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Compare 62 parenting coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are parents of neurodivergent kids, family communication, behavior challenges and parenting teens. They most often work with students, parents and teens. Most charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
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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.
Brynnen Ford
Brynnen Ford is an independent educational consultant in Seattle who helps students and parents find the right college or school. She works with families from PreK through college. Her past roles include college faculty member, school administrator and teacher. She helps families sort out what matters most, learn how admission and financial aid systems work, and finish the whole application process or only the parts they choose. She meets in central Seattle or online.
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.
Antonietta Breitenfeldt
Antonietta Breitenfeldt is an education consultant who helps students and families with college admissions and PreK-12 school decisions. She founded BrightSpot Labs and has more than 25 years in education. She has worked as a classroom teacher, school administrator, district leader, and professional learning specialist. Her work covers college lists, essays, scholarships, and school enrollment. She mainly serves families in the Greater Seattle area and works online with some families elsewhere.
Imy Wax
Imy Wax is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded The Aspire Group in Deerfield, Illinois. She is also a licensed clinical professional counselor and a Certified Educational Planner. She co-wrote The K&W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Differences. Her team has supported more than 2,000 families. She works with clients from age 8 through high school, college, and adults into their 60s.
Jeff Schnitzer
Jeff Schnitzer is an independent educational consultant and licensed school psychologist in Lexington, Massachusetts. He helps students and parents with school placement and applications, from elementary school to graduate and professional school. His practice, Schnitzer Associates, has run for three decades. He also offers psycho-educational testing, reading help, tutoring and test prep. Clients get hot chocolate and bagels at the office. Sessions can also be held over Skype.
Jenn Curtis
Jenn Curtis is an independent educational consultant in San Clemente, California. She helps high school students and their parents with the college admission process. She owns FutureWise Consulting and has guided hundreds of students and families. She holds an MSW and is a professional member of IECA. She is also a professional speaker and the author of The Parent Compass, a book for parents of teens.
Jennifer Curtis
Jennifer Curtis is a college admissions consultant and the owner of FutureWise. She helps students prepare for college and helps parents guide their teens. She began taking private clients in 2009 and now serves as Director of College Counseling. She wrote The Parent Compass, a best selling parenting book released in 2020. Earlier, she did case management for at-risk youth in the Orange County Department of Education ACCESS Program. She also built a college readiness program for first generation students.
Jennifer Litvak
Jennifer Litvak is an ADHD and life coach who works with teens, college students and adults. She has over 25 years of experience with college students and young adults. She helps them build time management, organization, leadership and life balance skills. She holds an AACC certification from ADD Coaching Academy and a master's in Educational Leadership. She has managed her own ADHD since she was diagnosed at 18. She also coaches parents alongside their teens.
Kandace Kyere
Kandace Kyere is a mental health and anxiety coach for academically thriving Black teens and young adults. She helps them lower stress, anxiety and the pressure to be perfect. She is a licensed social worker in Indiana with 10 years of work with youth and families. She runs culturally affirming virtual sessions and coaches clients across the country and around the world. She was a high achieving Black student herself.
Katie Garrett
Katie Garrett is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding school and college admissions. She founded Garrett Educational Consulting in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a Certified Educational Planner and holds a graduate certificate in independent educational consulting from UC-Irvine. Her team also offers academic advising and test prep. She keeps a limited roster of families so each one gets close attention. She works with families in the Carolinas, across the country and abroad.
Keely Buchanan
Keely Buchanan is an independent educational consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps parents choose public and private schools from preschool through high school. She has worked with more than 500 Colorado families since 2015. She also helps families who are relocating to the state. She has been accepted as an expert witness in Denver and Jefferson Counties. She writes educational reports for divorce mediation, arbitration and court cases.
Pam Tedeschi
Pam Tedeschi is an independent educational consultant in Potomac, Maryland. She helps students and parents find the right day school, boarding school, or therapeutic program. She has worked in the field since 1999 and is a Certified Educational Planner. She meets with the child first, before the parents, to learn the child's strengths and needs. She is the only consultant in her office, so clients speak with her directly.
