Emily’s Full Bio
Emily Edlynn, PhD is passionate about integrating science and common-sense in parenting guidance to support healthier and more sustainable lives for parents. She is an award-winning author of the book, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent Confident Children, and an international speaker. She wrote a regular parenting advice column for Parents.com and serves on their medical review board. Emily co-hosts the popular Psychologists Off the Clock podcast and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Motherly, Psychology Today, and more. She has been featured as an expert on NPR and NBC News Daily and regularly guests on podcasts to speak about parenting and raising healthy children in our modern world. She challenges today’s unhealthy and unscientific parenting trends in her speaking and writing, including for her Substack. Her book earned a Foreword Reviews’ 2023 Indies Book of the Year Award.
Emily is the Director of Pediatric Behavioral Medicine for Oak Park Behavioral Medicine, a private practice specializing in health psychology for children, teens, and adults. She has a BA in English from Smith College, a PhD in clinical psychology from Loyola University Chicago, and completed postgraduate training at Stanford and Children’s Hospital Orange County. When she’s not seeing therapy clients, writing, podcasting, or speaking, she enjoys long walks listening to podcasts, reading multiple books at a time from every genre, and spending time with her two rescue dogs and family, not necessarily in that order. You can learn more about her at www.emilyedlynnphd.com.
Emily’s Topics and Areas of Expertise:
The Science and Practice of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting
New Ways to Parent Around Technology and Social Media
How to Boost Your Child’s Motivation for School
Raising Emotionally Healthy and Resilient Children
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