• Executive Functioning Performance Lab

    A 12-Week 1:1 Executive Functioning & Performance Coaching Program for Students With Parent Support - to Build Focus, Follow-Through, & Independence.

    Students develop the executive functioning skills needed to manage school demands, stay motivated, regulate stress, and build consistent habits — leading to stronger performance, greater confidence, and long-term success in school and life.

  • Does this sound like your student?

    • They're intelligent, capable, and have always had potential — but something isn't translating. Despite real ability, they're struggling to stay organized, follow through consistently, manage their time effectively, or perform at the level everyone, including them, knows they're capable of.
    • They may be coming off a difficult marking period or semester. They may be preparing for one of the most demanding academic transitions of their life. Either way, the gap between their ability and their performance is real — and it isn't closing on its own.
    • What's missing isn't intelligence or motivation. It's the executive functioning and performance psychology infrastructure that high-achieving students need to operate at their level.
    Executive functioning is the psychological operating system that governs how your student plans, organizes, initiates tasks, manages emotions under pressure, and sustains effort when things get hard. It has nothing to do with how smart they are. The most capable students — including many referred directly to this program by neuropsychologists — have significant gaps in these skills that no amount of tutoring, academic support, or parental intervention will address.
    That's exactly what the Executive Functioning Performance Lab is designed to fix.
    In 12 weeks of intensive 1:1 coaching with Dr. Joel Ingersoll, your student won't just get through the next marking period or semester. They'll develop the psychological performance skills that compound over time — in high school, college, in their career, and in every high-pressure environment they'll face for the rest of their life.

  • What happens in 12 weeks of EFPL Coaching?

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    This is not tutoring. It is not academic support. It is not therapy.

    It is a structured, private, 1:1 performance coaching engagement with Dr. Joel Ingersoll — built around your student's specific neuropsychological profile, personal strengths, performance challenges, and goals.

    Week by week your student develops the executive functioning and performance psychology skills that close the gap between their ability and their output. Sessions are private, confidential, and entirely focused on forward momentum. Parents have their own dedicated monthly session separate from their student's coaching time.

    By the end of 12 weeks your student will have a functioning personal performance system — not a semester survival strategy, but a transferable operating system they own and can deploy in every high-pressure environment that follows.

  • Who is this for:

    High-achieving students who have more capability than their current academic performance reflects.
    Students transitioning into or returning to college who want to build the psychological infrastructure for sustained performance — not just survive the next semester.
    Competitive athletes managing the dual demands of sport and academics who need a performance framework that addresses both simultaneously.
    Students who have completed a neuropsychological evaluation and have identified executive functioning as a development area — and whose families are ready to address it seriously.
    This program is not the right fit for students who are not ready to engage actively in the work. The EFPL coaching engagement requires commitment from both the student and the parent. Results are directly proportional to that commitment.

  • Why Dr. Joel Ingersoll specifically:

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    Most academic coaches don't have clinical training. Most psychologists don't coach. Dr. Ingersoll does both — and has spent over 20 years working with high-achieving students, D-1 and professional athletes, and executives at the intersection of clinical psychology and performance coaching.

    He began his career at Lehigh University as Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drug Services — where his work with D-1 athletic programs as a sports psychology consultant began. He later served as Associate Director of Counseling Services while simultaneously building his independent private practice, which he founded in 2005 and has maintained as a full-time thriving practice ever since.

    He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, one of a select number of APA-accredited doctoral programs in the country, and an MA in Applied Social and Community Psychology. His research has been published in the Journal of Personality Assessment. He is also a master-certified performance coach and the author of Fix-It Fatigue: How Gen-X Parents Can Stop Fixing Everything and Start Raising Adults Who Can Handle Anything.

    The EFPL program is built on the same performance psychology framework Dr. Ingersoll has applied with elite athletes and high-achieving adults for two decades — adapted specifically for the academic and developmental demands of high-achieving students.

    EFPL clients are accepted by referral and direct application only.

