Find your footing. Then find your stride.
EF Thrive helps children, teens and adults build the everyday skills behind planning, focus, time and follow-through. Sessions are one-on-one, online, and built around how your mind works.
Children & teens
Homework that gets started, a backpack that makes it to school, and the confidence to manage both without a reminder.
Adults
Deadlines, email, bills and the long list in your head, with systems that fit ADHD, processing speed and working-memory differences.
Parents
Parent coaching, plus consultations that explain your child’s psycho-educational profile and map out the next steps.
Schools & care teams
Guidance on IEP and 504 accommodations, support at those meetings, and collaboration with teachers, therapists, doctors and tutors.
The skills behind getting things done
Executive function is the brain’s management system. These are the eight skills coaching focuses on, in whatever mix you need.
Planning & prioritizing
Breaking big goals into steps and deciding what comes first.
Task initiation
Getting started, especially on the things you would rather avoid.
Working memory
Holding information in mind long enough to use it.
Time management
Estimating how long things take and making the day fit.
Organization
Keeping track of materials, files, plans and the places they live.
Focus & attention
Staying with a task, and finding the way back after a distraction.
Emotional regulation
Handling frustration and setbacks without losing the whole day.
Flexible thinking
Adjusting when plans change or the first approach does not work.
Dr. Surina Basho
A developmental psychologist who started as a cognitive neuroscience researcher, Dr. Basho has spent twenty years moving the science of executive function into classrooms, clinics and family life. For ten years she directed the Executive Function Research Program at Morrissey-Compton Educational Center in Silicon Valley.
She founded EF Thrive in August 2024 to focus on highly individualized work with each client.
Trust in yourself, and the steady steps that follow. Every session builds both.
Ready when you are
Tell us a little about what is going on, for you or your child. Dr. Basho will reply to set up a first conversation.