Cognitive-profile coaching for academics, researchers, attorneys, engineers, and cognitively-demanding professionals whose current systems fight their natural design.
If your work asks more from your brain than your current schedule actually supports, if you've tried every productivity system and they all eventually fall apart, the issue probably isn't your discipline. It's that your workflow was designed for someone with a different cognitive profile.
This work is for academics deep in a dissertation. Researchers managing five projects at once. Attorneys whose context-switching cost has compounded into something unsustainable. Engineers and R&D leads whose deep-work blocks keep getting fragmented. Healthcare professionals whose mental load is the actual job and there's no break from it.
Not "productivity coaching" in the bro-science sense. This is design work, anchored in your actual cognitive profile, built to last.
Three phases. Each builds on the one before it. The work compounds.
Comprehensive intake battery, free, about 45 minutes total to complete before our first session. Validated, masters-level instruments: ADHD screening, executive function, cognitive failures, sleep quality, and a self-built mental-load reflection. Used as coaching reflection, not diagnosis.
Translation of your scores and lived patterns into a workflow architecture that matches your actual cognitive style. Schedule blocking, attention-state design, context-switching reduction, mental-load triage. The first session lays the foundation. The next two or three sessions tune the build.
Iterative tuning over four to eight sessions until the new system runs without daily friction. We adjust as your life adjusts: semester shifts, project cycles, sleep changes, new constraints. The system stays alive because the person it's designed for stays alive.
Each instrument captures a different layer of how your brain is operating right now. None are diagnostic. All are starting points for coaching conversation.
Adult ADHD self-report screener. WHO-developed, 6-item core plus 12-item full. Captures attention, hyperactivity, and executive-function patterns.
Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Broadbent et al.). 25 items capturing working-memory-style failures in daily life.
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Sleep quality across 7 components. Sleep is upstream of cognition. We don't skip it.
Self-built coaching reflection inventory. 10 to 15 items capturing planning, initiation, task-switching, working memory, and felt mental load.
15-minute in-session exercise. Pattern-matching, category-switching, time-pressured tasks. Captures felt-sense data points for design work.
These are coaching reflection tools, not psychological assessment or diagnosis. For formal clinical assessment, see a licensed clinical psychologist or neurologist.
Clinical Psychology doctoral student at Hawai'i School of Professional Psychology, Chaminade University. ICF-certified Associate Certified Coach.
21 years United States Air Force: 8 in electronic warfare, 13 as an EOD (bomb squad) superintendent. Medically retired. Honolulu-based, with remote sessions worldwide.
First paid session. Reviews your pre-session assessment battery, designs the shape of the engagement, assigns next-step homework. If we continue, individual sessions or monthly subscription from here.
Book IntakeTwo 55-minute sessions per month at bi-weekly cadence. Subscription rate of $150/session, $25 below standalone. Auto-renews monthly until cancelled. Cancel anytime; current month's sessions remain valid through period end.
Best for ongoing engagement after initial intake.
Start SubscriptionCoaching is forward-focused design work. Therapy is healing work. I'm a clinical psychology doctoral candidate but not yet licensed, so the work here is coaching: non-diagnostic, non-therapeutic. If during our work it becomes clear that therapy is what you actually need, I'll tell you and refer you appropriately.
The intake battery (ASRS, CFQ, PSQI) is strongly recommended. They give us the data to design from. The in-session processing-speed exercise happens during our work together. The EF/Mental Load reflection is optional but useful. You won't be turned away if you skip something. We just have less to work with.
No. The screeners are coaching reflection tools. I can say "your ASRS score is in the elevated range." I can't say "you have ADHD." If clinical diagnosis would help you, I'll refer you to a licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.
Most cognitive coaching engagements run 4 to 8 sessions over 2 to 4 months. Bi-weekly cadence gives the work room to compound without overload. Some clients extend longer for ongoing tuning. Some wrap after the initial 4 to 6 sessions with a working system. Both are normal.
Yes. All sessions are remote by default (video call). In-person available if you're in Honolulu.
Then we have more starting context. The work doesn't change much. The assessment battery still gives us specifics, the design work is still anchored in your profile. ADHD is one factor among several that shape how a coaching engagement gets designed.
Cognitive Performance Coaching is design work: your workflow matched to your cognitive profile. Phoenix Protocol is regulation work: burnout recovery and nervous-system rebuild for high performers running on empty. Different problems, different cadences, different methodology. Some clients combine both. Most pick one.
$300 per month covers two 55-minute sessions, bi-weekly cadence recommended. Stripe charges monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime. The next charge stops, and your remaining sessions in the current paid month stay valid through the period end. No long-term commitment, no penalties.
Book a complimentary 25-minute Discovery Session. We'll figure out if this is the right fit for what you're working on.
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