Parenting coaches for behavior challenges
Compare 57 parenting coaches who focus on behavior challenges. Besides behavior challenges, the most common focus areas are family communication, parents of neurodivergent kids, parenting young children and parenting teens. They most often work with parents, teens and women. Most charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
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Amy Webb
Amy Webb is a parenting coach who helps parents of young children make choices based on child development research. She holds a PhD in Human Development from the University of Texas at Austin. She founded The Thoughtful Parent, a newsletter with more than 13,000 weekly subscribers. She has also written research-based content for Lovevery and BYJU'S. Her coaching blends science with parental intuition to support a child's emotional growth.
Beth Hillman
Beth Hillman is a life coach who works with parents of struggling teens and young adults. She is a certified life coach and an Arbinger Facilitator. She is also a mother of five boys. Her work centers on rebuilding family relationships through mindfulness, self-reflection, and emotional awareness. She runs a 24-week parenting program with weekly coaching. She also hosts the podcast Parenting Post-wilderness for parents whose teens are home, coming home, or in treatment.
Bianca Hellenga
Bianca Hellenga is an attuned parent coach who helps parents understand their own needs and their child's emotional and developmental needs. She is certified through the Jai Institute For Parenting. She also has training in meditation, EFT Tapping and somatic therapy methods. She offers a 12 week program and individual sessions with weekly support. She also works with caregivers, grandparents and teachers.
Chantal Hewitt
Chantal Hewitt is an autism life coach and family coach in New Zealand. She helps exhausted mothers of Autistic children move out of survival mode. She has over a decade of professional experience with Autistic children and families, and a background in psychology and education. She is an AuDHD mother of three, including a son with PDA. Her work centers on connection over compliance and on calming the nervous systems of both child and parent.
Dawn Friedman
Dawn Friedman coaches parents of anxious children, teens, and young adults in Ohio. She has worked with kids and families for more than thirty years. Her focus is helping families get out of the trap of child anxiety. She holds a master's in clinical mental health counseling. She also trained in the SPACE program, which teaches parents how to respond to a child's anxious emotions, and in infant-toddler mental health and postpartum mood disorders.
Elisabeth Stitt
Elisabeth Stitt is a parenting coach who helps parents, especially fathers going through divorce, build calm and connected homes. She founded Joyful Parenting Coaching after more than 25 years as an educator, mostly in middle school. She has supported hundreds of families and thousands of students. She is also the author of the book "Parenting as a Second Language." Her focus is skill-building, clear expectations, and emotional regulation.
Heidi Allsop
Heidi Allsop is a parenting and life coach who helps moms of teenage boys stop arguing and build a closer bond with their sons. She is a mother of five sons and has spent more than 30 years raising boys. She has coached more than 1000 women. She hosts the Raising Boys, Building Men podcast. Her clients leave with a clear, personal parenting plan.
Joey Mascio
Joey Mascio is a confidence and social skills coach for middle schoolers and their parents. He is a middle school teacher and a certified CBT coach. He teaches kids life skills, habits, and mindset through online programs, live events, and a bestselling curriculum. He has helped thousands of teens and parents. He also hosts a podcast called Secrets for an Awesome Life and offers a free Bullyproof parent training.
Lisa Candera
Lisa Candera is The Autism Mom Coach. She coaches mothers of autistic children on staying calm and leading with confidence. She is a solo mom to a teen with severe autism and OCD, and she has 18 years of experience in autism parenting. She is also a practicing attorney and a certified life coach. Her work centers on the parent, not on fixing the child. She hosts The Autism Mom Podcast and runs a community called The Solid Circle.
Rima Elahi-Syed
Rima Elahi-Syed is a parent coach in France who helps moms raising kids from toddlers to teens. She works with moms who are worn out by power struggles, yelling and guilt. She teaches a 6-step method called PAUSE, based on conscious parenting. Rima is also a pediatric physical therapist. She has lived abroad for 26 years and made more than 10 international moves, so she knows what it is like to parent far from home.
Rob Owen
Rob Owen is a relationship and life coach who helps dads reconnect with their teenage sons. He also works directly with tween and teenage boys. Rob has spent 25 years working with neurotypical and neurodiverse teens as an educator, school founder, author, and mentor. He founded a nonprofit middle school and wrote two books. His methods draw on martial arts, Zen practice, mindful movement, and somatic awareness. He is not a therapist.
