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Name: Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D.

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Short Bio:

Dr. Tamar Chansky is a licensed psychologist, the Founder of the Children’s and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Dr. Chansky is also the author of the numerous books including her newest book Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens, and several popular books on overcoming anxiety and negative thinking, these include: Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking and Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. And for adults Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: 4 Simple Steps to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want, offers adults powerful, practical and easy to implement strategies for leading their life on a different track than the worry track. Her work has been translated into numerous languages.

Long Bio:

Dr. Chansky has devoted her professional life to “making the mind a safer place to live” for children, teenagers, parents, adults and couples, by offering simple, creative, and practical strategies for limiting the influence that anxiety has in the mind and in our lives. This has been her focus since the late 1980s when, in graduate school, she studied cognitive-behavior therapy for anxiety. Since 1995, she has been working as a specialist in anxiety disorders for all ages. In 1999, she founded the Children’s Center for OCD and Anxiety in Plymouth Meeting, PA; having broadened the focus to include adults with anxiety, the Center was renamed, The Children’s and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety.

Dr. Chansky is the author of several popular parenting books: Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking and Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. And for adults Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: 4 Simple Steps to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want, offers adults powerful, practical and easy to implement strategies for leading their life on a different track than the worry track. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. 

With her new book, Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens, Dr. Chansky expands the map beyond anxiety, applying the same creative, practical approach to help parents be effective guides through the landscape of their children’s emotional lives: the broader array of emotional experiences kids have to meet the needs of kids today. 

Dr. Chansky has appeared on numerous local and national television shows including: CN8 Your Morning, Inside Edition, Action News, TLC: Surviving Motherhood, and The Jane Pauley Show. She is a frequent radio and podcast guest.

Dr. Chansky has also been quoted in a wide variety of popular magazines and newspapers including: The New York Times, US News and World Report, The Washington Post, Parents Magazine, and Real Simple. In 2004, she founded an educational website, worrywisekids.org to provide information about anxiety disorders for parents and teachers. Her blogs appear on Psychology Today, Your Tango, and Huffington Post. Her work has been translated into French, Turkish, Dutch, Chinese and Korean.