Executive Function Coaching
For ADHD, AUTISM, and AuDHD
Understand yourself and leverage your strengths to LIVE BETTER.
As a neurodivergent individual myself, I know the unseen and underappreciated challenges of living in a neurotypical world. I also know the tremendous benefits of working with a coach to embrace your individuality and create a world that works for you.
Use coaching with therapy to:
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Enhance treatment outcomes by turning therapeutic concepts into everyday skills to maximize their benefits
Use coaching on a standalone basis to:
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Improve organization and time management
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Increase personal and professional productivity
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Enhance emotional regulation
The Missing Piece in Your Support System
Shane's Advocacy and Expertise!
Get the most out of your therapy! Executive function coaching focuses on real-life applications with useful strategies tailored to fit your unique circumstances. Therapy helps you process and heal; coaching helps you build and implement.
Ops Director & Executive Coach
The Men's ADHD Support Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to inspire, educate, and empower neurodivergent men to live more authentic lives of compassion and inclusivity.
At ScienceWorks, we combine expert therapy with customized coaching to provide comprehensive support that fulfills both the emotional and practical aspects of neurodivergence.
Parent Coach & Community Leader
The ADHD & Autism Parent Support Groups are online communities dedicated to empowering parents and caregivers with education, connection, and practical tools for themselves and their neurodivergent children.
Marketing Lead & Public Speaker
The International Conference on ADHD unites and empowers the ADHD Community for parents, adults, and professionals to foster connections, spark insight, and inspire growth.
Is Coaching Right for me?
While everyone's coaching plan is designed for the full range of their individual needs, here are common examples to consider:
Before Coaching
Emotional Regulation
Overwhelm leads to shutdowns, meltdowns, or days of recovery
Task Initiation
Staring at tasks for hours, paralyzed by not knowing where to start
Working Memory
Constantly forgetting important things despite your best effort
Cognitive Flexibility
Unexpected changes derail your entire day, week, or more
Self-Monitoring
Realizing too late that you've been masking, burning out, or spiraling
Time Management
Chronically late or early, misjudging how long everything takes
After Coaching
Emotional Regulation
Prevent overwhelm by simplifying your environment
Task Initiation
Break through the paralysis of getting started
Working Memory
Develop systems so you don't have to hold everything in your head
Cognitive Flexibility
Build resilience when plans change unexpectedly
Self-Monitoring
Recognize patterns before they become problems
Time Management
Create realistic schedules that honor your energy and capacity
Available via Telehealth in all 50 States!
Our Process
Executive Function Coaching uses adaptive structures and real-world strategies to calm your chaotic mind and help you achieve your goals.
Expert Collaboration
Coaching operates at the intersection of therapy and every day life.
Your coach and your therapist work as a team at every stage to make sure your coaching and therapy fit together to produce results that you can see and feel.
Step 2
Comprehensive Intake
Let's see where you are in your journey and identify the right starting point.
Track A
Foundational Discovery
Start here if you are new to your diagnosis or still processing the impact of being neurodivergent.
Explore neurodivergence without shame and build a foundation for growth.
Step 3-A
Recasting Neurodivergence
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Clarify Values
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Identify Strengths
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Reframe Weaknesses
A safe, creative space for you to:
Receive compassionate support from a team with lived experience.
Step 4-A
Personal Blueprint
You'll synthesize your values, strengths, and challenges into an actionable foundation with clear objectives.
Move forward with confidence.
Track B
Now, develop skills to achieve your goals with support and positivity.
You can do it!
Track B
Strategic Growth
Start here if your neurodivergence is well-informed and you are ready to pursue a personalized action plan.
Develop optimized systems and durable strategies to achieve your goals.
Step 3-B
Research and Development
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Custom Workflows
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Sustainable Habits
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Adaptive Routines
With expert guidance, you'll create:
Build a complete system with the resources you need to reach your full potential.
Step 4-B
Accountability and Resilience
You and your coach will prepare for a lifetime of wellness by:
Building custom tools to track your progress
Documenting what you've learned for future reference
Developing fallback strategies so you can stay on track - no matter what life throws at you
Embrace your mind and your skills for long-term success!
Specialized Coaching
For Couples with Differing Neurotypes
For couples with differing neurological profiles (either neurotypical + neurodivergent or neurodivergent + neurodivergent), even the strongest relationships can suffer from the undercurrent of these differences. Mismatched communication styles, task management, and organizational systems can complicate otherwise simple activities of daily life and add unnecessary stress. Your normal emotions and behaviors can be negatively misinterpreted by your partner, and vice-versa, resulting in conflicts that seem to come out of nowhere with no identifiable source - and no clear solution.
