Financial coaches for parents
Compare 49 financial coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are money mindset, budgeting, wealth building and getting out of debt. They most often work with parents, students and women. Most charge $75 to $200 per hour or session.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monica Flores
Monica Flores is a financial and life coach who helps women manage their time, money, and relationships. She focuses on the sandwich generation, women who care for aging parents while raising children. Monica worked 22 years in the financial services industry before she became a coach. She teaches mind management tools that helped her find clarity in stressful times. Her clients often face money worries, marriage strain, and the cost of care for a parent.
Abby Friedman
Abby Friedman is an independent educational consultant in Berkeley, California. She helps students and parents plan for college and apply. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a lifelong educator. Her work covers US colleges and also programs in the EU, UK and Canada. She pays close attention to fit, including academic, social and financial fit. She holds a master's in education and a UC Berkeley certificate in college admissions and career planning.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm for college, MBA, law and medical school applicants. Two Brown University classmates started it in 2007, and it now has a team of 60+ consultants. The firm has reviewed over 40,000 applications. Every client works with a lead consultant on strategy and a separate essay specialist on writing. The firm does not pre-qualify clients, so it takes applicants with lower stats or unusual backgrounds.
Alicja Jahnke
Alicja Jahnke is a college admissions consultant in Milford, Michigan. He helps students and parents pick colleges and build strong applications. He runs ACE College Consultants with Lisa Acton. Alicja is a licensed teacher and school and college counselor with three master's degrees, in Music, Learning Disabilities and Counseling. The practice limits its number of clients and visits colleges in person. Students get a personalized list of best-fit schools and help with essays.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor who helps students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She runs EUREKA! College Prep & Admissions Advising in California. Her Find the Fit process builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested schools based on a student's interests, values and budget. She also teaches an SAT prep course and has helped graduate school applicants. Families use her online portal to schedule sessions and manage applications.
Chris Hathaway
Chris Hathaway is the founder and lead advisor of Dimension Admissions in Costa Mesa, California. She helps students and parents with prep school, undergraduate and graduate school admissions. She is a Yale educated teacher and consultant, and an essay specialist who focuses on personal narrative. Her firm uses a 4-D approach built on determination, direction, discovery and distinction. She is a professional member of the IECA. 93% of her clients arrive by word of mouth.
Julie Ekkers
Julie Ekkers is an independent educational consultant in Minnesota's Twin Cities. She helps students and their families find strong college fits and complete their applications. She is a former admission professional and holds a law degree. That gives her special depth in law school preparation and pre-law counseling. She is also known for essay development and review. She works through College Connectors, a group practice, and meets clients in person, online, or both.
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.
Liane Crane
Liane Crane runs The College Dollar, a practice that helps families understand the cost of college and how to pay for it. She also helps recent graduates make sense of their student debt. Before starting her own business, she spent 10 years at a college consulting company. Earlier, she worked as a teacher, a non-profit director and a paralegal at a large NYC law firm. She focuses only on college finances.
Miller Liberatore
Miller Liberatore is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college application process. Miller is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with students across the United States. Miller has two focus areas: Support for LGBTQIA+ students and prep for performing arts and theatre auditions. Miller is a theatre director and co-chairs the Advocacy/DEI committee for HECA.
Rachael Jencks
Rachael Jencks is a confidence coach who helps mom coaches grow their coaching businesses. She works on self-doubt, second-guessing and the habit of starting over. She is an attorney, a CPA and an MBA, and she runs a six-figure business. She teaches a method called The Money Method, which builds self-trust so clients take steady action, sign clients and gain time and financial freedom. She also hosts a free 3-part audio training.
Sharon Murphy
Sharon Murphy is a Catholic life and mindset coach who helps Catholic women with marriage, motherhood, money, and modern life. She works one-on-one and builds her coaching on Catholic teaching. She hosts a podcast called To The Heights, with new episodes each Tuesday. She also offers a free guide for parents with adult children. She is a Catholic Certified Life and Mindset Coach who found her own clarity through coaching.
Admit Advantage
Admit Advantage is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents with applications to college, business school, law school, medical school and graduate school. The firm was founded in 2007 and has worked with more than 5,000 clients. Its consultants are alumni of Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and Wharton. Each client works with one consultant who handles the whole application, from strategy through submission and up to decision day.
Cathy Copeland Titus
Cathy Copeland Titus is an independent college admissions consultant with College Hero in Mashpee, Massachusetts. She advises high school juniors and seniors and their families on finding the right colleges. She keeps her case load to 15 students. She also spends part of her time on the company newsletter and other strategic projects. Her work centers on college lists that fit both the student's record and the family's budget.
