Parenting coaches for parenting young children
Compare 30 parenting coaches who focus on parenting young children. Besides parenting young children, the most common focus areas are family communication, behavior challenges, parenting teens and new parents. They most often work with parents, women and Christians. Most charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
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Crystal Wagner
Crystal Wagner is a life and homeschool coach who helps homeschool parents and goal-oriented women calm the chaos in their days. She has homeschooled her two daughters for over 13 years. Before coaching, she worked as an auditor, in planning and forecasting, and as a church business administrator. She has published homeschool resources and spoken at conventions. She runs Triumphant Learning and works from Oklahoma.
Gabriele Nicolet
Gabriele Nicolet is a parent coach and developmental speech therapist who helps parents of neurodivergent and highly sensitive children. She co-founded Raising Orchid Kids and hosts the Complicated Kids Podcast. Her work centers on helping parents understand what drives their child's behavior so they can change how they respond. She co-leads an 8-week class for parents of children ages 3 to 12 and offers support for parents of teens.
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.
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.
Kristin Escalera
Kristin Escalera is a Christian parenting coach who helps moms raise kids ages 4 to 10 with calm, connection, and biblical consistency. She runs Raising Disciples Mom from Wildomar, California. She is a Positive Discipline Parent Educator and a Certified Life Coach. She has homeschooled her five children for more than nine years and serves in her church's children's ministry. She helps parents move away from yelling, nagging, and time-outs.
Michelle Holdeman
Michelle Holdeman is a parenting coach in Hays, Kansas. She helps parents and caregivers who face big emotions, power struggles and behavior challenges at home. She founded New Connections Mental Health, a group practice. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist with over 10 years of work with children, teens and families. Her practice offers a 10-week play-based parent coaching program called Child-Parent Relationship Training.
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.
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.
Symone Mixon
Symone Mixon is a child life coach and motivational coach in Alabama. She founded SyMagical L.L.C. and has over twenty years of experience as an early childhood professional. She is an approved vendor for the Alabama Intervention System, where she provides Special Instruction Services and Family Training Services. She holds a Master of Education and a graduate certificate in infant and early childhood mental health counseling.
Daphne Vélez-Cortés
Daphne Vélez-Cortés is a life coach who helps overwhelmed, stressed-out moms parent with more calm and build a balanced life. She is a former school counselor with a master's degree in Counselor Education. She works with parents on positive discipline, closer bonds with their kids, simple family routines, and sticking to their own health and personal goals. She also raises two boys, and builds daily systems for her own family.
Meg Thomas
Meg Thomas is a homeschool coach who helps mothers build confidence and stay calm while teaching their children at home. He is a mother of seven with more than a decade of homeschool experience. He runs Mama's Members, a coaching program with weekly calls, lesson plans and a No Yelling Course. He also hosts the Called to Homeschool podcast. His work draws on his Christian faith.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Janani Srinivas
Janani Srinivas is a parenting coach who helps parents of children aged 0 to 14. Janani calls this work transformational parenting coaching. Janani's background is in early childhood education and training in the Incredible Years program. Janani teaches parents tools and strategies to raise confident, resilient and compassionate kids.
Esther Mbabazi
Esther Mbabazi is a coach for mums who snap, shout or lose control with their children, even when they know how they want to respond. She runs a program called The Yell Less Formula. Her work looks at what happens inside a parent before the shouting starts, including the thoughts the brain adds in stressful moments. She also helps mums recover after a bad moment without spiraling into guilt.
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. He 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 himself. His work centers on staying calm in hard moments and rebuilding the bond between parent and child.
Kayla Lyons
Kayla Lyons is a life and family coach for moms who handle most of the parenting because a spouse travels or works long hours. She helps them let go of resentment, take back their time, and find their own joy. She has been married for over 10 years to a partner who travels for work, so she knows this life first hand. She also hosts the Sometimes Solo Mama podcast and uses a Resiliency Framework in her coaching.
Trina Maclean
Trina Maclean is an ADHD coach who helps late and self diagnosed adults with ADHD. She works with people stuck in procrastination and overwhelm. Her focus is simplicity and mindfulness, and she also coaches clients through decluttering and organizing their homes. She works online and offers limited in-person sessions in Calgary, Alberta. Her practice is called Simple Mindful. She offers a reduced rate for students and for anyone who cannot afford her hourly rate.
Jerry David
Jerry David is a coach who works with leaders, business owners, educators and parents. He founded and pastored a church in Lincoln, Nebraska, and spent most of his adult life in ministry. He is Managing Partner of Seira Group, a leadership consulting firm. He wrote Commonsense Parenting and a dissertation on emotional intelligence and coaching in church leadership transitions. He works with clients in the USA and other nations.
Roseanne Dabbs
Roseanne Dabbs is an accountability coach and Christian life coach in Alabama. He helps parents, married people, and people going through divorce, separation, or other life changes. He has worked as a postpartum doula, a lay mental health advocate, and a minister to incarcerated women. He also took counseling and crisis intervention classes with internships. He chose not to get formal coaching certification so he can stay independent.
Sarah Lawless
Sarah Lawless is a Catholic life coach who helps mothers manage stress, overwhelm and self-doubt. His business is called Life of Sustenance. He teaches moms to manage their thoughts and feel their emotions so they can parent with calm. He brings prayer into every session. He became a coach after life coaching changed how he handled motherhood, marriage and his relationship with food.
Monette Van Lith
Monette Van Lith is a life coach who helps people balance career and family. She works with individuals, parents, young adults going through life changes, and companies that want to train staff on work, family and personal wellness. Her coaching starts with mapping obstacles and setting goals with a clear timeframe. She also offers The Family Matters Workbook and videos with tips and activities.
Kim Callaway
Kim Callaway is a relationship and life coach in Missouri who also coaches parents of young children. Kim is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience working with individuals and families. Kim's relationship work centers on attachment patterns, unresolved shame, and conflict and repair. Kim also helps adults with low self-worth and anxiety. Kim runs Rooted Earth Counseling.
Annette Son
Annette Son is a life coach who helps mothers with young children build personal and family-life strategies. She was born and raised in Germany and moved to the United States in 1996. She worked in the corporate field, earned an MBA, and balanced work with raising children. She also spent time as a stay-at-home mom before becoming an entrepreneur. She coaches from Long Beach and holds a life coach certification through CTA.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal Wagner | Parenting young children and Family communication | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Gabriele Nicolet | Parenting young children and Parents of neurodivergent kids | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Kristin Her | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Daryn Friedman | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $350 to $400 per hour |
| Kristin Escalera | Parenting young children and Behavior challenges | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Michelle Holdeman | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $150 an hour |
| Rachel Beck | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Elena Rethorn | Parenting young children and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Symone Mixon | Parenting young children and New parents | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Daphne Vélez-Cortés | Parenting young children and Behavior challenges | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Meg Thomas | Parenting young children and Behavior challenges | $60 to $110 an hour |
| Shelley Clifford | Parenting young children | $90 to $140 an hour |
| Amy Webb | Parenting young children and Behavior challenges | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Bianca Hellenga | Parenting young children and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Rima Elahi-Syed | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $135 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a parenting coach for parenting young children 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, parenting teens and new parents.
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Last updated September 2026.