Academic Coaching and Counseling

• A unique, individualized approach to educational therapy for middle school through college students
• Helpful for all types of learners
• Beneficial for students with learning differences, ADHD & giftedness

Many students have difficulties planning, setting priorities and making decisions. The goal at TLEC is to seamlessly weave a student’s passions, interests and strengths into personalized strategies for designing organizational systems that work for them.

• Assists in improving executive functioning
• Results seen in completing homework, turning in assignments, and staying focused
• Teaches resiliency, self-regulation and self-monitoring
• Helps to manage emotional distress

Academic coaching does not address specific tutoring needs, yet seeks to creatively tap into the client’s ability to develop personalized strategies for dealing with specific academic and behavioral issues.

Academic frustration, underachievement and trauma can create real emotional distress. If a student (or a teacher or family member) does not fully understand one’s learning profile, then shame, blame or judgment about learning differences can ensue.

Using Dr. Mel Levine’s neurodevelopmental learning model, students and families begin to adopt an attitude of genuine curiosity and learn together how attention, memory, sequencing, language skills, visual processing, motor functions and higher order thinking all work together in processing information.

As clients attempt new study strategies and find emotional support and stress relief, they begin to use better organization and time-management skills. Whenever we attend meetings on campus, consult with physicians, or work in family sessions with parents, we bring this approach and philosophy to all interventions.

A variety of neurobiological balancing systems are employed for managing emotional distress. 

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) - a bi-lateral crossing of the brain’s hemispheres to desensitize emotional distress
• SE (Somatic Experiencing) - a mind-body approach to healing trauma.

Most importantly, academic coaching and counseling takes place within the context of a supportive and flexible therapeutic relationship.