Financial coaches for parents
Compare 52 financial coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are budgeting, money mindset, 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.
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. Erin runs Tranquil Finances, which Erin started in 2021. Erin later added life coaching skills to work on the thoughts and habits behind money choices. Erin holds the Ramsey Certified Master Financial Coach credential.
Laura Fowler
Laura Fowler is a wealth coach and business mentor for women. She helps women, often CEOs, coaches and realtors, build businesses and lives they love, plus the money to support them. She started as a single mother in debt and built six figure businesses and seven figure wealth. She is a Certified Trauma Informed Coach with an MSW. Her work mixes money strategy, mindset work and nervous system tools.
Monica Flores
Monica Flores is a life and financial 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. Before coaching, she worked 22 years in the financial services industry. She teaches mind management tools she used to find clarity in stressful times. Her practice is Money Management by Monica, LLC, and she starts with a free discovery session.
Kristen Donnellan
Kristen Donnellan is a Catholic budgeting and mindset coach. He helps people set up budgets, get their spending on track, and live with intention. He is a YNAB Certified Budgeting Coach, so he can teach the YNAB software and its budgeting method. His coaching ties money habits to Catholic faith and the idea of being a good steward of what you have. He also coaches on marriage, motherhood, and a steady faith life.
Natalie Graham
Natalie Graham is a budget and financial coach in Arizona. She helps families and high-income earners get clear on where their money goes. Her goal is to build confidence with money so clients feel less stress and save more. She wants clients to keep enjoying the things they like while they do it. She is a Certified Financial Education Instructor and trained through Financial Coach Academy.
Tom Murray
Tom Murray is a budget and debt coach based in Arizona. He helps people build a money plan and get out of debt. He holds a Ramsey certification as a financial coach. His work covers paying off a home early and giving more. He coaches families and young adults who want a clear plan for their money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachael Jencks
Rachael Jencks is a confidence coach who helps mom coaches grow their businesses. Her work centers on one idea: Most stuck business owners do not have a strategy problem, they have a second-guessing problem. She helps clients build self-trust so they take steady action on the strategies they already know. She offers a free training and a Momentum Call, and she teaches The Money Method.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jody Dubuque
Jody Dubuque is an independent college admissions consultant who works with students and parents. Jody practices through Concierge College Consulting, a one-on-one practice that serves families across the country. Each student gets one advisor who builds a plan around them, from the college list to the final acceptance. The practice was named 2025 College Advisor of the Year by Education Insider Magazine and has over 100 five-star Google reviews.
Karla Gilbert
Karla Gilbert is a nutrition, health and fitness coach in Australia who works with postpartum mums. She trades as Ironmum Karla. She holds Level III/IV fitness trainer status and is also a child nutritionist. Her own Ironwoman experience shapes her coaching. She writes about food habits, family meals, and raising healthy kids. She also wrote an eBook on leaving diets behind and building lasting habits.
Abby McKinnon
Abby McKinnon is an independent college admissions coach who helps students and parents find a best fit college. She runs Garden Shed College Coaching in the Woodstock neighborhood of SE Portland, Oregon. She draws on more than 20 years of work with kids and families. She takes on a small group of students each year. Her work covers early planning, college lists, applications, essays, testing plans, and scholarships.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents with college, MBA, law and med school applications. A team of consultants works with each client. The firm reports that 97% of its Gold or Platinum clients gain admission to at least one of their top choice schools. Work follows a six step method that starts with discovery and ends with final submission. Featured consultant James Burns is a Stanford GSB alum.
Deb Davis Groves
Deb Davis Groves is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Davis Groves Educational Services in Austin, Texas. She helps students and parents find the right college fit and get through the application process. Her practice starts college planning as early as 8th grade. It also offers a separate package with full access to the SMARTTRACK College Funding program, which covers paying less for college and keeping retirement savings safe.
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.
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.
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.
Tinzley Bradford
Tinzley Bradford is an Atlanta dating and lifestyle coach who helps women stop settling in relationships, finances, careers and homeownership. She is also an author, speaker and TV personality. She built the Settle Free Method, a framework with three pillars: Relationships and dating, finances and homeownership, and career and purpose. She is known for direct advice to single women and has appeared on HLN and TV One.
Tony Esposito
Tony Esposito is a college consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions and paying for college. Tony works at College Channel in Commack, New York, with Jan Esposito. Tony focuses on financial fit, which means getting a degree without going broke. Jan focuses on getting students into schools that suit their goals. The team also visits college campuses and runs a monthly college coaching program for families.
Alicja Jahnke
Alicja Jahnke is an independent educational consultant in Milford, Michigan. He helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs ACE College Consultants with his partner Lisa. The two build college lists, guide essays, and manage application timelines. They also give advice on scholarships and interviews. Each student gets a plan built around their budget, interests, and values. Alicja is a professional member of IECA.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor in California. She helps students and their parents find colleges that fit the student and the family budget. She builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested colleges, then narrows it to 10 to 12 best fits. She also covers essays, deadlines, financial aid and scholarships. Her advising starts as early as freshman year and runs through college acceptances.
Chris Hathaway
Chris Hathaway is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with prep school, undergraduate and graduate school admissions. Chris runs Dimension Admissions, a boutique firm in Costa Mesa, California. The firm uses a 4-D approach built on determination, direction, discovery and distinction. Chris is a professional member of IECA. Word of mouth brings in 93% of the firm's clients.
Lynne Fuller
Lynne Fuller is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College Flight Path in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Her work covers four-year academic planning, college counseling, test preparation, financial aid and career planning. Her practice visits over 30 colleges and universities each year. It also keeps a live college data tool that is updated monthly with admissions data, summer programs and lists of colleges by specialty.
Nardin Johnson
Nardin Johnson is a confidence and clarity coach who helps women through life transitions. Nardin 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. Nardin came to coaching after years of striving while feeling stuck inside. Nardin's work mixes emotional clarity, mindset work, nervous system support, and clear next steps. Nardin's clients include high-achieving women, moms feeling emotional overload, and professionals who want clarity.
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 served more than 7,300 families from nearly every U.S. state and several other countries. Its services cover college lists, applications, essays, financial aid and scholarship work. Clients meet in person or online.
Julie Laymon
Julie Laymon is an independent college consultant who helps students and their parents through college admissions. She runs Insight College Advising in Del Mar, California. She builds a personal college list for each student, coaches them through essay writing, and supports them as they finish applications. She also helps students plan for SAT and ACT prep, choose a course schedule, and stay on track through the process. She is a HECA member.
Tanja Fagan
Tanja Fagan is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College Trekking from Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey. She guides students to find colleges that fit their interests, goals, values and budget. She also helps them stay on top of deadlines and write authentic applications and essays. Her aim is for students to become independent decision-makers who can speak up for themselves. She is a professional member of IECA.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Elizaveta Shafir | Budgeting and Money mindset | $110 to $200 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 |
| Laura Fowler | Money mindset and Wealth building | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Monica Flores | Couples and money | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Kristen Donnellan | Budgeting | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Natalie Graham | Budgeting and Money mindset | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Tom Murray | Budgeting and Getting out of debt | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions consultant for US and international schools in Berkeley | $150 to $240 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 |
| Cathy Copeland Titus | College admissions consultant for students and families in Massachusetts | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Melissa Mieyr | Independent college admissions consultant serving students and parents | $150 to $225 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 budgeting, money mindset, wealth building and getting out of debt.
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Last updated September 2026.