Robin Ryan
Robin Ryan is a career counselor who helps new grads, professionals and executives find their next job. Robin has worked with over 8600 people on job search. Services cover resume writing, LinkedIn profiles, interview coaching, salary negotiation and AI job search coaching. Robin has written eight bestselling career books, including 60 Seconds & You're Hired, and has appeared on 3500 shows, including Oprah. Robin works in the Seattle area.
Angie McIntyre
Angie McIntyre is a youth life coach in Minnesota. She helps teens and young adults with study habits, time management, planning for the future, identity, and relationships. She runs Clear Trails Youth Coaching, which she started in 2021. Angie is also a licensed school psychologist with a degree in educational psychology. She holds an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation and was trained by the Youth Coaching Institute.
Barbara Connolly
Barbara Connolly is a private college consultant in Birmingham, Michigan. She founded College Choice Counseling and helps students and families with college admissions across the United States. She is a lawyer and a certified educational planner. She also worked as an admissions reader at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. She has more than 20 years of experience. Her firm also offers SAT and ACT prep and academic tutoring.
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.
Carly Gieszl
Carly Gieszl is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She runs Rooted College Planning. Before starting her practice, she spent over a decade working inside college admissions and enrollment offices. She holds two master's degrees, one in higher education and one in family and human development. She keeps her practice small, with a max of 15 students per graduating class, and has made 100 campus visits.
Chris and Erin Adang
Chris and Erin Adang are life and mindset coaches who run Extraordinary Purpose in Michigan. They help teens, young adults, and parents through hard transitions. They have over 30 years of combined experience walking with people through key life moments. Chris is certified in the ACT Matrix, which builds psychological flexibility. They offer one-on-one coaching and small group experiences. Clients also get real-time access to their coaches between sessions.
Dana Doering
Dana Doering is an independent educational consultant in Seattle, Washington. Dana helps students and parents with boarding school and private school admissions. Dana is the Executive Director of Dean Doering & Associates and its lead therapeutic educational consultant. Dana is also the senior psychiatric mental health clinician on the team. The practice has more than 75 years of combined experience and works with families on placement and planning.
Eleanor Munson
Eleanor Munson is an independent educational consultant in Dallas, Texas. She helps parents find the right private school for their child, from pre-school through high school. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. She holds an IECA specialty designation in Learning Differences and focuses only on school placement.
Erika Smith
Erika Smith is an independent educational consultant in Lexington, Kentucky. She helps students and parents plan for college and get through the admissions process. She has worked in college admissions since 1998. She has been an admissions professional and a school counselor and college planner at a private high school. She also offers workshops, support for school counselors and teachers, and speaking events.
Francine Schwartz
Francine Schwartz is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She runs Pathfinder Counseling LLC from Brentwood, Tennessee. She works with families in Tennessee, Connecticut, across the U.S. and internationally. Her packages cover students from 9th grade through senior year. She also offers help with financial aid and scholarships, and she serves high school graduates and adults. Her first step is a free 30 minute planning consultation.
Jane Wolery
Jane Wolery is a life coach and speaker who helps rural teens, young professionals, families, and adults. She works with people facing school stress, career uncertainty, self-doubt, anxiety, and pressure. Jane grew up on a farm and ranch in northern Montana. She has more than 30 years of experience as an educator and is also a certified school counselor and certified life coach. She also gives talks and workshops for rural communities, schools, and organizations.
Jen Rigsby
Jen Rigsby is an independent educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. She helps parents and students choose schools, prepare for admissions and handle special education plans. She runs Front Range Educational Consulting. Her services cover public, charter and private schools in the Denver area. She also helps families moving to Colorado and families of gifted children. She is a professional member of IECA and holds an M.Ed.
JoAnna Simon
JoAnna Simon is a faith-based life coach who works with pre-teens, teens, young adults and their parents. She calls her method Intentional Thinking. She also works as a school counselor and associate counselor. She helps teens build confidence and trust their choices. She helps parents strengthen family bonds and guide their kids with faith. She came to the U.S. as a young immigrant and overcame paralysis after a back injury at fifteen.
