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Does your middle or high schooler know the material but still struggle with grades? Do assignments pile up, backpacks overflow with crumpled papers, and projects get started the night before they’re due? If you’re searching for an ADD coach in Gunbarrel, Boulder, Longmont, or Niwot, you’re likely seeing these patterns at home.
While most professionals now use ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) as the clinical term, many parents still search for ADD coaching when looking for help with their child’s organization, focus, and time management challenges. The terminology may have evolved, but the need for support remains the same.
The Missing Piece: Executive Function Skills
Here’s what many parents don’t realize: struggling with homework completion, organization, or time management isn’t about laziness or lack of intelligence. It’s about executive function-the brain’s command center for managing tasks, emotions, and attention.
Think of executive function as your brain’s CEO. It helps you prioritize tasks, manage your schedule, control impulses, and adapt when things don’t go as planned. For students with ADHD, this “CEO” is still learning on the job, often developing years behind peers. The good news? These skills can be taught.
At Untapped Learning’s Gunbarrel location, we specialize in teaching the skills that schools assume students already have.
Beyond Homework Help: What ADD Coaching Really Means
Let’s be clear about what you’re getting when you search for an ADD coach. This isn’t subject-specific tutoring where someone helps with algebra problems or reads through essay drafts.
Executive function coaching addresses why your child struggles across multiple subjects. Why they can’t seem to start that project even though they understand it. Why their binder looks like a paper explosion. Why they lose track of time or forget what they were supposed to be doing.
We work on the foundational skills that make all learning possible: breaking down complex assignments, creating systems that stick, building focus and follow-through, and developing the self-awareness to know when to adjust strategies.
How We Build Skills That Last
Students at our Gunbarrel center meet their coach weekly for focused one-hour sessions. Here’s what makes our approach work:
Same Time, Same Place, Same Coach: Consistency is powerful for ADHD brains. Your child isn’t meeting with whoever’s available-they’re building a real relationship with a coach who knows their story, understands their challenges, and celebrates their wins.
Real Work, Real Solutions: We don’t use worksheets about organization. We organize your child’s actual backpack. We don’t talk about time management in theory. We plan their actual week together. This hands-on approach means skills transfer immediately to daily life.
Support Beyond Sessions: Your child’s coach reaches out between meetings- a quick text to check on that big project, encouragement before a test, help troubleshooting when plans fall apart. This ongoing connection provides accountability without nagging, from someone who isn’t mom, dad, or a teacher.
Skills Taught Through an Academic Lens: We use schoolwork as the training ground for life skills. Planning that science fair project teaches long-term planning. Managing homework across six classes teaches prioritization. Preparing for finals week teaches stress management and self-care.
Serving Families Throughout the Boulder Area
Families drive to our Gunbarrel location from throughout the area including Boulder, Longmont, Niwot, and surrounding communities. We’ve designed our space to be welcoming and distraction-appropriate (we know ADHD brains need the right environment to focus and learn).
We schedule sessions at consistent times that work around sports practices, music lessons, and family commitments. Building routine matters more than finding the “perfect” time.
The Students We Help
You might be searching for an ADD coach because your child has an ADHD diagnosis. But executive function challenges affect many students including those with anxiety who avoid tasks they find stressful, students with dyslexia who need extra organizational support, perfectionists who can’t start assignments because they’re afraid of getting them wrong, and students with no diagnosis at all who simply need these skills taught explicitly.
Your child might benefit from coaching if they:
- Complete assignments but forget to turn them in
- Wait until the last possible moment to start studying
- Have strong test anxiety despite knowing the material
- Can’t estimate how long tasks will take
- Feel constantly overwhelmed by their workload
- Struggle with the transition to middle or high school
- Are smart but performing below their potential
Why Our Approach Gets Results
Since launching in 2017, we’ve refined an approach that works. Our students aren’t just improving grades (though 95% do improve their GPA). They’re reducing anxiety (92% report feeling less stressed about school). They’re getting into college (90% of our high school students go on to higher education).
But here’s what matters most to us: they’re building independence. Parents tell us they’re not having to remind their kids about homework anymore. They’re seeing their children advocate for themselves, manage their own schedules, and bounce back from setbacks.
These aren’t quick fixes. We’re teaching skills that take practice and patience. Progress often looks like “two steps forward, one step back.” But with consistent support and the right strategies, students develop capabilities that serve them for life.
Starting the Conversation
If you’ve been searching for an ADD coach in Gunbarrel, we invite you to start with a free consultation. We’ll talk about what’s happening at home and school, learn about your child’s strengths and struggles, and explore whether our approach is the right fit.
This conversation is pressure-free. Our goal is to understand your family’s needs and share honestly about how we can help. If we’re not the right solution, we’ll tell you.
Your child has potential waiting to be unlocked. Sometimes they just need someone to teach them the skills that others seem to figure out naturally, and to believe in them while they’re learning.
Contact Untapped Learning Gunbarrel today. Let’s talk about how we can help your middle or high schooler thrive.
