Amber Lechner, MSW
Learning Specialist & Executive Functioning Coach
Welcome to Luna Coaching Academy!
We help students, young adults, and professionals build the skills, systems, and confidence they need to navigate school, work, and everyday life with more clarity and less overwhelm.
Luna Coaching Academy was founded by Amber Lechner, MSW, Executive Functioning Coach, and Learning Specialist. As someone diagnosed with ADHD herself, Amber built Luna Coaching Academy from a simple belief: people with executive functioning challenges don't need another person telling them what to do. They need coaches who understand how their brain works, who can help them identify what gets in their way, and what helps them thrive. That belief shapes everything we do, and every coach on our team.
We know how important it is to feel understood rather than judged or criticized, and that the right support can make everyday challenges feel more manageable and more hopeful. Our goal is to provide gentle accountability, compassionate support, and realistic tools until each client builds the systems and self-awareness they need to move forward more independently.
We work closely with each client to strengthen skills like time management, planning, organization, task initiation, studying, self-advocacy, emotional regulation, and follow-through. Grounded in Amber's background in social work, we also understand the importance of a strong support team around each client, which is why we love to collaborate with parents, teachers, therapists, tutors, psychiatrists, and other professionals as needed, so everyone stays on the same page.
Our approach is strengths-based, collaborative, and grounded in over a decade of professional experience supporting students and adults with ADHD, learning differences, executive functioning challenges, and mood-related barriers.
At Luna Coaching Academy, coaching is not about perfection, pressure, or shame. It's about helping clients feel understood, supported, and capable of making meaningful progress, one step at a time. Together, we build small, sustainable habits that help clients feel more prepared for what comes next.
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Lighting the way — small habits, big success
〰️ Lighting the way — small habits, big success
What to Expect
Every coaching relationship begins with understanding the whole person, not just their grades, assignments, or to-do list.
Depending on each client’s needs, coaching may focus on:
Time Management & Planning
Building realistic weekly routines, preparing for upcoming assignments/deadlines, and learning how to plan ahead without feeling overwhelmed.Organization & Systems
Creating practical routines for keeping bedrooms, bathrooms, and backpacks tidy. Building organizational skills and habits for binders/folders, digital files, planners, calendars, email, school portals, and assignment tracking.Task Initiation & Follow-Through
Learning how to get started, break tasks into manageable steps, and reduce avoidance. Accountability from every coach via text, email, or phone calls, until the client builds the skill to follow through independently with more consistency.Study Skills & Academic Confidence
Developing skills with note-taking, active reading, test preparation, recall/retrieval habits, writing, and study strategies that match the way each client learns best.Emotional Regulation & Motivation
Supporting clients when frustration, anxiety, perfectionism, low motivation, shame, or guilts that can impact progress.Self-Advocacy & Independence
Helping clients communicate with teachers/professors, parents, or support teams while gradually building ownership and confidence.Accountability Without Shame
Offering consistent support, reflection, and encouragement in a judgment-free space where clients can be honest about what is working and what still feels hard.
Coaching is designed to help clients experience both short-term relief and long-term growth. Sometimes that means getting caught up on missing work. Sometimes it means learning how to study for a major exam. Sometimes it means creating a plan for college, work, or daily life that finally feels realistic.
Over time, clients begin to build not only better habits, but also a deeper understanding of themselves. They learn how to work with their brain instead of fighting against it.
Families can expect thoughtful communication, collaborative problem-solving, and support that helps make the path forward feel clearer, calmer, and more manageable.
If this sounds like the kind of support your family is looking for, I’d love to connect and learn more about your needs.
Who I Support
Middle & High School Students
Support for students in grades 6–12 who are learning how to manage school with more confidence, structure, and independence.
Middle and high school often bring a big jump in expectations. Students are asked to manage more assignments, longer-term projects, harder classes, changing schedules, digital portals, extracurriculars, and increasing independence, often before they have fully developed the skills to keep up with it all.
Coaching is here to help students build skills to tackle the obstacles they face.
College Students
Support for students navigating the transition to greater independence.
College can be exciting, but it can also feel overwhelming when students are suddenly expected to manage their own schedule, assignments, studying, sleep, routines, communication, and long-term planning with less external structure.
Coaching helps college students create realistic systems for managing academic and daily life demands, while also building the self-awareness and confidence needed to advocate for themselves.
Adults & Working Professionals
Support for adults who want more structure, clarity, and follow-through in work, home, and everyday life.
Executive functioning challenges do not disappear after school. Many adults with ADHD or executive functioning difficulties continue to struggle with planning, organization, time management, task initiation, emotional overwhelm, prioritizing, or keeping up with the many moving pieces of daily life.
Coaching can help adults build realistic, sustainable systems that support their goals, responsibilities, and routines.
What Clients & Families are Saying