Sheila Carroll
Sheila Carroll is a pediatrician and weight coach who helps parents support kids and teens with weight struggles. She is a board-certified pediatrician and an obesity medicine diplomate. Her work focuses on changing the home food environment, not putting the child on a diet. She teaches that real food, sleep, daily movement and emotional regulation skills matter most. She lived with childhood weight struggles herself and later parented a child with extra weight.
Amy Ambrozich
Amy Ambrozich is a parent and stepfamily coach in Ohio who works with couples on parenting and blended family strategies. She runs Dare to Parent, LLC. Her focus is the couple as the leaders of the family. She holds a B.A. in Clinical and Child Psychology and an M.A. in School Psychology. She works with nuclear families, blended families, and couples who are preparing to blend.
Daryn Friedman
Daryn Friedman is a life, family and relationship coach in Lower Manhattan. He helps children, teens, parents, couples and adults who deal with anxiety or ADHD. He holds an LCSW and an advanced degree in Applied Behavior Analysis, and he builds custom action plans using behavior modification. He grew up with a stutter, ADHD and anxiety, and he draws on that with clients. He meets people in person and online.
Emily Brown
Emily Brown is a Catholic homeschool life coach who helps homeschooling mothers stay calm and enjoy their kids. She runs Fiat Life Coaching and got certified through The Life Coach School. She is a homeschooling mom of 7 children, and one has already graduated. Her work centers on ending yelling, building connection at home, and keeping faith at the center of the homeschool day.
Francini Estes
Francini Estes is a Christian life coach for mothers, including moms of children with autism and special needs. She helps moms who feel drained, anxious, and stretched too thin. She is a certified weight and life coach and a foster and adoptive mother of three. She runs Mom Mental Gym, an online membership for Christian moms, and offers an 8-week tailored one-on-one coaching program.
Laura Solomon
Dr. Laura Solomon is a special education consultant who helps children with special needs and their families. She has run Special Education Services for over four decades. She serves families in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. She specializes in diagnostic and educational testing and explains the results to parents. She works with school teams to set goals, including IEPs and 504 Plans. She also recommends alternative schools when needed.
Nikky Plunkett
Nikky Plunkett is a parenting and confidence coach in Wisconsin. She helps parents who raise challenging children make parenting choices with more confidence. She holds a communications degree with a psychology minor and is certified through the Fearless Living Institute. She raised 3 children who each faced mental health challenges. Clients know her as The BUT Lady because she helps them reduce the BUTs that hold them back as parents. She coaches online through New Beginnings Life Coach LLC.
Rachel Beck
Rachel Beck is a positive parenting coach in Denmark who helps parents with tantrums, transitions, screen time, sibling rivalry and teenage pushback. She also works as a dyslexia coach and sleep coach. She has over 25 years of experience in early childhood education, family support and neurodiversity inclusion. Her work rests on three ideas: Calm, Connection and Confidence. She meets clients online or in their homes in the Copenhagen area.
Susan Soares
Susan Soares is a coach who helps parents find their way through the behavioral health system for their child. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Advanced Certified Life Coach with 33 years in behavioral health. Her clients learn to understand diagnoses, weigh treatment options, and handle appointments and paperwork. She also pays attention to the parent's own well-being while they advocate for their child.
Toni Rozzi
Toni Rozzi is a parenting coach who helps families raising neurodiverse children. Toni works with kids from age 8 through adulthood. Toni has a background in childhood development and worked as a special education teacher. Toni is also a Licensed Behavior Analyst and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Services include parent coaching, executive function coaching, social skills instruction, early intervention coaching, and behavior interventions.
Jenni L'Eon
Jenni L'Eon is a certified parent coach and adoption coach who helps adoptive families, foster families and caregivers. She has worked with vulnerable children for decades. She holds a master's degree in Varying Exceptionalities and has expertise in trauma and attachment. She is a foster and adoptive parent, including transracial adoptions and multiple sibling groups. She also taught high school reading to students with exceptionalities and has homeschooled for over 20 years.
Kathleen Young
Kathleen Young is a psychiatrist and certified life coach who coaches parents of neurodivergent children. She helps parents understand their child's behavior through a neurodivergent lens and respond with more calm and clarity. She also offers midlife coaching and support for neurodivergence transitions. She hosts a podcast called How to Be a Human Being in the World, and she runs a group program where parents support each other.