Kazue McGregor
Kazue McGregor is an independent educational consultant who helps high school and transfer students choose colleges and apply to them. She holds the Certified Educational Planner credential and an M.M. She runs Exploring College Choices LLC in Montrose, California. Her work starts with student assessments to find colleges that fit the student. She then builds an individual plan for the admissions process. She also leads small group workshops for students and their families.
Loren Grossman
Loren Grossman is an independent college transfer counselor and educational advocate in Venice, California. She helps students and their parents plan for life after high school. Her work covers college admissions, community college transfers to four-year universities, financial aid, and test prep. She also represents families at IEP and 504 meetings for children with special needs. She draws on knowledge of educational, health, human services and legal systems.
Nathalie Willis-Davis
Nathalie Willis-Davis is an independent educational consultant who helps international families choose schools in Portugal and Spain. She also guides teens and their parents through applying to US colleges. She runs Tendoria Educational Consulting from Cascais, Portugal. She contacts schools for families, sets up appointments and helps with enrollment. Her knowledge of Lisbon area schools and their administrators is a strength that families mention often.
Roxana Reid
Roxana Reid is an independent educational consultant in New York City. She leads Smart City Kids, a firm that helps parents and students with private school, boarding school and college admissions. The firm has worked with families for more than 20 years. Its consultants are all former admissions directors. The firm says 98% of its full-service families are admitted to their first choice school. It also offers tutoring, special education guidance and parenting support.
Sinead Galvin
Sinead Galvin is an independent educational consultant and the founder of Steps into Spain. She helps families find the right school for their children in Madrid and Málaga. Her work covers school search, admissions guidance, and relocation support. She also advises international students and parents on applying to US colleges. She works with a small team and visits schools in person for families who are moving from abroad.
Stephanie Frumkin
Stephanie Frumkin is an independent educational consultant who helps families of bright students with learning differences. She runs Exceptional Educational Solutions in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her focus is twice-exceptional (2e) students in grades K-12 across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. She helps families with school placement, advocacy, homeschooling and educational alternatives. She is a professional member of IECA and works with gifted, neurodivergent and 2e children who struggle in their current school.
Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams runs Williams Educational Consultants in Atlanta, Georgia. She helps students and parents with college admissions, private school placement, graduate school, and career planning. Her practice has worked with clients nationwide for over 20 years and has guided more than 2,500 students and families. She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory, and she uses them to link personality and strengths to school and career choices.
Antoinette Battiste
Antoinette Battiste is an independent educational consultant in San Jose, California. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She guides students through the college search, selection, application and move to college. She has a special commitment to first-generation and underrepresented students. Her services include college preparation, essay writing, scholarship research and coaching for parents.
Bar Clarke
Bar Clarke is an independent educational and therapeutic consultant in Southport, Maine. Bar runs Loeta Consulting Group and helps families find the right school or program for a child or loved one who is struggling. The work covers placement and case management. Bar has visited hundreds of programs across the country. Educational work is limited to grades 8 to postgraduate, and the focus is on the match between student and school, not on getting into a school.
Deb Felix
Deb Felix is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, high school and MBA admissions. She is a former Ivy League Dean of Admissions, so she knows how admissions officers read applications. She works from Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Her advice has been quoted in the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, CNBC and the Washington Post. She leads clients through each step of the application process.
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.
Shyamla Menon
Shyamla Menon is a college admissions consultant in Darien, Connecticut. She gives academic advising and college consulting to high school students and their parents. She guides students from test strategy through building a college list, essay ideas, interview practice, and comparing final college choices. Her eighth batch of seniors graduates in 2022. She offers hourly help or a full comprehensive package, and the first consultation is free.
