Advanced Coaching Program

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If you answered yes to any of these questions, your child would benefit from working with a Professional Executive Function Coach through HabitCoach’s Advanced Coaching Program.

The Advanced Program is our most intensive program, designed to help older kids and children with ADHD.

What is Executive Function?

Executive Function is the set of thinking skills that help people get things done. For kids struggling with school or acting out at home, weak Executive Function skills are often the cause. Executive Functions include the following 10 skills:

1. Task Initiation – A child with procrastination issues may struggle getting started on homework.
2. Focus and Follow-Through – Even if a child can get started on a task, such as setting the table, they may become easily distracted by a sibling, a noise, or a reminder on their phone and may not be able to finish the task.
3. Organization – Kids have all sorts of challenges with organization. They may do their homework but forget to turn it in. Their rooms may be so messy that they can’t find anything. Or their texts, emails, and documents on their computer may have no sense of organization.
4. Prioritization and Planning – Children who struggle with planning often find themselves rushing to complete tasks at the last minute. If they struggle with prioritization, they may make poor choices about what to do first.
5. Response Inhibition – Kids who are impulsive cannot inhibit their responses. They fly off the handle at a moment’s notice or say or text something they later regret.
6. Working Memory – If a parent gives a child a string of instructions and the child can only get one or two of them done, it may be because the child forgets one of the steps due to weak working memory.
7. Time Management – Kids with Executive Function challenges can be “time blind” and leave 10 minutes to do their homework when it really takes 30 minutes.
8. Mental Flexibility  – If a child hears a parent trying to get them to do a task, such as setting the table, but they are deeply engrossed in their own task, like playing a video game, they need to develop sufficient mental flexibility to help them switch off from one task to another.
9. Emotional Control  – A child with poor emotional control may become angry at their parent when asked to perform a reasonable, common task, such as setting the table.
10. Self-Awareness – Self-awareness is an advanced skill for many kids, but a skill that is mandatory for them to self-reflect and improve their school performance and social behavior.

The Advanced Coaching Program helps kids learn to play to their strengths and find improvements and workarounds for their Executive Function weaknesses. This is the key to improvement in academics, behavior, and ADHD symptoms.

Not sure about your child’s Executive Function strengths and weaknesses? Have your child take a Free Executive Function Assessment.

How will HabitCoach’s Advanced Coaching Program Help My Child?

(Packages starting at less than $125/week)

Research shows that it is crucial for a child to develop healthy habits while their brain is still developing, up to the age of 25. The HabitCoach Advanced Coaching Program is an excellent way for your child to develop essential Executive Function skills, including starting tasks, organization, time management, and social and emotional skills. Working with a Professional Executive Function Coach in HabitCoach’s Advanced Coaching Program will help  your child in the following areas:

1.  Academics

Many research studies show that strong Executive Function is the key to academic success. Strong Executive Function skills give kids the ability to manage everyday academic demands—helping them concentrate, retain information, stay on top of tasks, and maintain structure. When these mental skills are underdeveloped, even the smartest students can struggle to meet their potential. Below are four foundational abilities that play a critical role in school success:

Working Memory
Working memory enables children to hold and manipulate information in real-time. Whether it’s remembering instructions during a class activity or applying steps in a math equation, this skill is essential for learning. When it’s weak, kids may lose track of instructions or forget recently taught concepts before they can use them.

Planning and Prioritizing
Academic tasks require students to identify goals, outline steps, and figure out what to do first. Children who have difficulty with planning often feel overwhelmed, unsure how to start a project, or choose which assignments deserve attention first.

Organization
A student’s success often hinges on their ability to manage both physical and digital spaces. From keeping track of supplies to organizing notes and assignments, strong organizational habits reduce stress and improve academic performance. Disorganization, on the other hand, can lead to missed deadlines and lost work. Kids with poor organizational skills often have messy rooms, cluttered desks, and unclear thought processes.

