Featured: Adult Children of Parents with Mental Illness

I'm honored to have been featured on the blog of my colleague Toni Teixeira, LCSW, BC-TMH, at Strong at the Core Counseling. The article explores something I see often in my practice — the quiet, lasting impact of growing up with a parent who struggled with mental illness, and the ways that childhood can show up in adulthood as anxiety, over-functioning, people-pleasing, or that constant feeling of bracing for something to go wrong.

If you grew up reading the room before you could read words, this one's for you.

→ Read the full article: Adult Children of Parents with Mental Illness: Signs of Childhood Trauma in Adulthood