Nola Peacock
Nola Peacock is a family coach in Calgary, Alberta. She helps parents build their child's confidence, ease their child's anxiety, and create a calmer, more nurturing home. She is also a parent educator, certified facilitator and speaker. She writes articles on topics like helping an older child sleep in their own bed, guiding kids through a move, and how well parents listen to their children.
Sharon Klinger
Sharon Klinger is a relationship, family and fitness coach in Auburn, Pennsylvania. She helps people with behavior issues, family relationships, autism, ADHD and social challenges. She also coaches clients on fitness, mobility, weight loss and moving without pain. Sharon is a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor and behavior consultant. She is also a massage therapist, fitness trainer and yoga teacher, so she can combine mental health topics and physical health in her coaching.
Crystal Haitsma
Crystal Haitsma is a certified life coach and parent coach who helps parents raise calm, confident kids. She teaches shame-free, connection-based parenting. Her focus is on turning parenting ideas into daily action, so parents follow through in real moments. She works on emotional awareness, handling big feelings, and partner alignment. She runs a group program called Parent School and offers coaching through Voxer voice messages.
Dwayne Kruse
Dwayne Kruse is an accountability and ADHD coach in Arizona who works with children, teens and families. He has spent more than 25 years in child services involvement, adoption, probation, military family issues and unresolved childhood trauma. His practice no longer takes divorce cases. He now focuses on attachment injuries, foster care, abandonment and legal involvement, including families involved with child protective services.
Fern Weis
Fern Weis is a family, relationship and life coach in Wayne, New Jersey. She helps parents raise confident, capable kids by parenting from clear principles. She also works with people who want to strengthen relationships, reach goals and balance a busy life. She is a certified coach and a New Jersey Highly Qualified Teacher. She writes about teens, rules, and staying calm when a teen pushes a parent's buttons.
Kristin Her
Kristin Her is a parent coach and autism life coach who helps families, parents, teens and children. She spent 15 years at Child Protective Services before starting Elevate with Her Coaching. There she saw parents feel lost and blamed while their kids were in treatment. She now coaches the whole family so change lasts at home. She works with single parents, blended families, and parents of kids with eating disorders, substance issues or chronic illness.
Meg Thomas
Meg Thomas is a homeschool coach who helps mothers build confidence and create a homeschool that works for their family. She has homeschooled her seven children for more than a decade. She hosts the Called to Homeschool podcast and runs a membership called Mama's Members. She also teaches a No Yelling course. Her coaching mixes life coaching tools with a faith-based view of motherhood and teaching.
Megan Whitesides
Megan Whitesides is a certified life coach who helps parents, mainly moms of teens, build better relationships with their kids and stay calm instead of yelling. She also has a program that helps moms feel more confident. Outside of parenting work, she has coached new e-commerce business owners for two and a half years. She has coached inside the Next Level program and Russell Brunson's 2CCX program. She has also run a home preschool for 16 years.
Mindy Goodman
Mindy Goodman is an independent educational consultant and certified parent coach in Reisterstown, Maryland. She helps families who face therapeutic, mental health and school decisions for a child or young adult. She guides them in finding the right fit for residential placement. She also coaches parents who feel worn out from years of advocating for their child. She runs New Chapters Consulting & Coaching and works with families in Maryland, Delaware, across the country and online.
Wendy Schofer
Wendy Schofer is a board-certified pediatrician who coaches parents on food, weight and body image. She helps families deal with picky eating, sneaking food and worries about a child's growth. She teaches parents to skip dieting and restriction. She used to give standard weight management advice to families. She now says that advice pushed restriction, so she built her own programs and a weekly newsletter for parents.
Angell Mortensen
Angell Mortensen is a parent coach for moms of kids with ADHD. She runs the ADHD Motherhood Mastery, a virtual coaching program. It teaches parenting strategies and mindset shifts to help moms move from frustrated and exhausted to enjoying motherhood. Her focus is peace at home and a stronger bond with the child.
Annie Treml
Annie Treml is a parenting and family coach who helps parents of unconventional children. She works with families who want less struggle and more enjoyment at home. Annie uses what she calls a "no stink eye" approach. It teaches parents uncommon and counter-intuitive strategies that respect each child's differences and protect mom's sanity. Before coaching, she worked as a school psychologist, a counselor and a college instructor. She works from Wisconsin.
