Student Coaching - University and High School

I work with students to teach skills and set up structures and systems to help improve personal and academic achievement. Many students struggle with school not because they don’t know the material and don’t want to do well, but because they have various executive functioning skill deficits that create challenges (many ADHD challenges are from executive dysfunction). These can impact students through adolescence and into adulthood.

Executive functions are our brain’s ability to plan, organize, prioritize, sustain focus, maintain effort, manage frustration, self-monitor and self-regulate, and generally ‘get things done’. These enable us to hear a teacher give verbal instructions, write them down, look at those instructions at a later time, and prioritize and start the assignment before it’s overdue. There may be many steps and skills required for seemingly ‘simple tasks’, and these are often missed by otherwise bright, creative, and driven people.