consulting and does all the work herself. She has no employees, contract staff, or assistants. She takes on a limited number of students at a time. Her students have gone on to colleges and universities in many parts of the US. She has also taken on some pro bono clients.
Jean Gibson
Jean Gibson is a coach who works with children, young people and professionals, with and without ADHD. She has a long background in human resources and began coaching as a career coach. She now also coaches adults with ADHD in the workplace and runs a life skills program for children and teens. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching.
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.
Will Peters
Will Peters is a college admissions counselor who also coaches career growth and communication. He worked in college admissions as a Territory Manager and managed the cycle for 2,000+ applicants across Nevada and Contra Costa County. He is a former middle school English teacher. Today he is a Program Manager at UC Davis, where he builds career development programs and trains groups of 6 to 100+ people.
Dr. Sadrail Saint-Ulysse
Dr. Sadrail Saint-Ulysse is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs SSU Educational Consulting, LLC in New Jersey. His work covers college applications, essays, test prep, and college affordability. He also offers career counseling, public speaking help, and services for international students. He works with schools too, on topics like curriculum selection and accreditation support.
Rick Quon
Rick Quon is a college admissions and career planning consultant who runs College Fit and Beyond. He helps students pick colleges and majors that match their interests, values, skills and finances. He draws on over 30 years in the hi-tech industry. He uses Myers Briggs, Card Sort and Holland Code assessments. He builds college lists, guides essays and financial aid, and supports families through the application process.
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.
Nancy Foushee
Nancy Foushee is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their families plan for college and careers. She runs Nancy Foushée & Associates. Before starting her practice in January 2017, she worked with students in both secondary and higher education for many years. Her services cover building a college list, interviews, applications, essays, and financial aid. She also helps with career and personality assessments and graduate school applications.
Shari Piracha
Shari Piracha is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and application process. She runs YouQuest College Advising in Michigan. Her work starts with an assessment of the student's interests, strengths, values and goals. It also covers major and career exploration, high school course planning, and homeschool advising. She meets with families in person and remotely.
Alida Smit
Alida Smit is an independent college admissions counselor who helps high school and transfer students plan for college. She has over 30 years of experience teaching students, including children with learning disabilities. She also worked as a College & Career Advisor at a high school. She focuses on first-generation students from low-income backgrounds and works closely with their families through each step of the process.
Amy Sack
Amy Sack runs Admissions Accomplished, an independent admissions consulting practice in Ponte Vedra, Florida. She helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school applications. The practice also offers career counseling and works with international students. Her team includes a former deputy director of admissions at an Ivy League university. The practice has served students worldwide since 2000. She is a member of IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Amy Trinnaman
Amy Trinnaman is a college admissions advisor and career counselor. She helps students and families with college applications, career direction, and boarding school admissions. She has more than two decades in education and has worked with thousands of students. Her past work includes special education, instruction, NCAA eligibility, dual enrollment, school law and policy, and standardized testing. She uses the Highlands Ability Battery and the Myers-Briggs Strong Interest Inventory to help students match majors and careers to their strengths.
Cassandra Khoury
Cassandra Khoury is a career coach who helps professionals grow their careers in big tech and balance work with family life. She has worked with 60+ career coaching clients. She leads Google Sales School as Global Sales Enablement Lead, where she trains 2,000+ new hires each year. Before that she worked in media planning and ad tech startups. She is also a working mother who returned to a high-demand career.
Charu Agrawal
Charu Agrawal is a product management and executive coach who helps tech leaders, founders and parents with their careers and their lives outside work. Charu is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, where the work centers on Missionforce, a business unit for defense, aerospace and national security. Earlier years were spent leading teams at Microsoft. Coaching sessions run peer to peer, mixing a product leader's analytical mindset with a supportive style.
Christine Luksza
Christine Luksza is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan for and apply to college. She founded My Best College Plan Counseling and has more than 15 years of experience. She has guided hundreds of students in the United States and abroad. She is a former teacher in public and private schools and taught Latin and English. She also wrote My Best College Planner, a day planner and college guidebook.
