Help your teen build the executive-function skills and nervous-system regulation they need for real life.

Yes. Executive-function coaching is a core part of Wayfinders. In Guided Helmspace, your teen works directly with Amy Brayley, MEd, a credentialed Executive Function Coach, on planning, initiation, organization, working memory, attention, and follow-through. Wayfinders pairs that coaching with nervous-system regulation, so your teen isn't just learning skills — they're building the internal capacity to actually use them.

Wayfinders is designed for teens ages 12–18 and their families.

Yes. The parent pathway is a core part of Helmspace. In Home-Guided Helmspace, parents receive all five coaching sessions with Karen and Cathy as recorded sessions through the Parent Portal. In Guided Helmspace, Karen and Cathy lead the five parent coaching sessions live.

In Guided Helmspace, the teen journey is led by two facilitators who each run their own sessions: Amy Brayley, MEd, Executive Function Coach, and Bryon Sweeney, a master's-level, certified special education teacher with more than 25 years of experience, who is also available for individual IEP consulting.

Sound is one of several co-regulation tools taught in Helmspace, alongside movement, breath, grounding, and body-based practice. Rather than one specific style, teens learn to notice how different sounds and music — across genres like pop, classical, and rock — affect their state, attention, and energy, and build a personal toolkit of what helps them settle or focus.

No. Wayfinders works with developmental skills relevant across adolescence: nervous-system awareness, regulation, executive function, communication, flexibility, decision-making, and growing self-navigation.

Wayfinders families can access additional paid one-on-one support in executive function, IEP consulting, integrative nutrition, and — adjunctively through Well in Montclair — acupuncture and constitutional support.

Every Wayfinders family receives two additional months of CA(L)M Sound Library access after the 12-week program ends. Families who want continued access after that period can maintain membership for $15 per month.

Helmspace builds the internal navigation foundation, and it's designed to stand complete on its own. For families who want to keep building, Helmspace is semester one of the Wayfinders year — the next journey is Waypoint™, semester two, where teens carry that foundation outward: continued practice, real-world application, and support as they navigate purpose, relationships, decisions, responsibility, and increasing independence.

An executive-function coach works directly with a teen on the practical skills involved in getting things done — starting tasks, planning, organizing, managing time, shifting between tasks, and following through. In Guided Helmspace, that role is filled by Amy Brayley, MEd, who works alongside the story-driven Helmspace curriculum rather than in a separate, standalone coaching session.

Common signs include trouble starting or finishing tasks, chronic disorganization, missed assignments despite genuine effort, difficulty managing time, emotional shutdowns around schoolwork, and a pattern of trying planners, reward systems, and reminders without lasting change. If that sounds familiar, Wayfinders is built for exactly this — it combines executive-function coaching with the nervous-system regulation work that often explains why those tools stop working under stress.

Executive-function coaching is included in both Wayfinders tiers. Home-Guided Helmspace is $495 and includes the full 12-week curriculum plus recorded parent coaching. Guided Helmspace is $1,495 and includes live executive-function facilitation with Amy Brayley, MEd, plus live parent coaching sessions. Families who want additional one-on-one executive-function coaching beyond the program can add individual sessions with Amy.

Executive-function coaching focuses on skills — planning, initiation, organization, time management, and follow-through — rather than diagnosing or treating a mental-health condition. Wayfinders does not require a diagnosis and is not a substitute for therapy; some families use Wayfinders alongside therapy or other professional support, and Wayfinders helps parents understand when that additional support may be useful.

Parents attend their own portion of the program — five coaching sessions, live in Guided Helmspace or recorded in Home-Guided Helmspace — and maintain home-based supports between sessions. For teens ages 12–14, that includes listening to the weekly story together. For teens 15–18, parents stay involved and supportive while their teen works more independently.

No. Wayfinders is a facilitated group program, not individualized coaching or therapy. Facilitators guide the group experience and do not replace parents or provide individual case management. Families who want one-on-one support can add optional individual sessions with Wayfinders professionals alongside the program.

It depends on age. Teens 12–14 participate with direct parent scaffolding, including listening to the weekly story together. Teens 15–18 can move through the material more independently, though parents remain involved in their own portion of the program and in supporting practice at home.

Yes, Google Classroom is where program materials live for every enrolled family, alongside optional enrichment activities. Families need basic access to Google Classroom to follow the weekly curriculum.

No. Toolkit building is part of the core learning process, but the challenges and badges that go with it are optional motivators, not requirements for completing the program.

Progress in Wayfinders is gradual and depends on participation and practice rather than a test or score. Facilitators observe engagement during sessions, and families see progress at home as teens apply tools in everyday situations across the twelve weeks.

Wayfinders moves through a shared weekly curriculum with the cohort, so pacing is not individualized. If a family finds the pace isn't the right fit, we encourage reaching out during the Fit and Commitment period at the start of the program to talk through options, including Home-Guided Helmspace, which allows more flexibility in how a family moves through the same material.

Guided Helmspace sessions are recorded, so a missed live session can be caught up on through the Parent Portal or Google Classroom. Because Wayfinders builds week over week, we recommend keeping up with the weekly story and practice at home even after a missed session, and reaching out to your facilitator if your family falls behind.

Enrollment reserves a place in a facilitated cohort. Families have a 14-day Fit and Commitment period from the official program start date to determine whether Wayfinders is a workable fit, provided they engage in good-faith participation in orientation and the opening activities. After that period, tuition is nonrefundable and payment-plan obligations continue, though transfers or program credits may be considered in exceptional circumstances. See the complete Enrollment and Refund Policy for full details.