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The Family Roots Podcast is a podcast about parenting and mental health. Hosted by two child and family therapists, we dive deep into all the topics and questions that parents may have. We talk about how to raise emotionally healthy, resilient kids and how to take care of your own mental health as a parent.
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Stephanie is joined by Family Roots therapists Michelle Hickman, Cheri Partain, and Eileen Spindor, to discuss raising teenagers, sharing both their personal and professional experiences.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh is joined by Family Roots therapists Kelly Mehigan, LCSW, and Zoë Martinini, LPC to discuss raising toddlers, sharing both their personal and professional experiences.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie explore how and why to validate your child's emotions. Why is it important and how can you do so even when you disagree with their behavior?
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie explore how to talk with kids about scary or traumatic events, even when you might feel dysregulated or scared yourself.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie discuss staying regulated as a parent when your child is dysregulated - why it's important and how you can do it too (at least most of the time).
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie discuss how neurodivergence impacts parenting, sharing both their personal and professional experiences.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie sit down with Alyssa Chavez, a functional nutritionist (who also happens to be Kaleigh's sister) to discuss her personal experience of pregnancy after overcoming health challenges and coping with infertility and miscarriage.
Alyssa's information can be found at https://www.alignedtorise.com/
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh and Stephanie sit down with one of our Family Roots therapists, Liz Temple, LPC, to talk about Child-Parent Relationship Therapy and how this model can help young children and their parents.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie talk about what happens when parents put grown-up responsibilities on children - how it impacts their self-perception and relationships.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie sit down with one of our therapists at Family Roots, certified Body Trust Provider and Intuitive Eating Counselor Kristen Scher. They discuss ways parents can support kids' positive relationship with food and their bodies.
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie break down the differences between discipline and punishment and the effects of each on children.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie explore "mom guilt" and ways to move beyond it.
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie discuss ways parents can gain awareness of inter-generational parenting cycles and make new and intentional parenting choices.
Original Music and Editing: Dustin Carpenter, Middleman Music
Kaleigh sits down with one of our therapists at Family Roots, Robbin Schroth, to talk about mental health during the perinatal and postpartum period.
In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie share about Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a therapy model for working with kids ages 0-6 and their parents on increasing attachment and connection, primarily for kids and families who have experienced trauma or domestic violence.
In our last episode, we talked about different parenting styles. In this episode, Kaleigh and Stephanie discuss how to handle judgment from others about your parenting style.
Kaleigh and Stephanie dive into different parenting styles and the difference between authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved parenting.
Ever been curious what your child's therapist wants you to know? Kaleigh and Stephanie talk about what we wish parents knew and the most important messages we try to give to parents about their child's therapy.
One of the therapists at Family Roots Therapy, Cheri Partain, talks with Kaleigh about adoption, attachment, and working with adoptive families.
Stephanie and Kaleigh discuss what therapy with kids look like and talk about each of the different approaches they use when working with kids.
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