EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING COACHING
What is Executive Functioning Coaching? Executive Function skills are the underlying brain processes that help people manage their everyday lives. Executive Function skills are essential for completing tasks, managing time, controlling emotions, achieving goals, and so much more. Coaching establishes an understanding of Executive Functioning skills, teaches coping strategies to improve self-regulation, and provides interventions to incorporate in daily routines. These sessions are designed to help achieve academic success, overcome behavioral challenges, and strengthen relationships. Executive Functioning Coaching is individualized to meet a child's specific needs using evidence based interventions and tools.
Does this sound like
your child?
STRUGGLING WITH STUDY SKILLS?
Needs help managing deadlines, completing work, organization, task initiation, and preparing for exams
DEALING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES?
address disruptive or problematic behaviors through a variety of strategies that aim to
teach appropriate replacement behavior
& improve social skills
DIFFICULTY WITH SELF-REGULATION?
learn tactics to maintain focus, control impulses, and handle stress effectively
HOW DO WE GET STARTED?
An initial session is offered to provide families with the opportunity to meet the coach. During the initial session we will discuss as a team, with parent and child input, the behavioral and academic strengths and challenges. Parents are dismissed approximately 40 minutes into the session to allow the child and clinician to build rapport, answer questions, and reflect on personal strengths and challenges across settings. This process helps guide goals and activities for future sessions which incorporate parent and child feedback, and the clinician’s expertise.
WHAT IS THE COMMITMENT & INVESTMENT?
After the initial session, EF Coaching sessions are scheduled on a month to month commitment. Some children come weekly, while others utilize this support on a biweekly basis. For example, a child who is struggling with managing deadlines, work completion, organization, task initiation, and study skills may come weekly. Another child who is targeting self-regulation strategies and social skills may come bi-weekly. The family's needs, school schedules, extracurricular activities, additional supports, and the child’s age are taken into account when determining an appropriate level of EF Coaching.
Executive Functioning Coaching is an investment of $145 per 50-minute session. The office is located in Mount Pleasant. Sessions are typically held after school hours; limited daytime appointments are available upon request.