Amy Masserer is a seasoned educator and educational therapist who has spent much of her nearly 20-year career teaching and mentoring students from pre-K through graduate school. At Pasadena's High Point Academy, Polytechnic School, and several other independent schools, she assumed many leadership positions, including in areas of strategic planning, instructional design and curriculum writing, social-emotional learning, and faculty mentoring. Amy believes in evidence-based, whole-child approaches to therapy and uses goal-directed practice and systematic treatment plans to focus intervention, skills training, and promote student success. She has formal training in Orton-Gillingham, a structured literacy approach designed to support struggling readers.
She grew up in the Midwest where she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Psychology. Concurrently, she earned an additional BA in elementary education from St. Mary’s College. She later earned her Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and a post-graduate certification in Educational Therapy. Amy is passionate about providing developmentally appropriate support for clients and practicing through the lens of relational neuroscience. She's married to her college sweetheart, and in her free time she enjoys cooking, traveling, volunteering, and cheering on her two sons at skateparks and baseball fields.
