Ask The Author Q & A: What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

Dr. Dawn Huebner is a psychologist, parent coach, and the author of numerous books for children including perennial bestseller, What to Do When You Worry Too Much, and Outsmarting Worry for older kids. Her books are available in 25 languages, speaking with warmth and humor to children struggling with anxiety, providing them with the tools needed to break free.

Lynne Siqueland, PhD is a psychologist at the Children’s Center for OCD and Anxiety and has been specializing in treating anxiety disorders in children and adolescents for over 20 years. She has extensive experience working with children of all ages beginning in the preschool years with a special interest in transition into adolescence and young adulthood. She has a special interest in guiding parents and teens through the transition into young adulthood of maintaining connection and closeness while encouraging and building autonomy and competence.  She also treats adults. Dr. Siqueland runs parent groups and gives public and professional presentations locally and nationally.

Dr. Siqueland received her Doctoral Degree from the Temple University Clinical Psychology Program under the direction of Dr. Philip Kendall.  Dr. Siqueland was a full faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, and Center for Psychotherapy Research for 8 years before entering private practice full time. Dr. Siqueland's clinical work and research publications focus on integrating individual CBT approaches with family work. Dr. Siqueland has published on the role of family interactional styles that can maintain anxiety and what promotes competence.