Financial coaches for budgeting
Compare 38 financial coaches who focus on budgeting. Besides budgeting, the most common focus areas are money mindset, getting out of debt, saving and investing basics and wealth building. They most often work with founders and business owners, women and professionals. Most charge $85 to $375 per hour or session.
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Donna Williams
Donna Williams is a financial and debt coach who helps women build wealth and get out of debt. She runs dCosette Financial Coaching in Missouri. She holds a Christian coaching certification and is a licensed financial planner. She brings over 25 years in the financial community to her coaching. She mixes practical money plans with faith-based principles. She has also taught wealth building to church employees and worked with small business owners on investing.
Eleanor Victorioso
Eleanor Victorioso is a money coach and active CPA who helps women build wealth, money skills and financial confidence. She has worked in finance since 2003. She began as an auditor at Deloitte, then held senior accounting roles at startups. Through The Doubleline Advisory Services she coaches and consults women entrepreneurs on their finances. She also runs Rhythm of Money, an online space with free tools, a newsletter, a group program and courses.
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.
Germaine Foley
Germaine Foley is a money coach who helps high-earning women take control of their spending and build wealth. She does not ask clients to give up travel or shopping. She paid off over $200k in debt herself while earning 6 figures in a corporate job. She built a signature process from that experience. She offers private coaching over six months, a free mini training, and a Stop Overspending course.
Liz Carroll
Liz Carroll is a financial coach and life coach who helps high-performing women build wealth with more calm and clarity. She reached financial independence and retired early from a corporate IT sales career. Now she blends money strategy with mindset work and mindfulness. She wrote the book Rich & Radiant and speaks at events. She also teaches a system called the Mindful Money Method and works from Oregon.
Madeleine Strasburg
Madeleine Strasburg is a financial and life coach who helps women change how they act with money. Her work focuses on the moment when emotion takes over before logic can respond. She teaches a three-step path: Define a financial future, work on money markers, and build momentum. She has spoken at the BYU Women's Conference and the GEAR UP West national conference. She also chairs the Women in Business initiative at the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce of Utah.
Paige Pritchard
Paige Pritchard is a money coach who helps women stop overspending and impulse shopping. She runs Overcoming Overspending, a money movement built around the habits behind how people spend. She has helped thousands of women pay off credit card debt, start saving and feel sure about money again. She hosts a weekly podcast, writes a twice-monthly newsletter and wrote a book published by Simon & Schuster. Her group coaching program is the Overcoming Overspending Membership.
Tarlie Francis
Tarlie Francis is a financial coach and certified master life coach who helps people with retirement planning and personal money management. Tarlie spent 11 years as Senior Manager of Operations at a stock exchange in Saint Kitts and Nevis before retiring early in March 2020. Tarlie has also written a book on personal finance and two e-books on workplace stress. Tarlie is a Catholic Deacon and brings faith into some of the work.
Claire Coleman
Claire Coleman is a money coach who helps people pay off debt, build savings, and change how they think and feel about money. She holds two credentials, Certified Money Coach and Accredited Financial Counselor. Over the last 6 years she has worked with more than 200 people. She builds each plan around the client's values, habits, and daily life instead of using generic budgets. She also works on the beliefs behind money choices.
Ellen Humphrey-Allen
Ellen Humphrey-Allen is a CPA who coaches business owners on cash flow, profit and money habits. She helps entrepreneurs who don't know what they earn, spend or save. Her work combines financial systems, business strategy and money mindset coaching. She uses the Profit First system with clients. Ellen and her team also run bookkeeping and accounting, including HST, payroll, T4s and T5s, so coaching and hands-on financial work sit under one roof.
Emily Maclin
Emily Maclin is a financial coach in Missouri who helps high-earning women of faith stop overspending and gain control of their money. She founded Think Legacy Financial Coaching and combines faith and finance in her work. She runs a 6 month one-on-one program for mid-career women, a cashflow program for service-based business owners, and a 4 week money intensive. Her plans avoid strict budgets and start with a client's vision and values.
Eric Hout
Eric Hout is a budget and debt coach who helps individuals and couples get control of their money. He is a YNAB Certified Coach and owns New Trajectories LLC. He builds budgets with clients and helps them pay down debt and save.
Lynda McDonell
Lynda McDonell is a financial coach who helps women business owners run more profitable businesses and get better with money. She runs Pique Prosperity. Lynda trained and worked as a CPA, then moved into senior finance leadership at a Fortune 100 company. She offers financial coaching, CFO support, and bookkeeping. Her focus is on the financial health of a business, not just tax compliance. She helps clients pay themselves well and plan ahead.
