Global Education Therapy
GET Educational Partnerships and Parent Resources
Our network of sponsors ensures that our families get the best and most comprehensive care and resources! We collaborate with not only our families but also other professionals and associations to make sure your child gets as many choices as possible!
Remfrey Educational Consulting
Our partner, April K Remfrey of Remfrey Educational Consulting, focuses her time working with international schools and globally mobile families with neurodiverse children. She works with international schools to help improve their inclusive practices through PD and the use of her progress monitoring tool. April was a teacher for over 20 years in three countries and has experience in the public, private, and international school environments.
A US citizen, but a resident of Switzerland since 2013, April has been a teacher for over 20 years in three different countries, teaching general education as well as extensively with students K-12 who have additional learning needs such as Autism, learning disabilities, and intellectual disabilities.
Throughout her tenure, she noted a pervasive struggle, for families and school staff, to clearly and concisely communicate students’ needs. I observed that when students transfer from one school to another or progress from grade to grade, the story was often lost.
The good news is that these problems can be overcome with the right level of preparation and support!
April brings all of this knowledge and experience to the relationship she creates with families and schools to address individual needs and concerns.
Hemispheres Academy
Hemispheres Academy utilizes a micro-school model that truly supports globally-mobile parents and students in their online learning journey. Program features include:
Personalized, Flexible, Inclusive. We work with each family to tailor course assignments, supplemental programming and supports through Individual Learning Plans to meet each child's unique interests, ability levels, and schedule (short-term, long-term, part-time).
Partner provided supports for special and specific needs. No exclusionary practices; students of all abilities and learning styles are welcome!
K-5 project-based curriculum and core content licensed instructors via Calvert Learning.
6-12 curriculum and core content, licensed instructors via Edmentum, with the integration of Calvert Learning projects for enrichment.
Social-Emotional, Specials, supplemental project-based learning, homework, and learning supports.
Hemispheres Cohorts of 6-12 students organized by grade band and region/time zone.
VA-Standards aligned and accredited via Cognia, with transferrable transcripts.
Coordinated with US Government education allowances for reimbursement
Behavioral Family Coaching
Our partner, Sharoya Ham, M.Ed., understands firsthand what families experience when they enter the world of special needs education. The process is often confusing, time-consuming, costly, and emotionally draining. Children with special needs need support, but so do their families.
Sharoya Ham is a Behavior Specialist and founder of Embrace Behavior Change. She provides behavioral coaching for the entire family. Both parents and their children work with Sharoya to create a step-by-step plan to respond to behavioral, educational, and relational challenges at home and school.
Family coaching ensures the home environment provides the structure and consistency necessary for intervention plans to succeed. When everyone in the home works together, tensions are reduced, goals are achieved faster, parent-child relationships are strengthened, and therapeutic appointments taper off. Thus families can spend less time focused on problems and more time enjoying precious moments with each other.
For nearly a decade, Sharoya has shared the secrets she's learned as a special needs mom, veteran teacher, and behavior change specialist, with hundreds of families, using an evidence-based approach called Behavior Skills Training.
Coalition of Transition Consultants
Sundae Schneider-Bean is an intercultural strategist, a transformation facilitator, and a solution-oriented coach. She supports individuals and organizations as they traverse through (and flourish beyond!) life quakes and other major shifts -- no matter where they are. For almost a decade, her location-independent business has served individuals and world-class organizations from over 60 countries across six continents. Sundae’s mission is to help clients achieve ambitious goals while navigating transition. She leads several online groups with thousands of members, the founder of Wisdom Fusion and Global Coach Coalition. Sundae hosts the popular weekly podcast IN TRANSIT with Sundae Bean. Formerly known as Expat Happy Hour, it has enjoyed a top 5% global rank for five years straight.
Looking for support for your transition? Adapt and Succeed acts as a secret weapon against the added toll caused by being IN TRANSIT.
Delivered in a fun, restaurant menu format, the intuitive program is easy to navigate and loaded with situation-specific solutions accessible right at your fingertips.
Psychological Services and Testing
Dr Burdick serves to evaluate and diagnose developmental, emotional, socio-behavioral conditions that effect learning. He is both a Licensed Educational Psychologist and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. He has training in Life Span conditions ranging from birth to elderly, although most of his clients fall within children, adolescent, and young adult ages of maturation. Expect a report that is suitable for schools or clinics to help treat conditions of attentional and Excutive function disorders, dyslexia and learning (reading, writing, math) disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and behavioral disorders. He is known as an Expert in his field and regularly opines before agencies and courts on individual’s needs for services. He and his company are 40 years in service with offices in the Netherlands, UK, and US.
Online Counseling Services for Expats
Vivian Chiona is the founder of Expat Nest which promotes the emotional well-being of expats by offering online counselling services.
Vivian is a psychologist with Masters degrees in both Child & Adolescent Psychology and Health Psychology. A multilingual, bicultural expat with family all over the world, she feels most at home within the international community and is inspired by its diversity. She has actually been recognised as one of the 100 Most Inspirational Women in the World for 2020.
Expat Nest services are accessible, convenient, flexible and reliable. Our qualified counsellors are familiar with the mobile life and offer emotional support in several languages, including English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese and Chinese (with more to follow). We serve adults, parents, couples and teens, with consultations taking place online and in the comfort of the client’s home or environment of choice. Our vision is to bring joy and inspiration to expats around the world, and to support our clients to feel happy, confident and relaxed in their international experience.
Expat Nest awarded as the Best Online Expat Counseling Provider globally, in the Benelux area and the Netherlands for 2022, is just a click away! Email us for your free 15-minute session and browse our blog for a wealth of inspiring resources!
Online Counseling and Assessments
Therapy Solutions, LLC is an experienced and comprehensive online mental health practice. Our clinicians provide individual therapy and psychological assessments for children, adolescents, adults, and couples. We are based in Virginia, but offer services in DC, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and places around the globe. Our clinicians have extensive knowledge and expertise in areas that include, but are not limited to: PTSD, complex trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, ADHD, LGBTQIA+ issues, and career development. Our compassionate team at Therapy Solutions is committed to supporting and treating clients with respect and with high quality care so that they can feel a sense of confidence and peace in their lives. We look forward to meeting you!
Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy
Resilience Refuge/Ashley Fargnoli works alongside children, teens and adults to provide psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy during moments of life-transitions.
Ashley specializes in the following areas :
· OCD and related conditions (body focused repetitive behaviors-hair pulling, skin picking)
· Adjusting to living in a new city/country
· Anxiety related to managing ADHD
· Trauma and adjustment disorders
· Support for other helpers (therapists, social workers, physicians, case workers, and more!)
As a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor, Ashley uses the creative art therapies to help children and families cope with an ever-changing world and build on emotional regulation skills. Ashley is also trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for the treatment of OCD.