Executive Skills Support for Diverse Learners
Deena's Story
Deena balances a warm and inviting approach to students while holding them accountable. As a patient and clear communicator with students and parents alike, Deena uses creative approaches to build strong connections. She believes in empowering students towards independence and understands that they need support before working on their own. As a strong believer in consent based learning, Deena knows that meaningful change happens when students have ownership over their learning process.
Deena has been working with students of all ages since high school. Starting in Special Ed classes, after school tutoring, and then volunteering. She has worked throughout undergrad and after graduating with a degree in Speech Science and Psychology. Benefiting from great mentors, her hands-on learning taught her how to adapt instruction based on the needs of the student.
She is incredibly reliable, has a strong follow through, and is never in short supply of creative solutions.When not empowering students, she enjoys photography, swimming, weight lifting, playing board games, and traveling. (You know, all the best stuff.)
Client Testimonials
Our son was having tremendous difficulty keeping up with a rigorous academic program. It was at a point that he feared he might fail his English course. We sought out help from Organized Minds and were paired up with Deena to help him with executive functioning. He has said himself that because of the tools she showed him to help him stay organized and manage his time he was able to pass English. He also gained much needed confidence to communicate his needs to his teachers effectively. We are very grateful that he has learned skills to help himself succeed in the future. We highly recommend the services at Organized Minds.​​​​
"Deena is a treasure! She worked with our son for four years, starting in Grade 8, and persisted with us through both good and tough times. There were days when he did not feel up to attending sessions on screen, and she patiently worked with him over the phone, continually engaging him in developing skills to address cognitive inflexibility, black and white thinking, other executive functioning challenges as well as high levels of anxiety and procrastination, in the context of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, written output disorder, giftedness and perfectionism.
She was kind and understanding with the challenges that we encountered as parents and this was very helpful to us in addressing our own anxieties and concerns about how things would unfold for our son. We are really grateful to have had the benefit of her skilful expertise and patient kindness."