Get ready to take control of your learning.

I’m an independent academic coach, teacher, tutor, and consultant with loads of experience teaching and coaching students from middle school through college.

I am encouraging, easygoing, supportive, and I truly enjoy the process of helping students build confidence in their schoolwork. Read what my clients say about me here (and I can provide individual references, too).

My specialties? Students who need academic support managing any or all of the following:

ADHD - anxiety - school refusal - reading and writing - ASD - visual and aural processing challenges - organization and planning - getting started - meeting deadlines - extended absences - scaffolding multi-part assignments - studying for tests and quizzes - perfectionism

I can also help students tell creative, unique, and compelling personal stories for independent school and college application essays.

I have limited in-person availability in the East San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, and surrounding areas) and I’m also available on Zoom to students anywhere in the U.S.

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