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Neurodevelopmental Tutor-Coaching for Learners Who Are Bright — But Struggling

When learning feels harder than it should, the issue is often processing, load, and translation — not effort or ability.


We help children, teenagers, and adults understand how their learning works, reduce overload, and build strategies that transfer across subjects and real life. This is not traditional tutoring. It’s a neurodevelopmental approach to learning.

Some learners know the answer but can’t show their working. Others can explain ideas brilliantly — until time pressure, handwriting, organisation, or memory demands collapse performance. Many are labelled inconsistent, careless, or unmotivated when the real issue is that learning is being processed under strain.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and it’s not a character flaw. It’s a mismatch between how learning is being demanded and how it’s being processed.

Who we help

We help learners who:
  • understand more than they can express under pressure
  • freeze when asked to “explain” on the spot
  • work twice as hard for the same outcome
  • look fine until exams, deadlines, or increased complexity
  • become anxious, avoidant, or shut down after repeated misunderstanding
  • are falling behind
These patterns are common in dyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and uneven developmental profiles — especially when cognitive load is high.

How we approach learning

Learning doesn’t fail because someone isn’t trying hard enough. It fails when the system demands a kind of processing the learner can’t reliably access — especially under load.


That’s why our work starts with the underlying mechanisms of learning:

  • processing efficiency and cognitive load
  • translation from thought to output
  • working memory under pressure
  • organisation, sequencing, and retrieval
  • confidence and participation after repeated mismatch
Our approach is neurodevelopmental, gentle, and designed to create lasting change — not short-term subject gains.

Why this is different from tutoring

Traditional tutoring focuses on what to learn. We focus on what makes learning effortful — and how to change that.


We don’t ask: “How can we teach this topic better?” We ask: “Why is learning hard here — and what changes when we reduce load and improve translation?”

When the foundations improve, outcomes follow — across subjects, not just one.

Working with us

Support should feel clarifying, not overwhelming.

We work one-to-one online through a structured neurodevelopmental programme led by a specialist tutor-coach. The goal is not more practice. It’s better learning — with strategies that transfer beyond school and exams.

Labels aren’t the starting point

Some people arrive with a diagnosis. Some don’t. Either way, we start with the individual — not the label.
When learners stop being misunderstood, things change.

They participate more.
They take intellectual risks again.
They stop doubting their intelligence.
And learning becomes something they can trust.
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