About Us
Meet Our Team
Colton Turner
Founder and Owner
Colton has over 17 years of experience working with students of all ages and abilities, including those with IEPs, 504s, 2E profiles, and various learning challenges. He has a special interest in working with students who are learning to cope with ADHD and executive functioning deficits, and teaching them strategies that result in better school performance and healthy long-term outcomes.
Jessica Metzger
Senior Program Director
Jess is an experienced educator with almost 15 years of diverse experience in the field. Her background is in research and program development, with a focus on the arts, inclusive education, and Universal Design for Learning. She has a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and before joining StudyHouse, she spent five years at the National Gallery of Art developing programs and resources for teachers.
Katherine Welch
Director, The Adapted Classroom
Katherine has worked at StudyHouse since the fall of 2022. She started as an instructor in the Adapted Classroom before also becoming a private tutor in Launch. She is now a Lead Teacher in the Adapted Classroom and became its Director in January 2025. Katherine earned her BS in biology with a chemistry minor from The College of William and Mary and her MS in genetic counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia (now, the VCU School of Medicine).
Our Instructional Staff
Neha Bagalkot
Nora Begley
Bahar Bicak
Saliha Bicak
George Caceres
Emily Davis
Sal Desai
Alex Duerre
Hadeel Elbackush
Carolyn Grace
Abby Horowitz
Jordan Hundley
Ayia Ismael
Tahsin Jabin
Padideh Jalali-Shirazi
Ayaan Khan
Allison Kreps
Vy Le
Zahraa Mohammed
Jessica Nasr
Kelsey Nuckolls
Maaz Sharieff
Lena Solano
Kyren Strakovsky
Sayeed Tashdeed
Brandon Tran
Sahar Zeiaei-Nafchi
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301A Maple Ave W
Suite G
Vienna, VA 22180
(make sure to include the "A" in 301A)
571-234-1872