Parenting coaches for parents of neurodivergent kids
Compare 51 parenting coaches who focus on parents of neurodivergent kids. Besides parents of neurodivergent kids, the most common focus areas are behavior challenges, family communication, parenting teens and parenting young children. They most often work with parents, students and teens. Most charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
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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.
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.
Charlene Fernald Moynihan
Charlene Fernald Moynihan is a mindset and parenting coach in Maine. She specializes in transition coaching for people with acquired disabilities and their loved ones. She also coaches parents of children and adults with disabling or potentially disabling conditions. She spent 44 years working in human and social services, mostly with people with disabilities. She retired in 2016 due to disability, so she knows life with a disability firsthand. She is a Resilience Strategist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mindy Goodman
Mindy Goodman is a parent coach and independent educational consultant who helps families choose therapeutic and educational options for their children. She runs New Chapters Consulting & Coaching in Reisterstown, Maryland. Before this work, she had a career in accounting and business. She helps families find residential placements and school options, and she coaches parents of children and young adults with emotional, behavioral, educational or mental health challenges. She serves clients in Maryland, Delaware, nationwide and online.
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.
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.
Kanwal Akhtar
Dr. Kanwal Akhtar is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and Islamic life coach. Kanwal helps Muslim mothers raise independent, emotionally healthy autistic children. Kanwal's work starts with the mother. Kanwal teaches moms to calm their own nervous system so the home feels safe for the child. Kanwal blends neuroscience, psychology and faith in Allah into one parenting framework. Kanwal also speaks and teaches to mothers around the world.
Keira Brown McMullin
Keira Brown McMullin is a certified life coach who helps moms raise differently wired kids. She works with mothers who feel overwhelmed and alone after their child gets an autism or ADHD diagnosis. She also works as a substitute teacher and lives on a ranch. Her sessions use short lessons and help moms apply them at home.
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.
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.
Antoinette Freedgood
Antoinette Freedgood is a life coach for parents of autistic children. He is also the parent of an autistic son, so he coaches from lived experience. He teaches that a parent's own wellbeing is the base of effective parenting. He has worked with hundreds of autism parents. He hosts the podcast Living Inspired with Autism and runs the Live Life Inspired Autism community, which shares insights and updates for parents.
Jenni L'Eon
Jenni L'Eon is a parent coach who helps adoptive families, foster families and caregivers. She has spent decades working with vulnerable children. She holds a Master of Arts in Varying Exceptionalities and is a Certified Parent Coach. She is also a foster and adoptive parent with 7 adopted children, including transracial adoptions and sibling groups. Her focus areas are trauma and attachment.
Jen Tate
Jen Tate is a parenting coach who helps moms enjoy the teen years. She runs Enjoy Parenting Teens and teaches moms how to understand their teens, connect with them and teach them key life skills. She is a mother of 6 who has raised teens through mental illness, social anxiety, addiction, health scares and neurodivergence. She offers the ENJOY Membership community and a life skills guide for kids ages 10 to 18.
Katerine Tovar
Katerine Tovar is an autism life coach and family coach in Venezuela. She works as an emotional facilitator and created her own method, the Metodología de Comprensión Humana. Her coaching centers on family communication, healthy relationships, and building self-confidence. She uses NLP tools to help clients handle change and growth. She writes and coaches in Spanish, and she brings hands-on experience with autism in her own family.
Harmony Heslop
Harmony Heslop is a coach for parents of autistic, ADHD or PDA kids. She helps parents who feel worn down by guilt, shame and constant advice about what they should do. Her coaching is PDA-affirming and does not use behavior plans, blame or pressure to fix a child. She is a parent of a son with ADHD and autism, so she knows the daily strain. She is not taking new clients now and keeps a waiting list.
Tina Su
Tina Su is a coach who helps parents of children with autism and ADHD. He is the mother of a son who was once diagnosed with level-2 autism, ADHD, epilepsy and auditory processing disorder. Tina focuses on speech, eye contact, tantrums, sleep and picky eating. He offers programs and a membership, and he is active on Instagram.
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.
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.
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.
