Executive functioning refers to the set of cognitive skills that help us plan, organize, initiate, manage, and complete everyday tasks. These skills allow individuals to set goals, prioritize information, manage time, sustain attention, regulate emotions, solve problems, and adapt when plans change. When executive functioning skills are underdeveloped, children, teens, and adults may struggle with organization, task completion, self-monitoring, flexibility, and independence in academic, social, and daily life.

At Good Talking People, we provide therapy designed to strengthen executive functioning through practical, real-world strategies that can be applied across home, school, work, and community settings. Our clinicians work collaboratively with each client to identify areas of challenge and develop personalized interventions that build confidence and promote greater independence.

At Good Talking People we offer individual therapy where clients will learn to:

• Improve Nonverbal Working Memory as the foundation for all other skills
• Facilitate growth in situational awareness to enable one to “read a room” so to create and appropriate action plan
• Develop a “memory for the future” by learning strategies to set and achieve goals
• Learn how to sense the passage of time and identify “time robbers” so to appropriately allocate time and improve time management kills
• Manage multiple activities including homework, projects and extracurricular activities while still finding “down time” through planning and organization strategies