Executive functioning coaching builds the skills the brain uses to start a task, stay with it, and keep track of what's due Friday. At Level-Up Life it's a professionally supervised program for students and young adults, built around the student's real week rather than a generic intake form.
$150 per hour · Public pricing · No contracts, ever
Executive functioning coaching is skill-building, not tutoring and not therapy. It builds the underlying capacities that decide whether either will land.
Every coaching relationship is supervised by Ryan Roberts, CMHC and Clinical Director.
The method is one repeating loop: Assess, Interpret, Troubleshoot, Teach and Repeat.
Students who follow the coaching plan hit about 60% of their weekly goals.
This is for the parent of a bright student or young adult who knows what they need to do and still can't seem to make themselves do it. Your son or daughter isn't lazy and isn't short on intelligence; the skills that turn intention into action just haven't come online yet. Executive functioning coaching builds those skills directly. It's usually a good fit when:
Your son or daughter wants to do the work but can't get started, and can't explain why.
The week looks manageable on Sunday and has fallen apart by Wednesday, no matter how many planners or apps they've tried.
They're in college or early adulthood, where the outside structure that used to carry them has dropped away and self-management has become the real job.
There's an ADHD diagnosis or a related profile in the mix (anxiety, depression, autism, a learning difference) that's tangled up in the executive functioning machinery.
Coaching works best when your young adult is clinically stable, or getting care in parallel, and willing to engage with the day-to-day work. It isn't the right fit if your son or daughter is in crisis, is younger than 8, or has untreated clinical needs that should come first. In that case we'll point you toward a separate clinical practice in the same building, Komi Counseling and Psychology, before coaching begins.
Executive functioning is the set of mental skills that decide whether a task gets started, stayed with, and finished on time: task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and self-monitoring. Coaching builds those skills directly. At Level-Up Life it's a structured, professionally supervised program for students and young adults, with a coach working alongside the student week to week and every case supervised by Ryan Roberts, CMHC and Clinical Director.
The work is skill-building, and we keep adjusting it until the student can run the troubleshooting process on their own. It isn't tutoring, which teaches the subject matter, and it isn't therapy, which works the mental-health layer underneath. Most of the students we see have ADHD, anxiety, depression, autism, a learning difference, or some combination of those. If you want the underlying concepts in plain language, What Is Executive Functioning? lays them out.
Every student moves through the same four-step loop, and once one problem is solved, the loop starts over on the next one.
Most students work with us two sessions per week, 60 minutes each, for about six months. There's no contract, so families stay as long as the coaching is helping and step away once the student can carry the process independently. Sessions are remote by default, in-person is available at our in-person coaching in Provo, Utah office, and you're welcome to mix the two.
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Before anyone hands the student a strategy, we look at what a real Tuesday afternoon actually looks like.
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We read the patterns, find the points where things keep getting stuck, and form testable theories about why. Most programs skip this step, which is exactly why their generic plans fall apart so fast.
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We work the specific problem in front of us, testing and adjusting as we learn, and loop in the clinical team whenever a case calls for it.
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The student practices the skill in session, works it between sessions, and reviews it at the next one. We track progress, and the cycle repeats until the student can run the loop alone.
here’s what we can typically expect in which most students and parents tell us things shift:
Getting started stops feeling so brutal, and the student begins showing up with the week already mapped out.
The change goes habit-deep. A strategy that used to take prompting becomes something the student reaches for on their own.
The troubleshooting process moves from coach to student, and by around six months most students are running the work themselves.
All of our programs share the same coach pool, the same method, and the same clinical supervision. What changes from one to the next is the entry point, and how students move between them.
ADHD coaching is the same work, approached from the diagnosis. Start there if your son or daughter says "I have ADHD and the name didn't fix anything"; start here if it's "I can't get myself to do the thing I actually want to do."
Many students roll into EF coaching across a 12-to-18-month treatment transition coaching engagement once the broader independent-living pieces have stabilized.
Parent coaching is layered alongside the student's work when the household dynamic is part of what keeps the skills from sticking. Those hours often draw from the student's package.
Health and wellness coaching is a parallel track for when sleep, nutrition, or movement turn into the real points of resistance.
Executive functioning coaching is $150 per hour, billed 24 hours after each session. Remote sessions and in-person sessions at the Provo office or a public location are all $150 per hour; in-person at the client's home is $250 per hour to cover travel. The Starter Package brings the per-hour rate down:
Coaching hasn't been deemed medically necessary, so we can't bill insurance for it. Some HSA and FSA administrators do reimburse when ADHD Coaching is the billed service line, though qualifying is the family's responsibility, since we aren't clinicians and don't produce insurance documentation. Our transparent pricing page lays it all out so you can self-qualify before you book.
Remote / In-Person
In-person at our Provo office or a public spot like a nearby library or university is $150 per hour, the same as remote.
In-Person
In-person at the client's home is $250 per hour; the higher rate simply covers the coach's travel.
Starter Package
24 hours prepaid
$3,240 at $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 provides supervision on 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 training spans children’s learning and development, child and adolescent developmental psychology, and instructional design, plus conversational ASL fluency. She is currently conducting research in Animal Assisted Education and believes every learner deserves an equitable educational experience that cultivates curiosity.
