VIRTUAL | November 16th-19th
Children's Mental Health + Parenting Summit
4 Days, 30+ Experts.
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31 EXPERT SPEAKERS
31 MASTER CLASSES & 4 LIVE WORKSHOPS
43 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION
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The parenting questions keeping you up at night- answered by the experts you trust.
SPEAKER SCHEDULE
| SPEAKER NAME | SESSION TITLE |
| Tammy Schamuhn, R.Psych, RPT-S and Tania Johnson, R.Psych, RPT | Understanding School Avoidance & Anxiety LIVE Half Day Masterclass starting at 8:30am PST/11:30am EST |
| Dr. Daniel Amen, MD | What a Child’s Brain Needs to Thrive |
| Dr. William Stixrud, PhD | 7 Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child |
| Dr. Gordon Neufeld, PhD | Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers |
| Tammy Schamuhn, R.Psych, RPT-S | Navigating the Teen Years |
| Dr. John La Puma, MD, FACP | The Outdoor Advantage |
| Kids Eat in Color: Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN | Nutrition & Healthy Eating |
| Dr. Deborah MacNamara, PhD, RCC | Healthy Food Relationships |
| Dr. Siggie Cohen, PhD | You Are the Parent: Finding Balance Between Connection and Cooperation |
| SPEAKER NAME | SESSION TITLE |
| Tania Johnson, R.Psych, RPT | Beyond Behaviours: Working with Big Feelings and Behavioural Challenges LIVE Half Day Masterclass starting at 8:30am PST/11:30am EST |
| Dr. Michele Borba, EdD | UnSelfie: Raising Kind, Empathetic Kids in a Self-Focused World |
| Dr. Eli Lebowitz, PhD | Helping Kids with Anxiety Without Feeding Anxiety |
| Jess VanderWier, MA, RP | Your Child Doesn’t Need You to Be Perfect. How Repair, not Perfection, Builds Resilient Kids |
| Lucy Sloan, BA Psych, ACCP, CAATP | Healing Through Animals |
| Dr. Monica Jackman, OTD, OTR/L | Occupational Therapy in the Classroom |
| Jenny Al-Adra, MC, BEd | Supporting Children in Foster & Adoptive Care |
| Lenore Skenazy, President/Co-Founder of Let Grow | Raising Independent & Resilient Kids |
| SPEAKER NAME | SESSION TITLE |
| Tammy Schamuhn, R.Psych, RPT-S | Understanding Childhood Trauma LIVE Half Day Masterclass starting at 8:30am PST/11:30am EST |
| Steve Biddulph | Raising Kids in an Anxious World |
| Jessica McCabe, Creator of How to ADHD | How to ADHD: Understanding the ADHD Brain |
| Dr. Sheri Madigan, PhD, R.Psych | Technoference: When Technology Interrupts Connection |
| Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW | The Way of Play |
| Dr. Peter Gray, PhD | Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety |
| Rosalia Rivera | Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse |
| Cst. Stephanie Bosch & Cst. Scott Sterling | Keeping Kids Safe Online |
| Dr. Susan Linn, EdD | Big tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children |
| SPEAKER NAME | SESSION TITLE |
| Tania Johnson, R.Psych, RPT | Screens, Social Media & Online Safety LIVE Half Day Masterclass starting at 8:30am PST/11:30am EST |
| Julie Lythcott-Haims, JD, MFA | Raising Capable Kids |
| Dr. Michele Borba, EdD | Raising a Thriver |
| Jennie Abbot, RYT, CYA-CYT | Mindfulness for Kids |
| Dr. Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD | Mind-Gut Connection |
| Eli Harwood, MA, LPC | How to Heal Your Own ______ So Your Kids Don’t Have To |
| Tania Johnson, R.Psych, RPT | When Kids Grieve: Supporting Children Through Loss |
| Kim John Payne, MEd | Resiliency in Teens |
| Dr. Niobe Way, PhD | Boys and Loneliness |
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Meet Our World Renowned Speakers:
Tammy Schamuhn, R. Psych
Compassionate Discipline & Childhood Trauma
Tammy is a Registered Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, former Executive Director of Family Counselling Centres, and the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute of Child Psychology.
