Own Your Path provides individualized, evidence-based coaching for neurodivergent teens and young adults navigating the move toward college, employment, and independent living — delivered entirely virtually, to families anywhere in the country.
Coaching For The Transitions That Matter Most
-Who We Serve
Teens
Support for the years on either side of leaving school-based services — building self-advocacy, executive-functioning systems, and the foundational skills that carry into adulthood. Matched with one coach, virtually, wherever you live.
Young Adults
Structured coaching for the transition to college, a first job, or independent living. The same recurring coach and time each week, so momentum builds instead of resetting — no matter where in the country you're headed next.
Parents and Caregivers
Standalone or paired parent coaching that helps you align your support with your child's plan — including our core, sometimes counterintuitive principle: allowing room for natural consequences as part of building real independence.
A note on fit:
Own Your Path's primary specialization is autism, reflecting our founder's clinical depth and dissertation research — and the same structured approach extends to the broader neurodivergent community, including ADHD and learning differences, as well as neurotypical clients who benefit from the same transition support. A formal diagnosis isn't required to start. Coaching isn't a substitute for crisis services, diagnosis, or clinical treatment; when that's the need, we'll help you find the right referral.
When a young adult heads toward independence, the whole family makes a shift. Here's what that can look like — first through Ethan's eyes, then through his mom's.
Ethan is 18 and autistic. He was about to start college two hours from home. He is smart and works hard. But at home, his mom did a lot for him. She woke him up, kept his schedule, and made his phone calls. He had never asked a teacher for help on his own.
Ethan met his coach online once a week — same coach, same time, every week. Each week they practiced one skill together. Then Ethan tried it in real life. He wrote the email to the disability services office. He built his own alarm and laundry plan. When a teacher forgot his extra test time, Ethan spoke up — with words he had practiced.
By the 90-day check-in, Ethan had reached both of his goals. He finished the semester passing his classes — and proud of goals he set himself.
"Sign up for disability services myself, before classes start."
"Run my own week — laundry, meals, and waking up — without Mom reminding me."
While Ethan practiced his new skills, his mom was learning a new job of her own.
For 18 years, Dana's job was to keep Ethan on track. She woke him up. She watched his deadlines. She made his phone calls. When he was about to leave for college, she saw the truth: she could not go with him. And everything she did for him was one more thing he had never done himself.
While Ethan worked with his coach, Dana joined Guided Path, our coaching program just for parents. Her job was not going away — it was changing. From doing things for Ethan to cheering him on while he did them. Each week she got one small thing to try at home. The first one was hard: don't send the reminder text.
Then Ethan ran out of clean clothes. Every part of her wanted to fix it. She didn't — and he fixed it himself. Weeks later, he signed up for disability services on his own. It was the call she didn't make that made her the proudest.
"Hold back on purpose — and let learning-sized things go wrong."
Ethan and Dana's story is an example we created to show what Own Your Path coaching and Guided Path parent coaching can look like. They are not real clients. Every client and family sets their own goals, and results are different for each person. Coaching is not therapy or medical care.
The principles behind every coaching plan
—OUR APPROACH
Five principles define the Own Your Path Coaching Model. Every coach is certified in them before taking a client — they're what separates this from generalist life coaching.
Consistency is the Method-One coach, reoccurring schedule
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The Client Leads — The Plan Is Theirs
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Targeted Goals
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The Dignity of Risk-Room to Fail Safely
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Strength First, Neurodiversity Affirming
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