We understand your challenges by embracing your strengths
The mission of Reaching Higher Educational Center is simple: Make all children successful. We are firm believers that highlighting and building plans around a child's strengths is the key to harnessing a child’s potential.

Your Child Can Succeed
At Reaching Higher Educational Center, we believe every child can learn, discover, create, grow, and succeed. Our goal is to help your child feel happy and confident. We work together to understand your child and support his or her social and emotional well-being and academic achievement.

Our Philosophy
We believe that it is necessary to look at learners individually, understand their personal strengths and needs, and then collaborate with significant adults in their environments. We utilize solution-focused and research-based methods for assessment and educational planning. Through this individual and environmental focus, we help develop and implement a comprehensive plan to ensure each learner is Reaching Higher to new potentials.

Take the first step to help your child succeed, contact Reaching Higher Educational Center,
(720) 432-1336.

The mission of Reaching Higher Education is simple: Make all children successful. We are firm believers that highlighting and building plans around a child's strengths is the key to harnessing a child’s potential.

Shayna Brody Whitehouse, Ph.D.
Dr. Shayna Whitehouse is an expert in school psychology and brings a lifetime of experience to Reaching Higher Education.

Dr. Whitehouse’s collaborative approach with families and their children defines and informs her work of supporting a child’s academic, emotional, and behavioral success. By combining data-driven quantitative analysis and qualitative, in-depth sessions with each family and child, she creates comprehensive, tailored plans for every client. This holistic, personal approach is at the root of her clients' success.

Dr. Whitehouse received her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University. Before earning her M.A. in Educational Psychology and Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Denver, she discovered her passion in working with children as a volunteer in Cleveland Public Schools. For over 15 years, she has worked with children and adolescents with diverse learning and social-emotional needs in both Colorado and California.

A recognized expert, Dr. Whitehouse has also served on the faculty with the Child, Family, and School Psychology program at the University of Denver, directing the educational assessment clinic and supervising trainees.

In her free time, she loves taking advantage of Colorado's many ski mountains and hiking trails with her husband and two sons. You can also find her studying karate, where she has earned a second degree black belt.