About

BrainMatterZ is a leading cognitive skills and brain optimization center dedicated to helping students, professionals, athletes, and organizations unlock their full potential through evidence-based brain training programs. Founded by Dr. Tere Linzey, a licensed psychologist with certification in neuropsychology and more than 30 years of educational experience, BrainMatterZ specializes in strengthening the foundational cognitive skills that drive learning, performance, focus, memory, and executive functioning.

Based in Pacific Grove, BrainMatterZ offers comprehensive cognitive assessments, psycho-educational evaluations, SAT/ACT preparation enhancement, executive functioning training, attention and focus development, memory improvement, auditory and visual processing programs, and customized brain optimization services. Programs are designed for children, teens, adults, schools, athletic teams, and corporate organizations seeking measurable improvements in performance and productivity.

Using principles of neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to adapt and strengthen through targeted practice—BrainMatterZ helps individuals build stronger cognitive foundations that support academic achievement, test-taking confidence, workplace effectiveness, and overall lifelong learning. Services are available through private sessions, virtual training, intensive Brain Labs, school partnerships, and corporate workshops.

What is Brain Optimization?

What we repeatedly experience, feel, think, sense and do sculpts, alters, and reorganizes the brain. In other words, what we “practice” is what we hardwire! Optimization is simply the process of challenging the brain to develop optimal fundamental skills that are necessary for learning.

Nothing has to be wrong in order for you or your child to benefit from brain retraining and enhanced brain health. Brain optimization is a gift that you can give to your child or to yourself.

Society has long believed that intelligence or I.Q. is fixed and controlled by genetics. Neuroscience, based on the research of “neuroplasticity,” has discarded this assumption and so should you! We now know that we each have control over our own brain power.

What we repeatedly feel, do, sense, and think sculpts, alters and reorganizes the brain. In other words, what we “practice” is what we hardwire! Optimization is simply the process of challenging the brain to develop optimal fundamental skills that are necessary for learning.

About Dr. Tere Linzey

As a Licensed Psychologist with a Neuropsychologist Certification and an additional three masters degrees, Dr. Linzey went on to research brain potential and cognition at a number of top universities including Harvard and UC Berkeley. 

2023 — Named Best Education Psychologist in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Magazine