Help Your Child Manage Their Anxiety: Practical tips to help your child cope

Parents of children with anxiety have lots of questions. Am I doing the right thing? Am I helping them feel better? What else can I be doing?

This booklet provides answers and teaches parents how to help their children navigate the challenges of anxiety. With real-world examples and step-by-step advice, readers will feel prepared when their child is feeling anxious.

Simple wording and helpful visuals make this booklet easy to understand and use. This is the perfect resource for any parent raising a child with anxiety.

This booklet features:

• Real-world examples of how children experience anxiety
• Step-by-step calls to action
• Helpful visuals to highlight key points
• 28 pages of accessible content

Michelle Roberts, PhD, LPC, NCC, is the founder and clinical director of the Relational Trauma Recovery Center, where she practices EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing), attachment-focused therapy, and other evidence-based trauma models. She is a nationally certified counselor licensed in Missouri and Oregon and a member of the EMDR Disaster Network, a group of experienced EMDR therapists offering acute trauma treatment for healthcare professionals, first-responders, hospital workers, and therapists who have been working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to her clinical work, Roberts was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering mental health and, later, a founding director of Health Literacy Media. Her work has been recognized by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Mental Health Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Roberts also served as a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow at the Carter Center in Atlanta and has remained involved in the center’s mental health and social justice initiatives.

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