We clarify the issues that sidetrack your hopes and dreams and tease apart your wiring to reframe the challenges of learning and doing life. We meet, discuss, hash it out and ultimately collaborate to facilitate your learning, unlock your potential and enhance your brilliance.
We work to move you closer to your life and academic goals. Regular weekly meet-ups (via Zoom or at my Office) are collaborations where we get to the root of the learning, motivation and emotional issues that get in your way—from distraction to procrastination to organization. We’ll close the gaps in your performance and unlock your potential. By moving away from the pain of discouragement, you’ll have improved motivation, greater efficiency and useful habits for academic success and beyond.
I found a mentor who wasn’t shy to test and challenged my thinking, ushering forth the real meaning behind my never ending manufacturing of ideas. It can be easy to get lost in my mind palace! You have the patience and roadmap figured out.
The essence of coaching, therapy or mentoring is to form a mediated relationship focused on specific outcomes that improve life. The process can sometimes seem ambiguous. But, we mediate for everything in life: knowledge, grades, a better job or relationships, inner peace, spiritual knowledge or learning how to dance. It’s not always an easy go, but we get there eventually.
Each teacher/mentor/therapist facilitates the process of change and development. Every issue is mediated, modified and resolved. Change happens and unlocks potential. When we learn to do things which were elusive and implement new found techniques, they enhance our natural brilliance — our essential self.
How do we respond to ourselves and the situations we face? Sometimes, we lash out, become anxious or isolate ourselves. Yuck!! But, when we unravel the Gordian knots of our existence we temper our self and become resilient. This is how we develop our grit, our strength, our mettle.
I take you and the challenges you face seriously. I'm old school. You hire me and I am your minion, so to speak. What distinguishes me as an Educational Therapist and Coach? I’ve been around the block a few (hundred) times with students and adults. I am practical and persistent!
We connect for a purpose and I try to understand YOU and help YOU to meet your requirements. Modern life has its own executive function requirements and not everyone can cope with them effectively. I am old school. Despite the infinite amount of apps which hack our thinking and habits, we can flounder and be ineffective. That stings!
I support my clients in many ways; from affirmation to qualified critiques to outright praise. A pragmatic approach supports you in everything you want to accomplish. Now and in the future. I’m there for you.
We collaborate in a hands-on, nuts and bolts approach to understand the curriculum and the intention of instructors.
Every academic task from writing essays to managing the tsunami of tasks requires time management and an awareness of effort. We address the weak areas of executive functioning in a pragmatic experienced and informed way.
Our goal is to put you in charge of your work, remove avoidance and reward output.
Building on your past academic experiences to focus on content and career, we’ll better understand changes to be made. We implement a pragmatic, structured method to minimize stress and maximize your clarity about assignments, rubrics and time management. Equally important is a sense of confidence and self worth as a student.
Success in college is a liminal state where you consciously transition into an adult life.
Coaching is a nuanced relationship—part life skills, part therapy, part change agent. Making that change is about clarifying your vision, following through on your efforts and trusting oneself. Neurodiverse people are unique, intelligent, clever and cool. Adults I coach are looking for a fit—into a new job or circumstance. We are the proverbial square pegs; always making extraordinary effort. We need workarounds to find satisfaction.
Understanding our experiences leads to solutions.
He helped me realize that learning is a fluid process, and study skills are transferrable across subjects. He took the time to understand my learning style.
Terry taught me a great deal about who I am and how to learn on my own. I really enjoyed working with him.
“When I was unsuccessful getting into medical school, he sent out e-mails and text messages regularly to cheer me up and encourage me to move forward with life”.
Like the tax man, I follow up on your progress and work with a text/email or phone check-in on a weekly basis. For high school students, this is generally a curriculum/assignment review, an editorial collaboration or a reminder about deliverables. I shadow your Canvas/Schoology portal to understand the nature of your assignments. I provide you with handouts that clarify theory and skills building. I can be warm and fuzzy, cute and cajoling or direct.
We recalibrate your how-NOT to-get it done patterns, so you can take satisfaction from your efforts and move forward. Deep collaboration creates significant changes in your academic or professional life.
You say '“təˈmeɪtəʊ”, I say “təˈmɑːtəʊ”. You say “pəˈteɪ.t̬oʊ”, I say “pəˈteɪ.təʊ”. You say neuro-divergent, I say neuro-brilliant.
Learning issues are related to the demands of curriculum and our habits. They change when we understand our thoughts, skills and talents--and when we're willing to work around our current disposition. When we cannot be systematic, lack confidence or have weak skills, we get confused. We get a label! Potay-toe, tomah-toe, divergent, typical. Labels work to put a name on a constellation of behaviors, but they're not the whole territory of you. They're just sampling of your current geography.
Good coaching helps you acquire a new awareness of yourself; replacing inefficient and imprecise perspectives about learning with better practices. The outcome is positivity and progress. Everyone has a unique mindset. I provide a place to hash out useful strategies for improvement.
We must learn how to coordinate our impressive skills and talents and implement pragmatic executive actions. The challenge is to understand time, effort and motivation to improve outcomes. We build a relationship together so I better understand the pressures you're under. Good coaching gives you a clear vision for yourself! You'll gain the persistance to answer any question about yourself, too. And most importantly; you'll come to trust yourself.
We must learn how to coordinate our impressive skills and talents and implement pragmatic executive actions. The challenge is to understand time, effort and motivation. When people are stressed, I work hard to build a relationship with them, to understand the pressures they are under and then, to solve the problem. Understanding how to clarify your vision, to persist and to strategize your time will lead you to trust yourself. That is one outcome of good coaching.
To begin, you sign up for a free, 20 minute phone consultation right here. This is where you’ll be able to elaborate on the story you gave me when you first signed up. If there’s a good fit, then we move on to the next step!
The second meeting is not a clinical interview; more of a coffee chat, sans coffee. Here is where the client and I chat about whatever strikes our fancy to establish a connection. The goal is to connect and to explain the process with an eye on understanding their exact needs. This meeting works better if done in person, but if that’s not possible it can be done through Zoom.
If there is a connection, the student hires me and then there are forms to complete. One for guardians outlining business practices and charges, and another for the student to indicate their concerns and issues.
Then, we map out a basic framework to move forward. I provide structured and timely feedback to clients, handouts and follow up. Weekly, bi-weekly and Zoom sessions are available.
