About Us

Karen Brinkley

Founder/Owner/Ceo Licensed-Certified Practioner/ Ma Ed/Teacher/Author/ Kinesiologist Advanced Brain Technology Provider
Karen is so happy and delighted to share, bringing a wealth of experience and a true dedication for helping all succeed. Using scientifically researched methods, her practice eliminates difficulties with learning challenges.

KAREN is so excited to share, bringing a wealth of experience and a true passion for helping all succeed. Using theoretically based, scientifically researched methods. her practice eliminates difficulties with learning disorders

About Karen

Karen Brinkley is deeply passionate about transforming the lives of children and adults with learning challenges. With over 25 years of experience and a track record of success with more than 300 students and their families, she founded Optimal Learning Skills to provide effective, personalized solutions.
Karen specializes in neurological brain therapy to develop tailored programs that addresses a wide range of learning difficulties. Her approach begins with a thorough evaluation of everyone’s individual core skills to identify their strengths and weaknesses. This ensures that every program is uniquely designed to meet specific needs.
She offers support for challenges such as reading, spelling, comprehension, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, high functioning autism, brain injuries, concussions, and more. Karen’s dedication and expertise make her a trusted partner for parents seeking lasting solutions to help their children thrive.

She has a Heart-Centered practice, bringing a wealth of experience and a passion for helping children and adults with learning challenges. As a dedicated schoolteacher for over 25 years, that saw students just trying to cope, being called lazy, limping through school and their self-esteem crushed. Knowing that there had to be more that could be done for these students, she searched for some real answers to unlock their potential, discovered that the difficulty lies in some of the dozen underlying cognitive learning skills. Finding there are ways to develop these learning skills so that they no longer get in the way.  She then became licensed and certified in programs that fix learning skills.

Since each person has unique needs, a comprehensive evaluation of the core learning skills to find strengths and weaknesses are given. They can be Reading, spelling, Comprehension, ADD, ADHD, Auditory and Visual Processing, Dyslexia (over 6 different kinds), Autism, Concussions, Brain Injury, and more.

No two brains are alike which is why I create custom plans using a precise combination of programs that are for each person’s individual needs.

Parents, doctors, teachers, counselors, neuropsychologists, and loved ones, are the key to providing core information for people and working with them as partners.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Karen Brinkley is a highly accomplished sole practitioner
with a diverse background in education and cognitive
development. She is a licensed, certified and credentialed
provider with extensive training from scientific experts,
enabling her to deliver cutting-edge programs for cognitive
and educational skill development.

LISTEN: Karen is an Advanced Brain Technologies provider
of neuroscience-based music listening programs designed to

re-educate the ear and auditory pathways. These programs
enhance learning, attention, communication, listening and
sensory integration. She incorporates this highly advanced
program (Vital Neuro) that utilizes EEG technology and
neurofeedback to improve brain function, offering real-time
insights and adjustments for optimal learning.

THINK: With over 20 years of expertise in PACE (Processing
and Cognitive Enhancement), Karen uses brain training
techniques that improve auditory/visual systems, memory
(short- & long-term), processing speed, attention, logic and
reasoning.

MOVE: As an educational kinesiologist, she applies brain
gymnastics and neuro-motor skills training. Her movement
programs, such as In Time, that integrate movement, rhythm,
and music to balance brain-body coordination and enhance
learning breakthroughs. And even special movements using
specialized equipment.

READ: Karen has developed the Mastering the Code Reading
system, which revolutionizes how students approach basic
reading. She is also the author of a digital auditory/visual
textbook, Reading Sounds Write: Decoding Speech. This
sound-to-code reading system providing rapid, transforming
results for students learning to read or those below grade
level. Her expertise extends to phonological awareness,
spelling, writing, comprehension, and more-leveraging
auditory analysis to build foundational skills from sounds to
letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, essays.

Her journey began in nursing but evolved into a focus on

Sole-Practitioner: Advanced Brain Technology Provider, Kinesiologist (in Time, Brain Gymnastics), Author Digital-Audio Textbook (Complete with instructions), Optimal Learning Skills Provider, Cognitive Learning Therapist. 

Provider: Permanent optimal learning solutions are provided in:

THINK: Cognitive Processing Skills: Attention, Memory Work, Auditory Processing, Speed Processing, Visual Processing, Language Processing, Logic & Reasoning

READ: Author of a Digital Sound Textbook: ‘Reading Sounds Write.’ Decoding Speech-Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling, Handwriting, Writing, Comprehension Reading (through Auditory Analysis of sounds to letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, essays).

LISTEN: Advanced Brain Technology: The Listening Program that encompasses several programs of music and sound stimulation that focus on re-educating the ear and auditory pathways for increased learning, attention, communication, listening and sensory integration.

MOVE: in Time Movement, Rhythm, Balancing Brain-Body Simultaneously, Brain Gym (Kinesiology), Balametrics (Neuro-Motor Skills).

Teacher: over 25 years in California, North Carolina, Florida.

Advanced teacher at the University of Southern California-Health Behavior Research Institute, University of Phoenix. Consultant.

Master of Arts – Education (Curriculum and Instruction), Magna Cum Laude

Teaching Credentials from California, North Caroling and Florida.

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education and curriculum development. Karen holds:
  • Master of Arts in Education with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction, through which she created curricula for schools.
  • A Bachelor of Science in Science and Health.
  • Teaching experience spanning 30 years across California, North Carolina and Florida, in structing Biology, Biochemistry, Health, and Spanish.
Her work with the Southern California Health Behavior Research Institute and The University of Phoenix deepened her understanding of cognitive and behavioral health, which she now applies in her programs gave her extensive knowledge to pass on to help her clients.

Customized Approach

Each valued client undergoes a comprehensive cognitive assessment to create a tailored program based on their individual needs. No two brains are alike, and Karen’s precise combination of interventions reflects this individually. which is why custom plans using a precise combination of programs that are for each person’s individual needs. She collaborates with parents, doctors, teachers, counselors, psychologists, neurologists, audiologists, optometrists, and behaviorists to gather essential insights and achieve transformative results.
Through her expertise and dedication, Karen Brinkley equips individuals to overcome challenges and unlock their full potential.