Educated at Virginia Commonwealth and the Medical College of Virginia, Lara Brown holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Counseling and recently completed an advanced course for new Independent Educational Consultants at the 2007 Summer Training Institute at Towson University.

She has been directly involved in school counseling and admissions in a variety of secondary and post-secondary settings for nine years. She began working with students in 1998 as a career coach at Virginia Commonwealth University, helping student’s with disabilities match college majors with internships and part-time positions while pursuing their degrees.

In 2003 she accepted a position as a guidance counselor in a public high school but soon realized that high school counselors are so over-tasked with SOL testing and other school requirements and duties that they do not have the time needed to research colleges and work closely with individual students and their families to ensure the right college match.

Mrs. Brown will take on a small client caseload each year to ensure personalized attention – something not often found in public school guidance offices.