Executive Function Coaching
If you’re considering coaching, please read this page before booking your discovery call to ensure it’s the right fit.
Ongoing guidance for building skills that support daily life
Coaching is practical, collaborative, and rooted in real life. Sessions explore current challenges, points of friction, and the strengths and interests that already bring energy and momentum. We look closely at what is working and build from there. The focus is on strengthening supportive systems, not replacing them, so overwhelm decreases and confidence grows steadily over time.
Coaching may support:
Learning and academic demands
Daily routines and systems at home
Self-directed action toward goals
Transitions and changing expectations
Emotional regulation and stress management
Responsibility, independence, growth
Support is adapted to the individual and will include direct coaching, caregiver involvement (if applicable), or a combination of both.
Relationship First
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Skills That Transfer
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Individualized and Adaptive
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Consistency Creates Change
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Relationship First · Skills That Transfer · Individualized and Adaptive · Consistency Creates Change ·
The Focus of Coaching
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Regulation & Resilience
Strengthening the ability to stay steady under stress and recover after challenges, while also building boredom tolerance, resilience, and the capacity to delay gratification. Coaching supports emotional regulation, frustration tolerance, and the development of reliable reset strategies that students can use in real life when tasks feel repetitive, uncomfortable, or demanding.
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Expanded Awareness & Perspective
Building awareness of internal experiences, patterns, and needs, while also strengthening situational and social awareness. Coaching helps individuals notice body cues, internal dialogue, energy levels, triggers, and the environment around them so they can read the room, take perspective, and respond with intention rather than reaction in a world filled with constant distraction.
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Planning & Follow-Through
Supporting the skills needed to move from intention to action. Coaching focuses on breaking tasks into manageable steps, strengthening time awareness, and building practical systems that promote consistency and completion. We partner with both home and school to ensure these strategies are reinforced across environments, helping students apply skills reliably wherever they are.
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Flexibility & Problem-Solving
Developing the capacity to adapt when plans change or expectations shift. Coaching strengthens cognitive flexibility, the ability to shift perspective, consider alternative solutions, tolerate ambiguity, and move from rigid thinking into problem solving. Students learn how to generate options, pivot when something is not working, and adjust expectations without shutting down. This builds resilience, confidence, and greater ease when navigating uncertainty at home, in school, and in social settings.
How coaching works
Our coaching is not a rigid curriculum you move through step by step. It is individualized and built around who the person actually is, how their brain works, and what they need right now to move forward. We do not teach strategies in isolation. We work in real contexts so skills can be used where they matter most.
For students under 18, parent involvement is essential. Skills do not stick without reinforcement in the natural environment. Unless a student is over 18, we rarely begin coaching without integrating parent training during at least the first three months. The habits and systems we build must carry over into home and school, and parents are active partners in that process.
During the early phase of coaching, we focus intentionally on building trust.
The coaching relationship forms the foundation for honest reflection, meaningful goal setting, and the confidence to take on challenges. As we get to know the student, we learn how they respond to stress, what motivates them, where they tend to get stuck, and how they learn best. That insight strengthens parent support because strategies are not generic. They are specific, timely, and aligned with the individual.
Beyond this foundation period, most students are prepared to gradually fade from coaching within eight to twelve months of consistent work. Progress depends on several variables, including motivation, self awareness, the scope of goals, and how long executive functioning challenges have been present. A highly motivated but disorganized student may only need a few months to learn, practice, and internalize new systems that allow them to manage life more independently.
Goals in Executive Function Coaching can include any or all of the following:
Understanding how their brain works and how emotions impact learning and performance
Strengthening focus and attention during tasks
Creating personalized systems to organize materials and manage workspace
Breaking large projects into manageable steps and planning them effectively
Using technology intentionally to support efficiency, including managing distractions
Identifying personal interests and motivation drivers to increase engagement
Building strategies to regulate big emotions so they do not derail progress
Improving task initiation and follow through
Developing clear systems for managing writing assignments
Reflecting on progress and adjusting strategies as needed
Strengthening study skills and test preparation
Learning how to advocate for support with teachers and adults
This work is relational, practical, and grounded in real life. Skills are built through repetition, collaboration, and consistent application across environments, so they last beyond coaching.
Who coaching is for?
Executive Function Coaching may be a good fit for individuals who feel like daily tasks take more effort than they should, routines don’t stick, overwhelm builds quickly under stress, transitions feel disruptive, follow through is inconsistent despite genuine effort, or independence feels difficult to maintain.