You and your partner love each other; you genuinely care for one another - but the repeated cycles of ambiguous conflict can become bewildering because root causes and corrective action are elusive. Over time, this can lead to disconnection and resentment that neither of you want.
Executive Function Coaching helps couples understand themselves better as individuals and as partners. This understanding serves as the foundation for compassionate skill-building to strengthen your relationship. You and your partner can feel confident, seen, and supported in both daily tasks and your long-term journey together.
For couples, we'll conduct an initial interview to understand your needs. Then build a customized coaching plan that meets you where are and takes you to where you want to go - together.
In coaching, we'll focus on several key areas:
Understanding Individual Differences
Recognize how you and your partner process information, prioritize tasks, and manage time. Rarely is anyone being "lazy" or "inconsiderate"; these are common misperceptions that result from a misunderstanding of how your individual brains work differently, and are a frequent cause of unnecessary conflict. With structured understanding, you'll be able to establish a healthy environment that supports effective collaboration.
Communication Strategies
Effective communication without fear or judgement is a cornerstone of the coaching process. When communicating with a partner, it's very common to process their words and body language through your personal lens to reach a conclusion about their intentions. For neurotypical couples, this approach is far from foolproof, but can work well enough.
For neurodivergent couples, however, these thought processes are highly individualized. In this case, inferences and assumptions that you make about your partner's communication based on your own processes can differ significantly from your partner's intended meaning. The same goes for a partner trying to make inferences and assumptions about your communication to them.
The fog of mismatched communication can result in stress, doubt, and negative emotions, with both partners feeling unable to be seen or contribute as their authentic selves. Coaching lifts this fog with individualized approaches for structured communication without assumptions or masking. You and your partner will be empowered to make requests, set boundaries, and share ideas with confidence that your true meaning and authenticity will shine through.
Complimentary Systems
For couples with differing neurotypes, it can be common for one partner to become a "manager". This often happens organically as different processing styles collide throughout daily life, with one partner's style floating to the top out of habit rather than intention. This results in an ambiguous and unequal power dynamic that leaves both partners feeling misunderstood and burnt out from inefficiency.
In coaching, we'll identify your individual strengths and establish clearly defined responsibilities which emphasize those strengths. With this clarity, you and your partner can achieve the satisfaction equal contribution while mutually benefiting from an environment of collaboration rather than chaos.
Sustainable Routines
Routines are where the structures of coaching intersect with the real world. We'll combine your Understanding of Individual Differences, Communication Strategies, and Complimentary Systems to build clear strategies that benefit you and your partner every day - and into the future.
By using routines that honor both your individuality and your partnership, you and your partner can work together - implementing combined skills to overcome obstacles, achieve your goals, and strengthen your relationship.
Learn to thrive together.
Specialized Coaching
For Neurodivergent Parents and
Neurotypical Parents with Neurodivergent Children
You're doing your best as the parent of a child with ADHD, Autism, or AuDHD - but it's hard. Tasks like managing meltdowns, fostering communication, or creating seemingly basic routines often leave you feeling frustrated or exhausted. Your attention is spread too thin and you can't focus on other siblings, your spouse, or even yourself with the energy that everyone deserves - straining relationships. You may even feel guilty for not being able to create the calm, nurturing environment that you desperately want for you and your family.
These difficulties don't arise from a lack of love or effort.
They arise from a lack of knowledge - and we can fix that.
You are not alone. At ScienceWorks, we work every day to help parents and families understand and embrace their individual differences to create structure and harmony.
If you are neurotypical, raising a neurodivergent child with the behaviors and strategies that work for you can feel like fitting a square peg to a round hole.
If you are ADHD, Autistic, or AuDHD yourself, balancing your own needs while parenting can feel like an impossible challenge.
With Parent Coaching, we'll adapt our dynamic coaching process to address the combined needs of you, your child, and your family. You will learn to understand your child's unique brain and way of interacting with the world while developing your own skills to create a thriving family environment without burnout.
If your child is receiving therapy with us, we'll expand your parent coaching plan to coordinate closely with their therapist - understanding the practical implications of their treatment to develop real-world strategies that support their progress.
Take the next step to gain clarity, build stronger connections and restore your well-being.
Get in Touch with Shane for Coaching
Let's create the custom strategies you need to achieve your goals.
336-223-6040