“One second - who are you?”
I am Hanna Baer - Integrative Educational Therapist and parent to two wonderful daughters.
I have spent the past 20 years helping kids who were “falling through the cracks” to find their inner strength and discover a world where they could learn and live.
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My thirst to figure out what gets in the way of kids reaching their full potential sparked my own individual journey of education, training, and enrichment. I have developed a deep, broad, and I dare say one-of-a-kind approach to helping kids thrive.
My Story:
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I always knew I wanted to help children - not just teach them, but truly reach them.
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After qualifying as a special education teacher, I walked into my classroom full of idealism and determination. But despite all my training, I found myself watching my students struggle, and feeling powerless to make a real difference. I became frustrated that the "labels" they'd been given, the diagnoses, the categories, the limitations that had been assigned to them, weren't telling me who these children actually were. The showed me the symptoms and they certainly weren't showing me how to help them.
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So I went looking for answers.
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I became a certified Brain Stimulation Method de Jong Therapist in Holland, a Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Mediator, and went on to study the Interactive Metronome and the Johansen Individual Auditory Stimulation Method. Each new discovery felt like another piece of a puzzle clicking into place: the profound connection between brain and body, and what becomes possible when you support both together.
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Today, I bring all of that knowledge and heart to every child I work with. I see beyond the labels, beyond the struggles, to the potential that's always been there. And I consider it the greatest privilege of my life to help each child find their way to it.
