She was good with helping expose my daughter to colleges around the country. And she helped with…read morethe personal statement, however she did not help with anything else. It did not prepare her for applications. She overall is not a good teacher and didn't help at all. Save your 6000$.

Brady College Counseling was the best investment I made for my son's college education. From the…read morefirst meeting we were guided by a professional who took the time and care to get to know my son. Brady College Counseling went above and beyond to make us feel comfortable with the application process. At such a stressful time in my son's academic career, it was great to have a professional help us along the way and steer us in the right direction. I highly recommend Brady College Counseling!

I hired ms. Moroff because the school district was running me around and not offering the services…read morenor giving me the information as to what my child was entitled to. They did not educate me with regard to what I needed to do to help my son or offer me the services he clearly needed. It was not until Ms. Moroff got on the case, did I even have a clue as to how the system worked against my child and not for my child. She consulted with me, wrote e mails, taped our IEP meetings and went with me to all the meeteings. It was then that I realized that I was so fortunate to have such a great advocate working for my child. I highly recommend Ms. Moroff to anyone who needs a voice for their child. She is a warm and compassionate person would not have gotten the services he now has. He has become successful in school because of this. I highly recommend Ms. Moroff, she herself has a child with disabilities. She is intelligent, educated in the field of Advocacy a warm and compassionate woman who will go the extra mile to make sure that the school district provides the proper services to help your.child be succesful.

i SEEKED MS MOROFF OUT BASED ON A WORD OF MOUTH…read moreRECOMENDATION --,AS A ADVOCATE FOR MY CHILD.with special needs she has helped me tremendously when all else was a struggle.

Tara is the expert help your famly needs to help navigate and coordinate the legal, educational,…read morebureacratic and frankly emotional maze for a special needs child. For reference I have an MBA and my wife is a CPA and we have spent years trying to self-educate the countless requirements and benefits which literally cost us thousands of dollars and hours. Tara endured the same trevails with her own son and can use her legal qualifications and life experince - she understands what you're going thru and has the skills and knowledge to help. I wish we had met Tara earlier and would have saved all that money, time and suffering. No we have Tara helping us choose from options we never knew existed and the result is a comprehensive, customized plan for our family and most importantly peace of mind. We give Tara our strongest recommendation and if you are reading this and know someone with special needs, especially children please get them in touch with Tara NOW.

I had known Tara outside her work surroundings and learned about what she does never thinking I…read morewould need her services and not really understanding what she did. Fast forward about 1 year when my very hyper six year old was having some issues at school and the school flat out discriminated against my son and was denying him the education he deserves. I then remembered speaking with Tara and called her immediately. I can not say enough to express how impressed I was with her. She reviewed all of the prior paperwork and meetings with the school, met with us to create a plan for our upcoming IEP meeting and then when we there actually in front of the district who was really playing hardball Tara was fantastic. She cited codes, spoke their language and really went to bat for my son and my family. The final result was they settled with what we demanded. There is absolutely no way we could have gone up against the school and won without her. The amount of knowledge and experience Tara beings to the table is priceless. I am so grateful for the hard work she put in and can not say enough good things about her. Keep her in mind you never know if you will need her and if you do think you may get her involved ASAP she is a true professional and knows her stuff. Thank you Tara!

Kristy is great! I feel so much more confident in meetings. She's not afraid to challenge the…read moreteam if needed. She's great at educating us on what is and isn't possible. We had a lawyer look at our IEP and it was described as one of the best he's ever seen. We wouldn't have gotten there without Kristy. Beyond the document, she's great at helping us make sure the team follows the IEP. Without her I can't imagine where we would me.

I worked with Kristi at the end of last school year on a new IEP for my son. I had worked with…read moreanother advocate with my other son, so I had an idea of what I should expect. I paid Kristi a flat fee to work with us. She had explained that this would cover unlimited phone calls, emails, meetings, etc until the IEP process was completed. Unfortunately, Kristi was really busy handling many IEPs and didn't have the time to return phone calls, emails or even texts. We didn't communicate often, but when I did reach out, I would have to re-email or re-text to ask if she had seen the email or text. The amount of work she put into my son's case was extremely disappointing. I had been messaging her leading up to the scheduled IEP date to discuss the paperwork the school had sent me with no response. She literally called me ON HER WAY to my son's school the day of the meeting to go over everything quickly with me. During the meeting, it was apparent that she hadn't already read the IEP as she said she would, and was "winging it". This was far different than she had originally advertised what this experience and process would be like. In hindsight, I really wish I had used the other advocate I had in the past... I would have saved money and received better help in the process. When I brought my concerns up with Kristi regarding the lack of time and effort she had spent on my son's case and asked for a refund of some of the fee, she was short with me and offered a very small amount back. Even that took much prodding and reminding for her to actually process the small refund. I would be careful if using her services and perhaps get the scope of work down in writing. Also, be prepared to do the heavy-lifting yourself.

