This week on the Parenting Help Podcast, we’re honored to host Dr. Lisa Pion-Berlin, CEO of Parents Anonymous and an esteemed expert in family strengthening and parent advocacy.

In this episode, Dr. Pion-Berlin shares:
How to access evidence-based approaches to fostering stronger family connections
The transformative role of Parents Anonymous in empowering caregivers
Practical strategies for navigating complex parenting challenges

Drawing on decades of research and experience, Dr. Pion-Berlin offers valuable perspectives for parents, educators, and professionals invested in family well-being.

Our newest episode features a wonderful conversation with Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Director of the Yale Child Study Center’s Program for Anxiety Disorders.

He shares with us about their parent centered and remarkably effective program called SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions.

We talk with Dr. Eli Lebowitz about the amazing treatment results this program is demonstrating and how parents and families are finding increased flexibility and reduction in anxiety symptoms.

Jaclyn Pederson is the CEO of Feeding Matters, a non profit organization focusing on advocacy, education, research, treatment, and support for families and children with pediatric feeding disorder (PFD). In this episode we offer guidance for knowing when to seek medical help, how to find other families and community support for your family if a child has PFD, and how to take care of yourself in order to best support your child and family.

Join us as we talk with Dr. Jill Saxon about how to recognize, understand, and shift our accommodating behavior with our anxious children. We learn more about the SPACE program to support parents in making changes in thoughtful and intentional ways, as well as some examples of how accommodating shows up in different settings.

Many of our guests have helped us to understand what anxiety is, how to take a compassionate perspective on challenging behavior in the presence of anxiety, and offered tools for emotional regulation (of ourselves as well as our children or clients). In this episode, we are going to add to our toolboxes - and talk about setting boundaries with children who are struggling to regulate.

Dr. Emma Waddington is a clinical psychologist working with families and children in Singapore. She takes us on an exploration of the many ways we can set boundaries for ourselves, our children, and our families - and still enrich our relationships with our children. She offers brave insight into her own journey as a parent as well as the experienced clinician’s lens on some of the reasons that boundaries are healthy for everyone.

We talk with noted author and psychologist Dr. Sarah Cassidy about her work for children with anxiety, her new book Tired of Anxiety, co-authored with Dr. Lisa Coyne, and the importance of collaboration with families and across settings.

In this episode we have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Diane Hudson about self-compassion in parenting. Diane brings a beautiful, gentle, and pragmatic set of ideas to those moments when we feel we just aren't getting it right as parents.

We talk about the importance of patience and genuine curiosity for our own learning in parenting neuro-divergent children, the value in understanding our rules and expectations, and how to support our children through melt-downs and tantrums.

Dr. Sean O'Dell joins me to talk about the challenges parents face when they are advocating for their children in medical and educational systems. We talk about difficult conversations, maintaining focus on our goals for our children as they grow, and navigating the many providers and services our children may need.

In this episode, we flip the tables a bit and find that I am the one being interviewed. We talk about the acceptance and commitment training approach used at Vigeo Behavior Consulting, and some of the themes that are emerging in our parent and teacher coaching. This audio is published with the gracious permission of Dr. Lynne Kenney, a pediatric psychologist on the language and executive functions team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia in Scottsdale, Arizona. Please take some time to see the amazing work Dr. Kenney is doing to enhance learning through the integration of neuroscience and movement at lynnekenney.com

Dy Thompson of Behavior Cusp, LLC joins us to share some insights, strategies, and tips for understanding and managing the challenges you might be working through if you or your child have ADHD.

Dr. Chris McCurry joins us to talk about how parents can support children with anxiety. We talk about what anxiety is, where it comes from, and the importance of learning to change how we relate to our anxious thoughts and feelings, rather than trying to get rid of them. Chris brings some clear strategies for helping learn how to do this.

John and I talk about parenting self-compassion, parenting challenges around anxiety and distress tolerance. Wrapping up with discussions on how to engage in values directed behaviors even in the presence of parents' or the child's discomfort.