RATES & POLICIES
Tutoring & Executive Function Coaching Rates
We work with school-age students, college students, and adults. We’ll recommend a professional based on your goals, budget, and staff availability—you don’t need to choose a professional tier yourself.
Our rates reflect each professional’s relevant training, experience, specialized expertise, and travel requirements, along with the learner’s needs. We confirm the exact service and rate before sessions begin.
- In-home sessions at your location
- One-on-one highly individualized support
- Academic tutoring, executive function, test prep & more
- Remote sessions available worldwide
Where we provide in-person services:
We travel throughout the New York City metropolitan area including:
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- The Bronx
- Staten Island
- Long Island
- New Jersey
- Westchester
- Connecticut
- Boston
🌐 We also offer remote services 7 days a week.
At-a-Glance Pricing Tiers
Experienced Academic Tutors
- In-Person: Typically $150–$175/hour
- Remote: Generally $135–$225/hour across academic tutoring providers
Experienced subject tutors providing individualized academic instruction, homework support, and study skills.
Schedule a Free ConsultationSenior Educators & Learning Specialists
- In-Person: Typically $175–$225/hour
- Remote: Within the general academic tutoring range above; exact rate depends on the professional
Highly experienced educators and learning specialists providing advanced academic instruction, executive function support, and specialized learning strategies.
Schedule a Free ConsultationHighly Specialized & Doctorate-Level Professionals
- In-Person: Typically $200–$275/hour
- Remote: Generally up to $225/hour
Professionals with extensive experience, doctorate-level training, or highly specialized areas of expertise.
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Test Prep & College Essay Coaching: $175–$250/hour.
Remote academic tutoring and remote EF coaching have different starting rates. Remote EF coaching starts at $165/hour.
More specialized academic instruction is priced individually based on the professional’s expertise and the learner’s needs.
Executive Function Coaching — With or Without Academic Support
Our executive function coaching helps school-age students, college students, and adults develop practical systems for school, college, work, and everyday life.
Coaching can address:
- Planning, prioritization, and organization
- Time management and getting started on tasks
- Breaking assignments and long-term projects into manageable steps
- Assignment management, homework routines, and study strategies
- Follow-through, self-monitoring, and accountability
- Building routines that support greater independence
We help learners practice strategies they can use between sessions and increasingly apply on their own. Academic instruction and homework support may be incorporated when appropriate to the learner’s needs and the professional’s expertise. The EF rates above apply to coaching alone or coaching that incorporates academic support when appropriate. We confirm the scope and exact rate before services begin.
Why Our Coaches’ Backgrounds Matter
A degree or the title “executive function coach” alone doesn’t establish relevant expertise. At Themba Tutors, we look at the professional’s training, demonstrated experience, and ability to understand the demands facing the learner. Our EF professionals include experienced educators, learning specialists, special educators, and allied-health professionals. Many hold master’s degrees or advanced credentials; others bring comparable advanced professional experience.
We match learners with professionals whose backgrounds fit their age, goals, academic demands, and support needs—including experience with ADHD and learning differences when relevant.
When comparing providers, consider:
- What relevant training and experience does the coach have?
- Have they supported learners with similar needs?
- Do they understand both executive functioning and the learner’s academic or everyday demands?
- How will they help the learner develop skills and independence between sessions?
Why Families Choose Themba for Executive Function Coaching
Executive function coaching can vary considerably depending on the background and experience of the professional providing the service. At Themba Tutors, we place particular emphasis on the education, professional experience, specialization, and ability of the coach to understand the whole learner— not simply the student’s planner or to-do list.
Our executive function professionals may include:
- Experienced teachers and educators
- Special educators
- Learning specialists
- Master’s-level professionals
- Professionals with advanced graduate training
- Allied-health and education professionals
- Specialists experienced with ADHD and learning differences
- Professionals with extensive experience supporting middle school, high school, college, and adult learners
- Highly specialized and doctorate-level professionals when a learner requires a higher level of expertise
Many of our EF professionals have spent years working directly with students in educational, learning-support, special-education, or related professional settings before providing executive function coaching.
