Parenting coaches for parents
Compare 276 parenting coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are family communication, behavior challenges, parents of neurodivergent kids and parenting teens. They most often work with parents, women and students. Most charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
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Javaree Walker
Javaree Walker is a parenting coach who helps fathers be more present and intentional at home. Javaree founded Ready To Dad. Javaree's work covers fatherhood, personal growth, and everyday leadership. Before coaching, Javaree spent over 20 years in sales, marketing, partnerships, and social impact, including time at LinkedIn and Pinterest. Javaree helps dads handle real family moments with more calm, clarity, and connection.
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. 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.
Joey Mascio
Joey Mascio is a confidence and social skills coach for middle schoolers and their parents. Joey is a middle school teacher and a certified CBT coach. Joey teaches kids life skills, habits, and mindset through online programs, live events, and a bestselling curriculum. Joey has helped thousands of teens and parents. Joey 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. He coaches mothers of autistic children on staying calm and leading with confidence. He is a solo mom to a teen with severe autism and OCD, and he has 18 years of experience in autism parenting. He is also a practicing attorney and a certified life coach. His work centers on the parent, not on fixing the child. He 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.
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.
Tom Nash
Tom Nash is a divorce and family coach who runs Mr Divorce Coach. He works with individuals, couples and families going through separation, co-parenting and blended family life. He went through his own divorce and the family law courts, and now co-parents with his ex-wife in a blended family. He co-hosts the Divorce Coaching Podcast and runs a free weekly Clubhouse chat called British Divorce Club. His style is direct and honest.
Amber Titensor
Amber Titensor is a life and parent coach who works with teens and with their moms. She helps moms who feel overwhelmed reconnect with their teen and parent with more calm and confidence. She helps teens build emotional resilience and trust themselves. Amber is a mother of seven and holds dual certification in life and parent coaching. She runs a teen program called Teen FLAME and a parent program called FLAME for Moms.
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.
Anne Reid
Anne Reid is a life and executive coach who helps parents and guardians of children with disabilities. She runs Reid Coaching. Her main offer is a 4 week virtual course for parents who feel overwhelmed, exhausted and alone. She is also a mother of children with disabilities. She teaches Happiness Skills and acts as an educator and accountability partner. She also offers one-on-one coaching, and group classes are coming soon.
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.
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. Francini helps moms who feel drained, anxious, and stretched too thin. Francini is a certified weight and life coach and a foster and adoptive mother of three. Francini runs Mom Mental Gym, an online membership for Christian moms, and offers an 8-week tailored one-on-one coaching program.
Jenna Corriveau
Jenna Corriveau is a parent and adoption coach in Maine. She coaches mothers, fathers, grandparents, caregivers, adoptive parents and adult adoptees. Her work centers on nervous system regulation, brain science and healing patterns passed down in families. She is a Colombian transracial adoptee, so she knows this path from the inside. She has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, therapist, coach and homeschooling parent of 3.
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.
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.
Neesha B.
Neesha B. is a private coach for mothers of preteen, teen and young adult daughters. She helps mothers spot the repeating cycle that keeps a daughter quiet, tuned out or upset. She has worked with families for over 25 years. She built a framework called The Five Patterns™ and a program called Rewire with GRACE™. Her work starts with the mother, because the mother has the most power to change the dynamic at home.
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.
Abby Wolfson
Abby Wolfson is a child sleep coach and parent coach for families with young children. She is also a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with years of medical and developmental experience. Abby builds a sleep plan around each child, the parents' style, and the family's daily rhythms. Most families see much better sleep in 2 weeks or less.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crystal Wagner
Crystal Wagner is a life and family coach in Oklahoma who helps goal-oriented women calm the chaos in their lives. She focuses on homeschool parents and moms. Before coaching, she earned a Master of Accountancy and worked as an auditor and in corporate planning and forecasting. She has over 13 years of experience homeschooling her two daughters, and she has published resources and spoken at homeschool conventions.
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.
Joy Lee
Joy Lee is a decluttering and parent coach who helps busy parents and professionals tidy their homes and clear emotional clutter. She uses the KonMari Method and conscious parenting and living ideas. She started her one-woman coaching business in Fall 2024 after hurricanes Helene and Milton hit her home town of Tampa Bay. She holds KonMari, Conscious Life Coaching and Conscious Parenting Coaching certifications, and has ADHD herself.
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.
Symone Mixon
Symone Mixon is a child life coach and motivational coach in Alabama. Symone founded SyMagical L.L.C. and has over twenty years of experience as an early childhood professional. Symone is an approved vendor for the Alabama Intervention System, where Symone provides Special Instruction Services and Family Training Services. Symone holds a Master of Education and a graduate certificate in infant and early childhood mental health counseling.
Take it Outdoors Parenting
Take it Outdoors Parenting is a parenting and life coaching practice in San Jose. It helps parents restore balance at home by setting boundaries and repairing the bond with their child. The coach spent over 25 years in law enforcement as a School Resource Officer, Domestic Violence Detective and Hostage Negotiator. The coach has also taught parents as a parent educator for over 10 years. Sessions use the outdoors.
