When I began conducting psychological evaluations more than 17 years ago, I thought a lot about answers. What is the diagnosis? What do the scores mean? Where are the strengths? Where are the weaknesses? What recommendations will help? Those questions still matter. They matter a great deal.

When a child is anxious, overwhelmed, angry, embarrassed, or afraid, most parents want to help. We want children to know that their feelings are important and that they do not have to navigate difficult experiences alone.

Social skills are an important part of life at every age, but childhood is where many of these abilities first begin to grow.

There’s nothing quite like a good mistake to remind us of our inadequacy! Mistakes can activate our emotional brain and makes us feel anxious and or depressed. A surge of negative emotions can arise after we make mistakes, which can result in behaviors that impair our functioning. Is there a way to make our relationship with mistakes/failures into healthy coping mechanisms rather than avoidance, maladaptive behaviors, and just suffering? What is your relationship with failur

When working with children who struggle to emotionally regulate, I notice that each of these children has one thing in common: There is someone in their circle who they view as a role model who also struggles to emotionally regulate.