Time Management
Knowing how to pace work and stick to a realistic schedule is critical. Kids who struggle with time management may underestimate how long homework will take or leave studying until the last minute—leading to rushed work and avoidable stress.

2.  Behavior

Very often, when a child is struggling with their behavior, the answer lies in underlying Executive Function challenges. If your child does not respond when you are trying to get their attention, it can be maddening, but the real answer lies in understanding what is going on with their brain in these situations:

• Are they hyperfocused on whatever task they are doing and thus unable to process you trying to get their attention?
• Do they have issues with mental flexibility and can’t switch off the task they are doing?
• Do they have procrastination issues, and even though they hear what you are saying, can’t get started on what you need them to do?
• Do they struggle with distraction and start their task, but have problems finishing it?

The professional coaches at HabitCoach are trained to look beneath the surface of behavior issues and help kids understand their brains and how to build skills that will improve their behavior and effectiveness.

3. ADHD Symptoms

If your child has received a diagnosis of ADHD or has some strong ADHD symptoms, even without a diagnosis, you may have learned by now that ADHD is a neurobiological disorder of Executive Function.

Helping kids with ADHD learn to play to their Executive Function strengths and improve their Executive Function weaknesses is the key to long-term life success.

At HabitCoach, when we see children with ADHD, they nearly always have deficits in a range of Executive Functions, not just attention and hyperactivity, but also working memory, organization, procrastination, time management, emotional control, mental flexibility, or self-awareness.

Want to Learn More About the HabitCoach Program?

Schedule a free consultation with one of our Executive Function experts.

What is included in HabitCoach’s Advanced Coaching Program

 1. Assessment

Your child’s program will start with an Executive Function assessment to help guide coaching sessions to both help your child play to their strengths and improve their weaknesses.

2. Weekly One-to-One Session with Your HabitCoach (50-minute sessions)

Your child will meet with their coach once a week for 50 minutes. The HabitCoach Executive Function curriculum is the backbone of these sessions. These lessons teach your child about the underlying issues in building new skills on a wide range of issues and help your child learn new strategies to succeed. Coaches respond specifically to each child’s needs and personalize their work to help your children achieve their goals at home, school, and with social and emotional issues. Your child will set goals with your HabitCoach, and the coach will help your child work towards these goals..

3. Two Weekly Check-ins with an Assistant HabitCoach (15-minute check-ins)

Up to twice a week, your child will have 15-minute check-ins with an assistant coach who will check in on your child’s progress toward their goals.

4. HabitCoach Parent Meeting Once-a-Month (50-minute sessions)

Once a month, you will meet with your child’s coach to learn about the work they have been doing with your child and provide input to your coach. For younger children, this may take place for 5 or 10 minutes after every session.

5. Access to HabitCoach Online Tools

HabitCoach also offers an online platform to help your children accomplish their goals, including the following:

• Habit-Builder Habit Cards – Flexible online goal-setting cards that make each goal very specific, including the action and the cadence of the goal.
• Video and Lesson Library – All subscribers get access to an extensive library of videos, lessons, and articles to help support your child’s growth.

6. Reporting

Parents and their children can choose to grant parents access to coach notes, allowing them to follow the progress of their sessions.

7. Membership in Coach Your Own Child

You will receive membership in the Coach Your Own Child program, which will guide you in knowing what to say and do when real-life challenges present themselves on days and times when your child isn’t receiving coaching from their HabitCoach.

Start Today

If your child is struggling with procrastination, disorganization, emotional outbursts, or underperformance in school despite their intelligence, HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program offers a clear path forward.

By addressing the root cause—Executive Function skill deficits—our structured, evidence-based coaching helps children build the tools they need to succeed academically, improve their behavior, and manage ADHD symptoms.

With personalized support, online tools, and consistent progress check-ins, this program empowers your child to develop lifelong habits that bring out their true potential.

Take the first step toward helping your child move from chaos to calm—schedule your free consultation today.