Colleen Hart
Colleen Hart is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through the college application process. She runs The Admissions Edge in Roswell, Georgia. She is a lifelong educator and a professional member of IECA. Each year she takes on a limited number of high school and transfer students. She also wrote a book on starting early and finding a college that truly fits.
Jill Madenberg
Jill Madenberg is a private college counselor who helps students and parents with high school planning and college admissions. She runs Madenberg College Consulting in Lake Success, New York. She has more than 30 years of experience and used to work as a high school guidance counselor. She has visited well over 1,000 colleges.
Julie Laymon
Julie Laymon is a college admissions advisor and essay coach who runs Insight College Advising in Del Mar, California. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, build a college list, and finish applications. Before advising, she spent fifteen years in management at Wells Fargo Bank. She also read over 800 applications for UC San Diego in 2017 to 2018, so she knows how that process works from the inside.
Kat Clowes
Kat Clowes is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs March Consulting in Bakersfield, California, with a team of private college counselors. The team has served 250 admissions clients. Their students have won over $34 million in scholarships. Kat and her team cover applications, testing, financial aid and career planning. The service is built for the whole family, not just the student.
Lynne Fuller
Lynne Fuller is an independent educational consultant in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She founded College Flight Path to help students and parents with college admissions, four-year academic planning, test prep, financial aid and career planning. She also runs a tutoring company that she started in 2010. She leads summer test prep programs at several Philadelphia area schools.
Malinda Schantz
Malinda Schantz is an independent college admissions consultant in Raleigh, North Carolina. She helps high school students and their parents with the college search and application process. Her firm, Runways to College, works with students in grades nine to twelve. She also offers a plan for students who want to study aviation or become pilots. She helps transfer students find a better fit and guides students through essay writing.
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.
Mary Kolbenschlag
Mary Kolbenschlag is an independent educational consultant in Louisville, Colorado. Mary runs Discover Pathwaze, which helps high school students and their parents plan for college and careers. The work starts with a career assessment that looks at a student's strengths. It then moves to matching majors, building a college list, and guiding applications. Mary is a professional member of IECA.
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.
Peter Ratzan
Peter Ratzan is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college and pay for it. He runs Your College Concierge, which he founded in 2007. The practice has helped more than 7,300 families, with students coming from nearly every U.S. state and several other countries. Services cover applications, essays, and financial aid. Peter works from Florida, in person and online.
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.
Tonica Johnson
Tonica Johnson is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She founded Cardinal College Planning in Morrison, Colorado. Before that, she taught high school English. She has over a decade in education and has worked with hundreds of students and their families. Her work covers building a college list, writing applications and essays, and comparing financial aid offers. She also helps families pick a major and stay on top of deadlines.
Abby McKinnon
Abby McKinnon is an independent college admissions coach in SE Portland, Oregon. She runs Garden Shed College Coaching and helps students and their parents find a college that fits. She takes on a small group of students each year. Her work draws on more than 20 years with kids and families. She is a HECA member.
Alexis Webster
Alexis Webster is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. He runs Admissions U, LLC in Franklin, Massachusetts. His main package starts as early as second semester of 10th grade. It covers college list building, application plans with deadlines, essay support, and financial aid and merit guidance. He uses YouScience to link interests to majors and careers. He also offers smaller application and essay packages.
Cynthia Seidel
Cynthia Seidel is an independent college admissions consultant in Sammamish, Washington. She helps students and parents plan for college, from early high school through acceptance. She also supports transfer students and graduate school applicants. Her process covers academic fit, social fit and financial fit. She also advises on colleges in Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom. She runs On Course College Consulting LLC and is an IECA Professional member.
Dinky Hammam
Dinky Hammam is an independent college admissions consultant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dinky helps students and parents plan for college, from early high school timelines to final applications. Services cover admissions strategy, essays, college lists, resume review, interview prep, and activity planning. Dinky offers set packages by grade level and takes on pro bono clients case by case. Dinky works with families across the world, not only in Oklahoma.
Phyllis Levine
Phyllis Levine is an independent college consultant in Seattle who helps students and their families plan for college. She holds a PhD and spent three decades in education and special education research and policy. Her work covers high school course planning, finding college matches, and guiding the full application, with close attention to essays. She works with students across a wide range, from those with learning challenges to academically gifted students.
Stephanie Griffith
Stephanie Griffith is an independent college admissions consultant in Los Gatos, California. She helps students and parents with the college search and application process. Before consulting, she worked in marketing and communications at Santa Clara University. She earned her college counseling certificate from UCLA. Her work centers on balance. She sets clear goals and timelines, stays in regular contact with families, and gets students to start applications early.
