Young adults
Coaching for young adults and adults (18+) who want practical help with planning and follow-through.
For parents and caregivers
Executive function coaching for your young adult
Plain answers to the questions parents can start with: what coaching is, where family fits, and what to ask any coach.
Meghan Michalski is an executive function coach and mentor. She is not a therapist, counselor, psychologist, or medical provider, and she does not diagnose, treat, or provide therapy. Coaching is educational, organizational, and skills-based. It is not a substitute for clinical care and is not a crisis service.
What is executive function coaching for a young adult?
Executive function coaching supports the everyday skills that let a person plan, get started, stay organized and follow through. For a young adult, these skills can be hard to hold onto, especially during a big change such as starting or leaving college.
Meghan Michalski is a coach and mentor. She works one-to-one with your young adult on planning, prioritizing, communication, thought organization, cognitive flexibility, time management and staying steady under stress, one skill at a time.
How can coaching help at home?
Everyday sticking points such as routines, tasks and deadlines can be hard to manage. Coaching works on these directly, through practical strategies for routines, prioritizing, time management, communication and staying steady under stress.
Your young adult first uses each new strategy with Meghan’s support. Over time she works so that they can carry it out independently. She also helps them understand why a strategy matters, so the strategies are ones the young adult can use independently. The aim is long-term self-sufficiency.
Where do parents fit?
Family and parent involvement is part of Meghan’s approach. She works with the people already supporting a young adult: psychiatrists, psychologists, parents and the client themselves, and shares information with them only with the client’s written permission, except where required by law. Coaching sits alongside, never instead of, clinical care.
If you would like to ask what that involvement looks like in practice, you are welcome to get in touch.
Coaching is not parenting
Meghan does not step into your role. She builds skills with your young adult, so the strategies are ones your young adult can use independently.
What can we expect from working together?
Coaching with Meghan is an ongoing relationship at a regular cadence, not a fixed-length program. Sessions are one-to-one and offered virtually or in person. See where Meghan works for details.
Before adapting any strategies, Meghan first learns how your young adult thinks, plans, and takes in information, then teaches concepts and organizational strategies to fit how they perceive and understand. You can read more about how executive function coaching works, or about Meghan’s background.
What should you ask any coach?
Whoever you choose, these questions help you compare coaches with confidence.
- What is your training and background?
- How do you work with my young adult’s clinicians?
- How do you describe your role, and where does it end?
- How will progress be discussed, and with whom?
- What do you not do?
You are welcome to ask Meghan the same questions when you get in touch. Clinicians who would like to know how she works alongside clinicians can read the page for clinicians.
Questions parents can ask
Will my young adult have to talk about everything with me?
Your young adult is the client, and coaching conversations stay between them and Meghan unless they choose otherwise. Meghan shares information with family only with the client’s written permission, except where required by law. Many families agree up front on what will be shared and how; you are welcome to ask about that when you get in touch.
Is what my young adult tells Meghan confidential?
Coaching is not therapy, and coaching conversations are not covered by therapist–client or physician–patient privilege. Meghan shares information with family or clinicians only with the client’s written permission, except where required by law.
Can coaching go alongside therapy and other care?
Yes. Coaching is designed to work alongside your young adult’s clinical care, and never in place of it.
What if my young adult is reluctant?
Meghan’s work is built on relatability and trusting rapport, and she holds space for authenticity. If your young adult is unsure, you are welcome to ask questions when you get in touch.
Life transitions coaching
Support through changes such as starting college, a first job or moving toward independence.
For clinicians
How Meghan works alongside a client’s clinicians and family.
If you need urgent help
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or call 911 in an emergency.
Contact
Let’s start the ascent.
Email Meghan to ask about working together. She serves clients in New York and online.