Aerica Sanders
Aerica Sanders is a coach who helps high-achieving, Type-A moms find steady calm and feel less pressure each day. She built her work on three pillars she named Calm Mind, Calm Body and Calm Love. She runs a group coaching program and also has a track for moms of autistic kids. Her clients include business owners, an attorney, a nurse practitioner and a CEO who juggle work, marriage and motherhood.
Antoinette Freedgood
Antoinette Freedgood is a life coach for parents of autistic children. He is also a parent who has raised an autistic child, and he draws on that experience in his coaching. He has worked with hundreds of autism parents. His core idea is that a parent's own wellbeing is the base of good parenting, not something to put off. He hosts the podcast Living Inspired with Autism and runs a community for autism parents.
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.
Heather Daines
Heather Daines is a certified life coach who helps mothers with parenting. She works on guilt and on thoughts that keep moms stuck. She is a mother of seven children. She once felt overwhelmed and exhausted in motherhood, and a coach helped her see it in a new way. Now she teaches that same thought-based approach. She also runs a parenting course and offers a free mini session over Zoom.
Julia Rocque
Julia Rocque is a parenting coach who helps moms of teenagers. She works with mothers who feel disconnected from their teens, lack confidence, or feel overwhelmed. Her focus is on changing the mom's own thoughts and reactions, so the relationship can improve without the teen changing first. She came to coaching after her own hard years of parenting teens, when her home was full of contention. She offers a free parenting strategy call and private one-on-one sessions.
Keira Brown McMullin
Keira Brown McMullin is a certified life coach who helps moms raise differently wired kids. She is a mom of four. She also works as a substitute teacher and lives on a ranch. Her coaching focuses on moms who feel overwhelmed and alone after a diagnosis. She offers practical tools and a judgment-free space to build confidence.
Keisha McLean
Keisha McLean is a birth coach and child life coach who supports children and their parents. She helps families build strong attachment bonds from the start of a child's life. She holds a child and adolescent development degree and is trained as a doula through DONA International. She is foster care certified. Her clients include mothers, fathers, teen moms, foster families and blended families. She also serves the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.
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.
Lara Haas
Lara Haas is a family, life and relationship coach in Chesterfield, Missouri, in the St. Louis area. She works with individuals, parenting pairs and whole families. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Certified Positive Psychology Coach, and she also holds a teaching credential. Her coaching focuses on the good in life instead of only the problems. She offers a free consultation to new clients.
Meg Thomas
Meg Thomas is a homeschool coach who helps mothers build confidence and create a homeschool that works for their family. He has homeschooled his seven children for more than a decade. He hosts the Called to Homeschool podcast and runs a membership called Mama's Members. He also teaches a No Yelling course. His 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.
Rooted Guidance
Rooted Guidance is an adoption and accountability coaching practice for people dealing with adoption wounds, family strain, and relationship struggles. The coach is an adoptee, a mother, and a stepmother, and draws on that lived experience in sessions. Work centers on blended family dynamics, co-parenting, identity questions, and emotional overwhelm. Sessions run by phone, video, text, or email. It is coaching, not clinical therapy.
Shelley Clifford
Shelley Clifford is an accountability and communication coach in Alabama who helps stressed moms find more joy in motherhood. She comes to coaching as an educator with specialized knowledge of child development. She teaches sensory strategies and the value of play. She also teaches parents how to raise a secure child and build a stronger bond with them. Her work pairs these tools with a self care practice of tuning into your own mind.
Stephanie Eige
Stephanie Eige is a family and parent coach in Tennessee. She mentors parents who want to explore unschooling and respectful parenting. Her family moved from public school to virtual school, then homeschooling, and now unschooling. She has homeschooled her two teenagers for many years. She holds a degree in psychology and a master's degree in communications. She also completed Dayna Martin's year long unschooling program.
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.
Barb Hatfield
Barb Hatfield is a certified life coach and family coach who helps parents raise teens and emerging adults. She works with parents as their child gets older and prepares to leave home. She teaches parents to change how they parent at this stage. Barb is the author of the book Rewire Your Mind. She is based in Massachusetts and offers a free one-hour discovery call.
Carol Madden
Carol Madden is a separation and divorce coach in New Zealand. She helps people who are going through a separation or divorce, and people who co-parent. She holds a coaching certification and has extra training in trauma. She went through her own divorce and co-parenting 9 years ago, so she knows the process first hand. She helps clients regain focus and rebuild their lives one step at a time.
Cindy J Cadet
Cindy J Cadet is a relationship, family and life coach in Greenwich, Connecticut. She helps single, separated and divorced moms co-parent with a challenging ex. She is a Circle of Security Parent Educator and works as a relationship strategist and co-parenting coach. Her goal is to help mothers break the cycle of ineffective co-parenting so their kids can do well. She also completed a Certified Professional Coach Program.
