Our Educational Professionals
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Carolyn Kocurek
Founder/Educational Consultant
carolyn@academic-answers.com
Carolyn Kocurek is the Founder of Academic Answers and a lead educational consultant. Over the past two decades, she has spent her professional life in the fields of educational consulting and behavioral healthcare for struggling teenagers.
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Chris Kocurek, M.Ed.
Executive Director/Educational Consultant
ckocurek@academic-answers.com
Chris Kocurek, M.Ed. is the Executive Director and a lead educational consultant of Academic Answers. He has over 20 years of experience in the education and behavioral health fields.
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Scott Canter
Educational Consultant/Managing Partner - Dallas office
scanter@academic-answers.com
Scott Canter has over 20 years experience helping families with underachieving students. In 1987 Scott began working with at-risk teenagers as a counselor and teacher at the CEDU School. In 1995 Scott joined a therapeutic boarding school as Director of Admissions. He then served Aspen Achievement Academy and Aspen Ranch in admissions prior to becoming Director of Admissions at the Second Nature Wilderness Program in 1999. Since then Scott served as National Director of Admissions for Aspen Education Group's Outdoor Division, supervising the admissions offices of 10 outdoor behavioral healthcare programs. Scott's expertise provides families with an unmatched knowledge and understanding of how special needs schools and treatment programs work to help at-risk youth. A husband and father, raising children three children, Scott is passionately committed to assisting parents with struggling youth in reuniting their families.
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Henry B. Ewert,
M.A.
College Planning Consultant
hewert@academic-answers.com
Hank Ewert was a member of the faculty of St. Stephen's School, a private day and boarding school, from 1975 until 2005, serving as a college counselor for twenty-six years and as Director of College Counseling for twenty-two.
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Eric Heineman
College Planning Consultant
eheineman@academic-answers.com
Eric Heineman worked in the Admission Office at Rice University from 1989 until 2007, serving ultimately as Director of Recruitment.
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Ericka Bailey,
M.S.
Associate Educational Consultant
ebailey@academic-answers.com
Ericka Bailey is an associate educational consultant for Academic Answers. Ms. Bailey has worked with at-risk youth and their families in home and school contexts in southern Idaho.
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Melvin M. Cates, MA.
Family Consultant, Success Plans
mcates@academic-answers.com
Melvin Cates, MA., facilitates home-based parenting interventions and support through the implementation of Success Plans. He has over ten years of experience in working with families in both outpatient clinical services and intervention programs.
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Assessment Services
Stephen Thorne, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychologist
Mark Williams, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychologist
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