Tammy specializes in working with trauma & anxiety in children and teens & has been working in private practice for the past decade. She supervises clinical masters-level counselling students, & provisional psychologists.
Tammy has a big place in her heart for animals & developed an animal-assisted therapy program called ‘Hooves of Hope Ranch’ & founded the Child-Centered Animal-Assisted Therapy Association (www.ccaata.com).
Tania Johnson, R.Psych
Childhood Anxiety & The Highly Sensitive Child
Tania was born in South Africa, where she received an Honours degree in psychology. She spent several years teaching in Taiwan before adventuring to places like Mount Everest base camp and the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. After completing a one-year internship at Cancer Treatment Centres of America in Chicago, where her focus was on supporting patients in the stem cell unit, Tania earned her Master’s in counselling.
She and her husband were foster parents to four First Nations children for five years and have two bio children of their own. She currently supervises Master’s-level students and provisional psychologists. Tania works primarily from the perspective of attachment theory, which focuses on bonds between parents and children.
Her gift, both in the therapy room and when writing, is to translate the latest research into concrete strategies that parents can implement in everyday life with their children.
Dr. Daniel Amen, MD
What a Child's Brain Needs to Thrive
Dr. Daniel Amen is a psychiatrist, author, and founder of Amen Clinics whose work focuses on brain health and its relationship to behaviour, learning, mood, and well-being. He is the author of numerous bestselling books on the brain, mental health, and raising mentally strong children.
Find him: Daniel Amen, MD
Dr. William Stixrud, PhD
7 Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child
Dr. William Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist, founder of The Stixrud Group, and co-author of The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say? His work explores motivation, stress, autonomy, and helping children develop a healthy sense of control over their lives.
Find him: The Stixrud Group
Dr. John La Puma, MD, FACP
The Outdoor Advantage
Dr. John La Puma is a board-certified internist, professionally trained chef, bestselling author, and pioneer in culinary and nature-based medicine. His work explores how food, nature, and time outdoors can support physical health, mental well-being, resilience, and longevity.
Find him: Dr. John La Puma
Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN
Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Jennifer Anderson is a registered dietitian, mom, and founder of Kids Eat in Color, a leading resource helping families navigate child nutrition, picky eating, and healthy relationships with food. She holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins and is the author of Feed Them Well.
Find her: Kids Eat in Color
Dr. Gordon Neufeld, PhD
Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers
Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a developmental psychologist and internationally recognized authority on child development and attachment. He is the co-author of Hold On to Your Kids and the founder of the Neufeld Institute, where his developmental approach helps adults understand the attachment and emotional needs underlying children’s behaviour.
Find him: Neufeld Institute
2) Love Dad
3) Parenting at Your Child’s Pace: The Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to the First Three Years.
Dr. Deborah MacNamara, PhD, RCC
Healthy Food Relationships
Dr. Deborah MacNamara is a developmentalist, counsellor, educator, and bestselling author who has spent more than 25 years helping adults understand how children and teens grow and mature. Her books include Rest, Play, Grow and Nourished, and her work translates developmental science into practical guidance for parents and professionals.
Find her: Dr. Deborah MacNamara
Dr. Eli Lebowitz, PhD
Helping Kids with Anxiety Without Feeding Anxiety
Dr. Eli Lebowitz is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. He developed SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), an evidence-based parent treatment for children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, OCD, and related challenges.
Find him: Yale Child Study Center
Dr. Michele Borba, EdD
UnSelfie: Raising Kind, Empathetic Kids in a Self-Focused World / Raising a Thriver
Dr. Michele Borba is an educational psychologist, internationally recognized parenting expert, and bestselling author whose work focuses on empathy, character, resilience, and helping children thrive. Her books include UnSelfie and Thrivers, and she has worked with parents and educators around the world.
