Best parenting coaches
The 25 best parenting coaches, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization. Most charge $70 to $150 an hour.
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- 25 parenting coaches ranked.
- Ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
- Most parenting coaches charge $70 to $150 an hour.
The 25 best parenting coaches
- Javaree Walker, Parenting coach for dads, founder of Ready To Dad. A father and former LinkedIn and Pinterest partnerships professional who coaches dads through Ready To Dad.
- Susie Pettit, Life and parenting coach for midlife moms of teens. Susie pairs 20+ years of coaching with a top 1% global podcast built for moms of teens.
- Elisabeth Stitt, Parenting coach for divorced dads and parents. A former middle school educator who built her parent coaching around fathers handling life after divorce.
- Elena Rethorn, Life, parenting and organizational coach based in the UAE. Combines parenting coaching with organizational and leadership coaching, using NLP and hypnosis techniques.
- Chris Lawler, Life and family coach for blended and strained families in Indiana. Combines family coaching for blended and adopted families with mediation training and small business consulting.
- Erica Jourdan, Adoption and foster care coach for parents and families. Erica combines over two decades of social work experience in adoption and foster care with her own experience as an adoptive parent.
- Angell Mortensen, ADHD parent coach for moms of kids with ADHD. She built her program from her own experience as a mom of a child with ADHD and focuses on the mother's thoughts first.
- Gabriela Lavezzari, Coach for parents of ADHD and autistic kids in New Hampshire. She is a former life sciences executive and certified Youth Mental Health First Aid instructor who coaches parents from her own experience raising a neurodivergent child.
- Beth Hillman, Coach for parents of struggling teens and young adults. Beth is a parent of a post-wilderness teen who hosts a podcast for families of teens in or after treatment.
- Hina Pitroda, Health and wellness coach for multicultural mothers in Illinois. She combines board certified health coaching with mindfulness training and a program built for multicultural mothers.
- Bonnie Lyman, Family coach for LDS women with adult children. Bonnie focuses on one narrow group: LDS mothers with strained relationships with their adult children.
- Carol Madden, Separation and divorce coach in New Zealand. A divorce coach who has co-parented for 9 years and focuses on women who still feel lost long after their divorce.
- Chantal Hewitt, Autism life and family coach for parents in New Zealand. She combines over a decade of professional work with Autistic families with lived experience as an AuDHD mother of an autistic son with PDA.
- Dawn Friedman, Coach for parents of anxious children in Ohio. Combines more than thirty years with families and SPACE training to coach parents of anxious kids.
- Karen Stockham, Family estrangement, couples repair, and anxiety coach. Karen pairs over 30 years as a licensed psychotherapist with coaching focused on family estrangement and reconciliation.
- Kathleen Young, Coach for parents of neurodivergent children, child psychiatrist. She is a child psychiatrist and certified life coach who is also the parent of a neurodivergent child.
- Kristin Her, Parent and family coach for children's emotional regulation. Kristin spent 15 years at Child Protective Services before becoming a parent coach.
- Skylar Anderson, Child life coach for children with special needs. Skylar combines Registered Behavior Technician experience with WISDOM coaching and a story-based framework for children.
- Erica Karek, Maternal support coach and family nurse practitioner in Wisconsin. Erica is a family nurse practitioner with perinatal mental health training who also coaches, so she can screen for Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders.
- Francini Estes, Christian life coach for moms, including moms of children with special needs. She is a Christian life coach who has raised children with special needs herself and runs an online membership just for moms.
- Heidi Allsop, Parenting coach for moms of teenage boys. Heidi is a certified coach who has raised five sons himself, and he focuses only on moms of teenage boys.
- Abbe Feder, Fertility coach for people facing infertility and pregnancy loss. Abbe offers unlimited text and Voxer support with no office hours and a response within 12 hours.
- Joey Mascio, Confidence and social skills coach for middle schoolers and their parents. A working middle school teacher and certified CBT coach who was teased as a kid and now teaches kids confidence tools.
- Lauren Gordon, Coach for working moms balancing career and family. Lauren is a certified coach who spent nearly two decades in corporate roles, including running Global Executive Recruiting, while raising three daughters.
- Meg Kuhnle, Coach for moms of teens who feel stretched thin. Meg combines life coaching, personal training, and nervous-system aware movement in support for moms of teens.
Compare them
Javaree Walker
Javaree Walker is a parenting coach who helps fathers be more present and intentional at home. He founded Ready To Dad. His work covers fatherhood, personal growth, and everyday leadership. Before coaching, he spent over 20 years in sales, marketing, partnerships, and social impact, including time at LinkedIn and Pinterest. He helps dads handle real family moments with more calm, clarity, and connection.
Susie Pettit
Susie Pettit is a certified life and parenting coach for midlife moms. She helps women handle parenting teens and young adults, midlife changes, overwhelm and perimenopause. She has coached women for more than 20 years. She also hosts a podcast and has reached 200,000+ women. Her work centers on staying calm, setting boundaries without guilt, and letting go of over-responsibility. She teaches parenting shifts built for teens, not younger kids.
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.
Elena Rethorn
Elena Rethorn is a life, parenting and organizational coach based in the United Arab Emirates. She helps parents, individuals, entrepreneurs and companies. She has more than 20 years of experience as a corporate and individual coach. She uses NLP and hypnosis techniques in her work. Her services cover family and parent coaching, relationship coaching, team and leadership coaching, and motivational speaking. She is also writing a book called The Art of Parenting.
Chris Lawler
Chris Lawler is a life and family coach in Indiana. Chris helps parents, children and step-families build stronger bonds, and also coaches people with big goals they want to act on. Chris has coached for over 20 years, giving leadership coaching and parental help to families under strain. Chris holds an MBA and a BS in Organizational Leadership and Supervision. Chris has worked with traditional, blended, single-parent, adopted and same-sex parent families.
