Official Bio:

Dr. Catherine Pearlman is a licensed clinical social worker who started The Family Coach to help moms and dads with typical parenting issues. Her mission is to help parents enjoy their parenting more and to build stronger relationships between parent and child. To that end, she advises on all matters of parenting such as digital education for kids, potty and sleep training, discipline, food issues, sibling rivalry, and kindness. She has been a featured speaker for schools, parent meetings, Moms Night Out, parenting expert panels, nonprofit groups, and academic conferences around the country.

In addition to her private practice and speaking engagement, Dr. Pearlman is an author of two books and countless articles on parenting. She wrote the nationally syndicated “Dear Family Coach” column. Her articles on various topical issues have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Sports Illustrated, Lifehacker, Grown and Flown, Your Teen Magazine and the Huffington Post, and she has been featured several times on NBC’s Today show. Dr. Pearlman has also contributed to articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, Parenting, National Geographic, Men’s Health, Healthy Women, Westchester Magazine, the Globe and Mail, the Journal News, and the Orange County Register. Internationally recognized as a parenting expert, Dr. Pearlman’s writing has also appeared online in Australia, England, Canada, Korea, Ukraine, Israel, Kenya, Poland, Sweden, France and South Africa.

Dr. Pearlman received her doctorate in social welfare at Yeshiva University and her master’s degree in social work from New York University. Her bachelor’s degree in the history of medicine and sociology is from Bucknell University. She lives in Southern California. When not working, Dr. Pearlman likes to read, paddle, travel, be in nature, play music, and spend time with babies and puppies.