Educational Psychology Consultant and Specialist Referral Partner

Specialist Referral Partner | Learning and Assessment Advisor

✅ Clear insight into why a learner is struggling

✅ Professional guidance instead of uncertainty

✅ A personalised support plan for school and home

✅ Improved confidence and emotional wellbeing for the learner

✅ Better communication between parents, tutors, and schools

✅ A structured path forward rather than feeling overwhelmed

Dr Ina-Marié is an Educational Psychologist who works with children and adolescents experiencing learning, emotional, and developmental challenges. She supports families, schools, and organisations through psycho-educational assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based recommendations, helping to identify why a learner is struggling and how best to support them.

She is engaged as an independent consulting practitioner on a case-by-case or referral basis. Her role is professional evaluation, guidance, and learning support strategy development.

🤝Dr Ina-Marié works with:

• Parents and families seeking clarity around learning difficulties, ADHD, anxiety, emotional or behavioural concerns, school readiness, and subject or school placement decisions
• Schools and educators requiring learner assessments, intervention planning, and support with accommodations and concessions
• Organisations and multidisciplinary teams (such as Global Tutors, clinics, and NGOs) for learner profiling, placement guidance, and tutor or staff training

🎯Her work focuses on:

• Understanding how a learner learns
• Identifying barriers to learning
• Making clinical and educational recommendations
• Designing practical support and intervention plans
• Guiding parents, tutors, and schools on next steps

🎓Education

• PhD, Psychology of Education (University of Pretoria, 2018)
• Focus: Support, guidance, and counselling
• Thesis: The effect of a perceptual-motor intervention programme on school readiness levels of Grade R learners
• M.Ed, Psychology of Education (University of the Free State, 2013)
• Focus: Inclusive Education
• B.Ed (Honours) (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2001)
• Distinctions in School Management, Environmental Education, Language in Learning & Teaching
• Higher Education Diplomas:Senior Primary Diploma – South African College for Teacher Education (1996)
• HED Pre-Primary – South African College for Teacher Education (1997)