Shelly Rees
Shelly Rees is a divorce coach and financial coach who helps individuals handle the money side of separation and divorce. She is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and a certified divorce coach. She has guided 75 clients through divorce. Her practice is based in Port Townsend, Washington, and she has state-specific knowledge of Washington divorces in all 39 counties. She works with one spouse at a time, not with couples.
Tammy Shweiger
Tammy Shweiger is a money coach in Connecticut who helps women take control of their money. She blends mindfulness with personal finance and works with individuals and couples. Before coaching, she spent a decade as an auditor and corporate accountant. She is also a yoga and meditation teacher. She acts as a guide and accountability partner, and helps clients understand old money patterns and change their behavior.
Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith is a budget and debt coach in Utah. Tyler helps people get control of their money and end money stress. Tyler is a YNAB Certified Budget Coach. Tyler paid off $70,000 in student loans, saved 2 down payments, and tripled net worth over the last 3 years. Tyler did this without a huge salary. Tyler helps clients build a system for managing personal finances.
Yana Gusakova
Yana Gusakova is a life, money and career coach in New York. She helps mid- to executive-level professionals who feel stuck in their careers, feel underpaid, or struggle to turn income into financial security. Before coaching, she spent 17 years at global investment banks in Zurich and London, advising some of the wealthiest people in the world. She works on both the emotional side and the practical side of money and career choices.
Amanda Brink
Amanda Brink is a financial coach who helps people who earn good money but still feel stressed about it. She works with individuals, couples and small business owners. She calls herself a financial architect and builds a custom money system around each client's life and business. She has studied and tried almost every financial framework over 20 years. Every client starts with a Financial Breakthrough Session before choosing one-on-one coaching.
Benjamin Taragin
Benjamin Taragin is a personal finance coach who helps individuals, couples, and families take control of their money. He comes from a background in finance and consulting. He has worked with over 100 clients on budgets, debt payoff, and emergency savings. He also looks at how money affects relationships, so his sessions cover communication, habits, and shared goals as well as numbers.
Louise Love
Louise Love is a budget and accountability coach who helps professionals bring order to their money. She also coaches retirees, small business owners, self-employed people, college grads and young professionals. She is a YNAB Certified Budget and Personal Finance Coach. She pairs practical money strategies with work on the mindset and emotional habits that make money stressful. She has a special focus on therapists whose income is uneven and whose finances feel messy.
David A Norman SR
David A Norman SR is a financial and accountability coach who helps people with debt, budgeting and money habits. He has worked in personal finance for four years. He runs one-on-one and family counseling sessions and leads groups on career transition. He also teaches retirement planning and tax planning concepts. He holds an MBA in Data Analytics from LSU and is a licensed insurance agent for life, health, accident and disability coverage.
Erin Harmon
Erin Harmon is a debt, budget and accountability coach who helps people take control of their money. She runs Tranquil Finances, which she started in 2021. She later added life coaching skills to work on the thoughts and habits behind money choices. She holds the Ramsey Certified Master Financial Coach credential.
Rasheeda Creighton
Rasheeda Creighton is a budget coach in Virginia who helps Black women take control of their money. She is a YNAB Certified Coach. In 2015 she left her marriage with $200 in the bank and $200,000 in debt. Within 4 years she paid off all debt except student loans and one mortgage. She also left corporate work and launched 3 profitable businesses. She now coaches others toward freedom of time and money.
Brian Feeley
Brian Feeley is a budget and debt coach in New Jersey. He helps people from all walks of life build better money habits. Before coaching, he spent more than 25 years in finance in New York City. He worked the last 18 of those years in the Treasury Department of a large defense contractor. There he managed the company's global cash operations. He is an NFEC Certified Personal Financial Wellness Consultant.
David Nestor
David Nestor is a financial coach based in Philadelphia. He helps people make clearer money decisions and decide what to do next. Before coaching, he spent more than 11 years in strategy, commercial leadership and general management at large corporations and consulting firms. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He looks at goals, time horizon, risk and tradeoffs together, not just rules of thumb.
Ellen Yale
Ellen Yale is a money and life coach. She helps people change how they think about money and about their lives. Her clients work on scarcity thinking, budgets that feel too tight, and pricing their own services. She coaches in weekly one-hour phone sessions. She also sends a weekly email with ideas and inspiration. Clients describe her style as gentle, funny and firm, with simple thought exercises that show them they have choices.
Michelle Tascoe
Michelle Tascoe is a money and finance coach in Los Angeles, California. She helps clients get their personal and business finances on track. She builds budgets with clients, shows them how to pay off debt, and helps them build savings and plan to buy a first home. She also is a certified life coach, so she works on time, career and mindset. Her clients have paid off credit card debt and back taxes.