Find her: Michele Borba
Jess VanderWier, MA, RP
Your Child Doesn't Need You to Be Perfect. How Repair, not Perfection, Builds Resilient Kids
Jess VanderWier is a Registered Psychotherapist, parenting educator, and founder of Nurtured First. Her work helps parents better understand behaviour, attachment, emotional regulation, and the importance of connection and repair in raising emotionally healthy children.
Find her: Nurtured First
Lucy Sloan, BA Psych, ACCP, CAATP
Healing Through Animals
Lucy Sloan is the founder of Lil’ Steps Wellness Farm in Manitoba, where she provides animal-assisted therapeutic services for children and adolescents. Her work uses relationships with animals to support emotional well-being, connection, confidence, and healing.
Find her: Child-Centered Animal-Assisted Therapy Association
Dr. Monica Jackman, OTD, OTR/L
Occupational Therapy in the Classroom
Dr. Monica Jackman is an occupational therapist, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on helping children participate successfully in everyday life, including at home and in the classroom. Her work brings occupational therapy principles into practical strategies for supporting regulation, participation, learning, and neurodivergent children.
Jenny Al-Adra, MC, BEd
Supporting Children in Foster & Adoptive Care
Jenny is a Registered Clinical Counsellor specializing in adoptive and foster care. Jenny has worked children, youth, and adults for the last 25 years in various roles as youth leader, mentor, teacher, and mental health professional.
Jenny Al-Adra is a Certified Counsellor and mom of 5, all of whom joined her family through foster, adoption, or custody agreement.
This unique blend of skills gives her an inside perspective on this topic and working with these dynamic, wonderful, sometimes challenging kiddos.
Lenore Skenazy, President/Co-Founder of Let Grow
Raising Independent & Resilient Kids
Lenore Skenazy is President of Let Grow and author of Free-Range Kids, the book that helped launch a movement around childhood independence. A former journalist, she advocates for giving children more opportunities for independence, free play, confidence-building, and real-world responsibility.
Find her: Let Grow
Cst. Stephanie Bosch & Cst. Scott Sterling
Keeping Kids Safe Online
Constables Stephanie Bosch and Scott Sterling are members of Alberta’s ALERT Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit, a specialized team investigating online child exploitation. Their work includes digital investigations and prevention education related to grooming, luring, sextortion, coerced image sharing, and other online risks facing children and teens.
Find them: Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT)
Jessica McCabe, Creator of How to ADHD
How to ADHD: Understanding the ADHD Brain
Jessica McCabe is the creator, writer, and host of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD and the New York Times bestselling author of How to ADHD. Her work combines research, lived experience, and practical strategies to help people understand and work with ADHD brains.
Find her: How to ADHD
Dr. Sheri Madigan, PhD, R.Psych
Technoference: When Technology Interrupts Connection
Dr. Sheri Madigan is a Registered Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary, and Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development. Her research examines how early experiences, caregiving relationships, adversity, and technology shape children’s development and mental health.
Find her: University of Calgary profile
Dr. Susan Linn, EdD
Big tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children
Dr. Susan Linn is a psychologist, author, and internationally recognized advocate for protecting children from the harmful effects of commercialism and Big Tech. Her work explores how marketing, screens, and corporate influence shape childhood, play, development, and family life.
Find her: Fairplay
Steve Biddulph
Raising Kids in an Anxious World
Steve Biddulph is a psychologist, bestselling author, and one of the world’s best-known parenting educators. His books—including Raising Boys, The Secret of Happy Children, and 10 Things Girls Need Most—have reached millions of families and explore children’s emotional development, relationships, and mental health.
Find him: Steve Biddulph
Rosalia Rivera
Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse
Rosalia Rivera is a consent educator, child sexual abuse prevention specialist, child-rights advocate, and founder of CONSENTparenting™. She equips parents with practical tools for teaching children body safety, boundaries, consent, and how to seek help.
Find her: CONSENTparenting
Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW
The Way of Play
Dr. Tina Payne Bryson is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline, The Yes Brain, and The Power of Showing Up. She is also co-author of The Way of Play and founder of the Center for Connection and Play Strong Institute.
