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New Frontiers: Your Questions Answered

Discover everything you need to know about New Frontiers, from our mission and services to how we support individuals in achieving their goals. This FAQ addresses the most common inquiries about our coaching model, team, and what sets us apart.

New Frontiers is committed to helping clients reach their fullest potential through a collaborative, creative and flexible coaching model.

We coach people through their personal journey of growth. Our focus is on executive functions, which are goal-directed behaviors. Sometimes clients don’t even realize they need to refine their executive function skills! We help people learn about how they learn (metacognition), develop individualized strategies, and hold themselves accountable in using those strategies. We use a problem-solving model to work on goals and address barriers and obstacles to growth. Our overarching goal is to help people in developing: (1) problem solving skills, (2) a growth-mindset, (3) grit and resilience, and (4) independence.

We are not a school (although we do help with homeschooling coursework), and we do not provide therapeutic supports. We also do not provide ABA supports (although some of our work is behavioral in nature) or related services, such as Speech, OT, or PT. Coaching can complement these other supports, so if you are questioning whether we are a good fit or not, feel free to set up a call with us and we’d be happy to clarify how we can help. If we aren’t a good fit, we always try to point you in the right direction of something else you may be looking for.

We work through the lifespan, starting as early as 5 years old up through adults in their eighties and beyond. Since our coaching focuses on goals and goal-directed behaviors, like executive function skills, we can work with anyone who has or wants to set goals, and is seeking an accountability partner to help in working towards those goals.

Before coaching begins, we want to first make sure that we are the best fit to support you. First we will have a discovery call with you to get to know you and provide you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have. If you and we think that our coaching may be a good option for you, we will then schedule a virtual consultation, where we will identify your goals and what you are looking for in a coach (i.e., personality, expertise area, etc.). We develop a coaching plan that is designed to meet your needs and goals. Check out our Path to Coaching! Coaching, in it’s simplest description, is all about identifying goals, developing strategies, problem solving, and maintaining strategies that work!

Our coaching sessions are provided in units of 15 minutes (i.e., 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, etc.). What we accomplish in each session depends on the client and the length of meeting time. For some clients, they benefit from multiple 15-minute sessions in a week, whereas others benefit from longer sessions. We will design our recommendations with regards to what a typical week looks like during our initial consultation meeting. Coaches also text clients in between sessions, and are available for additional sessions as requested. Every person is unique, so our coaching supports are designed in a way to specifically benefit your goals and needs! Check out the Path to Coaching for more information.

Our coaching services are conducted virtually to ensure accessibility and flexibility for clients worldwide. However, we do offer in-person options for presentations and workshops. For more details and information why we have committed to virtual services, please visit our Where We Work page.

We follow a prepay model, where clients purchase blocks of hours in advance of coaching to add to their bank of hours. You can review our rates here. We accept ACH (electronic fund transfer), Credit Card, Zelle, and mailed checks as payment methods.

There are some public funding options available. These depend on your state and eligibility. We are happy to explore whether your funds can be applied to our supports!

Executive Function coaching is not covered by insurance.

Our coaches come from a wide variety of professional backgrounds to meet the needs of our diverse client base. We require all coaches to have completed, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree, though most have completed degrees at the master’s level or beyond. Many times our coaches have education or mental health backgrounds, but we do also have coaches with other specialty/concentration areas (e.g. business, medicine, law, fine arts, etc.). When hiring, we are looking for the attributes more difficult to teach or train, such as relatability, connectedness, empathy, creative/flexible thinking, and adaptability. We’ve identified these traits as foundational to effective coaching.

Both! We work with a wide range of individuals with wide ranging goals. The main domains we work on are: Academics, Social Engagement, Life Management, Career, and B2B solutions.

Although we provide both, coaching and tutoring are different from each other.

Tutoring focuses on teaching content. This may include examples such as working through how to do a math problem, or learning the specifics of a software. Tutoring tends to focus on the what of a skill.

Coaching, on the other hand, focuses on the how. Coaching is about navigating through challenge and struggle to help the client learn how to problem solve independently. New Frontiers’ model uses explicit instruction (teaching directly) and cognitive modeling (modeling thought processes) to help individuals build up their strategy tool kit.

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Although coaching doesn’t target specific diagnoses, many diagnoses directly or indirectly impact an individual’s executive functions. We focus on symptoms instead of diagnoses because this focuses efforts on actionable areas. Our approach is designed to support individuals in overcoming executive function challenges through a teaching and learning model. We have staff who specialize in specific diagnoses, so if there is a more specific need, we are often able to meet it.

Accomplishing goals is no easy task, but the first step is to break them down into more manageable, smaller tasks. Coaching also focuses on goal-directed persistence, the executive function skills necessary to help individuals not give up on goals and persist through challenge.

Feel free to either contact us (646-558-0085 or info@nfil.net) to discuss a specific referral or share our contact info with them directly. If you are a professional in the field, we are always looking for collaborative opportunities!

New Frontiers In Learning, LLC is our legal business name. When we started, we had a focus on students, hence the word “learning.” While we fervently believe that learning is a life long process, and that everyone should strive for growth, we changed our name to New Frontiers Executive Function Coaching to better present to the world the work we do.