Cindy Laubenstein
Cindy Laubenstein is a college admissions and career consultant who helps high school students and their families through the admissions process. She is the principal and director of Aspire College and Career Consulting. She started in the field in 2009 with a local firm and opened her own company in 2012. She has worked with over 100 students in all grades. Her firm also serves college students and young adults changing careers.
Cindy Turner
Cindy Turner is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college and careers. She runs Turner College Consulting in Cornelius, North Carolina. She has worked with hundreds of students over 20 years in the Lake Norman area. She has a master's degree in counseling and is a Certified Educational Planner. She has visited 200 college campuses in the US and abroad. Students can start with her as early as spring of 8th grade.
Corinne Pankovcin
Corinne Pankovcin is a career coach for accountants, finance professionals, and working parents. She helps them at every stage, from starting out to reaching CFO and executive roles. She worked in financial services for many years and became CFO and Managing Director at several firms, including public companies and major asset managers. She led over $1.9B in capital raises, plus M&A deals and carve-outs. She now uses that experience in her coaching.
Dana Ponsky
Dana Ponsky is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn, New York. She helps high school students, college students and their parents with college and graduate school admissions. Her work draws on over 20 years in admissions counseling, career counseling and student development at the high school and college level. She has helped students get into top national and international colleges, and into medical, law, MBA and other graduate programs. She works in person and online with families in the U.S. and abroad.
Dave S. Wallace
Dave S. Wallace is a career and couples coach who works mostly with men and professionals. He has coached for 17 years, in private and group settings. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist with degrees in clinical and organizational psychology. Before this work, he spent 10 years composing music in Hollywood. His clients include entrepreneurs, producers, artists, doctors, lawyers, principals and veterans. Most of the men he sees are between 16 and 50 and feel stuck in work or relationships.
Gloria Chun
Gloria Chun is a college admissions counselor who helps high achieving domestic and international students and their parents. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. from Cornell. She has taught at Bard, Columbia, Princeton and Berkeley, and she once worked in admissions at a leading research university. She has over a decade of admissions counseling experience. She also wrote a book and teaches writing.
Gloria Tenenbown
Gloria Tenenbown is an admissions consultant who helps students with college and graduate school applications. She has worked with students for over 18 years and has helped hundreds with college counseling. In the 2019-20 season she finished work with 20 students, including two applying to medical school and two applying to MBA programs. She built her practice only on client referrals. She also taught speech and drama at The Kinkaid School.
Heather Siskind
Heather Siskind is an executive coach and life coach based in South Florida. She works on personal growth, relationships and careers. Her clients range from high profile executives to people new to the workplace, and from mothers to recent college graduates. She holds two social work degrees and has spent decades helping women find direction. She also serves as a non-profit CEO and has sat on many boards.
Jane Chamberlain
Jane Chamberlain is a college admissions consultant and career coach in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She helps college-bound students and their parents choose great-fit majors and colleges. Before starting Craft College and Career, she earned an MBA at Johns Hopkins, worked as a COO in industry, and served as an Executive Branch analyst. She combines college consulting with career coaching, so students plan for school and work together.
Jay Shivamoggi
Jay Shivamoggi is an independent educational consultant in Oviedo, Florida. He guides students applying to college, medical school, law school and graduate school. He also helps undergraduates choose a major and build a career path. He has more than twenty years of experience as a fellowships advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in physics-related training from University of Central Florida and has worked with students admitted to Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Georgetown law programs.
Julia Ross
Julia Ross is an admissions and career coach who runs Professional Tutoring in Northern Virginia. She helps students from sixth grade through graduate school with college and grad school applications, academic planning, and tutoring. Her center opened in 1994. She built a College Selection Decision Matrix with over 40,000 data points and spoke on student retention at a national registrar conference in 2019. She also wrote a college admissions handbook.
Kathleen Bressler
Kathleen Bressler is a college counselor in Danville, California. She helps high school students plan for college and also works with graduate school applicants. She owns Lafayette Academy and has worked as its college counselor for 14 years. She belongs to two groups of Bay Area college counselors that meet monthly. She has visited hundreds of colleges in many states. Her main offer is a Comprehensive College Counseling Program for juniors and seniors.
