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About Claire

I am an internationally recognized child development and parenting expert with more than three decades of experience in education and direct practice. I partner with parents to help them solve their most vexing childrearing challenges by guiding them through the detective work to decode the meaning of their children’s behavior. Together, we identify the root cause of the problems parents are struggling with. This insight enables us to come up with effective strategies that help parents thread the sometimes seemingly elusive needle of being the loving, connected moms and dads they want to be while setting the limits and boundaries kids need to learn to self-regulate, to build resilience, and to be able to manage life’s expectations, frustrations, and disappointments.

In addition to my work in the trenches with families, I train pediatric residents in child development and parenting and provide mental health consultation at DC area preschools.

 

Services

 
 
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“Claire, with her rare knack for understanding the perspectives and feelings of young children, was able to provide specific recommendations and customized support to our daughter’s teachers that we could reinforce at home. We noticed improvements in the classroom as soon as the next day and our daughter has more confidence in her school environment.”
— Dad of Spirited 4-year-old
 

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This approach has multiple benefits:⁠ ⁠ 1) It prevents you from being reactive and promulgating a power-struggle.⁠ ⁠ 2) It gives you a chance to think about what you do and don't control in the situation at hand and make a plan for how to respond in
Growling is at the top of most parents' list of unpleasant and maddening behaviors. It feels so animalistic, and indeed it is. It signals that your child is unable to use his higher-level, front brain skills to manage his emotions in an effective way
When kids are depleted, they get dysregulated. This makes it hard for them to follow directions, make transitions, etc. They will need your calm and compassion to help them move through the evening tasks. ⁠ ⁠ There is a way to still provide important
As many of you know, I spend my days in the parenting trenches, working with moms and dads to find loving AND effective solutions to their childrearing challenges. ⁠ ⁠ Not surprisingly, some of the most prevalent problems are around the bedtime routi