Mary is a psychotherapist with offices in White Bear Lake, MN. She specializes in assessment, coaching, and psychotherapy for gifted and talented and twice-exceptional children and adults; Asperger’s Syndrome screening/consultation; school adjustment and educational planning; and consultation around executive functioning, anxiety, depression, sensory processing, and temperament issues. She has presented on these topics to parents, educators, and mental health professionals through the MN Council for Gifted and Talented, the MN Department of Education, MN Institute for Talented Youth, Project2Excel, and other public and private conference engagements. Mary can be contacted at mary@marywandrei.com.

Emma began tutoring children with special needs five years ago in a University of Minnesota Morris program called TREC. She has been working with children with autism for the past four years through various PCA services where she gained experience in speech, occupational therapy, and RDI. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota with a major in philosophy. She specialized in philosophy of mind and studied learning through an interdisciplinary approach composed of psychology, biology, circuits, and computer science. She continues her work in circuits and electronics with her small guitar pedal business, EAR Electronics LLC.

Ashley received her Bachelors degree in Communicative Disorders at University of Wisconsin - Madison and Masters degree at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. She enjoys working with the children as well as their families to develop a strong relationship to help make the most progress possible. Ashley's areas of interest include Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), PROMPT technique, video self-modeling, various pragmatic interventions, and early child language development. In her spare time, she enjoys running, biking, hiking, cooking, and watching different sporting events.