For clinicians and referral partners

A coach who works as part of your client’s care team

Executive function coaching that sits alongside clinical care, not in place of it.

How does a coach fit into your client’s care team?

Meghan Michalski works as one coordinated part of a whole care team, including psychiatrists, psychologists, parents and the client, not as a standalone service. She collaborates with existing care teams, and she is also connected to a network of mental and physical wellness coaches.

For a clinician, that means a coach who focuses on the day-to-day side of a client’s life: the planning, routines and follow-through of everyday life. Clinical care stays with the client’s clinicians. Meghan supports the client in putting skills into daily practice.

Her approach is relational and grounded in the client’s own strengths. The aim is long-term self-sufficiency: skills that the client can use independently.

Where does the coach’s role start and stop?

Meghan’s role is executive function coaching. She supports the skills that shape a client’s daily life:

  • Planning and prioritizing
  • Time management and thought organization
  • Communication
  • Cognitive flexibility
  • Emotion regulation

A coach, not a clinician

Meghan is a coach and mentor, not a licensed clinician. She does not diagnose, treat or provide therapy, and coaching does not replace clinical care.

Who does Meghan work with?

Her focus is young adults aged 18 to 25 whose mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or overlapping presentations, get in the way of executive functioning. She also works with people in life transitions and people in recovery, and she involves parents and caregivers as part of the wider team.

Recovery coaching

Support with planning, routines and follow-through, as one part of a wider care team.

How does Meghan work with a client?

Every client is different, so Meghan starts by building trust and rapport while assessing how the client processes information. She then adapts concepts and organizational strategies to the way that person perceives and understands things.

Clients first use new strategies with Meghan’s support. She then works so that the client can carry them out independently. Along the way she builds confidence, skills and an understanding of why the strategies matter.

Her toolkit includes:

  • Research-based attention-training techniques that help clients cultivate awareness and increase concentration
  • Meditation and mindfulness practices for self-awareness, concentration and emotion and thought regulation
  • A writing and creative-process method for building self-esteem and executive function skills

Coaching is a one-to-one relationship that continues over the long term at a regular cadence, rather than a fixed-length program. Sessions are offered virtually or in person.

What is Meghan’s background?

Meghan has more than 10 years of experience across social science research, public health and education. She holds a master’s degree from Harvard University with a focus in clinical psychology, and she has studied the effects of executive function strategies on emotion regulation. Read more about Meghan.

Is this also useful for educational consultants and school staff?

Yes. Educational consultants, school staff and care teams who support a young adult are welcome to get in touch. Meghan’s coaching can be one more coordinated part of the support around a young adult, working alongside the people who already know them.

How can you reach out?

If you are wondering whether coaching may fit a client’s needs, email Meghan to ask about working together. You can also visit the contact page.

Contact

Let’s start the ascent.

Email Meghan to ask about working together. She serves clients in the Asheville, NC and New York City areas, and online.

meg.e.michalski@gmail.com