Keith Berman
Keith Berman is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. He runs Options for College, Inc. in New York City and has worked with students since 2005. He built the Keith AI Essay Evaluator, and clients work with him directly on essays and forms. His process covers building a résumé, prepping for interviews, choosing colleges and finishing applications.
Lindsey Myers
Lindsey Myers is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions and career guidance. She works with families throughout rural Colorado from Minturn. She has 10 years of experience in college admissions and has worked with 317 students since 2017. She is a professional member of IECA. She also tours many colleges each year, often with her business mascot, a dog named Zephyr.
Lisa Hillhouse
Lisa Hillhouse is an independent college adviser who helps students and parents plan for college. She is a specialist in military service academy appointments and ROTC programs. She also works with students on general admissions, college lists, and merit aid. She founded Hillhouse College & Career Advising and works with families across the US and abroad by video. She spends several weeks each year working in Northern California.
Lisa Petsinis
Lisa Petsinis is a career and life coach who helps career changers, job seekers, midlife women and parents returning to the workforce. She spent 23 years in corporate HR before starting a new career as a coach. She has HR leadership and recruitment experience. She also writes for magazines that are syndicated worldwide. She holds ACC, MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory credentials and is a certified life purpose coach.
Lisa Virtue
Lisa Virtue is a career coach and change management specialist in Oregon. She helps people land jobs they want and do well in them. She spent 20 years as a recruiting manager and rose to the executive suite. Her career began in athletic coaching, health and wellness, and recreational programming. She also wrote the picture book Career Mama - COVID Edition. Her mission is to narrow the gender gap at work and support women in their careers.
Marzena Jagucka
Marzena Jagucka is a coach who helps mums return to work after maternity leave. She is the founder of The Wings of Change. Before starting it, she spent ten years in people leadership, where she managed teams, coached individuals and supported women coming back to work. She works with mums one-on-one on both the practical and emotional sides of returning. She also partners with employers through workshops and training on return-to-work support.
Michelle Siddons
Michelle Siddons is an independent educational consultant in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. She helps students and parents with college counseling, career direction, test prep and tutoring. She started in financial services in New York City, then moved into teaching after tutoring on the side. She has taught and tutored for 20 years and holds a college counseling certificate from UCLA. She has also visited dozens of colleges across the country.
Missy Van Anda
Missy Van Anda is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She owns College & Career Pathfinder, LLC in Central Florida. She is a former school-based counselor with 18 years of experience and more than 100 college visits. She guides families through the college search, applications, essays, deadlines and final decisions. She helps students find a school that fits them academically, socially and financially.
Nicole Smith
Nicole Smith is a college advisor and the owner of Next Step Advising in Clinton, New Jersey. She helps students and parents with the whole admissions process, from the college search to applications, essays, testing, financial aid and scholarships. She has over 27 years in education, including work at Rutgers, Drexel and the College Board headquarters. She started her firm in 2016 and uses her counseling background to guide students.
Paige Hadziselimovic
Paige Hadziselimovic is a college access counselor and mindset and behavior coach in Austin, Texas. She helps students and families find the right college or technical school for their goals. Paige is a retired secondary school principal and owns Ivy & Ember College and Career. She has 20 years of experience with young adults ages 15 to 26. She started her career as an English and Theatre Arts teacher.
Penny Linsenmayer
Penny Linsenmayer is an independent educational consultant in Bellaire, Texas. She runs Pathway Admissions and helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She works alongside her colleague Alexandra. Their team has guided hundreds of students over fifteen years. Their class of 2023 earned over 18 million dollars in merit-based scholarship money and received offers from 200 different institutions. Penny is also a Birkman Certified Consultant.
Poojha Daryanani
Poojha Daryanani is a college admissions consultant in Bellevue, Washington. She helps students and parents plan for college and graduate school. She has 23 years of experience. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and worked with Yale's Admissions Committee. She also read applications at the University of Washington, Seattle, and worked as a high school counselor at a private IB school in Redmond. She takes a limited number of students each year.
Robin Ryan
Robin Ryan is a career counselor who helps new grads, professionals and executives find their next job. Robin has worked with over 8600 people on job search. Services cover resume writing, LinkedIn profiles, interview coaching, salary negotiation and AI job search coaching. Robin has written eight bestselling career books, including 60 Seconds & You're Hired, and has appeared on 3500 shows, including Oprah. Robin works in the Seattle area.
