Certified financial coaches
118 financial coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 51% of all financial coaches. Certified financial coaches charge $80 to $190 an hour.
Key numbers
- 118 financial coaches list a credential (51% of financial coaches).
- 6 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
- Certified financial coaches: $80 to $190 an hour.
- Financial coaches with no credential: $75 to $200 an hour.
Credentials financial coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 88 |
| Graduate degree | 24 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 6 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified Life Coach | 8 |
| Certified Financial Coach | 4 |
| PhD | 4 |
| Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) | 3 |
| Certified Master Life Coach | 3 |
| IECA Professional member | 3 |
| MBA | 3 |
What certified financial coaches charge
| Group | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Credential listed | $80 to $190 |
| No credential listed | $75 to $200 |
Certified financial coaches to compare
Albert Lee
Albert Lee is a coach who teaches senior finance professionals how to use AI in their daily work. He is a CPA and former PwC team member with 12 years in finance. He has coached more than 200 CFOs and senior finance leaders on AI. He has also delivered AI training to AllianzGI and CFA Society. He also runs Axiom FP&A, which builds AI workflows for finance teams.
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.
Anna Orenstein-Cardona
Anna Orenstein-Cardona is a financial coach and investment coach who helps individuals build wealth and reach their money goals. She spent more than two decades on trading floors in the USA and Europe before founding Wear Your Money Crown in 2020. She works between the USA and the UK, and she helps dual citizens with regulatory, tax and financial markets questions. She also runs financial wellness programs for organizations.
Chris Masloski
Chris Masloski is a money, life and health coach in Chicago, Illinois. He helps people learn about investing, financial planning and their mindset around money. He is a former analyst at SpiderRock Advisors, an options trading firm, and he now day trades and makes content on TikTok. He opens some sessions with a short meditation to help clients focus. He also holds clients accountable for the goals they set.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar
Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar is a debt and financial coach in Guelph, Ontario. He helps Canadian families, business owners and pre-retirees plan for retirement, get out of debt and build wealth. He leads the Hexavision team and has spent over 30 years running privately held businesses. He is a licensed broker and advisor in four provinces. He created the Hexavisionary Framework and offers his mentorship at no cost.
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.
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.
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.
Meaghan J Smith
Meaghan J Smith is a money mindset and life coach for women. She helps clients change how they think about money and reach their life goals. She is a certified life coach and hosts the Money Mindful podcast. Her main offer is a 6 month private program with weekly calls. She teaches a 4 pillar method for setting goals. Her clients include business owners who raised prices, signed more clients and paid down debt.
Megan Tong
Megan Tong is a money and life coach who helps clients master money and build the life they want. She is a CPA, CA and a certified life and money mindset coach. She co-founded Kanga, a Toronto meat pie company, and sold it in 2018. She also worked as a financial planner with dozens of people. She focuses on how clients think about money, not only budgets and spreadsheets.
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.
Tania P. Brown
Tania P. Brown is a budget and financial coach who helps corporate women get ready to leave a paycheck and become self-employed. She has more than 20 years of experience as a financial coach. She holds the CFP and AFC credentials and is also a Life Younique coach. Her work covers personal money, business money, and the mindset side of moving to unstable income. Each client leaves with a personalized Blueprint.
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.
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.
Bevin Morgan
Bevin Morgan is a debt and financial coach who helps Black female entrepreneurs with personal and business money. Bevin holds an MBA and is a Certified Financial Coach and Certified Life Coach. Clients follow a 4 pillar process that starts with financial mindset and ends with a step-by-step plan for business and personal finances. Bevin uses Motivational Interviewing to meet clients where they are.
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.
Constance McConnell
Constance McConnell is a financial coach and certified financial social worker. She leads Courageous Healing PC, which offers financial coaching to people across the United States. She works with individuals and organizations on their relationship with money and their overall well-being. She is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master of Social Work. Her coaching starts with a client's attitude about money and how it affects their feelings.
Danielle (Dani) Madrid
Dani Madrid is a mindset and money coach who helps women heal their money story. She calls herself a Wealth Identity Coach and is a certified NLP Practitioner. She combines NLP with identity and nervous system work. Her clients are women who work hard but stay at the same income level. She runs EmbodyHer Wealth, a monthly coaching membership for women building online businesses. Her view is that income changes after identity changes.
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.
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.
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.
Gerard Stocks
Gerard Stocks is a money mindset and strategy coach who helps people build a healthier practical and emotional relationship with money. He is a certified life and business coach and a former chartered financial adviser. He was named one of Europe's top 100 wealth managers. He does not advise on financial products. He coaches through Garden county Coaching and builds a LifePlan with each client to support long-term habits.
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.
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.
Common questions
How many financial coaches are certified?
51% of financial coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
Do certified financial coaches charge more?
Certified financial coaches charge $80 to $190 an hour, compared with $75 to $200 for financial coaches with no credential.
What is the top financial coach credential?
The International Coaching Federation's MCC is the highest coaching credential, followed by the PCC and ACC.
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Last updated September 2026.