We were desperate to help bridge a communication & knowledge gap between ourselves and our…read moredaughter's school providers for her special education program. Shannon matched us with two of her advocates who were a good fit for us. They were great and helped us to better understand our place in the process. We chose to have them provide coaching sessions rather than attend the IEP meetings with us. We were then able to approach our daughter's IEP meetings with more confidence and much better results than we were previously getting. When we later needed some special education legal advice, PCA helped us with a referral for a consult with an excellent special ed attorney. Their staff are extremely experienced and knowledgeable. What a difference they made for our family!

Please DO NOT choose Kathleen Johnson to support you and your child(ren) with the college…read moreapplication process! She is very expensive (I paid $6,000 for 2 students). Our experience with her was not good in many ways and it took time for the inadequacy to surface (little effort to conduct meaningful research on her part, very poor editing recommendations for essays, and lack of communication/follow-up). We have yet to submit college applications and have decided to stop using her service. I explained our family's dissatisfaction and requested she refund half of the money (half to acknowledge the work that has been done). Kathleen refuses to refund any portion of my payment, stating her no-refund policy. Poway District's High School Counselors know their stuff. Frequent workshops are offered to help guide students through the process. If you need additional help, http://ksquaredcollege.com/index.html is affordable and provides quality guidance. I hope that this review will save someone else from making my mistake.

With my youngest embarking on his senior year, we decided to seek the help of a college counselor…read moreto assist with the application process, admission strategies, etc. A family friend recommended Kathleen, who upon our first conversation on the phone, appeared very passionate about helping young college bound kids achieve their dreams. We made an appointment and met her for over an hour last evening going over everything from career counseling, to essay writing, to college and scholarship application strategies. I am kicking myself for not using her services with my older two kids. Using her expertise is going to be a great relief these next few months and I am happy to give her a great recommendation.

I just attended the 3 Day Advanced Procedures Workshop led by Ava Chase, DNPFNP (c)…read more She was fantastic. Our class size was small. We covered many useful procedures seen in Walk-In/ Urgent Care, and Family Practice Clinics. This was an excellent review, and, sharing of new material. She is fun, positive, full of energy, enthusiastic, and willing to share knowledge for the sake of knowledge. She does not have a superior attitude. I felt this was invaluable to ad to my bag of NP tricks of the trade. Great job Ava! I also networked with some fantastic FNP's and PA's. Thank you everyone.

