Whether you’re tackling a specific behavior obstacle or facing a larger life issue, I provide nonjudgmental understanding, unique observations & valuable techniques to help your family get through it together.
I present workshops & speak on a broad spectrum of parenting & family topics – from managing behavior in young children to communicating with teenagers, from talking with kids about sex to keeping them safe.
I also offer classes for other private-practice therapists, featuring straight talk & relevant information on topics like HIPAA compliance, best practices, & building & marketing your practice.
Join me for a parenting group! It’s a multi-session group class based on the Arc of the Tantrum, and the work that I do with parents in my parent coaching practice. It is not a therapy group. Each… Read More
Parents, and especially white parents, have important work to embrace around being, and parenting, in anti-racist ways. Let’s start with two steps. #1: Understand “anti-racism.” I believe that most everyone in my life would describe themselves as “not… Read More
If you’re looking for extra support for how to talk with your kids about race, we’d love for you to watch this webinar from 2018. It’s now free for anyone to access. Talking with Children about Race Webinar
Imagine that we can plot a tantrum on a graph… The “y-axis” is “level of tantrum” and the “x-axis” is “time.” The tantrum shape is a bell curve, divided into stages. The first stage: there’s no tantrum, but… Read More
Imagine that interactions about behavior in your parenting life can be neatly divided in to two categories of situations. Overly simplistic, yes, but work with me here for a minute. Depending on the category, I propose that two distinct… Read More
I snapped a picture of this quote on the wall at the Magellan International School the other day, and posted it on Facebook. A week or so later, it had been shared by 68 people, and viewed by… Read More