Executive Function and ADHD Coaching
The Executive Function Framework
Guiding adolescents, college students, adults, and parents to build practical skills and personalized systems that support follow-through, reduce overwhelm, and create more ease in everyday life. Together, we’ll work with your brain – not against it – to build a life that feels more manageable and sustainable, with more space for what matters most to you.
You don’t need more willpower, better intentions, or another planner collecting dust. If simply trying harder solved executive function challenges, you probably wouldn’t be here.
You might be a good candidate for coaching if any of these sounds familiar:
- You are smart, capable, and motivated, but struggle to get started, stay consistent, or follow through on the things that matter to you.
- You know what needs to get done but feel stuck getting started.
- You feel overwhelmed by competing priorities, deadlines, decisions, or the ongoing demands of everyday life.
- You are constantly juggling reminders, unfinished tasks, and responsibilities.
- Getting through everyday routines and transitions can feel harder than it should—for you, your child, or your family as a whole.
- You struggle with emotional regulation, communication, or decision-making in ways that affect your daily life or relationships.
- You have difficulty shifting away from tasks when you become deeply focused on them.
- You are a student—or parent of a student—feeling overwhelmed by increasing academic, organizational, or life demands.
- Your child can focus for hours on something they love but struggles to begin or complete less-preferred tasks.
- You are hard on yourself because you think you “should” be able to do this already.
- You feel burned out from the effort of keeping up with everyday responsibilities.
- You want life to feel easier, more peaceful, and more sustainable, and you’re ready to build systems that support that.
If any of these apply to you, you’re not alone. And you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.
ADHD & Executive Function Coaching
Build systems that work with your brain—not against it.
Your brain isn’t broken.
It may be creative, curious, insightful, passionate, adaptable, and full of ideas.
It may also lose track of time, struggle to get started, forget important details, avoid boring tasks, become overwhelmed by simple responsibilities, or know exactly what needs to be done but still have trouble doing it.
Both can be true.
Executive function is the set of cognitive skills that help us plan, organize, manage emotions, prioritize, remember, adapt, and follow through. When these skills are challenged, everyday life can feel harder than it should.
The good news? Executive function skills and systems can be built.
Whether you’re an adult feeling overwhelmed, a teen trying to find your footing, a young adult navigating a significant life transition, or a parent supporting a child while managing your own responsibilities, coaching can help you better understand how your brain works, identify your strengths, and build practical systems that fit your life.
Because lasting change doesn’t come from trying harder.
It comes from learning how to work with the brain you have.
And life gets a whole lot easier when you stop fighting your brain and start learning its language.
What Is Executive Function?
Executive function is the collection of cognitive skills that help us plan, prioritize, regulate emotions, manage time, shift gears, remember what matters, and follow through – even when life gets busy, stressful, or unpredictable. It’s the bridge between intention and action.
Think of executive function as your brain’s air traffic control system.
The planes are your ideas, talents, goals, responsibilities, and dreams. Executive function is the network behind the scenes that keeps everything moving safely and efficiently: radar, communication systems, scheduling, coordination, and decision-making that help flights take off, land, and stay on course.
When that system becomes overloaded, stressed, unsupported, or is designed to operate a little differently, even a smart, capable, highly motivated pilot can struggle with things that seem easy for others.
Executive function isn’t one skill.
It’s an interconnected system – a dynamic set of mental processes that help you manage your life, your emotions, your goals, and your relationships.
Executive Function Challenges Are More Common Than You Think
Executive function challenges are often associated with ADHD, but they can also arise with anxiety, depression, learning differences, autism, other forms of neurodivergence, chronic stress, burnout, poor sleep, major life transitions, or simply because no one ever taught you how to apply these skills.
Most people experience executive function challenges at some point in their lives. The question isn’t whether they show up, but how often, how intensely, and how much they interfere with daily life.
For many people, learning about executive function brings a surprising mix of relief, grief, and shame.
Relief because there may finally be an explanation for struggles that never seemed to make sense.
Grief because you wonder how things might have been different if you had understood your brain sooner.
And shame – for missed deadlines, forgotten birthdays, unfinished projects, emotional reactions, challenges at work, cluttered spaces, or years spent believing you were lazy, irresponsible, unmotivated, or simply “not trying hard enough.”
Understanding executive function changes the conversation. Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?” You can begin asking, “What helps me thrive?”
You don’t need to try harder. You need a framework that allows you to follow-through.
ADHD & Executive Function Coaching
The Executive Function Framework isn’t MY framework.
It’s yours.
Because the goal isn’t to squeeze yourself into someone else’s planner, productivity system, or idea of success.
Together, we’ll build a personalized framework for planning, prioritizing, initiating, organizing, and following through – one that feels sustainable, flexible, and uniquely your own.
