Empowering Young Women to Unlock Their Own Superpowers
At Growing Minds, we combine the art and science of executive function coaching to empower female learners with ADHD or executive function challenges to build the skills, confidence and independence they need to thrive both today and in the future.
Up to 90% of children with ADHD struggle with executive function challenges 🤯
Children and young adults with executive functioning challenges, including many with ADHD, are more disorganized than their peers. Do any of the below sound familiar?
Remembering to complete tasks
Submitting assignments
Regulating emotions
Refraining from blurting out
Staying engaged when bored
Self-monitoring progress toward goals
Flexible thinking
"It’s like having 100 tabs open in your brain, and you can’t find the one that’s playing the music."
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"The phrase ‘organized chaos’ is my entire life with ADHD. I know where everything is... except when I don’t."
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"It’s like having 100 tabs open in your brain, and you can’t find the one that’s playing the music." 〰️ "The phrase ‘organized chaos’ is my entire life with ADHD. I know where everything is... except when I don’t." 〰️
Welcome to Growing Minds, I’m Rana 👋
At Growing Minds Coaching, we work closely with girls and young women with ADHD and Executive Function challenges to strengthen EF skills, build confidence, and foster a new sense of control over their lives.
Through trust-based relationships, we focus on time management, task organization, goal setting, and prioritization.
Our students not only improve their academic performance but also enhance their communication skills and overall outlook, feeling empowered to manage the juggling act of life with confidence.
Holistic, 1:1 Coaching Process 🌱
Relationship Building: We believe that trust and connection are at the heart of effective coaching. During the first few sessions, we focus on establishing a strong relationship to ensure that students feel comfortable and supported.
Skill Development: Over the course of 4 months (16 weekly sessions), we teach essential executive functioning skills, such as time management, organization, and goal setting. This consistent, hands-on approach gives students the tools they need to succeed both academically and in life.
Practice & Integration: Between sessions, students are encouraged to practice these new skills, reinforced by two accountability check-ins each week. This helps them integrate what they’ve learned into their daily routines.
Long-Term Success: We emphasize lasting growth. Short-term coaching can often lead to regression, but our 16-week structure ensures that students not only develop key skills but maintain and build on them beyond the coaching period.
Service Offerings: Tailored to Life Stage
Elementary: Grades 3-5
4 Months (Minimum)
40 Minute Weekly Private Sessions (In-Person Offered if Local)
10 Minute Weekly Accountability Check-in (Virtual)
Multiple “Family Team Meetings” (Virtual)
*Price: $900 / Month
Middle & High School: Grades 6-12
4 Months (Minimum)
45-Minute Weekly Private Sessions (Virtual)
2, 10-Minute Weekly Accountability Check-ins (Virtual)
Multiple “Family Team Meetings” (Virtual)
Price: $1,100 / Month
College & Young Adults
4 Months (Minimum)
45-Minute Weekly Private Sessions (Virtual)
2, 10-Minute Weekly Accountability Check-ins (Virtual)
Optional “Family Team Meetings” (Virtual)
Price: $1,100 / Month
Fast Facts: The Importance of Early Intervention
Only 10% of children with ADHD receive specialized executive functioning support.
Despite the high prevalence of executive function challenges in ADHD, only a small percentage of children receive targeted coaching or intervention.
Students with ADHD are 3 times more likely to repeat a grade.
Academic struggles due to poor executive functioning skills can lead to significantly higher rates of grade retention.
Early intervention can lead to a 30% improvement in executive functioning skills.
Studies show that interventions focused on building executive functioning skills in children with ADHD can result in up to a 30% improvement in their ability to manage tasks and responsibilities.
Students with ADHD are 7 times more likely to drop out of high school.
Children with ADHD who lack proper executive functioning support have significantly higher dropout rates. Ensuring they develop these skills can prevent long-term academic setbacks.
Adults with ADHD are 6 times more likely to experience career difficulties.
Without early development of executive functioning skills, individuals with ADHD often face persistent struggles in their professional lives, affecting job stability and success.
Over 70% of adults with untreated ADHD report chronic struggles with time management.
Without early intervention, executive functioning deficits persist into adulthood, affecting personal and professional lives. Early coaching can drastically reduce these lifelong challenges.
INITIAL STEPS WE TAKE TO ENSURE WE BUILD A SUCCESSFUL COACHING RELATIONSHIP FROM THE START.
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The Intake Meeting is an inquiry meeting that gives us a chance to understand the changes you’re hoping to achieve with an executive functioning coach, while also allowing us to explain how we can help you reach your goals.
We also ask you/your student to share what qualities and experience they’re looking for in a coach so we can ensure a proper match.
By working together through a series of questions, we’ll determine if we’re the right fit for each other.
You can schedule your free inquiry meeting by clicking below.
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During the assessment process, we evaluate your/your student’s current executive function needs and personal preferences. The cost for our registration and assessment process is listed on our pricing page. This fee covers:
A review of any assessments, IEPs, 504 plans, or other important documents you provide
Initial consultations with teachers, mental health professionals, or other individuals you’d like us to collaborate with
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During our weekly executive function coaching sessions, students form a collaborative partnership with their coach, designed to help them develop and strengthen their executive function skills. As taught by Sean McCormick, an EF Coach, we also define executive functioning skills through the acronym P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E., which stands for:
Planning, Organization, Self-advocacy, Initiation, Time management, Inhibition control, Visualizing outcomes, Evaluating priorities
By guiding our students to tackle their most difficult professional/academic challenges while teaching these P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. skills at the “point of performance,” we help them build a stronger growth mindset, resilience, and deeper engagement with their life in and out of the classroom.
Sessions are conducted in-person, if local and under 14, otherwise online, and utilize a multi-sensory approach.
We also provide 1-2 virtual check-ins between sessions for coaching clients aged 14+ (via email, text or facetime), offering solution-focused questioning and “proof-ability” tasks to support task initiation and completion.
For information on enrollment costs, please view the above “Work With Me” section.
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This meeting will include any other professionals on the team - psychologists/psychiatrist, tutors, teachers - to celebrate “wins,” identify adjusted or new goals or assign responsibility and an implementation timeline. This team meeting can be held every 5-6 weeks. What’s going well? What needs to change? Who does what by when?
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The phase-out process is done gradually, allowing you as the coaching student to take responsibility for your own growing executive function skills while we reduce the level of support, giving students the space for independent practice.
Since we follow a model of weekly sessions, this might involve selecting a final billing date and spacing out the last four sessions over two months.
We encourage discussing a phase-out plan with your specialist during a family meeting.
While we recommend a minimum of 4 months of coaching to fully develop and apply the P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. skills with support, many students benefit from longer-term coaching due to the increasing demands on their executive function as they move into higher grade levels or graduate from college and build professional lives or even families, where managing EF skills are of great significance