College & Career Coaching

Coaching helps teens, young adults, and parents sort through the countless career, college, and postsecondary options.  Coaching can also help families reduce the overall cost of post-secondary education and increase the likelihood that the student will follow through to completion.  Ithrive helps young people with:

• Gaining insight about personality traits, strengths, & weaknesses

• Exploring career interests & options aligned with personal traits

• Developing a realistic plan with action steps

• Focusing the college search & navigating the application process

• Writing powerful college essays

• Preparing for the ACT/SAT

• Exploring scholarship & financial aid options

Academic Coaching

Coaching helps students gain an understanding of skills needed to meet their goals, their own skills, what they can do to improve their skills, and taps into their internal motivation to do it.  Coaching also gives students more individualized support for academic planning than they often get through school personnel.  Ithrive helps students with:       

• Assessing academic skills & providing prescriptive strategies for improvement

• Learning & improving study & organizational skills

• Content focused interventions (Reading, writing, math, other subject areas)

• Academic planning & course selection

Success Skills Coaching 

Coaching helps teens and young adults acquire other skills necessary to be successful in their personal, academic, and professional lives, regardless of what path they choose.  Ithrive helps people with:  

• Improving executive functioning skills

• Acquiring job readiness skills

• Building interpersonal & social skills for interacting

• Developing self-advocacy skills (especially for students with disabilities)

Parent Coaching

Kids aren’t the only ones who need coaching through these teen and young adult years.  Parenting is the most difficult job on the face of the planet.  It can be the most rewarding and fulfilling role we have in life. It also comes with demands that can leave the best of us feeling inadequate, frustrated, and seeking answers. Ithrive can help navigate the landscape by assisting parents with:   

• Getting clear on what their priorities really are

• Assessing risk factors & building protective factors in their child’s life

• Shaping their child’s behavior

• Improving communication within the family

• Supporting their child academically

• Supporting healthy transition to adulthood

• Advocating for their child (especially children with disabilities)

• Designing a comprehensive homeschool curriculum