• Executive Functioning Performance Lab

    • Executive Functioning & Performance Coaching Programs 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.

  • The EFPL program meets your student where they are

    There are two ways to engage with the Executive Functioning Performance Lab depending on where your student is right now.

    • For college-bound students preparing for the transition ahead — the Pre-College Preparation Program builds the performance operating system before campus arrival. For high-achieving students who need comprehensive executive functioning development.
    • The Full EFPL Coaching Program provides structured weekly coaching throughout an entire semester.

    Both programs are private 1:1 engagements with Dr. Joel Ingersoll. There are no group sessions, no generic curriculum, and no one-size-fits-all approach. Every engagement is built around your student specifically.

  • Who is this for:

    • College-bound students heading to campus this fall who want to arrive with a performance system already built — rather than discovering what they're missing after the first difficult semester.
    • 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.

  • 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.

  • What's included:

    Full EFPL Coaching Program — what's included:

    ✓ Twelve private weekly 1:1 sessions with Dr. Joel Ingersoll — 60 minutes each, structured around your student's specific performance priorities and adjusted as the work evolves. Available in person in northern New Jersey or via telehealth.

    ✓ Monthly parent alignment sessions — a dedicated 60-minute session with the parent each month 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.

    ✓ Full access to The Performance Lab — Dr. Ingersoll's private curriculum covering executive functioning foundations, academic performance systems, emotional regulation under pressure, and college readiness. Available exclusively to EFPL coaching clients.

    ✓ The EFPL Student Playbook — the personal performance framework and self-monitoring system your student will use throughout the engagement and beyond.

    ✓ 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.

    ✓ 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 a focused communication channel to maintain momentum between sessions.
    Pre-College Preparation Program — what's included:
    ✓ Six private sessions with Dr. Joel Ingersoll — including two parent meetings built into sessions one and six. All sessions scheduled at intake to protect against summer schedule conflicts. Available in person in northern New Jersey or via telehealth.
    ✓ First parent meeting built into session one — 30 minutes following the student intake. Establishes the family framework, introduces the Fix-It Fatigue approach, and aligns parent and student on the work ahead.
    ✓ Second parent meeting built into session six — 30 minutes following the student's last meeting to review their personal performance plan. You leave with a unified family approach to the college transition.
    ✓ Full access to The Performance Lab — Dr. Ingersoll's private curriculum covering executive functioning foundations, academic performance systems, emotional regulation under pressure, and college readiness. Available throughout the program and into the first semester.
    ✓ The EFPL Student Playbook — the personal performance framework and self-monitoring system your student will use from move-in day forward.
    ✓ Fix-It Fatigue by Dr. Joel Ingersoll — required reading for parents before the program begins. Understanding the family dynamic during the college transition is as important as the student's preparation. This book addresses it directly.
    ✓ First Semester Success Retainer — optional continuation available to Pre-College Preparation families. Eight remote coaching sessions plus four parent check-ins delivered throughout the first semester. Billed before move-in day for families who want sustained support while the real test begins. Available via telehealth to students on campus anywhere in the 39 PSYPACT participating states.

  • 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.

    Dr. Ingersoll is licensed in New Jersey and participates in PSYPACT, enabling telepsychology services across 39 participating states.

    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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  • Investment and Next Step

    Pre-College Preparation Program

    • Six sessions including two parent meetings — $2,400, billed in full at the start of the program.
    • All six sessions are scheduled at your intake appointment to protect against summer vacation conflicts. The program runs May through August with sessions timed around your student's schedule.
    • Session one includes a 30-minute parent meeting built into the appointment — establishing the family framework before the coaching work begins. Session six includes a 30-minute parent meeting at the close — where your student presents their personal performance plan and you leave with a unified family approach to the transition ahead.
    • The First Semester Success Retainer is available to Pre-College Preparation families for $2,400 billed before move-in day — eight remote coaching sessions plus four parent check-ins delivered throughout the first semester while your student is on campus anywhere in the country. Families who complete both programs invest $4,800 in a seamless performance coaching experience from preparation through first semester completion.

    Full EFPL Coaching Program

    • Twelve weekly sessions plus monthly parent alignment sessions — $4,800, billed in full at the start of the program.
    • Recommended for high-achieving students who need comprehensive executive functioning development over a full semester timeline. Available as a coaching engagement or as a clinical psychological services program for students with documented diagnoses — including ADHD, learning disabilities, and executive functioning deficits identified through neuropsychological evaluation. A superbill is provided for families wishing to submit to insurance carriers for potential out of network reimbursement consideration.

    Ongoing EFPL Retainer

    • Two individual student sessions plus one parent session per month — $1,100 per month, billed monthly. Available to all EFPL program graduates and as a standalone ongoing engagement for families whose students are already working with other providers.

    All programs available in person in northern New Jersey or via telehealth across 39 states through PSYPACT participation — including the First Semester Success Retainer delivered remotely while your student is on campus.

    Schedule a parent consultation to discuss which program is the right fit for your student.

  • The gap between your student's ability and their performance is real. It is also closeable — before they arrive on campus or during the semester that tests everything they're made of. That's the work.

    Serving families in person in northern New Jersey and via telehealth across 39 participating PSYPACT states — including students heading to college anywhere in the country.


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