Struggling to learn often indicates an underlying challenge or processing deficit such as Dyslexia, Asperger’s, and/or ADHD, potentially resulting in low motivation, high anxiety, and a lack of persistence. When left unaddressed, these challenges can become roadblocks, severely limiting learning and resulting in lifelong undesirable consequences, such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, school failure, job instability, etc.  

The good news is that struggling learners can succeed with the right sorts of interventions—those grounded on research-based principles and strategies. Educational therapy, which draws on the art and science of education and psychotherapy, has developed a multitude of evidence-based strategies and interventions.  While its goals are educational — facilitating learning—it employs therapeutic listening and observation to obtain an organic understanding of why a student struggles to learn, how the student copes with the struggle, and what can be done—which of the many psycho-educational techniques and interventions can be employed to maximize the student’s potential.