TPP 141a: Therapist Debbie Steinberg Kuntz on Easing the Struggle for Bright and Quirky / 2e Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.
Whether you're neuro atypical or neurotypical. This idea of Becoming a self scientist and taking small steps forward that are very calculated based on your challenges and interests. There's there's gonna be so much trial and error. And just knowing that we're gonna need to do a lot of pivoting. Uh, 'cause some experiments work and some don't, is such a helpful mindset.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Rieber and I'm the host of this show, and today I'm talking with another Debbie, Debbie Steinberg Kunz, the woman behind positive impact family coaching and therapy practice and the Bright and Quirky Online Summit. Debbie is a licensed marriage and family therapist, parent coach, speaker, and co-chair of parent education for the Issaquah School District in Washington State. She's been in private practice for almost a decade and specializes in bright and quirky kids whose parents often work in Seattle's high-tech industry.
Her passion is bringing the latest information to parents raising differently wired kids who may struggle with symptoms of ADHD, high functioning autism, learning challenges, anxiety, or oppositional defiance disorder. Today, Debbie is going to walk us through her six-step strategy that parents can employ to help their child thrive that fits the unique way they're wired. We're also going to talk about the most common challenges parents like us are facing and how to help our kids who might be more rigid thinkers develop more flexibility. And just a few quick reminders before I get to our interview. My book Differently Wired is newly available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. I'm really happy with how it turned out and just to be able to offer it in audio form.
So if you want to listen to the book or you want to hear a sample before you decide, you can go to Amazon.com or Audible.com and go to Differently Wired and you can click to hear a sample. Thank you so much. And with that, here is my conversation with Debbie. Hello Debbie, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me. Here we're the two Debbie's, D and D in the uh in the two E space, but um I'm happy to be doing this. We were just saying that you're usually the one behind the interviewing chair. So how does this feel being on the other end of this? This
is definitely different for me. Um, it's great. I mean, we're the two Debbies uh sort of leading the same charge, living very similar paths. So I'm excited.
Yeah, me too. Well, let's um before we start talking about the meat of our conversation, tell us a little bit about your path. So uh listeners who aren't familiar with your work can get a sense of your story and how you got to be doing this.
Yeah, so I'm a mom of two teen boys, uh sixteen and thirteen. And about a decade ago, I became a licensed marriage and family therapist doing general family therapy. And as I had my kids and learned that they were twice exceptional, uh, both bright and with ADHD and one with a learning disability. I sort of did what I do when I want to understand something, which is doing a lot of research. And as I did the research to get more familiar with how to help my own kids, I kind of became known in the Seattle area as a therapist who understands TUE and sort of built my practice on it. And then saw individual clients, um, kids, parents, couples, you know, right here in Seattle we've got companies like Microsoft and Amazon and uh no shortage of bright and quirky people.
And I love working with this population. Ended up having a couple of parent support groups. And then um I used to be in high tech and I thought maybe I could take these
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
0:00–11:56
2
How does Debbie describe the common challenges faced by parents of bright and quirky kids?
11:56–19:15
3
What is the first step of Debbie’s six‑step strategy for helping a child thrive?
19:15–24:28
4
How can parents identify and log their child’s specific challenges?
24:28–30:28
5
What are the next steps for leveraging a child’s strengths and interests?
30:28–34:41
6
How does the Kaizen (continuous improvement) step work in practice?
34:41–37:25
7
What is the Bright & Quirky Child Summit and what can listeners expect?
37:25–39:00
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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