Meet
The Team
Elm Street Placements is pleased to introduce you to the specialists who will provide your family support.
Lucy Pritzker, MS
Founder and Senior Educational Therapeutic Consultant
Lucy Pritzker is the founder of Elm Street Placements, Inc. Her decades of experience guiding families through academic and residential treatment decisions bring unparalleled expertise to her book, Crisis Interrupted: A Parents' Guide to Residential Placement for Children, Teens, and Young Adults.
Lucy travels extensively throughout the United States and abroad to visit, assess, and cultivate deep knowledge of schools and treatment programs. She holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and has more than 30 years of experience working across educational, clinical, and therapeutic environments.
Lucy is a Professional Member of the Independent Educational Consultant Association (IECA), serves on the IECA Foundation Board, and sits on the Board of Trustees at Hampshire Country School.
Lucy has been officially recognized by IBCCES as a Certified Autism Specialist™—a meaningful step in Elm Street’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that autistic individuals receive thoughtful, respectful, and informed support across educational, clinical, and residential settings.
Outside of her professional work, Lucy enjoys creating art in her stained-glass studio, gardening, and caring for her donkeys, horses, and goats on her farm. She also enjoys time on the sailboat with her husband and their three adult children.
Raegan Freeman
Associate Educational and Therapeutic Day School Consultant
Raegan is a seasoned Elm Street Placements employee having been the background support of the firm and is now working with Lucy helping families find the right fit day school placements in New Jersey and New York. Raegan has a degree in English and Early Childhood Education and has worked as a teacher as well as an administrator. Raegan is a teacher at heart and has always had a passion for working with students with special needs and is excited to bring that experience into this new role as a day school educational consultant.
Kate Rinaldi
Associate Educational and Therapeutic Consultant
Kate Rinaldi has worked in the public school system as a school psychologist. Katie is adept at administering and interpretting psychological assessments, the IEP process and partnering with parents to implement interventions and identify needed services.
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Katie has immersed herself in the therapeutic residential treatment world and has visited eighty therapeutic progams for children, adolescents, and young adults this year alone! In addition to her onsite visits, Katie keeps her finger on the pulse of the residential therapeutic world through attending national and local conferences. Katie brings her personal experience as a parent of adopted children, who have experienced significant trauma, to her educational consulting work.