Katie Malinski, LCSW-
Welcome
Nothing is more important to parents than their relationship with their children – and nobody wants to spend their precious family moments together in conflict. As a parenting coach and family therapist, I help parents effectively shape their kids’ behavior while strengthening their relationship. Every family goes through rough patches. I offer positive insights and practical tools for getting back to a smoother, happier path.
Coaching & Therapy
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.
Workshops & Speaking
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.
Services For Therapists
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.
Recent Posts
Age-Appropriate Suffering
“Suffering has value.” I heard this said the other day, and it struck me as an unpopular truth. While on the one hand, none of us want to suffer, and parents generally are quite loathe to see their… Read More
The Arc of the Tantrum Parenting Class
How can I get my kid to cooperate? How can I get them to stop arguing!? How can I get them to CALM DOWN!? Do you feel like you don’t know what to do? Or that what you’re… Read More
Anti-Racist Parenting Conversations
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
The Arc of the Tantrum–resources
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
Finish Line vs Growth Parenting Moments
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
The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways
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
My Office
1704 W Koenig Lane
Austin, TX 78756
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