Partnering for Academic Success
GOALS offers clinicians and counselors the opportunity to partner with our team. At GOALS, we will provide support ranging from intermittent problem solving to intensive academic rehabilitation. Your clients make agreements with you to make change and build positive habits. We will support those habits of time management, organization, follow-through and accountability in their academic lives. GOALS staff help students learn to organize their workload so that they are no longer overwhelmed. We work to empower students to own their education. High achieving students may also need academic guidance. Our staff will help students streamline their academics or put academics into perspective with other life goals.
“GOALS is able to help students with learning differences (like me) in ways that no other educational services can. It’s the EF sessions unique to GOALS that separates it from other centers. They teach you how to approach the work and how to improve your organizational skills – going beyond just tutoring content. It’s about training the mind to be able to achieve. It’s like therapy for school!”
Nina
University of SF
Clinicians
At GOALS we understand that academics can be a significant stressor that can exacerbate patient symptoms. Academics can also play a major role in familial strife and discord. Many of your patients may be in academic crisis or simply need strong academic support.
While GOALS staff are not clinicians, we are a strong team with a broad spectrum of experience of working with students with academic challenges, learning differences, social and emotional challenges, and varying psychiatric diagnoses.
Because we have worked with many students in crisis, we understand that continuity of care is of utmost importance. Your patients make agreements with you to make change and build positive habits. We are committed to supporting them as they build time management, organization, and follow-through skills and learn accountability in their academic lives. Through our dedicated case management system we can partner closely with you to support the work that you are doing with your patients.
Clinicians that have worked in conjunction with GOALS often report significant patient improvement. And, as the parent role in academic conflict is relaxed, family relationships also have space to heal and grow.
Partnership with GOALS gives you access to
Consultations with Phillip Roberts, GOALS CEO, and other executive staff members
Daily documentation of student progress (with student and family permission)
An additional eye on the things that you are working on
Real world observations and feedback on various behaviors over time
Flexibility with how the GOALS team collaborates with your clinical care team
An environment that spots half-truths and fosters an honest self-assessment and redirection
A place where it is safe for students to be honest with themselves and others
A fun, positive academic environment where staff are trained to identify actual accomplishments and celebrate them in reinforcing ways
GOALS can also serve as a resource and advocate for the student at all 504 Plan, IEP, and private school accommodation meetings.
Elementary school students through career level professionals who struggle with executive functioning challenges related to any of the following:
- ADHD
- Executive functioning disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Grief
- Autism spectrum
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Etc.
- Families in conflict over academics
- Disengaged students
- Overachieving students
- Students in academic crisis
College Counselors
Let GOALS support you in placing your clients in their best fit schools. Whether your students are considering highly prestigious colleges or any other number of fine college options, we will work with you at all levels – from students who want the best possible grades and test scores to those students who are struggling just to make it through the school year. GOALS works closely with each of our students to develop individual and unique study plans to prepare themselves for the college of their choice.
Every student deserves the option to go to college. Let us help you open up the realm of possible college options for your clients.
- Essay writing support
- Grade improvement strategies
- Subject content support for their current classes
- Executive Functioning Training to help them stay organized during the college application process