David Thomas, LMSW

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358 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Apr

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why Your Child’s Anxiety Might Be Coming From You | Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP & David Thomas, LMSW · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

And so 32 years later, doing the same thing.

We are seeing a lot of kids who feel afraid beyond even anxiety, just in general day-to-day life, who are unwilling to try new things, who are...

often unwilling to walk into a school building, who are afraid to get their driver's license.

The things that we looked forward to and felt like were a part of life growing up, they are hesitant and feel incapable.

And so we have felt so strongly that, and even as therapists, there's so much we're doing

to help kids on the back end after they're already struggling, but we feel like it's time to help them on the front end and do something holistically early on to build more resilience in kids where they feel ready to handle all of the challenges we know life inevitably brings.

Yes.

Just in the last month, I sat with a mom of a 14-year-old girl and they were at a family gathering.

And she said, my daughter started being super disrespectful and I was so embarrassed and didn't know what to do.

And I went in the bathroom, humiliated and was crying.

And so I got on my favorite parenting app.

And ask the chat bot, what do you do with a disrespectful 14-year-old?

Which is so concerning to me because the more we trust these external sources, as David said, the less we trust ourselves.

None of us did.

What we hear really weekly in our offices daily probably is parents who say, I just don't know when to push.

I don't know how much to push.

And so many parents today grew up with parents who weren't really connected emotionally.

We also are seeing more thoughtful, intentional parents than we've ever seen.

And they're trying to correct what wasn't offered to them.

And they're overcorrecting in that.

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