About Elisabeth
Elisabeth has been fascinated by the brain and disability since high school. Her interest began as she sought answers for her own unidentified disability of severe sensory issues, poor reading comprehension and difficulty with navigation. Her mission to understand her own experience with disability lead her to the field of neuroplasticity (brain change) in her late twenties when she found the HANDLE Institute. Through the help of HANDLE (Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment and Learning Efficiency), her sensory issues decreased and her reading comprehension improved, which enabled her to work full time.
This experience with her own brain change increased her curiosity about neruoplasticity and prompted her to learn more. She pursued training from the HANDLE Institute and then went on to teach elementary special education for ten years, using what she learned about neuroplasticity in her classroom.
After seeing the success of her students when she used principles of neuroplasticity in her teaching, she decided she wanted to focus on neuroplasticity full time. In pursuit of this goal, she resigned from teaching special education in 2019 to study with Anat Baniel in the Anat Baniel Method®NeruoMovement® practitioner training program. Since that time, Elisabeth has seen significant improvements in her ability to navigate, in her reading comprehension and has seen her sensory issues continue to improve. She has gone from hating reading because it was exhausting work, to reading voraciously.
In 2022, Elisabeth and her mom, Lyn, founded Neely Learning Community in order to help people of all ages take advantage of their brain’s ability to change to enhance their quality of life.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading and has read more books since 2021 than she had read in her entire life. She also sings in her church choir, enjoys hiking, whitewater rafting, creative writing and pampering her cat.