Frankie Espitia
Frankie Espitia is a certified life coach who helps parents understand and talk with their teenage children. Frankie runs Frankie Espitia Family Coaching LLC. and coaches individuals. Before coaching, Frankie spent 30 years at a residential treatment facility for teenagers and children, working as a Counselor and then a Counselor Supervisor. Frankie is certified to lead deep listening sessions, which center on communication with one person.
Gabriela Lavezzari
Gabriela Lavezzari is an emotional wellbeing coach who helps working parents of neurodivergent children. She works from New Hampshire and runs Ankyra Coaching. Her background is in life sciences, and she is a Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor. She teaches practical emotional regulation tools to parents of ADHD and autistic kids. Her work draws on trauma-informed practices and evidence-based strategies. She offers 1:1 sessions, online courses, and free introductory support.
Grace Bridges
Grace Bridges is a parent and family coach in Virginia. She helps parents build better relationships with their children. She has 15 years of experience working with children and parents. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Christian Counseling and is a trained life coach. Her next goal is a Master's in Marriage and Family Studies so she can support struggling families and couples in a therapeutic setting.
Harmony Heslop
Harmony Heslop is a coach for parents of autistic, PDA or ADHD kids. She helps parents drop guilt and shame and feel calmer and more confident. She offers PDA-affirming coaching that avoids behavior plans, blame and pressure to fix the child. She is a parent of a son diagnosed with ADHD in 2019 and autism in 2021. She runs Calm the Chaos with Harmony and offers a free consult call.
Janani Srinivas
Janani Srinivas is a parenting coach who helps parents of children aged 0 to 14. Janani calls Janani's work transformational parenting coaching. Janani's background is in early childhood education, and Janani is trained in the Incredible Years program. Janani teaches parents tools and strategies to raise confident, resilient and compassionate kids.
Jen Maroulis
Jen Maroulis is a certified life coach who works with teens and with the moms who raise them. She helps moms feel more connected to their kids and parent with more calm. She helps teens who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or full of self doubt. She runs JCM Life Coaching and hosts a workshop series called Help! I Have Teens! It teaches moms to understand big emotions and set calm boundaries.
Jen Tate
Jen Tate is a parenting coach who helps moms get through the teen years with less conflict and more connection. She runs the Enjoy Parenting Teens community. Jen is a mom of six who parents teens herself. Her focus is on helping parents understand why teens act the way they do, build a closer bond, and teach life skills without nagging. She also offers a life skills guide for kids 10 to 18.
Kanwal Akhtar
Dr. Kanwal Akhtar is an Islamic life coach who helps Muslim mothers raise independent, emotionally healthy autistic children. Kanwal is also a board-certified Internal Medicine physician. Kanwal's work centers on the mother's own emotional state, based on the idea that a calm home helps a child build independence. Kanwal blends neuroscience, psychology and Islamic teaching about the heart and a person's relationship with Allah. Kanwal also runs a free webinar called Survival to Thriving.
Kelli Brien
Kelli Brien is a birth coach and parent coach in Indiana, United States. She is a maternal health specialist. She is a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator, a doula and a lactation specialist. Kelli owns Mahogany Maternity, a maternal health organization. The organization focuses on birth equity. Its goal is to close gaps in outcomes and satisfaction for Black and BIPOC families.
Kim Damon
Kim Damon is a faith-based coach who helps moms rebuild connection with their adult children. Kim created the L.O.V.E. M.E.N.D.S. Framework, which has 9 strategies for parenting adult kids. Kim supports moms who feel distant from their grown kids, including moms in estranged or no-contact situations, and Kim keeps Kim's support free of judgment.
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.
Marta Uffelmann-Ledezma
Marta Uffelmann-Ledezma is a family, relationship and life coach in Marina del Rey, California. She supports mothers, fathers and people in relationships who struggle to meet their own needs while caring for their families. She holds a master's degree in human behavior and is certified through the Certified Coaches Federation. She has written about relearning communication through listening and non-judgmental observation.
May Semaan
She coaches teens and their parents to build a communication strategy, a relationship strategy and an academic strategy. She also helps mid-career people decide on their next career move. Her work covers two groups, families with teens and working professionals at a turning point. She trained at Rhodes Wellness College.
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.
Mindy Kyle
Mindy Kyle is a coach who helps stepmoms deal with resentment, burnout and feeling second best. She has lived in a blended family for 15 years, and she is a stepmom, a mom and a stepgrandma. She offers a 60 minute strategy call, a 3 month coaching program with bi-weekly calls, and a private community for stepmoms. Her work focuses on giving stepmoms strategies they can use right away.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Javaree Walker | Family communication | $60 to $100 an hour |
| 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 |
| Susie Pettit | Parenting teens and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Tom Nash | Co-parenting and divorce and Blended families | $90 to $150 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a parenting coach 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, behavior challenges, parents of neurodivergent kids and parenting teens.
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