Maria Johnson
Maria Johnson is a debt coach and financial coach in Michigan. She helps people build a stronger financial future. She offers two services: Financial coaching and daily money management. Clients pick the level of help they need. Some want a few sessions on budgeting and saving. Others want a money manager who handles their daily finances. She holds credit counseling, financial coaching and life coaching certifications.
Jamie Ehrenthal
Jamie Ehrenthal is a money confidence coach who helps women take control of their finances. Jamie has over 15 years of life coaching experience and a 30-year career in private banking and investments. Jamie is a certified financial planner and a certified divorce financial analyst. Jamie's clients learn to see what they have, cut overspending, and build a simple plan for the future. Jamie also teaches women to work through money shame and money trauma.
Kristen Donnellan
Kristen Donnellan is a Catholic budgeting and mindset coach. He helps people get their spending on track and build a plan for their money. He also coaches moms of young children on self-doubt and daily stress. Kristen is a certified YNAB budgeting coach and a former high school Spanish teacher. He ties his work to faith and being a good steward of money. He offers one-on-one sessions and ongoing text and email support.
Sarah Hinshaw
Sarah Hinshaw is a money and business coach in Berne, Indiana. She helps individuals, couples and small business owners pay off debt, simplify their finances and grow. She paid off $178,000 of her own debt in 34 months. She has coached for 7 years. In 2025, her clients paid off over $500,000 in debt, and some kept their homes out of foreclosure. All sessions run by Zoom.
Rashidah Jones
Rashidah Jones is an accountability and budget coach who also offers life and career coaching. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Professional Certified Coach. She works as Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Year Up and co-founded Black Girls Coaching, Inc. Before that, she spent 10 years at Radio One Atlanta, where she was Promotions Director for Praise 102.5. She offers one-on-one and group coaching, plus workshops.
Whitley Greene
Whitley Greene is a coach who works on stress, anxiety, budgeting and life direction. She is a Board Certified Coach and a Licensed Professional Counselor. She spent 16 years as a school counselor and also works as a real estate broker. She competes internationally in Masters Swimming. Her coaching covers communication, stress and anxiety, and the effect of childhood imprinting. She offers individual sessions and programs.
Jeremiah Ritchie
Jeremiah Ritchie is a Christian life coach and budget coach in Michigan. He is trained in the Co-Active coaching model. He works with entrepreneurs, professionals, parents and partners. He has helped business owners focus on what they want from their work. He has helped professionals build confidence at work. He has also helped parents and partners find clearer purpose and better care for themselves, which improves their bonds with family, friends and employers.
Liz Tyler
Liz Tyler is an accountability coach and budget coach. She helps people build strength, confidence and the skills to make real changes in their lives. Her work covers budgeting and debt as well as personal goals. She has a background in accounting, bookkeeping, personal training and sports therapy. She offers one to one sessions in person or over Zoom. She also runs walking therapy sessions, which is less common among coaches.
Frances J. Harvey
Frances J. Harvey is an accountability and budget coach who also helps mental health professionals build and run private practices. She has over 17 years of experience in management and mental health practices. She founded My Solution Services, which has served clinicians for over 18 years. She meets clients on Zoom at a set day and time each week. She offers faith-based services for clients who want to bring their Christian faith into their work.
Cole Pierce
Cole Pierce is a life advisor and accountability coach in Arizona who also offers budget coaching. He is not a certified life coach and says so plainly. He served as a Non-Commissioned Officer on many combat deployments and trained military personnel, business analysts and intelligence analysts. He now owns a few million dollar companies and advises CEOs and company presidents. He has experience in business acquisition and start ups.
Shannon Lubell
Shannon Lubell is an accountability and budget coach based in Germany. Shannon helps clients get clear on their finances, manage their time, and handle life changes like a big move. Shannon holds an ICF ACC certificate and an MBA in finance. Shannon also trained as a Wayfinder life coach with Martha Beck International. Shannon's focus areas include clutter clearing, living space resets, and reframing limiting beliefs with The Work of Byron Katie.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Donna Williams | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Eleanor Victorioso | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Elizaveta Shafir | Budgeting and Money mindset | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Germaine Foley | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Liz Carroll | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Madeleine Strasburg | Money mindset and Getting out of debt | $125 to $210 an hour |
| Paige Pritchard | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Tarlie Francis | Budgeting and Saving and investing basics | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Claire Coleman | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Ellen Humphrey-Allen | Money mindset and Business finances | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Emily Maclin | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Eric Hout | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Lynda McDonell | Money mindset and Business finances | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Shelly Rees | Budgeting and Couples and money | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Tammy Shweiger | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a financial coach for budgeting cost?
Most financial coaches charge $85 to $375 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include money mindset, getting out of debt, saving and investing basics and wealth building.
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Last updated September 2026.