Sharon Klinger
Sharon Klinger is a relationship, family and fitness coach in Auburn, Pennsylvania. She helps people with behavior issues, family relationships, autism, ADHD and social challenges. She also coaches clients on fitness, mobility, weight loss and moving without pain. Sharon is a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor and behavior consultant. She is also a massage therapist, fitness trainer and yoga teacher, so she can combine mental health topics and physical health in her coaching.
Belinda Norton-Smith
Belinda Norton-Smith is a bioenergetic educator and fitness trainer who works with women and parents on health, habits, and family routines. She has 26 years in the wellness field and has written nine books, including Fit Mama. She writes on fitness for Wellbeing Magazine and presents on Wellbeing TV. She created The Humanness Method, a skill-based program on body function, routines, and lifelong habits. She also offers one-on-one sessions and parenting support.
Hillary Kelso
Hillary Kelso is an ADHD and executive function coach who helps adults and parents affected by ADHD, especially women. She founded Monarch Support, LLC and trained as a social worker before coaching. She works from Texas and coaches online with clients across the U.S. Her sessions build skills like time management, task initiation, follow-through and emotional regulation. She also offers parent support sessions and ADHD education for people who were just diagnosed.
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.
Lisa Madsen
Lisa Madsen is a certified life coach who helps burned out caregivers. She works with people caring for a loved one with a chronic illness. She has spent over 25 years working with family members and caregivers, and she is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has cared for her own family members too. She coaches by Zoom or phone from Boulder, Colorado. She also coaches professional caregivers and parents of children with disabilities.
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.
Tania Rowan
Tania Rowan is an ADHD and executive function coach in regional Victoria, Australia. She works with children, teens, adults and families who want to understand ADHD and build skills. She was diagnosed with ADHD at age 42 and has spent more than 28 years in martial arts and fitness. She holds a psychology degree and three ADDCA certifications. She also coaches teens and adults who do not have ADHD but want to move forward.
Ben Mason
Ben Mason is an independent educational consultant who runs Mason Associates in Shelburne, Vermont. The firm helps young adults, teens and children find the right school or treatment setting when their current one is not working. Services include boarding school placement in the U.S. and abroad, therapeutic school and wilderness program placement, and college guidance for students in recovery. The practice has served families since 1987.
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.
Jennifer Bernardi
Jennifer Bernardi is an ADHD coach who works one-on-one with overwhelmed adults and parents. She founded A New Way to ADHD in Minnesota. She taught in a classroom before she became a coach. She was diagnosed with ADHD in her late 30s, so she coaches from her own experience. She helps clients with executive function, burnout, and family friction. She also runs a program for young adults who need systems to launch into independence.
Marni Lutz
Marni Lutz is a certified ADHD coach who works with parents, teens, college students, young adults and whole families. She runs Rise Above ADHD. Before coaching, she spent 20 years in Parks and Recreation. She trained at the ADD Coach Academy after learning about ADHD as a parent of three sons with ADHD. She offers a free 30 minute discovery session and uses a framework called the RISE Method.
Moira Brunk
Moira Brunk is a certified life coach who works with mothers of children with disabilities. He helps them feel less overwhelmed and more connected to themselves, beyond their role as caregivers. He became certified four years ago after using coaching himself through The Life Coach School. He coaches one-on-one, once a week, over Zoom, and also offers a single-session Power Hour.
Rebekah Jordan
Rebekah Jordan is an educational consultant who helps families find the right school or program for a child, teen or young adult. She is a partner and founding consultant at Crossbridge. She has spent 25 years in education as a teacher, head of school, tutor and consultant. She created The Peak School in Frisco, Colorado, for students who learn differently. She has helped close to a thousand students and families.
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.
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.
Lidia Pretorius
Lidia Pretorius is a life coach in South Africa who helps people with disabilities and their families. She works on building a more purposeful and joyful life path. Her coaching draws on 30 years of frontline service work. In that time she has been an occupational therapist, a social justice activist, a full-time politician, a public policymaker and a rural development practitioner. She also works with the people and groups around her clients.
