David Thomas, LMSW

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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 then I sent the girl out, brought the mom in after our time, and...

said, as any therapist would say, tell me about your family history and you can guess.

The mom said, well, I had anxiety when I was growing up and no one ever understood what was going on with me.

And so I'm determined to understand her.

And so we talk a lot about understanding help and hope that we don't just stop with understanding.

It's support and challenge like we've been talking about.

It would depend on their ages.

I mean, certainly the adolescents, 98% of them do not.

The younger kids, a lot don't.

And we are so grateful for folks like you who are talking so much about technology and how we can delay all of that with kids because we are seeing parents who are more thoughtful than we have ever seen and more parents who are getting landlines, doing things like that, which even thinking about landlines, the awkwardness of answering the phone and saying, hello, Goff's residence, this is Sissy speaking, and I don't know who's on the other end.

That's so good for kids.

One of the things we talk about is resilience over rescue and that we're seeing more parents rescue than ever before and in light of anxiety.

And so that might be one of the times we see it in the most kids who are anxious because kids who are anxious can be really manipulative.

I mean, they are making all kinds of noise about how they can't do whatever it is that's in front of them.

And so, of course, a parent sees their child in distress and they don't want their child to be in distress.

But escape and avoidance are the two most common parenting strategies in light of anxiety.

Parents will say, OK, we don't have to do whatever it is.

But back to David, what the definition he talked about of anxieties and overestimation of the problem and underestimation of themselves.

When we provide them with escape, when we rescue them, we're saying you're right.

You can't do it.

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