Maybe you want to get better grades, complete projects on time and without stress, learn not to procrastinate, develop more effective study habits, or understand your needs as a learner.

Or maybe you just want to figure out how to pass calculus and still have time to go out Saturday night.

Whatever else we work on, when we complete our work together, you can also expect to have developed:

• A robust, flexible and reliable toolkit for keeping yourself on track at college - as defined by you.

• A thorough understanding of your own executive function and how it impacts you - at home, at work, and in your relationships. We ground the work in your particular EF strengths, and use them to fortify the areas that don’t come as easily to you.

• A personal, individualized, well-tested set of productivity practices that work for you.

• Better habits, from nourishing yourself to directing your attention to curating your schedule and co-creating healthy relationships.

• Your own self-drawn map of the academic year, semester by semester, which we’ll adjust together as we orient to the shifting demands of your classes, commitments and desires.

• A well-defined and unapologetic set of priorities for your precious time and energy - and functional tools for sticking with them.

• Real clarity about what supports and boosts your productivity, and what drains and undercuts you.

• A better understanding of how to meet the needs of your particular nervous system, sensory processing system, emotional regulation system, and executive function so that you can thrive at college in the ways that you want to.

• A trauma-informed, compassionate and generous way of seeing yourself that will help you to weather any storm.

Each semester, we’ll enjoy:

• Weekly 1:1 coaching sessions by phone, focused on whatever best supports you that week.

• Every week, we’ll use Zoom for part of our session so that you can go into your learning management system and share your screen. This supports you to stay on top of the assignments that are due - now and later.

• A shared Google doc where we summarize our sessions, document your insights, and you choose the action steps you want for yourself this week. Some students use this as a weekly work-planning document. Our coaching notes can be a useful reference for you as you move through the week, the month, and the year. It’s also a nice way to see your own growth over time.

• Learning about your specific executive function profile, to help us identify what skills come easy to you and and what’s harder - so you can build useful micro-skills and habits. This can also help to de-shame some of the struggles you may be facing, and provide a neutral explanation for why certain things are puzzlingly difficult.

• Optional access to CliftonStrengths for Students, a powerful strengths-based assessment that helps you learn about your natural areas of excellence and enthusiasm, and how to apply them at college.

• Visioning and goal-setting (or, if you prefer, daydreaming into possibility). We’ll check in regularly with your “big agenda for coaching” - focusing our attention on what’s most important to you, and how our current work supports those crucial goals.

• Self-paced learning materials, as appropriate, to help you contextualize our work. These are totally optional, but they can be an important asset. They’re a distillation of the unusual things I know about how to thrive at college by addressing the needs of your EF profile, your nervous system, your physical body and your sensory system - and taking a pleasure-centered approach to your academic success. Many students find this component radically helpful, and a source of inspiration and relief.

• Optional weekly Co-Work and Ask Me Anything Office Hours. Drop into our Zoom room and ask about a productivity dilemma, get some quick support, or quietly get some work done while others do the same.

A full academic year

August 15th through May 15th

I recommend coaching together for the full year whenever possible, because that’s the most reliable way to create lasting habits and deeply satisfying results.

In this best-case, year-long scenario, you’ll have my unwavering weekly support of a dedicated coach through the predictable rhythms of the collegiate academic year and the specific developmental challenges you will face.

This calendar includes the entire academic year, plus brief but important “shoulder seasons” of reflection and preparation just before each semester opens and just after they close.

You’ll arrive on campus well-prepared, because we will have already begun meeting before you get there.

During winter break, we deepen your learning with a purposeful process organized into three sections: Digest/Reflect, Rest and Consolidate, and Envision/Prepare.

The investment for a full academic year of steady weekly support (mid-August through mid-May, with two meetings over winter break) is $9,895.

If paying for the whole engagement at once is not the best option for you, payment plans are available. Please see my note below about fees.

For parents/guardians/caregivers:

I’m thrilled that you’re considering hiring a coach for your beloved college student. As a “gifted + ADHDish” human, if I had known back then half of what I know now about executive function, nervous system regulation, sensory processing needs and trauma-informed coaching, my college experience would have been incredibly different - and my memories of it wouldn’t be tinged with so much academic regret.

My GPA could have been a full point higher, my self-regard might not have taken years to rebuild, and my intellectual curiosity could have been fed in ways that I just didn’t know how to do back then.

My lived experience + my rigorous and diverse professional training is a very rare combination, and I offer this unusual and powerful coaching because I know the crucial difference it can make. I know what it’s like to live for many years as a gifted underachiever - cognitively precocious, but a train wreck when it came to organizational skills, time management, project planning and execution.

An academic wellness coach is a major investment in your student’s intellectual, emotional and physical well-being. The right coach and client, working together at the right time on the right skills, can be life-changing. Let’s find out if we’re a combination with that kind of potential.

For students:

I’m so happy that we may get to work together! A coach like me is exactly who I needed back when I was in college, but back then, this kind of coaching didn’t exist.

If you’re feeling certain that this is what you need, or intrigued and hopeful that this sounds like it might help, I am delighted to be able to support you!

On the other hand, if the kinds of things I’m talking about here seem irrelevant to your life, or you just aren’t that interested, I’m probably not the coach for you, and it might not be a good use of our time. And that is ok!

I coach people who feel excited, relieved, curious, and/or hopeful when they hear about what I offer, and are interested enough in their own growth that they’re willing to try some new approaches.

Communication with parents/caregivers about the coaching is primarily the responsibility of the student. Conversations between the coach and the parents/caregivers happens at the student’s discretion, typically with the student present and leading the conversation. This is partly because coaching is maximally effective when it is confidential.

It is also because together, we are supporting the developmental goal of the student becoming fully responsible for their entire academic life, including communications with family about their goals, struggles, and achievements.

Still with me? Excellent! Let’s schedule a clarity call!

On our call, we’ll:

• Make sure we’re talking about the same thing. We’ll get clear about what you want to learn, practice, or develop - and we’ll be sure it’s in my wheelhouse.

• Check for philosophical and energetic alignment.

• Ask ourselves: are we both enjoying our conversation?

• Use gut feeling, intuition, instinct, vibe, and the body compass check. (Don’t know what this is? No problem. I can teach you.)

By the end of the call, we’ll know whether it’s a preliminary match, and we’ll know what conversations need to happen next. If you’re the parent/caregiver, we’ll schedule a call with the student; if you’re the student, and we need to schedule a call with someone else who will be funding your coaching, we’ll do so.

And then, because I believe in moving at the pace of a well-regulated nervous system, sometimes we’ll take an additional 24 hours to let the calls sink in before we make a final decision about whether and how we want to work together.

Then, if it feels like an amazing fit to everyone, we’ll set everything up and begin!