Author: Diana Bermudez

Dr. Bermudez will present the session “Cultivating Cultural/Racial Empathy in Young Children” on May 2, 12:30pm.

Managing emotional meltdowns (aka temper tantrums for younger children) has been the most frequently requested topic in my 20 years providing family therapy and workshops for parents and childhood professionals. Similarly, most pediatricians cover the topic of temper tantrums at the 2-year wellness check-ups.  To aid these conversations, the American Academy of Pediatrics created the…

Twenty years of working as a therapist and mental health consultant/trainer have taught me that wellness is a sequence of hardships and reparations.  “A good life” is not full of joy and fortune; though we wish it would be, and the mass media leads us to believe so.  Instead, any given person’s life is a…

Dr. Diana Bermudez will teach a 4-Part webinar series on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Early Childhood, hosted by The Source for Learning.  These webinars will be recorded and available to view in English and Spanish in the Fall of 2022. Webinars Schedule Be the Change you Want to See: Are you Ready to Advance…

Separation anxiety in young children (birth-8) has been one of the most common challenges I have worked with in 2021, as a family psychotherapist and early childhood mental health consultant, in the Washington, DC metro area. As we have returned to in-person school, extra-curricular activities and socializing after a year of social distancing, some of…