Coaching isn’t a quick fix. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give your child.

Welcome to Academic and Life Coaching

If you’re here, something has probably been worrying you for a while.

Maybe your teenager is bright and capable but not performing anywhere near their potential. Maybe they’ve lost motivation, they’re overwhelmed by anxiety around school, or every conversation about homework ends in conflict. Maybe you’re dealing with all of it at once the screen time battles, the avoidance, the results that don’t reflect what you know they’re capable of and you’re exhausted from trying to figure out the right way to help.

You’re not alone. And you’re in the right place.

I’m Lana Terigi an ICF-accredited academic and life coach with more than seven years of experience working with students, young adults, and the families supporting them. I work with families across Singapore, the UAE, the UK, Australia, and internationally, helping young people build the skills, confidence, and self-awareness they need to thrive not just academically, but in life.

What Is Academic and Life Coaching?

Coaching is different from tutoring, therapy, or mentoring though it works beautifully alongside all of them.

A tutor teaches your child what to learn. A coach helps them discover how to learn, how to manage themselves, and how to move forward with confidence when things feel hard.

Academic and life coaching addresses the whole picture the study skills and the self-doubt, the time management and the motivation, the academic pressure and the emotional weight that comes with it.

But here’s what makes this practice different: coaching isn’t something that happens in a room between a coach and a student while you wait outside. It’s a three-way partnership between me, your child, and you.

Because the most lasting change doesn’t happen in sessions alone. It happens at home, in the daily moments, in how your family communicates and supports each other through the hard parts. When parents understand what their child is working on and feel equipped to support it, everything shifts.

This isn’t about quick fixes or short-term results. Coaching is an investment in your child’s capabilities, their confidence, and their future. The skills they build here will serve them long after the exams are over.

Support for Students

I work in the field of academic skills coaching with students aged 12 and above across all major curricula IB Diploma, British GCSEs and A-Levels, and rigorous Asian systems.

Whether your child is struggling with organisation and focus, overwhelmed by exam pressure, dealing with anxiety around performance, or simply not achieving results that reflect what you know they’re capable of. Coaching for academic success helps them build the internal skills they need to manage school and life more effectively and independently.

Support for Parents

One of the most common things I hear from parents in that first conversation is that they feel overwhelmed not just by what their child is going through, but by their own uncertainty about how to help.

Should you push harder or give more space? Is the conflict at home normal or a sign of something deeper? Are you helping or are you actually making things worse without realising it? The screen time, the avoidance, the lack of motivation, the anxiety it all lands on you, often all at once.

These are real, valid questions and they deserve real answers.

Parent coaching gives you the strategies, clarity, and reassurance to show up for your teenager in a way that actually works. You’ll learn how to communicate in ways that open conversations rather than shut them down, how to set boundaries that build independence rather than resentment, and how to manage your own stress and expectations alongside your child’s.

Because when parents feel supported and confident, the whole family moves forward together.