We are a clinically driven independent educational consultant practice. We provide a wealth of services to help families with children, adolescents, and young adults. We start by assessing your child's needs and working with your entire family to determine your child's needs. We ask you to start the conversation by meeting with us in person or virtually and completing our steps to getting started and evaluating your child's needs. We work with children, adolescents, and young adults in everything from boarding school to therapeutic placement The links below introduce you to our team so you can get to know us better.
Support is key to helping your child and your family. We offer parent coaching and family counseling and support. We provide the resources you need for your entire family, walking you through parent coaching to individual counseling and therapy sessions when needed. Our support in school placement is critical to the mental health of pre-teens, adolescents, or young adults. Read our entire website carefully and watch our videos so you can learn about all of our services.
We are all doing well. Andy will graduate Hugh School In this June. Rachael will have completed one year of college. Hopefully she will apply and get accepted to a school in the North East. As that's are area she would love to study in college.
“My son was doing great at my last visit. I am pleased with his progress at the academy. He took his SAT and scored very well. He is looking at Arizona State University and California Polytechnic University. Thank so much for everything! I just recommended you to a friend of mine.”
"We had no idea about hiring an educational consultant until we found you. We would recommend your services to any parent. Our daughter has made a complete change and is now attending a private school in Virginia."
Our website is a treasure trove of information on schools, the positive role an educational consultant can play with your family, how to schedule an appointment, learning about our fees and services, answering those specific frequently asked questions which are important to you as a parent or hearing testimonials by other parents. We want you to find our web site easy to find answers to all your questions about our services or learning about a school decision process. We recommend you check our FAQs.
✔️Is your child suffering from anxiety or depression due to COVID-19?
✔️ Are you having difficulty with your child's attendance, completing assignments, or relating to other students?
✔️ Are they getting into fights, with siblings or not paying attention, or easily distracted?
✔️Are they experiencing depression, anxiety, or talking about self-harm?
✔️Are they experiencing bullying in school?
✔️Does your child have special needs or a learning difference not addressed at their home school?
✔️Does your child have a learning difference or ADHD or DYSLEXIA or a slow learner?
✔️Does your child suffer from depression or having an eating disorder, anorexia or bulimia?
✔️Are they failing in school or their grades are below grade level?
✔️Are they having issues with gender identity? Sexually acting out?
✔️Does your child complain about doing homework or seem unmotivated or depressed?
✔️Are they not talking and you cannot figure out what's wrong?
✔️Are they lying or stealing or engaging in arguments at home?
All of these behaviors are very common in children, adolescents, and young adults these days, and we can help your family and your child at Educational Planning & Counseling Services. Education is widely accepted as one of the most important decisions in the life of your child. Why should you let your finances dictate whether or not they get a good education? Why allow you child not to get the help they need, when you recognize they have a problem? The selection of a school by a parent or parent...More
The process of working with your child is not unique to our consultant. The first step in your child's educational trajectory is a critical one and Educational Planning and Counseling Services is ready to help from day one. Whether your child is a struggling teen or not attending school or in their senior year high school and failing. We can help with looking for a college so they are prepared and we are ready to assist. Our range of services provides a unique opportunity for student's and this helps stud...More
We can help your child emotionally and academically.
We can guide you in the process of finding the right school or program to fit the needs of your child.
We will provide an individualized assessment of the needs of your child, including family counseling, coaching and help in all aspects of the placement.
We will work with your teem or adolescent or pre-teen to address any behavior challenges they are having and also work with another therapist to provide support.
We will look at the learning differences of your child including reviewing his/her/she IEP plan to determine if the plan is accurate and reflects the need of the parent.
We will assess whether this IEP meets the needs of your child and support you in the IEP meeting o when a 604 plan has been implemented for your child.
We will support parents looking for a private boarding school or day school.
We will support your child to attend a school in a safe and learning environment.
We will follow up with your family from start to finish in a school or program and determine all aspects of grade level and academic progress and achievement sharing this with you as a parent this progress.
We provide help to better grades by increasing your child's grade level and performance.
We provide an in-depth profile of your child's strengths and weaknesses.
We identify your child's capabilities based on his/her profile administered by our consultant.
We make changes to your child's behavior during the placement, allowing for greater success at home and school.
We substantially help in changing your family dynamics allowing you to function better in the parent/child relationship.
We provide the support you need after discharge from a school or program, connecting your child to the home school.
We provide academic support for international students by working together with your family.
We help young adults in all aspects of their lives to address maturity and academic needs.
We provide direction to parents in school or program choices.
We serve as a clinical support team for your child, addressing the IEP goals established by the home school.
We are maintaining social distancing for all families who were involved in program placement.
We are establishing a health care protocol to meet the standards of the profession.
We are regularly updating families on the current status of the pandemic, linked below are the most up to date CDC guidelines.