14 years later, I hold that one of my core principles as an EF Coach is to mentor and guide minds, young and old. Back then, I didn’t know that I was actually teaching executive functions skills to each of my students. We talked through how to plan out their homework session with me, created to-do lists, and even emailed teachers to advocate for more help before or after school. These concepts of initiating, controlling our distractions, working memory, planning, time management, organizing material, monitoring, and emotional control were all simple concepts that I used to guide my elementary and middle school students. I didn’t know these as the core executive functions that I would be dedicating my life to mastering, teaching, and spreading. 

After I graduated from UCLA in 2015 with a B.S. in Biochemistry, I spent a gap year before medical school teaching students on the spectrum an executive functions program supervised by a professor from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. I fell in love being an EF coach and realized that this was something that I can truly make an effective difference in, more so than being a doctor. In 2018, I decided to pursue my Master’s in Clinical Psychology to further understand family systems as I believed structured family dynamics was a critical component to improving executive functions skills.