-The class started several minutes late despite lots of information stating that if we are late we…read morewill not be admitted and will not get a refund. I was worried that I was the late one and I would not be allowed to enter so I called rachel. -Two students were not muting mic's the instructors were I believe trying to be polite in asking them to mute, but when they didn't there was no follow up so it was very hard to hear. Eventually I texted Rachel and at 11:36am it was fixed. -I think the slides were updated, the did not match what I printed, I was missing a few. -For the chest x-ray portion it definitely was not what I was expecting, or looking for, but it wasn't the worst experience of my life. Quite a bit of slide reading, not really a high energy or fun presentation like previous workshops I've been to. -No one really interacting or asking questions. With the first question which was well over 1hr in, John kept stating "did I fix your problem? Did that answer your problem?" now I came to learn so it isn't a "problem" it's a question and it's a good thing that someone is asking a question. Just made me feel that he was not really open to questions. Just seemed like they were making a big deal out of the question being a problem. -After lunch john came on and said how glad he was Mary was teaching the abdomen part that he really didn't know it well. Mary said yea I know you're glad I'm taking over.. laugh laugh laugh.. so then Mary's audio was breaking up. Everyone was saying they couldn't hear on the chat but Mary and John were just going along saying well hopefully it resolve tech issues .... laugh laugh laugh... eventually people were saying no this is really bad. So Mary apologizes and eventually they decide that she needs to log out and back on. John is sighing very loudly and hanging his head I think he even said oh man. He said well I guest my only option is to teach you. He said more than 5 times he hates ab x-rays. It was very uncomfortable. He CLEARLY did not want to teach us. -He started "teaching" again after a few minutes and it became apparent immediately thta he did not understand the content in the least. It was like he was reading the slides for the first time. For a minute or two he went on about female have female parts so be careful about that. He spent a lot of time on textbook s/s GI complaints and what diseases those are. He said that chest xrays are sometimes abbreviated cxr and ab xrays are sometimes abbreviated axr. Other than that slide reading. -Same time 2 people did not mute themselves one person playing with their kids, another talking to husband/wife I do not know. -I actually wrote in the chat that I wasn't getting much. John said oh no my internet isn't working now? I (in chat) no I just mean that i -I contacted Rachel who was super sorry and very nice and explained that this was John's first time leading a class and that you never get those complaints. She said she tried to contact you but that you were at work. She asked me to call Mary which I did but went to VM. -At this time I asked about next steps. This was at 1:50pm. I left the class and called rachel. She kept trying to get Mary to keep teaching but she couldn't. Eventually within the last 5 slides Mary started back teaching. I let Rachel hear what we were learning. He went to a slide about air in GI and he said "sometimes air is in the GI. This is air." Racheal heard this and was very apologetic; she said that this class was never like that. Racehl wasn't able to answer what my next steps were, just saying that I could retake the class. -Per the intstructors, the breakout rooms didn't work during the entire class. I wanted some time of personal attention to see if I understood the content well, but with so many people and no breakout rooms, so many connectivity issues, it just wasn't possible. The only persona interact I got was when I mentioned that my name wasn't called during role call. -I did not learn anything after the end of chest X-ray. -About Mary's internet. When she logged in initially her picture was small and her picture said "low bandwidth" after which time her internet bars were "yellow" which I assume means that her internet was not good. Your materials clearly state that if the student is having tech issues then that they would not get a refund, it is up to us to have our internet working ect. I would hope that your teachers would take careful time and attention to ensure high speed internet functional prior to class. Racheal said that she was teaching from another location. I am sorry that she had internet issues, I'm aware that they were not intentional at all.

Amanda sets the gold standard for LSAT tutors. She is highly skilled at explaining challenging…read moreconcepts and breaking them down in a way that anyone can understand. It was my pleasure to get to work with Amanda and raise my score from a 145 to a 161 PT score over 8 weeks! I not only consider Amanda an amazing tutor but a wonderful friend.

I've had the privilege of receiving tutoring from both Amanda and Chris…read more Amanda has taught me all the tips, tricks, and material I needed to know in order to earn a high SAT score. Throughout the process, she provided many resources and advice to receive all the knowledge and practice I needed to feel prepared. She would always go the pace where I felt most comfortable and made sure I was confident with the material before moving on. Amanda also gave me excellent advice when I was completing college applications to ensure they reached their full potential and truly represented who I am as a person. Amanda's advice/teachings have not only helped me with the SAT and college applications, but it's taught me many techniques I've used when writing papers, creating a resume, managing my time wisely, and so many more skills I will continue to utilize throughout my life. Chris has continually helped me advance in my precalculus class. Having a teacher that is often absent and teaches in a way that doesn't necessarily resonate with me, I was struggling. Within a few weeks of reaching out to Chris, my quiz and test scores were greatly improving and so was my grade. I can proudly say I was one of the very few students who received an A in that class. During meetings with Chris, he always is able to gauge what level of understanding I have and what I still need help on. When I don't understand something, he is always prepared to go more in depth or explain it in a different way that I can better understand. He has helped me build my confidence in a subject I previously struggled with. For me and many others, reaching out for help from a tutor can be intimidating. I've had tutors before who become impatient when it's taking longer to understand a topic, or overall are just arrogant. I was relieved when I realized this wasn't the case for Amanda and Chris. Neither one of them would ever rush a topic or hesitate to go more in depth on something I didn't understand. Both have a talent for teaching in a way that works best for you. I can't express the gratitude I have for both Amanda and Chris for repeatedly going out of their way to prioritize my needs. You can tell that both have a love and passion for helping others, and it is greatly reflected in their work.