My name is Melissa, and I'm a warm, compassionate person who enjoys working with children/teens/young adults. I'm 52. I have a BA in Elementary Education, an MFA in Fiction, and I've nannied and taught kindergarten early in my career. I've just relocated back home to LA from New York where I've been in a program studying psychoanalysis for many years, seeing patients under supervision. In between these interest and occupations I was a Professor of English at Marymount in Palos Verdes. I've raised two children, and I'm am especially good fit with children who're on the spectrum. (Lots of personal and professional experience.) I look forward to hearing from you, and becoming a positive person in your children's lives, and of great assistance to you! Melissa