Coaching is designed for those who are ready to look at patterns, build new skills, and practice them consistently. This work requires commitment. Change does not happen from insight alone. It comes from repetition, reflection, and applying strategies between sessions in real life.
Coaching may involve direct work with an individual, structured support for caregivers, or a combination of both depending on needs and goals. For students, caregiver involvement is often essential to ensure skills are reinforced across environments. Consistency, collaboration, and follow through outside of sessions are what allow progress to last.
Our Program Includes:
Coaching can include four 45-60 minute or eight 30 minute sessions per month
Two weekly check-ins and unlimited messaging support in between
Confidential, no judgment, targeted, personalized support and strategies
Access to client notes and all resources
What makes our approach different
This coaching approach is grounded in connection, compassion, and practicality.
Rather than focusing on outcomes alone, coaching emphasizes:
Understanding how executive functioning shows up in real life
Building skills gradually and sustainably
Reducing shame and pressure
Creating systems that work with the individual, not against them
What progress looks like
Progress looks practical and observable over time.
Reduced need for prompting, reminding, and external oversight from parents or teachers.
Increased ability to start and complete tasks independently, including non preferred or effortful work.
Stronger follow through on goals with less avoidance and shutdown.
More consistent use of systems without someone else holding it together.
We measure growth by what changes in daily life. Clearer thinking. Greater confidence. Increased capacity to manage responsibilities with less friction and more self directed action over time.
COACHING TESTIMONIALS
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Nicole Rouleau has helped me emotionally grow as an individual and helped me strengthen my grades. She taught me how to plan you plan and prioritize. At first I didn’t know how to regulate my emotions, but she was always there to help me. Nicole Rouleau supported me in academics and emotional/social things. She is my mentor and a role model. I can’t begin to explain everything that she has helped me accomplish, but to name one big one… it’s how to regulate in the real world. She cares so much about people...Nicole is incredibly motivational.
— Jay, 19, College Student
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We are thrilled with our son's progress and success this year working with you - his confidence is stronger than ever and he is happy and well acclimated in many new ways. Priceless ……. He adores and respects you very much!!!! He is always so happy to have your time and support and no longer is relying on us !!!
— Mother of a College Student
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Nicole has gone above and beyond to help our son get organized, college ready and stay on track. Unfortunately, none of the techniques or methods she uses are a part of our nationally ranked public school. The training she offers has been so worth it.
— Mother of a 12th Grade Student
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I just got my own first studio apartment at college. I want to thank Nicole for all the hard work teaching me to never give up and appreciate all the advice given to me. Grateful for all the motivating moments and lessons. I am so blessed to be taught by an amazing mentor.
— Conner, 19, College Student
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Nicole, since the day I met her has always helped me not only understand how my mind works, but to use strategies to help the way my mind is designed. This helped my confidence and she has shown me "it is possible" and "there is always a solution to a problem." I continue to use the strategies she taught me everyday and cannot thank her enough.
— Amber, 19, Cosmetology Student
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Back when I first started meeting with Nicole, I was a total recluse that barely left my room or did anything for myself. Now I am going back to school, got my driver's permit, and I'm improving my basic functioning thanks to her guidance and support. Her work is extremely helpful.
— Katelyn, 20
LET’S GET STARTED
Coaching format and structure
Coaching packages are offered in structured formats to provide continuity and momentum. Details related to session length, frequency, and duration are discussed during an initial conversation to ensure the right fit.
Coaching may be offered virtually or in person, depending on availability and needs.
Your Investment
Pricing is individualized and determined during the initial discovery call, based on the type of support, frequency, and duration that feel most appropriate.
To help make services accessible, payment plans, sliding scale programs, and discounts are available whenever possible.
For families seeking reimbursement through school districts, we can provide a detailed statement that includes dates of services and payments received.
Some clients have also used College 529 accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) or Health Savings Accounts (HSA) to help cover services. We recommend checking with your plan administrator to confirm eligibility.
Looking for a Simpler Starting Point?
If you are not ready for ongoing one to one coaching, you can start with a lower commitment option.
Strategy Sessions
A focused consultation designed to address one specific challenge. We clarify what is not working, identify what needs to shift, and create a practical plan you can use immediately.
You leave with concrete strategies and clear next steps. No long term commitment. Just targeted support and expert guidance to help you move forward.