Kristin Escalera
Kristin Escalera is a parent coach who helps Christian parents, especially moms, build loving and respectful relationships with their children. She is a Positive Discipline Parent Educator and a Certified Life Coach. She helps parents move away from yelling, nagging and time-outs. She raises five children and has homeschooled for over a decade. Her coaching gives parents a clear, step-by-step plan rooted in their faith.
Mel Peirce
Mel Peirce is a parenting coach who helps parents handle meltdowns, big emotions and school challenges. She teaches practical parenting tools so parents worry less and connect more with their kids. Working with a coach changed how she parented, and that led her to coach other parents. She also offers a parent club, workshops and speaking.
Melissa Cave
Melissa Cave is a certified life coach and mentor who helps moms find calm and stop yelling. She runs Rethink Motherhood. Her work centers on what happens in a mother's brain and nervous system when she feels overloaded. She teaches science-backed tools to shift reactions and release guilt.
Nicole Ellis
Nicole Ellis is a life coach in Utah who works with dads. She helps men who do well at work but feel stuck at home. She built the "STOP the FIGHT!" Coaching Program just for dads. It is customized for each client. She teaches 4 Foundational Principles and adds her own tools. Dads learn parenting strategies for their child, reconnect with their spouse, and take control of their own emotions and priorities.
Melissa Ross
Melissa Ross is a family and life coach in Niagara Falls, Ontario. She helps children and their parents work through anxiety, bullying and positivity. She also coaches women who want to find their purpose and step into their power. She is a registered children's yoga teacher, so her work with young people draws on yoga training. She also lists entrepreneurship coaching among her services and writes about positive morning self-talk.
Michelle Holdeman
Michelle Holdeman is a parenting coach in Kansas. She helps parents and caregivers build calmer, closer relationships with their children. She founded New Connections Mental Health. The practice offers Child-Parent Relationship Training, a 10-week, play-based coaching program. Parents work through big emotions, power struggles, behavior problems and communication trouble. They learn to use structured child-led play and co-regulation skills, and they get weekly coaching support.
Tina Su
Tina Su is a coach who helps parents of children with autism and ADHD. She focuses on healing and symptom change for kids with special needs. She offers a picky eating program, a membership called The Tribe, and other client programs.
Daphne Vélez-Cortés
Daphne Vélez-Cortés is a life coach who helps overwhelmed and stressed-out parents. She works with them on connecting with their kids, using positive discipline, and building a peaceful home. She also helps parents simplify daily routines and set up systems that support the health of the whole family. Her coaching covers parenting, personal goals, and sticking to a health plan. Her focus on mindful parenting and joyful living sets her work apart.
Esther Mbabazi
Esther Mbabazi is a parenting coach who helps mums stop snapping, shouting and losing control with their children. Her work starts with what happens inside a parent before the shouting begins, such as tiredness, rushing and pressure. She teaches this through a program called The Yell Less Formula. It is for mums who already know what calm looks like but cannot reach it in stressful moments.
Gabriele Nicolet
Gabriele Nicolet coaches parents of neurodivergent children through Raising Orchid Kids. The program serves parents of sensitive kids who struggle with big feelings, new situations, or developmental, behavioral, or learning differences. Parents get an 8-week class for children ages 3 to 12, a support group for parents of teens, live workshops with replays, and online video classes. Parents do not need a formal diagnosis for their child to join.
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.
Brian Crisp
Brian Crisp is an independent educational consultant who helps students with college and graduate school admissions and coaches parents. He founded Crisp Consulting + Coaching in North Carolina in 2009. He has worked in schools, universities and churches in the United States, Italy and Germany for over thirty years. He once served as a curriculum consultant in the schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. He also advises nonprofits, churches and companies.
Carol Boersma
Carol Boersma is a pediatrician and parent coach who helps moms raise kids with ADHD and emotional dysregulation. She runs The Coaching MD, a 10 week virtual program called Coaching for Calm & Connection. It mixes weekly one-on-one sessions, online video modules and optional couples' sessions. Carol is also a mom herself. Her work centers on staying calm in hard moments and rebuilding the bond between parent and child.
