Work With Dana

I am not licensed to diagnose learning disabilities, but my experience in the classroom coupled with multiple certifications and extensive training in neurodivergent learning styles and patterns, trauma, emotional intelligence, and more has equipped me with the tools and insights to identify behaviors that commonly indicate when additional testing is necessary. From there, I’m available to advise and work with you on the most efficient route to ensure your child receives comprehensive assessments for accurate diagnosis. I actively partner with you and all doctors on creating an individualized and easily accessible plan to be given to schools, work and internships, and anyone supporting your child.

I no longer tutor learners from a traditional space. As a holistic educational coach, helping individuals identify how they learn and the essential tools necessary for their unique learning style provides infinite opportunities to dismantle limiting beliefs and existing blocks preventing them from absorbing and applying skills and strategies. My thorough pre-assessment provides essential data on what stands between your child and their ability to iterate and expand. From remediation to enrichment, creating a space for your child to rediscover their joy for learning while showing the world their genius is my top priority. After partnering with me, your child will access their personal learning powers with ease and confidence.

YES! I actively partner with schools to ensure learners receive essential tools required for them to thrive in and beyond all aspects of their world. In addition to being a child advocate and parent ally, I am also an advocate for educators and actively support the collective school to ensure learners iterate. By having open and transparent communication with the school, the learners are immediately invited to step into their power, discover their learning styles and needs, and model routines and practices that provide space for them to flourish at home, school, and wherever they choose to shine their light. Most importantly, schools and parents are supported with a common language that is used with and for the child. Together, the partnership provides all of us opportunities to share what’s working and/or needs adjusting, and encourages continuity for the child as they transition in and beyond all environments.

Creating personalized plans for neurodivergent learners is one of the top reasons parents choose to work with me. Not only do I assess learners with and without official diagnosis, I also purposefully take stock on what learners love and use the knowledge to design a sustainable yet flexible routine and schedule to coach and model essential language skills, vocabulary, and emotional regulation. Once diagnoses are shared, the child’s reports are used as additional tools to support their personal needs, always focusing on the unique gifts and essential resources needed in order for the child and parent to thrive. By creating a personalized plan beyond the traditional 504 and IEP, the child, school, family, and all involved with the child have clear and actionable steps on how and what will provide joy, curiosity, and commitment to learning and growing.

ABSOLUTELY! More often than not, we aren’t aware of what skills we need until disconnections occur. Building healthy relationships, socialization, emotional well-being, regulation to spatial awareness, learning concepts, prioritizing tasks, and executing all that’s required from and for us occurs when our self-awareness is powerfully clear. By modeling how to be a nonjudgmental observer of oneself, each learner has the space to put their personalized coaching into action with accessible and actionable practices for home, school, work, and all spaces they choose to experience. As executive functioning skills and tools are consciously put into place, organizational practices are organically implemented because individuals recognize internal signals that remind them to think, speak, and behave from a place of kindness and curiosity.

Guiding students on how to recognize the thoughts and narratives driving their internal physical sensations is my top priority! I will model accessible, actionable, and sustainable practices specific for your child that will lay the foundation for rich self-awareness, connection between self and others, awareness of social cues, and clarity around verbal and nonverbal communication. Your child will be taught self-regulation that calms their nervous system and elevates their desire to be in and around social situations. Most critically, your child will learn how to be their own non-judgemental observer, creating space for curiosity and embodying self-compassion.

Encouraging students to explore the infinite possibilities beyond high school is essential for them to feel seen, heard, valued, and loved. Students choose to step beyond their comfort zone and explore the “reach” colleges, investigate opportunities that feed their soul, research AND apply to internships that provide self-exploration, and discovering the power of trusting their inner knowing is one of my most favorite adventures for learners! And, PARENTS, I’VE GOT YOU! When WE PARTNER, one of the most important tools I teach is how to recognize when our actions and words come from a space of freedom or fear!

YES, YES, YES! Parents, YOU ARE ALWAYS SUPPORTED! WE are a TEAM for your child!

I work with elementary through college-age humans, post-college/graduates, and consistently partner with parents, teachers, leaders, and employers.

Transformation occurs when schedules, routines, and transparent communication is consistently experienced between the child, parents, all supporting the child, and me. While I’d love to place a number of sessions or weeks on when you and your child will see the shifts, I can absolutely affirm ALL IS POSSIBLE when everyone commits to the process, practices, and leans in when challenges arise.