College student success coach
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Welcome to Students Stress Less Coaching LLC where the struggling college student is guided to freshman year success and the new college freshman avoids the struggles before going to college |
This where you break through the chaos of college.
With college comes challenges, some of which you are not prepared to manage.
How will you know when you do not have the appropriate life skills to manage the chaos of college?
You will feel it.
You want to be prepared with strategies, skills, and practices that will help you manage all areas of college life.
Do you know how to take good college notes or study in multiple ways?
Do you know to prioritize assignments, manage time, and set up a semester routine?
Do you know how to make social connections and communicate effectively with professors and advisors?
Do you know how to implement effective ways to manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelm into each day?
How will you know when you do not have the appropriate life skills to manage the chaos of college?
You will feel it.
You want to be prepared with strategies, skills, and practices that will help you manage all areas of college life.
Do you know how to take good college notes or study in multiple ways?
Do you know to prioritize assignments, manage time, and set up a semester routine?
Do you know how to make social connections and communicate effectively with professors and advisors?
Do you know how to implement effective ways to manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelm into each day?
Freshman year is a test of how well you manage yourself in all college-life situations.
As an investment in your college experience, you want to assure you can handle challenges so you thrive academically and personally.
Partnering and collaborating with a certified executive function and life and wellness coach is one way to get you ready for college.
Partnering and collaborating with a certified executive function and life and wellness coach is one way to get you ready for college.
Welcome to the magic of coaching!
Hi there. I am Lori. I am crazy about helping college students succeed and feel joy in the midst of chaos. I have partnered with both high school and college students all over the country for the last six years, helping them settle into college by setting up and monitoring their semesters for success.
Foremost, I am an advocate for student mental health and overall wellness.
I am a strong proponent of keeping a life-work balance as a busy college student.
To me, and to most of my student clients, when you feel in control of your life in a healthy, productive way, your mental health becomes both the foundation and catalyst for your academic success.
The first question I always get from parents or the student is:
"How does coaching work?"
Coaching is an active process. The relationship between a coach and student is "co-creative", meaning we are equals and both of us play an active role in the coaching process with your designated goals as our NorthStar.
Different from traditional therapy, coaching is a timely process that supports, moves, and engages the student in self-managing practices that build success in every area of college life, not just academics.
Here at Students Stress Less Coaching LLC, with the Everything but Books - 8 Necessary Skills to SurTHRIVE Freshman Year of College, we approach overall college success through 3 MAIN lenses:
Stress and anxiety management skills
Executive function skills
Life balance and wellness habits
Then we narrow the focus to these 8 specific life skills to build a solid self-management foundation for freshman year and beyond:
- Stress and Anxiety Management
- Social Success
- Executive Function Skills/Focus and Concentration
- Mental Strength and Resilience (for failure recovery)
- Self-confidence Skills
- Wellness Habits - basic nutrition, sleep hygiene, and body movement
- Study Skills and Habits
- Emotional Regulation (for those tough emotions)
Coaching you from college chaos to (self) connection through 3 lenses:
Stress and Anxiety Management Skills Lens:
-We complete a stress and /or anxiety rating profile (scale).
-We identify what factors could be causing you to feel overwhelmed, chaotic, and defeated.
-We decide if self-defeating thoughts are accurate.
-We design your most effective stress management strategies.
-We set into place accountability and relief measurement markers.
Executive Function Skills Lens:
-We do an initial executive function assessment to see how deficits in any of the these 11 skills might be cause for your overwhelm.
-We design and implement effective "systems" and "scaffolding" to help support your deficits and move you through each day successfully.
-We assess how your self-management skills are working for or against you feeling productive and successful.
-We review study habits and modify to meet your academic needs.
-We look at the establishment of a flexible daily routine that involves tasks, planning, organizing, and prioritizing.
-We implement personalized exercises and strategies that increase your metacognition so you self-manage daily tasks with remarkable self-awareness.
-We pinpoint your obstacles and challenges and decide how best to move through them.
-We identify your strengths and assure you use those in every situation.
Life and Wellness Skills and Habits Lens:
-We have you complete The Wellness Assessment to identify life areas that are seemingly out of balance.
-We identify what areas of college and personal life might be disrupting energy flow.
-We incorporate daily practices that help you establish life balance - primarily sleep hygiene, basic nutrition for college demands, and body movement.
-We implement markers that measure your satisfaction of wellness habits.
-We complete a stress and /or anxiety rating profile (scale).
-We identify what factors could be causing you to feel overwhelmed, chaotic, and defeated.
-We decide if self-defeating thoughts are accurate.
-We design your most effective stress management strategies.
-We set into place accountability and relief measurement markers.
Executive Function Skills Lens:
-We do an initial executive function assessment to see how deficits in any of the these 11 skills might be cause for your overwhelm.
-We design and implement effective "systems" and "scaffolding" to help support your deficits and move you through each day successfully.
-We assess how your self-management skills are working for or against you feeling productive and successful.
-We review study habits and modify to meet your academic needs.
-We look at the establishment of a flexible daily routine that involves tasks, planning, organizing, and prioritizing.
-We implement personalized exercises and strategies that increase your metacognition so you self-manage daily tasks with remarkable self-awareness.
-We pinpoint your obstacles and challenges and decide how best to move through them.
-We identify your strengths and assure you use those in every situation.
Life and Wellness Skills and Habits Lens:
-We have you complete The Wellness Assessment to identify life areas that are seemingly out of balance.
-We identify what areas of college and personal life might be disrupting energy flow.
-We incorporate daily practices that help you establish life balance - primarily sleep hygiene, basic nutrition for college demands, and body movement.
-We implement markers that measure your satisfaction of wellness habits.
Coaching:
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1. Moves students beyond mental chaos of stress and anxiety.
2. Uses a psychoeducational component to teach students about the mind/body connection and fight or flight.
3. Uses the power of questions so students evoke their own solutions.
4. Focuses on the student's strengths - using strengths to overcome "weaknesses".
5. Offers a shift for the student where a new understanding of the struggle, commitment to a solution, a clear direction, and renewed motivation becomes the vehicle for sustained change and growth.
6. Celebrates small wins and uses these successes as "gas" for the vehicle of momentum (a word we use a lot in coaching).
7. Focuses on the HOW, not the WHY? It is critical to create HOW you will get to your desired place of comfort and daily success, not WHY you are in the place you are in.
:
1. Moves students beyond mental chaos of stress and anxiety.
2. Uses a psychoeducational component to teach students about the mind/body connection and fight or flight.
3. Uses the power of questions so students evoke their own solutions.
4. Focuses on the student's strengths - using strengths to overcome "weaknesses".
5. Offers a shift for the student where a new understanding of the struggle, commitment to a solution, a clear direction, and renewed motivation becomes the vehicle for sustained change and growth.
6. Celebrates small wins and uses these successes as "gas" for the vehicle of momentum (a word we use a lot in coaching).
7. Focuses on the HOW, not the WHY? It is critical to create HOW you will get to your desired place of comfort and daily success, not WHY you are in the place you are in.
Together, with ZOOM sessions (tele-coaching), and email and text correspondence, we connect, collaborate, and support your overall success.
SurTHRIVING college is your number one goal and together we get you there.
Are. You. Ready?
SurTHRIVING college is your number one goal and together we get you there.
Are. You. Ready?
