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For some kids, school is really anxiety provoking. I help kids build a tolerance for anxiety-inducing situations, learn to advocate for themselves with clear, confident language, and develop more self-confidence by enhancing their strengths.  I work with kids with language-based learning disorders and anxiety, as well as as kids without learning-specific diagnoses.

For younger students, I use bibliotherapy techniques using books as an entry point both to discuss feelings and experiences and to reinforce target literacy skills.  

For older students, I use both reading and writing activities for the same purposes, to deepen the students’ understandings of themselves as, at once, unique and alike so many other learners in the world. 

For some kids, I use strategies from the Yale Child Study Center SPACE protocol to help parents and families look at ways parental and school accommodations can enable rather than reduce anxiety.