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College Independence System

Simple systems, purposeful pathways to success

College support for students with executive function gaps — built to give them, and you, a genuinely different year.

The Worry List

If your student is smart, capable, even excelling — but you're heading into (or back into) a college year worried about any of this, you are not alone, and it is not a motivation problem.

Missing classNo one to make sure they're up and out the door

Skipping meals or sleepNo built-in schedule anymore

A three-week paper becomes a one-night crisisNo plan for pacing it

Not asking for helpUntil a class is already in real trouble

Losing track of what's dueScattered across five different places

Underestimating how long things takeConsistently, and expensively

Not registering — or keeping — accommodationsEven ones they're entitled to

Shutting down instead of startingWhen the to-do list feels too big

No plan after a bad gradeSo one setback snowballs

Feeling isolatedNo one around who understands what this feels like

These are executive function gaps — planning, organizing, self-advocacy, task initiation, goal setting, time management, evaluating priorities, homework follow-through, and grade recovery. They are learnable skills, not character flaws. That's the whole premise of this program.

Here's the turnaround

How Your Student Gains Real Independence

You just read ten ways this year could go sideways. Here's how we make sure it doesn't. Every part of this program is built around one goal: by the end of it, your student needs us — and you — less than they did at the start.

Skill-Building Workshops

Concrete systems for each pain point above

Weekly Reset

Three-question accountability check-in, peer-visible

Peer Cohort

Students in the same season of life, normalizing struggle

Coaching That Fades

Hands-on at first, deliberately stepping back on purpose

Included in every option

Inside Skool: The Community That Makes This Work

This isn't a discussion forum bolted on as an afterthought — it's a live, structured program of weekly classes and real peer relationships. Every one of your three options includes full access to it, which is exactly why the Skool-only option is still a genuinely valuable place to start.

Skill-Building Workshops

Getting Your Syllabus Into Your Planner
Chunking Long Projects & Papers
Building Your Calendar, Task & Reminder System
What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do
Talking to Professors & Building Your Support Team
Triage Week: When Everything's Due at Once
The Midterm Reset: What To Do After a Bad Grade
Finals Strategy & Study Scheduling
Goal Setting & the Year Ahead
Open Q&A / Office Hours

Co-Working & Peer Sessions

Co-Working / Body Doubling Blocks — everyone working on their own task, together
Timed Study Sessions — Pomodoro-style sprints to build a real sense of how long things take
Coffee Chat — no agenda, just connection
Wins & Strategies Share — students show and tell what's actually working
Weekly Reset — a peer-visible accountability check-in, every week

Normalizes struggle Hearing a peer admit the same fear makes it feel ordinary, not personal

Near-peer proof "It worked for me" lands harder from a peer than from an adult

Shared wins build momentum One student's win gives the next student permission to try

Outlasts the program For an isolated student, these friendships can be the most durable outcome

A Year Built to Taper

1:1 coaching intensity in the Student's Choice package, quarter by quarter — while the peer cohort and Skool community stay constant the whole time.

1:1 Coaching Cadence — Student's Choice

Weekly → biweekly → monthly → none (4 SOS hours banked for finals or as needed)

9 sessions

5 sessions

3 sessions

SOS only

Weekly

Biweekly

Monthly

None scheduled

Skool active

1:1 coaching (tapers) Skool community & peer cohort (constant, all year)

Choose Your Level of Support

All three options include full access to the Skool community. The difference is how much 1:1 coaching sits on top of it.

1:1 Coaching + Skool

For families who want a coach every week, all year.

Weekly 1:1 coaching, no taper, all year (up to 36 sessions)
Full Skool community: workshops, co-working & peer sessions, Weekly Reset
Onboarding assessment
Weekly written session notes + quarterly parent check-in calls

$7,200/yearor 3 payments of $2,520 ($7,560 total) over the first 90 days

Student's Choice — The Independence Package

For families ready for this year to end differently than it started.

1:1 coaching that tapers: weekly → biweekly → monthly → none (17 sessions total)
Full Skool community: workshops, co-working & peer sessions, Weekly Reset
4 banked SOS hours — finals, or whenever really needed
Onboarding assessment
Quarterly parent calls + monthly Parent Pulse emails

$5,000/yearor 3 payments of $1,750 ($5,250 total) over the first 90 days

Skool Community

For families who want to start with the community and the system.

No 1:1 coaching
Full Skool community: workshops, co-working & peer sessions, Weekly Reset

$129/monthor $1,200/year, paid in full

Which One Is Right for Your Family?

1:1 Coaching + Skool — if your student needs consistent, hands-on coaching all year, and you're not ready to pull back support yet.

Student's Choice — if you want this year to end with your student needing less help than when it started, not the same amount.

Skool Community — if your student mostly needs structure, accountability, and peers who get it — and you want to start light and see how it goes.

Is This a Fit?

Good fit

Incoming first-year students with a known executive function gap (2e, ADHD, or otherwise), or students who had a genuinely rough first year and want a different structure this time — and who are willing to participate.

Not a fit

Students who need clinical mental health treatment rather than EF coaching (glad to help find the right referral), or families wanting a permanent, high-touch relationship with no plan to build independence.

Not sure which option fits your student?

Start with a free, no-pressure discovery call to talk through what's going on — or go straight to a Success Pathway Session, a working conversation about your student's specific pain points that ends with three solutions you can start using immediately, whether or not you enroll in anything further.

Book a Free Discovery Call Book Your $199 Success Pathway Session