Rya Carpenter
Rya Carpenter is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Balanced College Planning in Santa Barbara County, California. She helps students in grades 9 to 12 and their parents plan for college. She has more than 25 years of school counseling and admission consulting experience. She worked as a school based counselor for over 20 years. She also scored more than 2,000 applications as an admissions reader.
Sarah Epstein
Sarah Epstein is a college admissions coach who helps students and parents with college search, applications and essays. She is a former admissions officer who worked at Rice University, where she read thousands of applications and helped make final decisions. She has more than 12 years in admissions and college counseling, in both university and high school settings. She focuses on highly selective colleges, liberal arts colleges, fine and performing arts programs, and students with learning differences.
Susan Hamilton
Susan Hamilton is a college admissions and career coach in San Jose, California. She guides high school students and their families through the college admissions process. She ran her own practice, SJH Development College and Career Coaching, from 2015. Before that she spent over ten years as an education and career consultant for San Jose Unified and Silicon Valley CTE. She also wrote the I'm Going to College Student Guide.
Susan Zinanti
Susan Zinanti is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college and complete applications. She spent 5 years in admissions at the University of Denver, where she served as an Assistant Director of Admission. She read applications and made admission decisions. She now runs StepWise College Consulting, which she launched in 2019. She also speaks at area high schools on college planning and financial aid.
Susie Fishleder
Susie Fishleder is a leadership, career and life coach in Suffolk, Virginia. She helps women grow at work while keeping balance at home. She founded Rebel Leaders and spent 15 years in corporate sales and business development. She has started two companies. She has also taught yoga for more than two decades and brings body awareness and mindfulness into her coaching. She holds an ICF ACC credential and is a Gestalt certified coach.
Suz Allen
Suz Allen is a career, life and return to work coach who helps people find clarity and confidence at work and at home. She has over 20 years in HR and Talent roles at large global corporates. She knows HR policy and recruitment, so she can also help with CVs and interviews. She also works as a redundancy coach and holds NLP and trauma informed training. Sessions are held online.
Victoria Brailitsa Bonelli
Victoria Brailitsa Bonelli is a college admissions consultant who helps teens and their parents plan for selective colleges and schools. She founded Priority College in 2014 and works from Rockville, Maryland. She spent over 20 years on education projects around the world, including university administration and World Bank work. Her students have gained admission to Ivy League schools and won merit scholarships from $2,000 to $250,000. She coaches in English and Russian.
Yunxia Liu
Yunxia Liu is a study abroad admissions consultant in Beijing. She helps students and parents plan and complete applications to universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. She founded her firm in 2014 and has 19 years of experience. She has helped more than 300 students earn offers from top universities. Her plans cover academics, activities, essays and career direction. Some students stay with her from high school applications through college and graduate school.
Alison Merzel
Alison Merzel is a college admissions consultant in Columbus, Ohio. She runs AHM Advising LLC and helps students and parents plan for college and graduate school. She guides families through choosing schools, building a college list, and finishing applications. She comes from a higher education background and holds a Master of Human Resources. She also earned an Independent Educational Consulting certificate and belongs to IECA. She works with students as early as 10th grade.
Anya Ilkys
Anya Ilkys is an independent college admissions consultant who coaches high school students and their parents. She runs College Starpoint in Massachusetts. The team works with US and international students on college lists, essays, applications, interviews and financial aid. Families can start any time between grades 9 and 12. All services are virtual. Her team has 30+ years of combined experience in education, and the practice reports $81,695,000+ in scholarship awards for its students.
Ariana Williams
Ariana Williams is an independent college counselor in Charlottesville, Virginia. She guides students and parents through the college process from start to finish. Before consulting, she worked in a college admissions office and taught students from kindergarten through adults. She also holds a graduate degree in mental health counseling. She looks for a fit between a student and a school in three areas: Academic, social, and financial. Her aim is to keep the process low stress for families.
