Lynda Dell and Karen Dehaven: How to De-Stress Families & Make Parenting Easier

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 5 p.m.

What can make parenting easier, lead to healthier relationships, and grow happier, more resilient families? Tune into learn how boosting your emotional intelligence can help your family thrive.\n\nLynda Dell, a Pre-K-12 education feature writer, who has worked in early childhood education for 20+ years, started the Resilient Families Thrive blog to empower moms with young anxious children to grow more resilient, happier families during a pandemic.\n\nShe\u2019s been working with mental health professionals, certified trauma therapists, and authors for science-based, mindful approaches, daily practices, activities, and techniques that build resiliency to curb children\u2019s fear, reduce anxiety, and increase mindfulness.\n\nKaren DeHaven, MA, BC-DMT, LPC, is the Founding Director of AHA! Studio for Integrated Therapies LLC. As a professional counselor and licensed dance/movement psychotherapist, she works with children, families and women who are ready to creatively work through their emotional and behavioral challenges.\n\nWith an advanced specialty of Counseling in Dance/Movement Therapy, Karen integrates both traditional and creative therapy techniques for verbal and non-verbal clients made possible by the transformative nature of the creative arts in therapy as an expressive pathway to healing.