My journey began back in the Appalachian Mountains having grown up in the small western North Carolina town of Asheville.  I always wanted to become a teacher and attended Appalachian State University where I received my B.A in Elementary Education.

After graduation, I moved to Colorado where I became a classroom teacher teaching 2nd and 3rd grades within both public and private schools. After a few years of teaching, I had a desire to further my education and focus on kids that have reading deficiencies.  I attended the University of Colorado Boulder where I received a M.A. in Curriculum and Development.  After this I taught the Wilson Reading System (O-G) to middle and high school students and supervised Reading Labs while providing 1:1 and small group pull-out instruction.

As life would have it, my journey took me across the pond to Vienna where I experienced full immersion in European foreign language, culture and travel while raising a family in Vienna, Austria.  During this sabbatical, I continued to provide Orton-Gillingham tutoring to elementary ESL and non-ESL students in an International school environment.  Then I came back to the U.S. and I wanted to focus specifically on kids struggling with dyslexia and wanted to become certified while I was .  While an Online ESL Teacher providing 1:1 online ESL common-core instruction to elementary Chinese students preparing for the TOEFL, I got accepted to the Dyslexic Training Institute and obtained my Dyslexia Certification in one year.

Since then, I established a Dyslexia Therapy business in the State of Colorado (operating under Treehouse Tutoring, LLC) where I specialize in providing structured literacy instruction utilizing the Orton-Gillingham approach to developing and intermediate struggling readers and writers. My firsthand experiences as a classroom and reading teacher, private reading tutor, online ESL teacher and parent of a dyslexic learner provide many benefits by giving me a holistic perspective into the educational experiences and expectations of my students. Having these varied experiences, both domestically and internationally, allow me to more effectively enhance my customized approach to structured literacy remediation and intervention to achieve maximum student success.  

I provide research and/or evidence based instruction to students in need of constant intervention to improve their academic, socio-emotional and nonacademic skills due to a learning difference such as dyslexia, dysgraphia or ADHD/ADD. I work closely with students and their families to provide ongoing, individualized instruction and support to the student as well as educate and share resources with parents so they can best help their child at home.