Thank you so much for your generous response to my post on Anxiety and Families and for visiting us at Afterschool Village.

This pandemic taught us what’s important for our kids and for the rest of us!

In person--real life-- face to face connections.

Covid 19 made us all ache for a HUG!

(And made us so sick of zoom!)

I’m a mom, a therapist and a long term Studio City resident and last year right before Covid 19 struck, I started a nonprofit organization called AfterSchool Village, to help us all raise our kids together … and to do it while saving the Earth!

As a mom, being part of my kids’ preschool community I learned firsthand that it takes a village to raise our young people and if there were any times when this is more relevant than ever it's NOW. If our need to connect is fulfilled, we can be happy, creative, and positive.

As a therapist, research and experience have taught me that the solution to the skyrocketing levels of anxiety and depression among kids is not the therapy room--it’s the world! After years in private practice, I understood that kids need to belong to a community who cares about them. Kids need to be heard and seen and be relevant to more people than just their nuclear families. Kids need to belong to a village.

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