Award-Winning Psychology Tutors serving Portland, OR

I am a classroom instructor, one-on-one tutor, and academic coach with over a decade of experience working with elementary age students (K-6), undergraduate and graduate students in the Northeast and on the West Coast and across seas. I look forward to working with you to achieve your academic, personal and professional goals.

...able to work in my field now as an in home family therapist, while also having previous experience in being a youth counselor and interning at schools. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about psychology and math. Being able to tutor students helps them to be better at something and accomplishing that difficult task and teaching the approach of not giving up. I am a firm believer of education....

My goal is to help others learn in order to inspire passion and education in students.

...from the first to the last panel of an expanding brain meme! I have a BA in Psychology with minors in Philosophy and Music Performance from Denison University (in Ohio, my home state). For the last four years I've been teaching statistics, research methodology, writing, and intro psych to college students while I work on my doctorate. I believe teaching is all about enabling personal growth. Nobody is born great, but anybody can become great...

Each child has the ability to succeed given the opportunity. Students can grow each and every day as long as their specific learning style is correctly identified and then pursued upon in a proper format. No matter a child's capabilities and setbacks there is always room for improvement.

...academic needs. Every student, regardless of background, can improve his or her ability to listen to and understand vocabulary and sentences in a second language. In lectures, discussions, and assignments, I show that learning a second language responds to various modes of inquiry: analytic, hermeneutic, cultural, and historical; thus, students are led to explore the possibilities of each perspective, and to push beyond their own experience to expand their communication skills. In the end, I...

I'm a senior at CCSU with a Media Studies major and Creative Writing minor. I love reading, writing, history, psychology, and language in general!

...British Literature, World Literature, Drama, Health, Physical Education, and Psychology. I have also tutored for the past three months at a Community College, working in the Center for Academic Progress, teaching remedial English and preparing tutoring materials. I am a sensitive, patient, and enthusiastic teacher. I love teaching, but I prefer one-on-one interactions, they are the best for learning and teaching. I am respectful of all people, and happy to work with all ages. I...

...University studying for a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. I have had previous experience mentoring undergraduate students while in Princeton. I tutor a variety of subjects, including Math (ranging from Pre-Algebra to AP Calculus BC), Psychology, Neuroscience, R and Python Programming, and test prep, including the SAT, ACT, and GRE. I am the most passionate about tutoring Math subjects as it forms the foundations for understanding the sciences. I firmly believe in education being accessible to...

My name is Allison, and I graduated from Yale University. I majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and am hoping to attend medical school next fall. I am currently working as a postgraduate researcher at Yale School of Medicine and am looking forward to working with students through Varsity Tutors!

I have been tutoring math, science, and English for the past 17 years (+15,000 hours of experience) to elementary, middle school, high school, and college students attending public and private schools. I have also taught students around the world in ESL and standardized exams.

My daily objective is to use my platform as a teacher and coach to encourage the development of my students and athletes as people. I do this by focusing on building authentic relationships and then encouraging curiosity in specific content areas. In regards to pedagogy, I stress the importance of process-driven results to motivate daily progress!

...have a ton of experience working with kids in both an academic and recreational setting. I want to make lessons riveting and engaging, so I will always try to incorporate your passions into the learning process. As someone who adores music, politics, and many sports, I have found that integrating these passions into my studies increases my own desire to learn. It is my priority to meet each student's unique learning needs, therefore I will...

...student at Manchester Community College, and I'm interested in tutoring. I love biological sciences, am skilled in writing, and will always work with you to understand and meet your needs. Growing up, I had a lot of difficulties with organization due to my ADD. I have learned ways to manage this that work for me, and because of this I feel that I have a strength in teaching organizational skills, especially to neurodivergent students.

...history and classics at Hunter College in New York City in 2007. A few years later, I attended LaGuardia Community College and became a licensed veterinary technician, which means I am an animal nurse! My academic interests mostly relate to animals: zoology, evolutionary ecology, paleozoology, social evolution, and phylogenetics. I also love studying history, and will always assert that nothing happens in a historical vacuum. In my free time I do a lot of reading...

I am a college graduate from Clarkson University. I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. While I was at Clarkson I conducted research in conservation biology and animal learning. My primary research was in the population distribution of the endangered golden-winged warbler, a shrubland breeding bird species. My plan is to take a gap before continuing my education in a PhD program.... Students learn better when they experience the material. Work problems out and...

Hello, I'm Christina and I am a current Master's student in Nutritional Sciences. I graduated last year with my B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology and B.S. in Nutritonal Sciences with Honors. I currently work as a medical scribe and medical assistant and pursuing the medical field. In my free time, I love working out, watching Youtube videos and listen to podcasts.

...these areas and, thus, am able to better guide my students through the content. While teaching, I like to use individualized approaches to fit the needs of each student. I also believe in an interactive approach based on thorough communication to engage my students as much as possible. With these strategies, I can build a friendly and comfortable environment conducive to learning. Outside of academia, I love being outside, traveling, and sketching!

...tutoring programs in high school. I typically tutor Chemistry, English, and Math, along with Biology and Psychology occasionally. My favorite subject to tutor is Chemistry, because it is a basic science that can be built on in many different ways. Chemistry influences our everyday lives in ways that we do not often recognize, and I find it exciting to show others how some of the most amazing natural phenomena are rooted in basic chemistry concepts....