Coaching - Executive Function & Personal Development Coaching

COACHING AT ANKELAB
Personalized Coaching for How You Work, Live, and Move Forward.

ANKELAB offers executive function and personal development coaching to help you navigate transitions, deepen self-awareness, and find more workable ways to plan, prioritize, focus, organize, and follow through.
Ways to Work Together

Each coaching session is a 45-minute online video conversation, usually held through Zoom. If Zoom is not accessible or does not work for you, another online platform may be arranged in advance.
You choose the focus of each session. Together, you and your coach may clarify a challenge, explore patterns and strengths, consider new perspectives, and identify practical next steps that fit your goals and circumstances.

The Focus Session
One-Time Coaching
A single session focused on one important question,decision, or immediate priority.

This may be right for you if you want to:
Think through a time-sensitive decision, such as evaluating a job offer.
Prepare for an important conversation, meeting, presentation, or event.
Sort through competing priorities and identify a clear next step.
Explore a specific challenge without committing to ongoing coaching.
Frequency: One 45-minute session. Additional sessions may be scheduled if new needs arise.
Price: $150 USD

The Momentum Series
Coaching for a Defined Goal or Transition
Structured coaching over several weeks or months while you work toward a milestone, navigate a transition, or build more effective ways of managing everyday demands.
This may be right for you if you are:
Preparing for a thesis defense, job search, major project, or another significant milestone.
Navigating a career change, relocation, cross-cultural adjustment, new family role, or return to work.
Building sustainable systems for planning and prioritization, time management, focus, organization, task initiation, or follow-through.
Looking for consistent support and accountability during a demanding period.
Frequency: Sessions may be scheduled from twice a week during an intensive period to once a month, with the schedule adjusted as your needs and timeline change.
Engagement: Starts with 4 sessions
Price: $125 USD per session

The Development Partnership
Ongoing Coaching for Long-Term Development

A longer-term coaching relationship that creates dedicated space for continued self-awareness, intentional development, reflection, decision-making, and accountability as your life and work evolve.

This may be right for you if you want to:
Better understand your strengths, patterns, values, needs, and priorities.
Make thoughtful decisions as your life, work, or responsibilities evolve.
Change habits and continue refining the systems that support your everyday life.
Maintain an ongoing space for reflection, perspective, personal growth, and accountability.
Frequency: The initial four sessions are generally scheduled monthly or quarterly. After a strong foundation is established, ongoing review sessions may be scheduled as infrequently as once every six months.
Engagement: Starts with 4 sessions
Price: $125 USD per session
Free Discovery Call
Not sure where to begin? You do not need to choose a coaching option before the discovery call.
The discovery call is a free, 20-minute conversation to discuss what you are looking for, ask questions, learn how coaching works, and determine whether ANKELAB may be a good fit. It is not a full coaching session, and you are not required to purchase coaching afterward.

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What Sets ANKELAB Apart
ANKELAB’s signature framework integrates cognitive-behavioral concepts, executive function coaching principles, and practical behavior-change strategies into a structured yet flexible cycle.
The ADAA Framework
Coaching is available in Mandarin and English, with attention to how cultural background, family expectations, and the environments in which you live and work may shape both the challenges you face and the solutions that make sense.
Bilingual and Culturally Responsive
Our strengths-based, neurodiversity-informed approach recognizes that there’s no one-size-fits-all way to think, work, or manage daily life. With particular attention to ADHD, we explore strategies that build on each person’s strengths and fit their needs.
Neurodiversity-Informed
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the differences between coaching, therapy, and consulting?
Coaching is a collaborative, forward-looking, goal oriented process. A coach asks questions, offers observations, and helps you develop your own awareness, strategies, and actions. A coach does not diagnose mental health conditions or prescribe a fixed solution for your life.
Therapy is a clinical service provided by a licensed mental health professional. It may address mental health symptoms, trauma, significant emotional distress, and other concerns that require clinical assessment or treatment. If you are experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition, thoughts of self-harm, or a crisis, please prioritize support from a licensed mental health professional or crisis service.
Consulting centers on expert advice. A consultant analyzes a situation and recommends solutions based on their expertise. In coaching, you remain the expert on your own life, and the coach helps you arrive at your own insights, decisions, and next steps.
If your needs fall outside the scope of coaching, ANKELAB will discuss this with you and may recommend another qualified professional or provide referral options when possible.
Are coaching sessions confidential?
Yes, with clearly defined exceptions. Information shared during coaching is treated as confidential. Sessions are not audio- or video-recorded without your prior written consent, and ANKELAB does not keep transcripts or detailed session notes. Basic administrative records, such as contact information, agreements, scheduling, and payment records, may be retained.
Coaching confidentiality may not carry the same legal privilege as communications with a licensed psychotherapist. ANKELAB may disclose information with your authorization, as required by applicable law or legal process, or when reasonably necessary to respond to an imminent or likely risk of serious harm to you or someone else. These boundaries will be explained in the coaching agreement before coaching begins.
Coaching is not mental health treatment or an emergency service. If you need mental health assessment or treatment, are experiencing thoughts of self-harm, or are in crisis, please contact a licensed mental health professional or crisis service. In the United States, you may call or text 988 for immediate crisis support. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 or the appropriate local emergency service.
What is ANKELAB’s cancellation and rescheduling policy?
You may cancel or reschedule a session at no charge by providing at least 24 hours’ notice.
Cancellations or rescheduling requests made less than 24 hours before the scheduled session will incur a fee equal to 50% of the applicable session rate.
If you do not attend a scheduled session and provide no advance notice, you will be charged 100% of the applicable session rate.
If you arrive late, the session will still end at the originally scheduled time, and the full applicable session rate will apply.
If a session is delayed, missed, shortened, or rescheduled due to circumstances attributable to ANKELAB, we will make an appropriate adjustment based on the circumstances. This may include making up the affected session time, reducing or waiving the applicable fee, or issuing a full or partial refund, as appropriate.
The same policy applies to all ANKELAB coaching options, including the Coaching Access Program. Exceptions for emergencies or other exceptional circumstances may be considered case by case.
Is coaching covered by insurance?
ANKELAB does not bill or submit claims to health insurance. Because coaching is not medical or mental health treatment, clients should not assume it is covered; contact your insurance provider directly to ask whether your plan offers reimbursement for coaching or wellness services.
Does ANKELAB work with clients under 18?
ANKELAB currently provides coaching only to adults aged 18 and older. Parents and legal guardians are welcome to use ANKELAB’s educational resources with younger people under their supervision.
Does ANKELAB offer reduced-fee coaching?
Yes. Through the ANKELAB Coaching Access Program, a limited number of reduced-fee coaching opportunities are available each month. Availability, rates, and the number of sessions offered may vary. Contact us to learn about current options.
What support is available between coaching sessions?
Communication outside scheduled coaching sessions is generally limited to scheduling, invoicing, payment, and other administrative matters.
Ongoing coaching, feedback on exercises or assignments, and real-time or on-demand support are not provided through email, messaging, or other communication channels outside scheduled sessions.
However, for added flexibility, current coaching clients may also schedule a 20-minute additional coaching session to discuss a question or topic between regular sessions. This additional session will be billed at the applicable rate listed in your service details.