Jay Morjaria
Jay Morjaria is a life coach for children, teenagers and young adults. He helps young people build confidence, handle stress and learn life skills that support school and everyday life. Jay has worked with Year 10 and 11 students at The Langley Academy in Slough. He has also mentored college students in Leicester and coached youth football for three seasons. He holds a Clean Coaching Diploma, an MOE Certificate in Coaching and NLP Practitioner training.
Joe Thompson
Joe Thompson is a Denver, Colorado coach who works with adults on major life transitions. His clients are dealing with college, graduate school, career changes, or the move from military to civilian life. He uses motivational interviewing and a person-centered approach. He has also built life-skills programs for Special Olympians and worked as an educator and professional facilitator. He adapts his methods to each person.
Sandigdha Mishra
Sandigdha Mishra is a life coach in Gurgaon, Haryana. She coaches students, children and parents. She helps kids build confidence and self esteem. She also helps parents support their child and cheer them on. She is an advocate with a law degree and training in child psychology and neuroscience for parents. She writes articles on how children learn and on team mentality in relationships.
Antonietta Breitenfeldt
Antonietta Breitenfeldt is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs BrightSpot Labs in Seattle. The practice draws on more than 25 years of experience in education. It also guides families through PreK to 12 school decisions and supports employers who want to help working parents. Sessions run online across the country and in person in the greater Seattle area.
Daelene Byam
Daelene Byam is a life coach who helps teens and young adults deal with anxiety. She has worked with anxious teenagers for 5 years. Her main offer is the Backpack Program, a 16 week program with one on one coaching. Her message is that a person can feel anxiety and still live a full life. She also offers strategy sessions for parents of teens with anxiety.
David Hawkins
David Hawkins is an independent educational consultant who runs The University Guys in London. He helps students and their parents apply to universities in the USA, UK, Canada and Europe. The team has more than 20 years of experience. Students they have worked with have won offers from over 200 universities. The practice also gives free training to school staff and helps universities with recruitment in the UK and beyond.
Elise Phillips
Elise Phillips is a life and family coach in Seattle, Washington. She helps teens and young adults find their strengths and learn to use them. She holds an MEd and has coaching certifications in well-being, resilience, academic resilience, and career discovery from the Youth Coaching Institute. She also writes about the Four Tendencies and how motivation styles shape the way students and teens respond to requests.
Jamie Stuck
Jamie Stuck is a mindfulness and life coach in Indiana. Jamie coaches mothers, teens and young adults who want to be more present in daily life. Clients learn to spot their thought patterns and move toward a more positive mindset. Jamie holds a Master of Arts in school counseling and is certified in both mindfulness coaching and life coaching. Jamie is also working toward International Coaching Federation certification.
Mary Miele
Mary Miele is an independent educational consultant in New York City. She helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Her firm, Evolved Education Company, serves students from nursery school through college. The team covers N-12 admissions, college counseling, tutoring, executive functioning coaching and special education consulting. Mary is a Professional member of IECA. Every client starts with an intake consultation and moves through three phases: Assessment, strategy and implementation.
Michele Evard
Dr. Michele Evard is an independent educational consultant in Concord, Massachusetts. She helps parents and students with homeschool planning and college applications. She works with families who homeschool K-12 children and want a plan that fits each child. She also helps homeschooled students show their skills and readiness to colleges. She co-created a guide called College UnMazed and homeschooled her own three children.
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.
Sharon Thomas
Sharon Thomas is the director of MAIA Education Resource Center in New York. She helps students and parents with college admissions counseling and school placement for grades N to 12. She founded the center with Keith Haber. The team also offers tutoring from K to college, test preparation, executive function coaching, and parent consultations. Sharon is a member of IECA, and MAIA runs as an independent practice.
Tami Stover
Tami Stover is a life coach in Chico who helps women entrepreneurs that work from home and care for young children. She has coached for eight years. Her work centers on self-care, self-worth and mindset. She knows her clients' daily struggles firsthand because she was once in their position. She also mentors young girls on self-compassion, healthy relationships, nutrition, fitness and core values.