Whitney Murray
Whitney Murray is a life coach in Carmel, Indiana who helps caregivers put their own wellness first. Her clients include seniors, adult children who raise families while caring for elderly parents, and parents of children with special needs. She is a former School Psychologist who worked with children from preschool through age 22. She evaluated them for special services and wrote behavior plans. She is now building her own coaching practice.
Angela Whitney
Angela Whitney is a certified Neurocoach who works with teen and tween girls who have ADHD, AuDHD, anxiety and learning differences. She runs the Girl Guides Coaching program. Her coaching builds executive function skills, emotional regulation and a stronger self-concept. She also holds a Youth Mental Health First Aid certification.
Kristin Kajer-Cline
Kristin Kajer-Cline is an independent educational consultant in Issaquah, Washington. She helps parents and young people find boarding schools, private schools and therapeutic programs. She works through Educational Connections, a team of therapeutic consultants. In the last 20 years, the team has served more than 1,000 families. Clients range from ages 10 to 32, and most are ages 13 to 23. She is a professional member of IECA.
Becky Fry
Becky Fry is a life coach who helps moms raising children with autism. Her practice is called Unabridged Life Coaching. She focuses on stopping overwhelm, quieting a busy mind, and making time for yourself. Becky is a mom of a son with special needs, so she knows the daily load first hand. She learned the life coaching method taught by The Life Coach School and then got certified. She offers a free session on Zoom.
Josephine Napolitano
Josephine Napolitano is an ADD and ADHD, family and relationship coach in East Northport, New York. She helps people who feel overwhelmed, drained or cut off from themselves and want change. She is also a small business owner. She raises neurodivergent children, which shapes how she listens and adapts to different ways of thinking. Her work centers on confidence, clear decisions and a sense of purpose.
Kayla Lester
Kayla Lester is an autism life coach and family coach in Oklahoma. She supports neurodivergent people with peer support that draws on lived experience. She offers non-clinical Autistic self diagnosis support, PDA evaluations, and adult sensory profile assessments. Her services are built to spot high masking, or "invisible" Autism and ADHD, which is often seen in marginalized groups. Her stated mission is to reduce the mental health gap in the neurodivergent community and keep support affordable.
Wired Well Support
Wired Well Support is a coaching practice for Autistic and ADHD adults in Massachusetts. It offers neurodivergent-affirming coaching and hands-on support that reduces overwhelm in daily life. Sessions are conversational and follow the client's thinking instead of a fixed agenda. The coach holds ADHD and autism coaching certifications and was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Clients can work in English or Spanish. Practical services include home organizing, body doubling, and travel planning.
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.
Li Kennedy
Li Kennedy is a coach who helps parents of teens with ADHD. Li works with families from middle school through high school. Li is a special education teacher with more than 17 years in the public school system. Li has worked with both parents and teens and has led hundreds of IEP meetings. Li is based in Connecticut and teaches parents specific strategies to guide their teens.
Stephanie Puryear
Stephanie Puryear is a life coach in San Jose who helps caregivers, parents and entrepreneurs. She is also a licensed and registered occupational therapist. She has worked with families in many different situations. Her coaching helps caregivers see their own stories and find fulfillment. She also guides parents of typical and special needs children and works with entrepreneurs who want to build a venture. Her company, Mosaic Wellness, also runs an early childhood development coaching brand.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Angell Mortensen | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Chantal Hewitt | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Charlene Fernald Moynihan | Parents of neurodivergent kids | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Dawn Friedman | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Gabriela Lavezzari | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Family communication | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Gabriele Nicolet | Parenting young children and Parents of neurodivergent kids | $60 to $100 an hour |
| Kathleen Young | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Kristin Her | Parenting young children and Parenting teens | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Lisa Candera | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Family communication | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Mindy Goodman | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Skylar Anderson | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Francini Estes | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Kanwal Akhtar | Parents of neurodivergent kids | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Keira Brown McMullin | Parents of neurodivergent kids | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Laura Solomon | Parents of neurodivergent kids and Behavior challenges | $90 to $140 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a parenting coach for parents of neurodivergent kids cost?
Most parenting coaches charge $68 to $148 per hour or session.
What else do these parenting coaches help with?
Common focus areas include behavior challenges, family communication, parenting teens and parenting young children.
Prices and research
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Last updated September 2026.