Barbara Bear
Barbara Bear is a college admissions and career consultant in Greensboro, North Carolina. She helps students and parents with the college search, applications and financial aid. She also works with college students choosing a major and adults changing careers. Bear is a former college admissions rater and scorer at Duke University. She is also a licensed psychologist who has worked at five college campuses.
Beth Casey
Beth Casey is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions and financial aid. She runs Potential College Advising in Hingham, Massachusetts. Beth is a Certified Educational Planner and has worked on college readiness and placement for over 15 years. She holds a Master's in School Counseling and belongs to two national admissions groups. Her work covers college lists, applications, and essays.
Brittany Maschal
Brittany Maschal is a college and graduate school admissions advisor in Brooklyn, New York. She works with students and parents. Since 2016, she and Emma have guided students through the application process. They co-wrote The Complete College Essay Handbook. Her graduate work centers on business school, and she also supports applicants to law, public policy, education, psychology and international relations programs. She is a member of the IECA.
Catherine Marrs
Catherine Marrs is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Marrs College Admission Advisors in Dallas, Texas. She has more than 20 years of experience and works with students across the DFW area. She visits 15 to 25 college campuses each year to learn campus culture and what colleges want in applicants. Her services also cover transfers, law school, graduate school and career coaching.
Cindy Laubenstein
Cindy Laubenstein is an independent educational consultant who helps students and their parents with college admissions and career planning. She runs Aspire College & Career Consulting in Alpharetta, Georgia. She has over 14 years of experience in admissions and career counseling. Clients get 24/7 access to college planning software, personality and career assessments, and proprietary spreadsheets. She meets families in person near Atlanta and works by Zoom with students elsewhere.
Claire Cafaro
Claire Cafaro leads Clear Directions, a boutique advising practice in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. She helps students and families with college admissions, athletic recruiting, and career direction. She works with a team of 8 certified counselors, and many of them spent decades as school counselors. The practice has served hundreds of families for over 20 years. Sessions run online and in person, and the first meeting is free.
Darcie Patrick
Darcie Patrick is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents choose a college that fits. She founded College HHI on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, after decades in education. She builds a personal admission strategy for each student and works with parents and college admission directors. She also offers ACT and SAT prep and personality and career testing. She is a professional member of IECA and NACAC.
Denise Baylis
Denise Baylis is a college admissions consultant and the owner of Open Door Educational Consultants. She helps high school students, college transfer students and graduate school applicants with college search, applications and essays. She is a former Vice President at a Fortune 500 media company. She uses her marketing and branding background to show how a student fits a school. She also offers career advising to current students and new grads.
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| Coach | Focus | Works with | Based in | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Chan | Students and Parents | $70 to $130 an hour | ||
| Charlotte Lawson | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Parents and Professionals | $80 to $130 an hour | |
| Elizaveta Shafir | Career change | Women and Parents | California, United States | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Gala Jackson-Dobbins | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Women and Executives | $90 to $175 an hour | |
| Jigisha Doshi | Resume and LinkedIn and Interview coaching | Students and Parents | Florida, United States | $125 to $220 an hour |
| Kate Coffman | Career clarity and purpose | Students and Parents | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski | Students and Athletes | $70 to $130 an hour | ||
| Lea Baechler-Brabo | New grads and students | Students and Parents | Berkeley, California, United States | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Melissa Shapiro | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Executives and Managers | Seattle, Washington, United States | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Rufaro Jarati | Students and Parents | $70 to $130 an hour | ||
| Shellee Howard | New grads and students | Students and Parents | $70 to $130 an hour | |
| Susan Lawson | Career clarity and purpose and New grads and students | Students and Parents | Oakville, Ontario, Canada | $80 to $220 an hour |
| Elisa Anderson | Career clarity and purpose and New grads and students | Students and Parents | Washington, United States | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Joan Lockwood | New grads and students and Resume and LinkedIn | Students and Parents | Manchester By The Sea, Massachusetts, United States | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Kathy Griswold Fine | New grads and students | Students and Parents | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States | $150 to $240 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach cost?
Most career coaches charge $95 to $200 per hour or session.
What else do these career coaches help with?
Common focus areas include career clarity and purpose, new grads and students, career change and resume and linkedin.
Prices and research
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Last updated September 2026.