Tanja Fagan
Tanja Fagan is an independent college admissions consultant who runs College Trekking from Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey. She works with high school students and their families through one-on-one virtual meetings. She helps students build a college list, write essays, and finish applications. Her goal is to have all applications submitted by mid-October of senior year. She teaches students to research colleges and make their own decisions. She is a professional member of IECA.
Jay Benanav
Jay Benanav runs College Inside Track, an independent college admissions consulting practice in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The practice helps students and parents pick a college that fits academically, socially and financially. It also covers applications, essays, scholarships and financial aid. The practice reports that 97 percent of its students got into at least one of their top 3 choices, and only 4 percent transferred. It has helped hundreds of families.
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.
Jody Dubuque
Jody Dubuque is an independent college consultant with Concierge College Consulting. Jody helps students and parents with college admissions, from building a school list to final acceptance. The practice pairs each student with one advisor for the whole process. Its advisors have worked with students across the country for more than a decade. The firm also helps with BS/MD programs, art and performance applications, and law and medical school applications.
Katya Kuhns
Katya Kuhns is a life and career coach in Littleton, Colorado. She helps millennial women who look successful but feel unfulfilled. Katya spent years as a senior Technical Program Manager before she moved into coaching. She brings a program management mindset to her sessions. Clients clear mental clutter and build a ranked roadmap for their future. She holds an MA and the PMP credential, and she is a certified yoga teacher.
Nardin Johnson
Nardin Johnson is a confidence and clarity coach who helps women through life transitions. She also works on burnout recovery, self-worth, and finding your voice. Nardin holds an MBA in leadership and strategy and has a background in leadership. She came to coaching after years of striving while feeling stuck inside. Her work mixes emotional clarity, mindset work, nervous system support, and clear next steps. Her clients include high-achieving women, moms feeling emotional overload, and professionals who want clarity.
Jacqueline Guzzetta
Jacqueline Guzzetta is an independent college admissions consultant in Irvine, California. She helps students and parents plan for college, from choosing schools to paying for them. She founded Cornerstone College Planning and leads a team there. Before that, she was a Senior Admissions Specialist at a large, nationally ranked university. She has over 20 years of experience reviewing applications and college essays. She also holds a college funding certification, so she covers the money side of admissions.
Bill Smith
Bill Smith is an independent educational consultant in Portland, Maine. He runs ScholarFITS, which helps students and parents find a college that fits them academically, socially, and financially. His work stands out for its focus on financial aid. He also gives talks to high school audiences and works with colleges and organizations on financial literacy messages for large groups.
Carol Doherty
Carol Doherty is an independent educational consultant in Athens, Georgia. She runs Doherty Educational Consultants and helps students and parents choose a college that fits the student and the family budget. She has over ten years of experience. Her work covers college lists, applications and essays. She also helps current college students who want to switch schools. Her firm hosts regular webinars on financial aid.
Donna Lane
Donna Lane is an identity and confidence coach who helps mums find or rediscover who they are and bring more fun into their lives. She works with women who have put everyone else first while playing the roles of daughter, wife and mother. Donna also works as an image coach and business mentor. She holds a Master NLP practitioner qualification and Master level Conscious Hypnosis training. Sessions run face to face or online.
Shannan Christiansen
Shannan Christiansen is a certified master life coach and the founder of BFLYCoaching. She coaches women who want to build confidence, set goals and change their lives. She has more than 30 years of coaching experience and has worked with clients around the world. Her focus areas are mindset, goal setting, self-care and relationship building. She offers 1:1 coaching and self-paced courses, including a program called Becoming Her.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Elizaveta Shafir | Budgeting and Money mindset | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Kanwaljit (Sunny) Kochar | Getting out of debt and Wealth building | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Liz Carroll | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Anna Orenstein-Cardona | Money mindset and Wealth building | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Erin Harmon | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Kristen Donnellan | Budgeting and Money mindset | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Monica Flores | Couples and money | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions consultant for US and international schools in Berkeley | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Admissionado | Admissions consulting team for college, MBA, law and med school | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alicja Jahnke | College admissions consultant for students and parents in Milford, Michigan | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Cali Bottom | Independent college admissions advisor for students and parents in California | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Chris Hathaway | College admissions and essay consultant in Costa Mesa, California | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Julie Ekkers | College and law school admissions consultant in Minnesota's Twin Cities | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Kate Coffman | College admissions counselor in Indianapolis, working with students nationwide online | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Liane Crane | Getting out of debt | $70 to $135 an hour |
Common questions
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Most financial coaches charge $75 to $200 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include money mindset, budgeting, wealth building and getting out of debt.
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Last updated September 2026.