STEM support from someone who understands.

Founder • Tutor • Physics & Math Educator

Hi, I’m Caitlin.

I am a physics and mathematics graduate with years of experience helping students work through challenging STEM material. My background includes physics teaching assistant experience, research experience, and a deep love for making complicated ideas feel more understandable.

But Hearthway Tutoring is also personal. I know what it feels like to be capable and still struggle inside systems that are not built for the way your brain or body works. As a neurodivergent and disabled learner, I had to develop my own ways of studying, organizing information, asking for help, and continuing forward when the traditional path felt overwhelming.

I graduated because I learned how to keep adapting. I learned that struggling does not mean a student is lazy, incapable, or not meant for STEM. Sometimes it means the explanation was not clear enough yet. Sometimes the pace is too fast. Sometimes the student needs a different structure, a different strategy, or someone patient enough to help them rebuild confidence.

That is the heart of Hearthway. My goal is not just to help students get through one homework assignment. My goal is to help students understand what they are doing, notice their own strengths, and build learning tools they can carry with them.

I believe good tutoring should lift people up. It should make students feel less alone, not more ashamed. It should create room for questions, mistakes, pauses, different processing speeds, and the reality that students are whole people with lives outside the classroom.