Guiding families through difficult times with unparalleled expertise to give every student the chance for a brighter future.
Our experts have the rare combination of being clinicians, educators, and admission experts at the therapeutic program, school, and college levels.
At McMillan Education, we specialize in supporting school and college students and young adults facing developmental crises, including academic struggles, emotional distress, and behavioral issues that get in the way of their ability to function well. Our team guides families in finding therapeutic and educational environments that promote growth and healing, helping young people overcome challenges like school resistance, mood dysregulation, and substance abuse. With expertise in both therapeutic interventions and school and college academic planning, we help students regain stability and find the right school or college to continue their development.
This past summer, I experienced my first “Tour D’Admission.” Like the more famous “Tour de France,” it involves cycling but instead of 23 grueling days of professional racing covering over 2,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Alps to the Champs-Elysees, the Tour d’Admission consists of one week of educational counselors covering a couple hundred […]
Sarah McMillan, Don McMillan & Amy Christie Our college counselors at McMillan Education are singularly driven to guide developing young adults via our W.I.S.E. Method™ toward a campus where they can grow both academically and socially. Accordingly, we feel obliged to continually examine the social environment students will be entering with the same heightened focus […]
As I was thinking about how I might contribute to my colleagues’ wonderful reflections about our annual theme What being a fish means to me, a childhood memory accompanied by one of my dad’s favorite admonitions kept popping into my head. Dad called this constant stream of parental warnings “healthy fear.” I later realized that […]
With students of all ages now having to study at home for the foreseeable future, families are understandably questioning how they are going to survive. With many parents having to work remotely, parents and kids can think of themselves as “in this together!” Needless to say, most parents are not trained as educators, so the […]
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