"I am an Educational Therapist with over twenty years providing learning solutions tailored to each student. I am passionate in changing your experience of completing challenging academic work from worry, frustration, and confusion to joyful, competent and self-directed mastery. You will complete your educational journey!

Together we will develop insights into your strengths and challenges and create learning strategies and tools specific to your needs. I will develop your skills in all aspects of reading, writing, and study skills – from core basic skills to completing complex, dense academic content. I work with middle school and older students for academic and work-related material and exams. I am trained and experienced to work with neurodiverse learners – ADHD, on the spectrum, dyslexia, mood disorders, learning disabilities.

I combine three areas of skills – learning disability specialist, teacher, instructional designer.

My approach is to tackle three tracks at the same time – problem solving for learning challenges, building core skills, and completion of current work. My joy is giving you the boost to complete your work and build your skills. I tutor English, history, and science classes (6th grade, AP, and college level) and prealgebra/algebra.

As a learning disability specialist in colleges, I counseled students on accommodations, study skills, and best use of resources. I taught numerous workshops in test taking, resilience, and study skills. As a teacher I have taught GED test preparation, college transfer skills for reading and writing, and ESL skills for job training. I was a trainer and coordinator for a community-based adult literacy program.

As an instructional designer I wrote the curriculum for a GED classroom, written math and reading skills workbooks for an industrial company.

Masters Degree, Instructional Design, San Francisco State College

Masters Certificate, Educational Therapy, UC Berkeley

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