Erica Jourdan
Erica Jourdan is an adoption coach and parent coach who helps individuals and families who want to adopt or foster. She has over two decades of professional experience in foster care and private adoption systems. She holds an MSW and a BA in Psychology. She is also an adoptive parent of three children. She supports clients from deciding if adoption is right, through finding an agency and assessing matches, to life after placement.
Angell Mortensen
Angell Mortensen is a certified life coach and ADHD parent coach who helps moms of kids with ADHD. She runs the ADHD Motherhood Mastery program. She is also a mom to a daughter with ADHD, and she built her approach after she learned ADHD, executive function and mindset. Her work focuses on parenting strategies and thought work. It helps moms move from constant meltdowns and yelling toward calm and connection at home.
Gabriela Lavezzari
Gabriela Lavezzari is an emotional wellbeing coach who helps parents of children with ADHD and autism. She founded Ankyra Coaching and works with working parents who feel stressed, overwhelmed and isolated. Before coaching, she was an executive in life sciences. She is also a certified Youth Mental Health First Aid instructor. She has a book for parents of neurodivergent kids. Her coaching starts with the parent's own emotional regulation and confidence.
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.
Hina Pitroda
Hina Pitroda is a health and wellness coach who helps mothers move from stress and overwhelm to calm and connection. She runs Bloom and Belong, where she works with multicultural mothers at every stage, from new moms to empty nesters. She holds a Master's degree in Health and Wellness Coaching and is a board certified coach. Her work centers on MUMTA, her own framework built on awareness, compassion, and connection. She has lived in 3 countries.
Bonnie Lyman
Bonnie Lyman is a family and life coach who helps women change their relationships with their adult children. She works with women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and coaches with LDS values. Her clients often feel disrespected, unloved, sad, or resentful. Bonnie helps them find the root cause of their pain and learn to feel peace, love, and relief. She works only online and holds an advanced certification through Jody Moore.
Carol Madden
Carol Madden is a separation and divorce coach in New Zealand. She helps people who are going through divorce or have come out the other side. Her main focus is women who have been divorced for a while and still feel lost. She is a certified coach with added training in trauma. She went through her own divorce at 37 while raising young children. She also offers a free mini course called After The Divorce.
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.
Karen Stockham
Karen Stockham is a family, relationship, and life coach who helps adults, couples, and families. She focuses on family estrangement, couples repair, and stress and anxiety. She is a licensed psychotherapist in New Mexico and a Certified Clini-Coach®, with over 30 years of experience. Her sessions are calm and focused, and each one ends with one practical next step. Coaching is open to clients nationwide, while her therapy services are limited to where she is licensed.
Kathleen Young
Kathleen Young is a child psychiatrist and certified life coach who coaches parents of neurodivergent children. She helps families who have tried many strategies and still feel stuck. She teaches parents to read their child's behavior through a neurodivergent lens. She is also the parent of a neurodivergent child. She offers a free video series, consultation calls, and a parent group. She also hosts a podcast on parenting and relationships.
Kristin Her
Kristin Her is a parent and family coach who helps parents reconnect with their children and manage big emotions. She spent 15 years at Child Protective Services and has over 20 years of experience with children and families. She holds a Master's in Mental Health Counseling and an ICF life coach certification. Her practice, Elevate with Her Coaching, also serves families with autistic children, teens, and kids facing minor mental health struggles.
Skylar Anderson
Skylar Anderson is a child life coach who helps children build confidence, manage emotions, and handle daily challenges. Skylar is a Registered Behavior Technician and a Certified WISDOM Coach, and owns Enchanting Hearts, LLC. Skylar has over seven years of experience with children in foster care and children with autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities. Programs are built on the Adventures in Wisdom framework and use stories, projects, and activities.
Erica Karek
Erica Karek is a life and health coach who supports mothers through pregnancy, postpartum, and the years of parenting that follow. She runs EK Coaching & Wellness in Wisconsin. Erica is a family nurse practitioner and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. She has specific training in perinatal mental health and offers frequent screening and care for Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders. She is also a mother of three.
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.
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. He is a mother of five sons and has spent more than 30 years raising boys. He has coached more than 1000 women. He hosts the Raising Boys, Building Men podcast. His clients leave with a clear, personal parenting plan.
Abbe Feder
Abbe Feder is a fertility coach who supports people dealing with infertility and women who want to get pregnant. She founded InCircle Fertility after her own struggle with infertility and pregnancy loss. She holds a BA in Behavioral Science. Clients work with her from anywhere in the world. She offers unlimited text and Voxer support with a response within 12 hours. Her signature package runs six months and can continue into pregnancy after infertility.
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.
Lauren Gordon
Lauren Gordon is a certified coach who helps working moms balance their careers and family lives. She spent nearly two decades in a corporate job, including sales, business development and leadership roles. She later ran Global Executive Recruiting at her company. She has been a certified coach since 2014 and earned a second coaching certification in 2019. She also facilitates groups for women-owned organizations and coaches working moms one-on-one.
Meg Kuhnle
Meg Kuhnle is a coach for moms of teens who feel worn down by the mental load of home life. She runs MegaThrive Coaching and blends life coaching with personal training and nervous-system aware movement. She is a mom of 3 teens herself. Her work helps women feel calmer, stay steadier in hard moments, and make space for themselves. She offers virtual sessions and small-group support.
Common questions
Who are the best parenting coaches?
The top parenting coaches are Javaree Walker, Susie Pettit and Elisabeth Stitt, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
How much do the best parenting coaches charge?
Most parenting coaches charge $70 to $150 an hour.
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Last updated September 2026.