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  • What's included:

    ✓ Exclusive 1:1 weekly coaching sessions with Dr. Joel Ingersoll (60 minutes) Personalized, private coaching built around your student's specific neuropsychological profile, performance challenges, and goals. No group settings, no generic curriculum — every session is tailored to where your student is that week.
    ✓ Full access to The Performance Lab — Dr. Ingersoll's private curriculum. A structured video curriculum covering executive functioning, academic performance, emotional regulation, and career readiness — available exclusively to EFPL coaching clients. Students work through assigned modules between sessions to accelerate progress.
    ✓ The EFPL Student Playbook A comprehensive companion guide to the curriculum including the Self-Monitoring System — a structured weekly framework that builds the habits, consistency, and independence that high-achieving students need to perform at the level their ability demands.
    ✓ Fix-It Fatigue by Dr. Joel Ingersoll Required reading for parents before the engagement begins. Understanding the dynamic between high-achieving parents and their students is foundational to the work — and this book will change how you show up for your child in ways that directly accelerate their progress.
    ✓ Monthly parent alignment session (60 minutes) A dedicated monthly session with the parent to review progress, align on approach, and ensure the home environment is supporting rather than undermining the coaching work. Separate from student sessions — students speak privately with Dr. Ingersoll, parents have their own dedicated time.
    ✓ Direct email access between sessions For time-sensitive questions, emerging challenges, or brief check-ins that can't wait until the next session. This is not unlimited consulting — it is a focused communication channel to maintain momentum between sessions.

  • Investment and Next Step

    The EFPL three-month coaching engagement is $4,800, billed in full at the start of the program.

    This covers all twelve weekly 1:1 coaching sessions with Dr. Ingersoll, full access to The Performance Lab curriculum, the EFPL Student Playbook, a copy of Fix-It Fatigue, monthly parent alignment sessions, and direct email access between sessions.

    Continuation beyond three months is available at $1,500 per month for two sessions per month for families who want to maintain momentum into the following semester.

    To begin, schedule a parent consultation below. This is a private 30-minute conversation with Dr. Ingersoll to discuss your student's specific situation and confirm the program is the right fit.

  • EFPL pre-college 1:1 coaching program for Fall 2026

    Is your student college-bound this fall?
    Getting in was the achievement. Performing once they arrive is a different challenge entirely.
    The transition from high school to college is the single biggest performance shift a high-achieving student will face. New environment. No structure. No one checking in. Academic demands that exceed anything they've encountered before — all at once, without the support systems that have always been in place.
    Most students arrive on campus hoping they'll figure it out. The ones who thrive arrive with a system already built.
    The EFPL Pre-College Preparation Program is an intensive 8-week 1:1 coaching engagement with Dr. Joel Ingersoll designed specifically for college-bound students who want to arrive on campus prepared — not just enrolled.
    In 8 weeks your student will build the executive functioning skills, performance systems, and psychological resilience that determine whether college goes the way everyone hopes — before they ever set foot on campus.
    This program is for your student if:
    ✓ They've been accepted and you want them to start strong — not recover from a difficult first semester.
    ✓ They're a competitive athlete managing the dual demands of college sport and academics for the first time and need a performance framework that addresses both.
    ✓ A neuropsychological evaluation has identified executive functioning as a development area and you want it addressed before the academic pressure of college begins.
    ✓ You've watched them struggle with organization, follow-through, emotional regulation, or managing pressure in high school and you're not willing to wait and see what happens when the support structure disappears.
    What the 8-week program includes:
    ✓ Eight private weekly 1:1 coaching sessions with Dr. Joel Ingersoll (60 minutes each) — focused entirely on your student's specific profile, goals, and the transition ahead.
    ✓ Full access to The Performance Lab — Dr. Ingersoll's private curriculum covering executive functioning, academic performance systems, emotional regulation under pressure, and career readiness.
    ✓ The EFPL Student Playbook including the Self-Monitoring System — the personal performance framework your student will use from day one on campus.
    ✓ Fix-It Fatigue by Dr. Joel Ingersoll — required reading for parents before the program begins. The parent dynamic during the college transition is as important as the student's preparation. This book addresses it directly.
    ✓ One parent alignment session (60 minutes) — a dedicated conversation with Dr. Ingersoll to align on approach, set expectations for the transition, and ensure you're positioned to support without rescuing.
    The investment:
    The 8-week Pre-College Preparation Program is $2,800, billed in full at the start of the engagement.
    College decision day is May 1st. Summer pre-college coaching spots are limited and filling now.
    Schedule a parent consultation before April 30th to secure your student's spot for summer.
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