Working with parents, children, and adolescents
No conversation about parenting and children gets it right without making loud mention that no parent or child makes it alone. And that's because both the work of parenting and the work of growing up are nearly impossible tasks.
Nearly, because children and adolescents struggling from behavioral problems, learning issues, anxiety and depression, toilet training concerns, as well as eating and sleep difficulties can be helped. And us parents can be supported along the way to find more ways of connecting with our kids, even when every fiber of our being screams, "Disconnect!"
I believe understanding children and their development is so important that I gave three years of dedicated time and attention to the most up to date research in child development, neuropsychology, child trauma, and infant-parent dynamics through the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy program at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, NY.
Along the way, I got some tips for parents.