Find her: Tina Payne Bryson
Dr. Peter Gray, PhD
Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety
Dr. Peter Gray is a research psychologist and author known internationally for his work on children’s play, independence, learning, and development. He is the author of Free to Learn and has spent decades examining why self-directed play and age-mixed social experiences are fundamental to healthy childhood development.
Find him: Peter Gray’s Substack — Play Makes Us Human
Jennie Abbot, RYT, CYA-CYT
Mindfulness for Kids
Jennie Abbot is the founder of The Harmony Kids Co. and an award-winning children’s yoga and mindfulness educator. A Registered Yoga Teacher and Children’s Yoga Teacher, she has spent more than 20 years working with children, families, educators, government, and nonprofit organizations to build resilience through yoga and mindfulness.
Find her: The Harmony Kids Co. / Harmony Kids Yoga & Mindfulness.
Julie Lythcott-Haims, JD, MFA
Raising Capable Kids
Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way.
New York Times bestselling author, speaker, teacher, mentor and activist, Julie’s first book, How to Raise an Adult, inspired a widely viewed TED Talk. Their award-winning memoir, Real American, explores personal experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is a “groundbreakingly frank” guide to navigating adulthood. The Not So Empty Nest: A How-To Guide for Parents and Adult Children Living Together is set to release in May 2027.
Preorder HERE
Julie holds a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law, an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Puget Sound. Julie lives in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, where they serve on the City Council and advocate for housing, equity, climate, and youth mental health. Julie and their lifelong partner Dan are parents to two twentysomethings and share a home with their eldest.
Dr. Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD
Mind-Gut Connection
Dr. Emeran Mayer is a physician, neuroscientist, author, and internationally recognized expert on interactions between the digestive system, microbiome, and brain. His work translates emerging research on the mind-gut connection into practical insights about health, stress, food, and well-being.
Find him: Emeran Mayer, MD
Eli Harwood, MA, LPC
How to Heal Your Own ______ So Your Kids Don't Have To
Eli Harwood—widely known as The Attachment Nerd—is a licensed therapist, author, and educator with more than 17 years of clinical experience. Her work makes attachment science accessible to parents and helps adults understand how their own attachment histories influence the relationships they build with their children.
Find her: Attachment Nerd
Kim John Payne, MEd
Resiliency in Teens
Kim John Payne is a family counsellor, educator, consultant, and bestselling author of Simplicity Parenting. His work helps families reduce overwhelm, strengthen connection, establish healthy rhythms, and create calmer environments in a culture of “too much, too soon.”
Find him: Simplicity Parenting
Dr. Niobe Way, PhD
Boys and Loneliness
Dr. Niobe Way is a Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University and Director of the Science of Human Connection Lab. Her decades of research on boys, friendships, emotional intimacy, and human connection challenge cultural assumptions about masculinity and explore what boys need to maintain close relationships as they grow.
Find her: NYU Steinhardt
Dr. Siggie Cohen, PhD
You Are the Parent: Finding Balance Between Connection and Cooperation
Beyond her private practice and lectures throughout the Los Angeles area, Dr. Cohen supports a global community of over 2.3 million parents across social media who turn to her for grounded, practical guidance. She holds a master’s degree in education and psychology from Pepperdine University and earned her PhD from Northcentral University. Grounded by her own lived experience as a mother of three grown sons, Dr. Cohen currently lives in the Bay Area, where she maintains her private practice. For more information visit drsiggie.com and follow @dr.siggie on social media.
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Tania Johnson & Tammy Schamuhn
Tania Johnson and Tammy Schamuhn are registered psychologists, moms, award-winning bestselling authors, and the co-founders of the Institute of Child Psychology (ICP). Together, they have built ICP into a trusted global resource for parents and professionals, making evidence-based child psychology practical, accessible, and relatable.
They are also the voices behind The Child Psych Podcast, a top-rated parenting and mental health podcast featuring leading experts from around the world. At the heart of everything they do is their shared experience as moms, bringing together professional expertise, real-life parenting, and a genuine commitment to helping families raise resilient, emotionally healthy children.
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