Milton Little
Milton Little is an independent educational and therapeutic placement consultant with Burke-Little & Associates in Durham, North Carolina. He helps families find the right school or treatment program for a child, teen or young adult who is struggling. The practice has offices in Durham, Richmond and Nashville. It has worked with families across the country and abroad for thirty years. It takes no payment from the programs it refers to.
Lucy Pritzker
Lucy Pritzker is an independent educational consultant who helps families place children, teens and young adults in the right school or therapeutic program. She founded Elm Street Placements in Pittstown, New Jersey, and serves as its senior consultant. Her team travels the country to visit boarding schools, wilderness programs, residential treatment centers and assessment centers. That gives them first-hand knowledge of each program they recommend to families.
Danielle Mary Vaughn
Danielle Mary Vaughn is a life coach for marriage and family life. She helps clients heal from a difficult childhood, work through anxiety, and build a life and family they are proud of. She has worked with hundreds of clients. She is also a multidisciplinary musician and singer/songwriter. She hosts the Dare Greatly Podcast and runs a free online women's circle for wives whose husbands face mental health challenges.
Robert L. Cummings Sr.
Robert L. Cummings Sr. is a life coach who works on relationships, parenting and careers. He is a retired U.S. Army Vietnam veteran with 26 years of service. He served as the NBA chaplain for the Los Angeles Clippers from 2004 to 2011. He also teaches anger and domestic violence classes for Riverside County court providers. He has been free from drug addiction for 43 years and draws on that story in his coaching. Sessions are in person, by phone, or on Zoom for international clients.
Kim Turgeon
Kim Turgeon is a life coach for children and teens in Massachusetts. She is also a clinical hypnotist and a teacher. She works with kids and their families on anxiety, sleep, and self-esteem. She teaches practical ways to reach goals. She is a licensed Be Body Positive Facilitator. Her coaching helps clients build on their own strengths and gifts. It also moves their focus from past struggles to future possibilities.
Rebekah Jordan
Rebekah Jordan is an independent educational consultant in Salisbury, Connecticut. She runs Crossbridge Education Consulting with a partner consultant. The team helps parents and students with boarding school, private school, and therapeutic program placement. They also offer IEP advocacy. The team visits and evaluates more than 100 schools and therapeutic programs each year. They serve children, teens, and young adults across the U.S.
Kim Callaway
Kim Callaway is a relationship and life coach in Missouri who also coaches parents of young children. She is a licensed therapist with 15 years of experience working with individuals and families. Her relationship work centers on attachment patterns, unresolved shame, and conflict and repair. She also helps adults who struggle with low self-worth, anxiety and depression, and she coaches parents on discipline, sleep, nutrition and family culture.
Kristin Kajer-Cline
Kristin Kajer-Cline is an independent educational consultant in Issaquah, Washington. She works through Educational Connections, a team of therapeutic consultants. They help parents, teens and young adults find boarding schools, therapeutic programs and other care that fits their needs. Over the last 20 years, the team has guided more than 1,000 families. They serve young people ages 10 to 32, and most clients are ages 13 to 23.
Sarah Lawless
Sarah Lawless is a Catholic life coach who helps mothers deal with overwhelm, anxiety and stress. She runs a practice called Life of Sustenance. Her work centers on learning to manage thoughts and emotions so moms can stay calm with their children. She builds new beliefs based on Catholic faith. She went through life coaching herself, and it changed how she sees herself as a daughter, wife and mother. She now teaches those same tools to her clients.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Webb | Parenting young children and Behavior challenges | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Beth Hillman | Parenting teens and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Bianca Hellenga | Parenting young children and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Chantal Hewitt | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Dawn Friedman | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Elisabeth Stitt | Co-parenting and divorce and Family communication | $65 to $110 an hour |
| Heidi Allsop | Parenting teens and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Joey Mascio | Parenting teens and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Lisa Candera | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Rima Elahi-Syed | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Rob Owen | Parenting teens and Family communication | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Sheila Carroll | Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Amy Ambrozich | Blended families and Family communication | $110 to $175 an hour |
| Daryn Friedman | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $350 to $400 per hour |
| Emily Brown | Behavior challenges and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a parenting coach for behavior challenges cost?
Most parenting coaches charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
What else do these parenting coaches help with?
Common focus areas include family communication, parents of neurodivergent kids, parenting young children and parenting teens.
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Last updated September 2026.