Executive Function Coaching Should Go Beyond Organization
Our work can address:
- Organization
- Planning and prioritization
- Time management
- Task initiation
- Assignment management
- Homework systems
- Study strategies
- Long-term projects
- Breaking large assignments into manageable steps
- Follow-through
- Self-monitoring
- Academic independence
- Developing routines and systems that the learner can eventually use independently
The goal is not simply to keep a student organized from week to week. The larger goal is to help the learner build systems, strategies, and independence that can transfer across school, college, work, and everyday life.
Experienced Professionals at a Competitive EF Coaching Price Point
Remote Executive Function Coaching starts at $165/hour.
Our rates reflect the professional background, experience, and specialization of the person working with the learner. Families comparing executive function coaching options may find similar hourly rates elsewhere. An important question is therefore not simply:
“What does EF coaching cost?”
but also:
“Who will actually be working with my child?”
At Themba Tutors, families may be matched with experienced educators, learning specialists, special educators, master’s-level professionals, allied-health professionals, and other highly qualified specialists. We believe the professional’s background matters because executive functioning often overlaps with academic demands, learning differences, motivation, study skills, independence, and the increasing expectations of middle school, high school, college, and adulthood.
This is one of the central differences we want families to understand when comparing providers.
Optional Accountability Check-Ins
Brief remote check-ins between regular sessions reinforce planning, accountability, and follow-through.
$125 for a 60-minute bank
- Divide the bank into structured 5-, 10-, 15-, or 20-minute check-ins.
- Available only to clients participating in ongoing tutoring or executive function services.
This is an optional add-on, separate from regular remote EF coaching, which starts at $165/hour.
Learn more about accountability check-ins.Detailed Rates by Service
- Service
- ACADEMIC TUTORING
- Provider Level
- Experienced Academic Tutors
- In-Person Rate
- In-Person: $150–$175/hour
- Description
- Individualized instruction in subjects such as math, science, reading, writing, and the humanities.
- Service
- ACADEMIC TUTORING
- Provider Level
- Senior Educators & Learning Specialists
- In-Person Rate
- In-Person: $175–$225/hour
- Description
- Advanced academic instruction, deeper subject expertise, specialized learning strategies, and more intensive support.
- Service
- ACADEMIC TUTORING
- Provider Level
- Remote
- In-Person Rate
- Generally $135–$225/hour
- Description
- The exact rate depends on the subject, professional, and learner’s needs. More specialized academic instruction is priced individually.
- Service
- TEST PREP & COLLEGE ESSAY COACHING
- Provider Level
- Test-Preparation or College Admissions Specialist
- In-Person Rate
- $175–$250/hour
- Description
- Individualized preparation for the SAT, ACT, ISEE, SSAT, SHSAT, GRE, and other standardized tests, along with college essay coaching and application strategy.
What Should Parents Look for in an Executive Function Coach?
Price is only one consideration when comparing executive function coaching services. Parents may also want to ask:
- What is the coach’s educational background?
- Has the coach worked directly with students before?
- Does the coach understand academic demands as well as executive functioning?
- Does the coach have experience with the student’s age group?
- Does the coach have experience with ADHD or learning differences when relevant?
- Is the coach teaching transferable systems or simply helping the student complete today’s assignments?
- Is the professional individually matched to the learner?
- Can the family review the coach’s professional background before beginning?
- Can the student meet the coach before committing?
At Themba Tutors, these considerations are part of our matching process.
Homeschool and Structured Academic Instruction
Customized daytime instruction may include multi-subject teaching, curriculum implementation, academic planning, pacing, and coordination with parents.
- 💲 Rates start at $150/hour
- 📅 Minimum three-hour instructional block
- 🕒 Minimum two instructional days per week
- 📄 Minimum six instructional hours per week
- 📊 Programs start at $900/week, or approximately $3,900/month on average
- 🧑🏫 Final pricing depends on the educator’s experience, credentials, specialization, curriculum responsibilities, and the instructional program’s complexity.