Jay Benanav
Jay Benanav is a college admissions consultant with College Inside Track in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The practice guides students and parents through the college process, from finding a good fit to essays, applications, scholarships and financial aid. It has helped hundreds of families in Minnesota, Wisconsin and across the United States. Jay is a member of the IECA. The team also speaks to high schools, companies and financial professionals.
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.
Liz Price
Liz Price is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of College Composed in California. She helps students and parents with the college application process. She builds college lists with each student, sets work plans with reasonable deadlines, and guides essay writing. She has worked with scores of students over the years. Her approach keeps the student in charge of the work while parents support from the side.
Marni Lutz
Marni Lutz is a certified ADHD coach who works with families, teens, college students and young adults. She spent 20 years in Parks and Recreation before she moved into coaching. She trained at the ADD Coaching Academy. That home experience shapes how she coaches families as a group.
MyTeenLife Coach
MyTeenLife Coach is a coaching service for teens, young adults, and their parents. The team works on life, school, and career questions during big transition periods. They bring 30+ years of combined experience. Their work covers life skill building, resilience, positive relationships, academic and career coaching, stress management, tech addiction, and ADHD. They say they have helped hundreds of teens build resilience and improve communication.
Rory Mitchell
Rory Mitchell is a performance and wellness coach in New Jersey. Rory works with professionals, athletes, students, and parents. As a Preferred PSYCH-K Facilitator, Rory focuses on the subconscious beliefs and inner stories that shape how clients perform, feel, and show up for others. Rory is also the author of Tell Yourself A Better Story. Athletes can work on closing the gap between physical preparation and their mental game.
Andrea Goldman
Andrea Goldman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded The Family College Experience, LLC in Plainview, New York. Her work covers the application and decision process, and it also looks at how a child leaving for college changes life for the whole family. She is a professional member of the IECA.
Chris Kocurek
Chris Kocurek is an independent educational consultant in Austin, Texas. Chris helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Chris works with Academic Answers, a national consulting firm that offers school consultation, therapeutic consultation, college counseling, parent coaching and young adult services. Chris is a Professional member of the IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Estella Lopez
Estella Lopez is a career coach in Aurora, Illinois. She helps people who are undecided about their career or job direction. She also works with high school students who need to choose a college. She also lists family coaching and spirituality coaching as areas of practice, which sets her range apart from a career-only coach.
Genevieve Price-Griffin
Genevieve Price-Griffin is an accountability coach and communication coach for teens and young adults. She works with high school students, recent college graduates and young professionals. She also works with parents of teens. She helps young people work out where they want to go, then builds a plan with them that moves at their own pace.
Sarah Khan
Sarah Khan is a learning success coach in South Carolina. She helps kids who struggle in school, and she works with their parents too. She starts by listening to the parents' concerns about their child. Then she builds a roadmap toward the child's educational goals. She uses her own Meta-Learning De-Stress method, which teaches kids to manage anxiety, build focus, and understand how the brain handles memory.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Solomon | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $140 an hour |
| Brynnen Ford | College and K-12 school admissions consultant in Seattle | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions consultant for US and international schools in Berkeley | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Antonietta Breitenfeldt | College admissions and PreK-12 education consultant in Greater Seattle | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Imy Wax | Independent educational consultant for students and parents in Deerfield, Illinois | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Jeff Schnitzer | Independent educational consultant and school psychologist in Lexington, Massachusetts | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Jenn Curtis | Parenting teens | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Jennifer Curtis | Parenting teens | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Jennifer Litvak | Parents of neurodivergent kids | $110 to $150 an hour |
| Kandace Kyere | Mental health coach for academically thriving Black teens and young adults | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Katie Garrett | Boarding school and college admissions consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Keely Buchanan | Co-parenting and divorce | $300 to $500 per session |
| Pam Tedeschi | Parents of neurodivergent kids | $110 to $550 per session |
| Robin Ryan | Career counselor for job seekers, new grads and executives in Seattle | $120 to $200 an hour |
| Angie McIntyre | Youth life coach for teens and young adults in Minnesota | $110 to $190 an hour |
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Last updated September 2026.