Parent coaching at Level-Up Life teaches you how to support your student's executive functioning skills at home: what to reinforce, what to stop doing for them, and how to hand a task back without becoming the enforcer. It's coaching for you, running alongside your student's.
$150 per hour · Packages from $135 per hour · No contracts
Parent coaching is research-informed, professionally supervised coaching that teaches you to support your student's executive functioning skills at home. It is not family therapy.
Every engagement is supervised by our team of directors, including Ryan Roberts, CMHC and Clinical Director.
When your student is already enrolled, parent hours most often draw from their existing package.
This is for the parent of a student with ADHD or executive functioning challenges, usually the one who has been the reminder system: the calendar, the alarm clock, the homework check. You want those systems to belong to your student. It's usually the right fit when:
You've been managing your student's schoolwork for a while, and you suspect that helping more is quietly making things worse.
Reminding or stepping in yourself is the only thing that reliably moves a task forward at home.
Your student is in coaching, or stepping down from a residential program, and you're unsure what your role at home should be.
You want repeatable language for the school and homework conversations, so the skill sticks instead of the argument.
If your student is already in executive functioning coaching, ADHD coaching, or treatment transition coaching, parent coaching is how families carry that skill work home. It also stands on its own. It isn't the right fit for acute clinical needs or active custody litigation; for those we point you toward Komi Counseling and Psychology, a separate clinical practice in the same building.
Parent coaching is structured, one-on-one coaching that teaches a parent how to support a student's executive functioning at home. Sessions cover three things: how ADHD and executive functioning actually work, the communication that holds up in the conversations you have every week, and how to reinforce your student's coaching without becoming the one who enforces it.
This is coaching, not family therapy. We're not diagnosing your student or processing family-of-origin material. We're teaching you a skill set, the same way our coaches teach one to your student. Every engagement is supervised by our team of directors, including Ryan Roberts, our CEO and Clinical Director, who holds a Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC) license. When a family's needs go beyond coaching, we refer to Komi Counseling and Psychology, a separate clinical practice in the same building.
Parent coaching sessions run 60 minutes, happen remotely, and are scheduled as often as you want or need. Each session starts with a real resistance point you bring in, and we work it using our Assess, Interpret, Troubleshoot, Teach and Repeat method, covering some version of these four:
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We rebuild it together: what you were trying to get your student to do, what they actually heard, and what to do differently. You leave with a repeatable approach, not a script.
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We name which skill is actually breaking down, whether that's task initiation, time estimation, or working memory, and what the homework standoff says about it.
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You leave with concrete phrasing: how to set an expectation without becoming the enforcer, how to prompt a next step instead of doing it, how to name what you see without lecturing.
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Almost every parent arrives with the same question: how do I help without taking over? We work the line between scaffolding a skill and doing it for them, and when to pull a support back.
These are the shifts parents tell us about, and each one starts with something the parent is now doing differently.
You prompt once instead of managing the whole assignment, and your student carries more of the sequence themselves. The homework standoff cools, and the midnight grade-portal check loses its grip.
You reach for a prompt that builds the skill instead of one that ends the argument, and it comes faster than the old one used to. Your student answers questions about school again.
You can tell which supports are still teaching something and which ones are only holding the system up, so you retire the second kind on purpose. Most parents notice their own week getting lighter.
When your student is already a Level-Up Life client, parent coaching runs alongside their coaching, openly and with their awareness, so the same skills get reinforced at home.
Your student's coach and your parent coach work from the same plan, with your student's full awareness. Provided your child is a minor or has signed a Release of Information (ROI), the skill they practice in session is the skill you reinforce at home.
Many families draw their parent coaching hours from the student's existing package, which keeps the parent work bundled rather than billed separately.
Even if your student isn't enrolled in our programs, parent coaching is fully available as a standalone service.
Parent coaching is $150 per hour for standalone sessions. Two package options bring the per-hour rate down:
When your student is already enrolled in executive functioning, ADHD, or treatment transition coaching, your parent sessions most often draw from their existing package hours. There are no contracts at any price point, and sessions never expire. Our pricing page shows how this rate fits alongside our other programs.
Insurance companies haven't deemed coaching medically necessary, so we can't bill insurance, and parent coaching is out of pocket only. We're not clinicians, so we don't provide insurance documentation.
6-session package
$810 ($135 per hour, 10% off)
10-session package
$1,350 ($135 per hour, 10% off)
Ryan is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor with over a decade of experience helping struggling students. He built Level-Up Life around a single conviction: academic success is a byproduct of daily habits, and the work that produces it lives outside the textbook. He co-directs the research lab that informs the program, teaches at the university level, and leads the director team that supervises every coaching engagement.
Serena directs the Executive Functioning Coaching program at Level-Up Life and brings a research-active perspective from her current EdD work in Learning and Teaching in Social Contexts. Her educational background includes a Master’s in Individualized Psychology and a Master’s in Education, grounding her practice in children’s learning and development, child and adolescent developmental psychology, and instructional design. Conversational in ASL, she is currently conducting research in Animal-Assisted Education and believes every learner deserves an equitable educational experience that cultivates curiosity.
Yes. Standalone parent coaching is $150 per hour, with 6- and 10-session packages available. Some parents start on their own and enroll their student later; others use parent coaching entirely on their own.
As often as you want or need. There's no required cadence. Weekly works when you're building a skill quickly or stabilizing a routine; monthly fits maintenance; some parents come in only when something specific comes up. You set the pace.
Parent coaching focuses on your skills, so it works whether or not your student wants the two connected. If you'd both rather keep the spaces separate, we can. You still get the tools to support the skills at home.
No. Parent coaching builds practical skills for supporting your student's executive functioning at home, like a homework routine that runs without a standoff. Family therapy addresses clinical mental health dynamics through a therapeutic relationship with licensed clinicians. For clinical care we refer to Komi Counseling and Psychology.
Yes. The "parent" in parent coaching is really shorthand for whichever adult is most actively engaged in the student's daily life. Stepparents, grandparents raising a grandchild, and adult siblings in caregiving roles all fit. The work is about the household, not the legal relationship.
A first conversation is a 15- to 30-minute phone call. We listen to what’s going on at home and give you an honest read on whether parent coaching is the right fit, whether that’s parent coaching on its own, alongside a program for your student, or starting with our free monthly workshops. If you’re still weighing options, For Parents walks through each one.
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Email: support@level-uplife.com
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