Integrative Learning Support
Sarah de la Roche, MACP, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
What is Integrative Learning Support?
Integrative Learning Support provides a caring space where students can explore their strengths and build confidence in themselves as learners. Sessions are experiential in nature, meaning that challenges often naturally emerge while working through school tasks. These moments are met with supportive guidance that helps students build resilience and develop a more compassionate relationship with learning.
Academic growth unfolds alongside this process, as students are supported not only in working through material, but also in navigating the experiences and emotions that can arise through learning...
The Intersection between Mental Health & Education
Learn Together. Grow Together.
Approach
to Learning
A strengths-based approach recognizes and builds on each student’s unique abilities, interests, and qualities. Difficulties are met with curiosity and compassion, encouraging students to take a pause, ask questions, draw on strengths, and discover new ways of approaching challenges.
A collaborative, student-centered approach values student involvement, inviting learners to play an active role in shaping the structure and direction of sessions.
Creative approaches provide alternative ways to conceptualize concepts and challenges, supporting problem-solving, adaptability, and student engagement.
Learning often requires access to our cognitive functions. These neural pathways can become out of reach when students feel misunderstood, unheard, anxious, lacking autonomy, or unsafe. Working through a trauma-informed lens, our primary focus is to establish a safe, supportive space that serves as a foundation for growth.
At the core - learning is supported by building a trusting and safe relationship, where students feel comfortable in making mistakes and empowered to engage with new concepts.
Strength-based | Collaborative | Student-Centered | Trauma-Informed | Creative-based | Relational
What do Sessions Look Like?
In-person & Virtual | 50 mins
Sessions focus on working with students through current course-based material or a particular area of growth. The goal is to support academic growth while also building confidence, self-esteem, and belief in their abilities.
Sessions integrate:
Creative Techniques | metaphor, analogy, story-telling, drawing
Multi-sensory Learning | Use of physical objects, visual aids
Brain & Body Breaks | dedicated time to shift focus and recenter
Emotional Wellness | Use of co-regulation, grounding techniques, psychoeducation
Disclaimer**
Sessions are not a substitute for instruction from a certified educator.
Distinct from Psychotherapy
Integrative Educational Support is not Psychotherapy. Please reach out with any additional questions/concerns about this distinction.