Lindsey is the Health and Wellness Director at Level-Up Life and a Certified Culinary Nutrition Expert with a Master’s in Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She designs the nutrition and wellness programming that runs alongside coaching, recognizing that mental health and academic performance live downstream of how a student eats, sleeps, and moves. She specializes in adapting plans to dietary needs and family realities.
Katie is COO at Level-Up Life and an active Academic and EF Coach with a B.S. in Elementary Education and specialized training in supporting English Language Learners and developing executive functioning skills. Her classroom years in public and Title I schools shaped a coaching style that is supportive, engaging, and outcome-oriented — focused on building the trusting relationship that lets a student take ownership of their growth.
Madison is an Academic/EF Coach earning her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, building on a B.S. in Psychology and over five years in outdoor behavioral healthcare with teenagers and young adults. She specializes in transitional support for students leaving residential and wilderness programs. Her approach is non-judgmental and client-centered: the client is the expert on their own life, and the coaching work is collaborative discovery from there.
Josh is an Academic/EF Coach at Level-Up Life with a B.A. in Psychology from Utah Valley University and three years of experience working in residential treatment, plus a strong background in facilitating recovery groups. He values authentic relationships and meets students wherever they are. Outside of coaching, he is a Utah-raised lacrosse player who connects easily with students through shared real-life experience and a steady, grounded presence.
Jackson is an Academic/EF Coach at Level-Up Life completing his B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Utah Valley University, with plans for a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He brings hands-on experience in residential treatment settings with teenage boys, including students who were resistant to coaching. His client-centered, nonjudgmental approach is built around adapting to each student’s individual needs and building meaningful trust.
Thomas is an Academic/EF Coach at Level-Up Life with over 20 years as an educator — paraeducator, reading teacher, English/Language Arts teacher, tutor, coach, and administrator at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. He holds a B.A. in English Education and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, and connects with students of any age and any background. He believes respect and integrity are the foundation for finding success.
Emily is an Academic/EF Coach at Level-Up Life with a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Colorado College and a Master’s in Counseling from the University of Vermont. Her School Counseling work in Vermont public schools surfaced the gap she now coaches into: students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and learning differences who need more support than the classroom can provide. She loves Social Emotional Learning and helping students enjoy learning again.
Maeve is an Academic/EF Coach at Level-Up Life with a B.S. in Sociology and a minor in Social Work. She brings a peer-mentoring background and an ability to build trust quickly across age groups and support levels. Her coaching focuses on organization, task initiation, and planning — the entry-point skills most students need first. She works with empathy and lived experience to make the executive functioning conversation feel less like a deficit.
Ayleen is an Academic/EF Coach and Admin Director at Level-Up Life with a B.S. in Psychology from Utah Valley University and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology focused on trauma, social dynamics, and ethnic identity development. She practices a humanistic approach with empirically backed strategies and brings group-therapy experience across children, teens, and adults.
Hi! I’m Jessie Williams, and I graduated from Weber State University with a degree in Elementary Education. I’ve spent the past 5+ years teaching in both public and Title I schools! Helping students learn and grow is something I truly love.
My coaching style is student-led and teacher-supported. I’m passionate about helping students build confidence, independence, and the executive functioning skills they need to succeed both in and outside of school. I believe mindset is everything, and I love encouraging students to trust themselves, work through challenges, and recognize their own potential.
Outside of coaching, I’m a wife and mom to one sweet little girl, plus a very lovable (and very big!) golden retriever. I love traveling, making memories with my family, and finding joy in the little things!
They help a student pinpoint which skills are blocking daily life, build strategies that actually fit that student, and practice them until they turn into habits. At Level-Up Life, every coaching relationship is supervised by Ryan Roberts, CMHC.
A tutor teaches the subject matter, and a clinician works the mental-health layer. An executive functioning coach builds the capacities that decide whether either one lands: task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, and emotional regulation. Level-Up Life is coaching, not therapy or tutoring; when therapy is what's needed, we refer to Komi Counseling and Psychology.
Industry rates run from $100 to $250 per hour depending on credentials and supervision. Level-Up Life is $150 per hour, or $135 with the Starter Package, with no contracts and public pricing.
Most students notice early shifts within three to four weeks, usually around getting started and managing frustration. The deeper, habit-level change tends to show up around the two-to-three-month mark, and most engagements run about six months.
Yes. Executive functioning skills can be built and strengthened at any age. We work with clients from late high school through young adulthood, and with older adults when it's a good fit. The methodology stays the same; only the surface points of resistance change.
Late teens through early twenties tends to be the hardest stretch, because the external structure that used to carry things along (school schedules, parental oversight, dorm routines) falls away and self-management becomes the primary skill. That's exactly Level-Up Life's core demographic.
Yes. Most of our students work with us entirely remotely, from all over the country. In-person sessions are available at our Provo, Utah office, and you can mix the two formats.
It starts with a short phone call, 15 to 30 minutes, where we listen to what's going on and explain how our program fits your situation. You'll come away with an honest read on whether Level-Up Life is the right fit for your son or daughter.
Call or text (385) 327-0717
Email: support@level-uplife.com
2230 N University Pkwy, Ste 2C-A, Provo, UT 84604 (by appointment, inside the Komi Counseling and Psychology offices)
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