Life transitions coaching
Executive function support for times of change, such as starting or leaving college or moving toward independence.
Young adults and adults, 18+
Executive function coaching for young adults and adults, alongside their clinical care
Support with planning, starting and following through, adapted to how each person thinks and works.
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.
Who is this coaching for?
Meghan coaches young adults and adults (18+) who may also be working with a clinician on mood or anxiety challenges, and who want practical help with planning, starting, and following through.
When routines, deadlines or bigger goals keep slipping out of reach, coaching offers steady, practical support with the skills involved.
This page describes who Meghan works with. It is not a checklist, and it is not a way to tell whether someone has a condition.
If you are a parent, caregiver or clinician reading on behalf of a young adult, you are welcome here too. The young adult is the client, and family involvement is part of Meghan’s approach.
How does executive function coaching for young adults work?
Meghan’s work is built around the executive function skills themselves, for young adults who may also be working with a clinician on mood or anxiety challenges. She starts by learning how the person in front of her thinks.
She starts with how you process information
Meghan prioritizes trust and rapport while learning how each client thinks, plans, and takes in information. She then teaches concepts and organizational strategies adapted to the way that client perceives and understands them, so the tools fit the person.
Evidence-informed attention training
She uses evidence-informed attention-training techniques that aim to support awareness and concentration.
Writing and the creative process
Meghan also uses a writing and creative-process method that aims to support confidence alongside executive function skills.
Practiced with support, then used independently
Clients first use new strategies with Meghan’s support. She works so that the client can implement them independently later, while building confidence, skills and an understanding of why each strategy matters.
Her approach draws on more than 10 years of experience in social science research, public health and education, and on a master’s degree from Harvard University with a focus in clinical psychology. As a researcher, she has studied the effects of executive functioning strategies on emotion regulation.
What do sessions focus on?
Sessions build the executive function skills that support daily life:
- Planning
- Prioritizing
- Communication
- Thought organization
- Cognitive flexibility
- Time management
- Staying steady under stress
Alongside these skills, Meghan aims to support confidence and helps clients understand why each strategy matters. She also uses meditation and mindfulness techniques that aim to support self-awareness and concentration.
Coaching is one-to-one and ongoing, meeting at a regular cadence rather than as a fixed-length program. Sessions are offered virtually or in person; see where Meghan works for the places she serves.
For a wider look at the skills and the method, read about executive function coaching with Meghan.
How does coaching fit with the rest of the support team?
Meghan works with the people already supporting a young adult: psychiatrists, psychologists, parents and the young adult themselves. Coaching sits alongside, never instead of, clinical care.
A coach, not a clinician
Coaching does not replace a young adult’s therapist or psychiatrist.
Clinicians can read how Meghan works alongside your clinicians. Parents and caregivers can read what coaching looks like for families.
Questions people ask
Does coaching replace therapy or other care?
No. Coaching works alongside a young adult’s clinical care, not in place of it.
Will Meghan work with my psychiatrist or therapist?
Meghan works alongside the client’s existing clinicians as one part of their support team, which can include psychiatrists, psychologists, parents and the young adult. She shares information with any of them only with the client’s written permission, except where required by law. For more, see the page for clinicians.
Is this something my parents arrange?
Parents and caregivers take part as members of the support team around the client. There is more on the page for parents.
Is coaching online or in person?
Meghan offers one-to-one sessions both virtually and in person. The locations page has the details of where she serves clients.
Related pages
Executive function coaching
The skills Meghan builds and how she goes about it.
Recovery-informed coaching
Support with planning, routines and follow-through for people in recovery, alongside their existing clinicians.
Locations
Serving clients in New York and online.
About Meghan
Her background, her approach and what guides her work.
Contact
Ask a question or start a conversation about working together.
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.