Important: These minimums apply only to homeschool and structured daytime instruction. Ordinary academic tutoring may be scheduled in standard one-hour sessions.
Scheduling & Payment Policies
NO LONG-TERM COMMITMENT
Services are pay-as-you-go, with billing typically handled weekly.
CONSISTENT, FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING
We match your availability with the professional’s availability and aim to establish a recurring schedule.
SESSION LENGTH AND BILLING
In-person sessions shorter than 60 minutes are not billed as a simple fraction of the hourly rate. A reduced short-session rate may apply. Sessions lasting 60 minutes or longer are prorated based on their length.
INDIVIDUALIZED, ONGOING SUPPORT
Sessions are one-on-one and tailored to the learner’s needs, goals, and pace. We primarily work with students and adults seeking consistent support throughout the school year or over longer periods.
Payment methods
Payment is generally made weekly using common electronic payment methods. Credit cards are accepted only occasionally; when permitted by law, a 3% processing surcharge may apply.
Finding the Right Fit
Tell us what you’re looking for, even if you’re unsure whether you need academic tutoring, executive function coaching, or both. We’ll guide you based on your goals, budget, and staff availability, recommend a professional, and confirm the exact rate before you begin.
Themba EF Coaching at a Glance
- Remote EF coaching:
- Starts at $165/hour
- Professionals:
- Experienced educators, learning specialists, special educators, master’s-level professionals, allied-health professionals, and other highly qualified specialists
- Matching:
- Based on professional expertise, learner needs, personality, and availability
- Meet-and-greet:
- Complimentary 15-minute remote meeting
- Contracts:
- None
- Matching fee:
- None
- Accountability support:
- Optional short check-ins available between sessions
Educational-Services Disclaimer
Themba Tutors provides educational tutoring and coaching services. We are not a medical, mental-health, or therapeutic provider. Our services are not a substitute for therapy, counseling, medical care, or psychological treatment and are not reimbursable through health insurance. Although some of our professionals hold graduate degrees or professional licenses, all services provided through Themba Tutors are educational and non-clinical.
Ready to get started?
1. Complete our brief intake form.
Tell us about the student or adult seeking support, your goals, scheduling needs, location, and whether you prefer in-person or remote services.
2. Free 15-minute intake call.
Our intake coordinator learns more about your goals, availability, location, and the type of support you are seeking.
3. Personalized Matching Based on Expertise — Not Simply Availability.
We do not simply assign the next available professional. Our intake team works with Craig Selinger, CEO of Themba Tutors and an experienced learning specialist, to review the learner’s needs and identify professionals whose background appears to be the strongest fit.
We consider:
- Executive function needs
- Academic strengths and challenges
- Age and developmental level
- Learning differences, when relevant
- ADHD or attention-related needs, when relevant
- Subject-area needs
- Personality and communication style
- Goals
- Scheduling requirements
- Location
- Preference for remote or in-person support
Families then receive one or more professional bios so they can understand the background and experience of the people being recommended. Recommended professionals also offer a complimentary 15-minute remote meet-and-greet before the family commits to paid services. This allows the family to evaluate both professional fit and personal chemistry before beginning.
4. Free 15-minute remote meet-and-greet.
Recommended professionals offer a free meet-and-greet so you can ask questions and make sure the chemistry feels right before scheduling your first paid session.
No cost to find the right fit
The intake call, personalized matching process, professional bios, and meet-and-greet are all complimentary. You only begin paying once you decide to schedule services.
- No contracts
- No matching fee
- No obligation to begin services
- Phone or text: (917) 382-8641
- Email: info@thembatutors.com
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Every coach offers a free 15-minute remote meet-and-greet, so you can get to know them and see if it feels like the right fit. We’re very responsive and easy to communicate with throughout the process. From there, we’ll thoughtfully match you with one or more of our coaches.