Building new habits takes practice, support, and consistency. And you’re not expected to figure it all out on your own. Between our sessions, I’ll provide personalized check-ins and ongoing communication throughout the week. We’ll celebrate wins, navigate setbacks, and adjust strategies so you can continue moving forward with confidence.
Building your framework happens in three main stages:
- Understand: Learn what drives your challenges and strengths
- Implement: Practice tailored tools, strategies, and systems with built-in accountability
- Sustain: Build momentum and consistency as systems become habits, while accountability moves from externally scaffolded to deep self-trust
Building practical systems for real life and real brains.
How Coaching Works
Coaching isn’t about fixing you.
You are not broken.
It’s about helping you understand your unique brain, build practical skills, and discover the strengths and superpowers that may have been hidden beneath years of stress, overwhelm, or self-doubt.
Together, we will:
- Understand your brain and identify patterns that are helping—or holding you back.
- Reduce shame and replace self-blame with self-understanding.
- Build practical systems and routines that fit your real life and work with your brain.
- Practice these skills consistently with coaching support, accountability, and encouragement between sessions.
- Strengthen independence so that confidence, consistency, and self-trust become sustainable long after coaching ends.
Frameworks of Support
Growth isn’t linear.
Some seasons call for deeper support and accountability. Others call for maintenance, momentum, or a place to reconnect and refocus.
The Executive Function Framework offers several ways to work together, each designed to meet you where you are and help you build confidence, independence, and self-trust.
Foundations Framework
(1:1 Coaching Program)
Deep, individualized executive function coaching
- 12 individual coaching sessions
- Weekly or bi-weekly 50-minute sessions
- Between-session accountability and messaging support
- Personalized strategies tailored to your brain, goals, and season of life
- Practical tools, resources, and follow-up notes for real-world application
Best For: Individuals seeking completely personalized support to strengthen executive functioning skills, identify their biggest barriers, and capitalize on their superpowers.
$380/month (for 3 months)
Focus Collective
(8-Week Group Coaching Framework)
Structured small-group coaching experience (3–6 participants)
- 8-week structured group coaching
- Weekly 60-minute live group
- 45-minute individual Intake session
- Personal goals integrated into the group structure
- Responsive, skills-based coaching within a shared group experience
- Between-session messaging support and accountability check-ins
Best for: structured support, social accountability, and community learning
$300/month (for 2 months)
Flexible Framework
(Maintenance & Momentum)
Ongoing coaching for clients who have completed the Foundations and/or Focus Collective frameworks
- Individual 50-minute sessions scheduled weekly or as needed
- For clients who have completed Foundations or Focus Collective
- As-needed support for maintenance, transitions, and troubleshooting
- Light structure with continued accountability support
- Focus on sustaining progress and refining systems over time
Best for: continued support and real-life application after core programs
$100/session
EFF Lab
(Execution & Body Doubling)
Weekly focus and accountability support
- 4 weekly 45-minute body doubling sessions per month
- Structured work blocks for task initiation and follow-through
- Community-based execution support
- Available as an add-on to Foundations and Focus Collective
- Designed to bridge insight → action → consistency
$40/month
Meet Coach Adri
I’m an Executive Function and ADHD Coach with a background in Marriage and Family Therapy, and I’m endlessly fascinated by how people think, learn, adapt, and navigate everyday life. I work with adults, teens, and parents who are ready to move beyond self-criticism, understand their patterns, and build systems that work with their brains – not against them.
My path into executive function coaching wasn’t a straight line. Before coaching and clinical training, I spent more than 25 years as a private piano instructor and performer. Working one-on-one with students of all ages gave me a front-row seat to the many ways people learn, organize, focus, solve problems, manage frustration, and recover from mistakes. Long before I had the language for executive function, I was already studying how it showed up in everyday life.
Later, through my clinical training and work with individuals, couples, and families, I saw those same patterns emerge across relationships, school, work, parenting, and daily life. What became clear was that many people had insight – or even a diagnosis – but still lacked practical strategies for navigating real-world challenges. Executive function coaching became the missing piece: the bridge between understanding how your brain works and creating lasting change.
My approach is structured, evidence-informed, and individualized. Together, we’ll get curious about what’s helping, what’s getting in the way, and build practical strategies that fit your unique strengths, needs, and everyday life.
Like everyone else, I’m living inside the same beautifully messy human experience that I help my clients make sense of. Outside of coaching, I’m a parent of six whose family has experienced homeschooling, traditional schooling, and worldschooling – experiences that continue to shape how I think about learning, structure, and flexibility. I enjoy lifting weights, hiking, traveling, playing piano, cooking, yoga, spending time outdoors, and family movie nights.
Credentials & Training
- Board Certified Executive Function & ADHD Coach (NBEFC)
- M.S., Marriage and Family Therapy
- Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate (MFTC), Colorado
- B.M., Piano Performance